Too big to fail America may not really be too big to fail after all. The political crisis over Obama Care and a potential default on U.S. debt highlights the both the magical thinking of many Americans who in their…
YOU DON’T NEED PERMISSION TO END HUNGER
On Sunday, October 6th Sacramento Food Not Bombs was kicked out of the Cesar Chavez Park by the Sacramento police. Volunteers were greeted by about 15 officers when they arrived at the park when they normally do in time to…
Effort to hide the hungry continues across the United States.
Advocates for the poor were told to stop sharing meals with the hungry in Sacramento and Santa Monica, California, Taos, New Mexico, and Olympia, Washington, on the weekend of October 5th and 6th. Nearly every week some one contacts me…
OCCUPYING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
Constitution Day – September 17th After spending 17 days in the Orange County Jail for violating Orlando’s Large Group Feeding Law I returned to my swamped email account to discover Ad-busters net me an announcement to “Occupy Wall Street.” on…
OUR NINE ELEVEN
A local Taos man suffering a heart attack on May 21st could not be saved. According to the Taos News when volunteer fire fighters dialed 911 “The call went unanswered. Dispatchers in Taos heard only a faint rasp. The man…
Santa Cruz Eleven, the Lessons of Food Not Bombs and The Broader Austerity Crisis
September 9, 2013 by Keith McHenry, co-founder of Food Not Bombs Eleven people in Santa Cruz were charged with felonies after being accused of the temporary “occupation” in November 2011 of an abandoned bank building at 75 River Street that…