I stepped into the first cabin on the train from Belgrade to Budapest. A silver-haired older gentleman sat against the window on the forward facing bench. When the conductor arrived I handed him my blue American passport. I could…
Author: Keith McHenry
Co-founder of the Food Not Bombs movement
AMERICA’S HUNGER GAMES
The tragic logic of a collapsing empire.Nearly one in eight Americans face hunger. For these 42 million people, the suffering is unfortunately only going to getting worse. Most of us are familiar with the nagging worry that we might not…
FOOD IS A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE – Don’t let San Jose, California authorities interfere with Food Not Bombs
San Jose Food Not Bombs to continue sharing free meals with the hungry at St. James Park regardless of the city’s plan to ban the decades old practice. Please consider helping us share food without a permit — an infraction…
America’s economic crisis is just beginning
In the 37 years I have been sharing meals with the hungry I have never met so many people who reported becoming homeless for the first time during a single month. Our neighbor came to our apartment in a panic…
The San Francisco Rodney King Uprising
One of the best days of my life. A few days ago my partner Abbi Samuels asked what I had eaten. “Your eyes are watering and you have black stuff on your cheeks again. You must not be eating well.”…
Does “Street Feeding” really keep people homeless?
Anti-homeless group tries to drive Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs out of sight Even though I have shared meals with the hungry for over 35 years, in a time of ever-rising profit and productivity, the numbers of the hungry and…
Who Will Stand Up to Donald Trump? We Will!
Food Not Bombs cofounder and author of Hungry for Peace and The Anarchist Cookbook “The president-elect is the most dangerous man in America. The question now, for which there is as yet no answer, is: Who will stand up to…
Don’t Feed the Homeless, It Only Encourages Them
“Street feeding programs without comprehensive services actually increase and promote homelessness”—Marbut Consulting. Over 70 cities in the United States have passed laws banning or restricting the sharing of free food with the poor outside. A new theory being used to…
Homes not Jails: Santa Cruz City Council votes to continue the sleeping ban
By Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry for Spare Change News Homes not Jails: Santa Cruz City Council votes to continue the sleeping ban The crackdown on the homeless took another ugly step in Santa Cruz, California. On March 8,…
Before Soup Lines were a Necessity. Food Not Bombs shares it’s first meal in protest to capitalism. March 26, 1981
Before Soup Lines were a Necessity. Food Not Bombs shares it’s first meal in protest to capitalism. March 26, 1981 During the late 1970s, I was active with the Clamshell Alliance and the Coalition for Direct Action and participated in…