Author: Keith McHenry

Co-founder of the Food Not Bombs movement

TAKING DIRECT ACTION TO MAKE KING’S DREAM A REALITY

On August 28, 1963 over 250,000 people participated in the “Marched on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” where eighteen luminaries spoke for an end to racism and support for policies that would provide economic security for all Americans.  The program…

August 6th – Remembering the Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima

August 6th has always haunted me. My mother’s father John Vanderpool Phelan was proud of his participation in the bombing of Japan. Lt. Phelan was and Intelligence Officer with the 468th  Bombardment Squadron in 1944 and 45. When he returned…

Food Not Bombs thrives even as it faces repression

The San Francisco Police Department made history on August 15, 1988 when they made the first arrests ever for sharing food with the hungry. Nine volunteers arrived at the entrance to Golden Gate Park with organic vegan food prepared to…

Intelligence Operations Threaten Democracy – Restore the Fourth

  The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and…

May 24, 2013 – Thirty three years of Food Not Bombs taking action to end hunger, poverty and war.

Several thousand determined anti-nuclear activists made our second attempt to occupy the construction site of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Station in the marshes on the coast of New Hampshire on May 24, 1980. Surprising considering how brutal the authorities had…

750,000 homeless Americans

750,000 homeless Americans 750,000 homeless Americans I just read a quote of Erica Eichelberger’s from Mother Jones. Her quote was kind but she made a claim “of the country’s roughly 643,000 street folk” which is often repeated by people supportive…

A Doctor’s Kindness Gives Homeless Inventor A Second Chance

A Doctor’s Kindness Gives Homeless Inventor A Second Chance by NPR Staff January 27, 2013 5:20 PM http://www.npr.org/2013/01/27/170407141/a-doctors-kindness-gives-homeless-inventor-a-second-chance?guid=1359338475485# In California in the early 1980s, a cracked tooth sent Mike Williams to the dentist’s office. When Williams asked to see the…