East Coast FNB chapters organize for Feb 15th Peace Protest

FNB serves food to hungry while being harrased by police

Food Not Bombs, is serving up the tastiness for you every Wednesday at the Downtown Tucson Public Library at 4pm. This last picnic event was a great success, that is, until the Purple People showed up and called the Tucson Police Department.
The weekly Food Not Bombs picnic managed to last for a little over an hour, before two uniformed police officers dispersed people, on dubious authority in the matter. We noticed that the Purple People, 5 in all, took quite an interest in the eating habits of people eating on public land. Read more at IMC AZ...
Watch the groundbreaking video!

Food Not Bombs Supports Protest Against War

On Saturday, South Carolina residents held a small but passionate rally against war on the steps of the state's State House. The rally was organzied by the Carolina Peace Resource center and supported by Carolina Food Not Bombs and the SC Green Party.
The rally was peaceful and calm with little interest by police. Members of Food Not Bombs snuck into a building across from the State House to hold their banner out the window from the fourth floor.

more info from NC IMC...
Food Not Bombs Columbia, SC

Food not Bombs Launched at Moss Park Armoury

As Homes not Bombs kicked off its fifth month of Tuesday evening 6 pm vigils at the Moss Park Armoury October 1, its new Food not Bombs chapter got off to a great start, with some two dozen people on hand to provide over 60 meals on site and delivering dozens more to folks around the neighbourhood.
Thanks to donations from such great places as Eternal Abundance, Alchemy Bakery, Village Market and Kensington Bakery, a wide variety of breads, sandwiches and delicious cakes were available to accompany a hearty vegetable and pasta soup. Sharing of food creates a special bond in the community, and on October 1, lots of folks stayed around eating, talking, discussing the goals of our campaign.
... the whole story

Food Not Bombs Mission to Palestine Thwarted

Three Richmond activists with Food Not Bombs formed a delegation to join International Solidarity Movement with its Freedom Summer campaign to resist the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine. The delegation was committed to taking nonviolent direct action against the inhumane occupation and stand as a grassroots media collective to document and expose human rights abuses by the Israeli military forces as well as represent the common voices of the Palestinian people to the world.
However, after arrival to Tel Aviv airport, all three activists were held in separate cells without reading their rights and no formal appeal was offered as their laws require. At 6 PM that evening the delegates were escorted by armed guards to a police vehicle and driven to the next departing flight from the airport. Passports were retained by the Israeli police and handed over only to the captain of the airline for the entirety of the flight to London.

...please read the story from IMC Richmond

Olympic Protests - End to Poverty in USA

2/8/02 - Approximately 400 people rallied in Salt Lake City on February 8th, the opening day of the Winter Games, for the "March for Our Lives," led by organizations from the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign. Despite the continuing attempts of the Utah Legislature to cast peaceful protest as terrorism, the March's message of ending poverty in America and prioritizing the general welfare of its citizens (including health care) was not silenced. Police stopped the march as it moved towards the Olympic Stadium, arresting 5 march leaders (see photos here) including Cheri Honkala, Director of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union and Bonni Macri, Utah Director of JEDI for Women.

Other civic groups made more direct connections between the Olympic Games and environmental and social justice causes. The Citizen Activist Network staged a "Mock Torch Run" designed to bring attention to the backgrounds of the corporate sponsors of the Games. And as the real torch run arrived for the Games Opening Ceremony, labor/human rights groups were criticizing the use of torchbearer uniforms that were manufactured in Burma, even though it is well known that the purchase of such products provides support to one of the world's most brutal military regimes and entails questionable labor standards.

The Chinese spiritual sect known as Falun Dafa also brought hundreds of its adherents to Salt Lake City to protest the repression it faces within China,

2/10/02 - More than 200 Tibetans and supporters from various countries demonstrated in Salt Lake City, calling on the International Olympic Committee to refrain from holding 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing until the situation in Tibet and China shows signs of fundamental improvement.

2/12/02 - In response to a national call to action against state repression several activists marched through downtown Salt Lake City to draw attention to the unprecedented level of surveillance and security spending during the Games and the harassment of dissenters under the guise of anti-terrorism measures.

2/14/02 - As the US announced plans to conduct an underground subcritical nuclear weapons test in the Nevada desert at noon on Valentines Day, the Shundahai Network quickly organized a protest in front of the Nevada Tourism Office in downtown Salt Lake City.

Thousands Gather in NYC, Brasil for Global Summits and in Munich to Challenge NATO

While New York City hosts the World Economic Forum, the second annual Fórum Social Mundial will take place in Porto Alegre, Brasil. In Munich, Germany, thousands of protestors challenge the NATO security meeting happening at the same time, Around the world, cacerolazas and other demonstrations spring up in solidarity with Argentina and the WEF/WSF/NATO events, including San Francisco, Lausanne, Zurich and Bern, Switzerland, London, UK, Amsterdam, Livorno, Italy, Monaco, and in Greece on Monday. Friday, an online netstrike crashed the WEF website around 10 a.m.

Catch Indymedia audio coverage at

Cobertura en español: