Tuesday, 15 August 2006 - 6pm
Food Not Bombs - A potluck and presentation by
Food Not Bombs cofounder Keith McHenry
500 West Broadway, Silver City
Please bring a vegetarian dish to share!
Join the Grant County Peace Coalition for an evening potluck with a presentation by
Keith McHenry, co-founder of the Food Not
Bombs program
Food Not Bombs, founded in 1980, provides free meals in more than 400 cities around the
world and is one of the world's largest all volunteer international
movements taking direct action for peace and justice. They were
first on the scene in New Orleans after Katrina hit, long before the
Red Cross got there .
Keith is an inspiring, outspoken activist with a wealth of knowledge about community organizing,
free radio, feeding the hungry, prison issues, homelessness, police surveillance, and the
history of the peace and social justice movement during the past 25 years. He has been
arrested for feeding the hungry in San Francisco, jailed for protesting militarism, and was
recently charged with a felony that, if convicted, would have put him in prison for life under
California's Three Strikes law. Amnesty International campaigned for his release
and his case was taken up by the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ultimately, he was found not guilty of all charges. He has been featured in numerous books including
A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
Food Not Bombs is a program that combines humanitarian aid to the
needy with a political statement that the world's hungry need food,
and people of the world need to take care of each other, finance
social programs, and forego senseless military spending. This is a
rare opportunity to meet this true humanitarian and activist of the 21st century.
Please join us!
Contact us at
mail@gcpeacecoalition.org
or call 505.313.1708 or 505.534.1227 for more info
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