Community Direct Action

The 2010 Hempstead Food Share Bonanza was the largest Food Not Bombs ever and the largest vegan Thanksgiving ever!

It’s been a few years since we started up our decentralized community agricultural program, the “Peach Tree Project”. The name doesn’t do justice to the variety of the plants or skills we share, but it does embody the image of a community in growth and that’s kind of the point.

If you haven’t heard, the Long Island Food Not Bombs community is getting together to create a sister organization, a nonprofit. We’re calling it Community Solidarity and we’re hoping it to be the future foundation of a radical movement for social change.

Last week Long Island Food Not Bombs meet to discuss the future of our efforts and an enormous consensus was reached. In order to keep growing we need to create a sister organization, a nonprofit.

We urgently need your support; we need it right now! Please read on and please consider making a monetary donation this week! You can do so by calling 631.223.4370, dropping off monetary donations at any of our food shares or by contacting any of the volunteers listed at the bottom of this email.

In the spring of 2009, Food Not Bombs held a meeting in a park with approximately l5 people brainstorming about a third food share on LI and where the best place for it should be. Everyone in the group was well aware of the rampant oppression that exists in Farmingville and with everyone’s overwhelming desire to help out there, it was unanimously voted to begin on Horseblock Road.

2010 Community/Planning Meeting

Introductions: (10 minutes)

Brief Explanation of Consensus: (5 minutes)

Brief History of Food Not Bombs Movement: (5 minutes)