HAMILTON FOOD NOT BOMBS!
Contact: hamiltonfnb@gmail.com
IMPORTANT! Food Not Bombs has decided to take a break for a while, and will no longer be serving weekly meals. We've also not yet decided when servings will begin again
Below is a little bit about Hamilton Food Not Bombs, and what we've been doing throughout the last three years:
Every week FnB volunteers gather generously donated food that would have otherwise gone to waste from local shops and the farmer's market. Then, the group would cook up a storm, and take our feast down to Gore Park, to share with whomever might be hungry!
The focus of this working group is to promote a sense of community in Hamilton's downtown core, to provide a forum for political engagement, and to reduce the amount of food waste in the city, (however slight it may be); FnB does all of this by demonstrating how we as communities can feed ourselves, even while funding gets diverted away from social assistance projects, and poured into wars and destructive businesses. Though every volunteer might help for a different reason, we do what we do because, collectively, we understand that in this culture of abundance, the current food system is terribly faulty, leaving so much food to waste, and at the same time, leaving so many people malnourished. FnB believes that everyone has the right to food, and that no person should go hungry.
All of the food we serve is donated to us by a handful of very generous local farmers, and businesses --- a giant thank you to those who support us: Buttrum’s Farm (Hamilton Farmers Market), Ercillia’s (Hamilton Farmers Market), Plan b Organic Farms, and the Locke Street Bakery.
Like other FnB groups around the world, Hamilton's Foof Not Bombs works on a consensus model. What this means is that just as everyone is welcome to cook, serve, eat and clean, and everyone in the group has a say in the decisions that are made. Unlike in other “democratic” systems of decision-making, however, there are not winners, losers, presidents or minions. Consensus works to equalize power amongst members and to come up with decisions that all parties are satisfied with.
A truly heartfelt 'thank you' to anyone who has ever donated their time and energy to this cause.
Love always, fnb
-- break bread and break free!
A working group of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) McMaster opirg.ca .
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