Food Not Bombs is one of the worlds fastest growing revolutionary movements and is gaining momentum. There are over 1,000  autonomous chapters sharing free vegetarian food with the hungry and working for peace, human rights and a healthy environment. Food Not Bombs is not a charity but is a non-hierarchically organized grassroots movement working for positive social change throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.  Food Not Bombs volunteers regularly share organic food to the hungry and at protests.

The first group was formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1980 by anti-nuclear activists.  Food Not Bombs is an all-volunteer project dedicated to nonviolent social change. Food Not Bombs has no formal leaders and strives to include everyone in its decision making using a process called Formal Consensus. Each group recovers food that can’t be sold and cooks hot vegen meals that are shared for free outside in public spaces to anyone without restriction. Food Not Bombs has also inspired many other community projects including Bikes Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, Food Not Lawns, Indymedia, the micro-powered FM radio movement, the October 22nd No Police Brutality Day Actions and the “freegan” movement. Food Not Bombs started animal rescue shelters in 24 cities in Slovakia, provided the meals at Cindy Sheehan’s Camp Casey in Texas, planted olive trees on the West Bank in Palestine.and fed the protesters during the Orange Revolution in Kiev, Ukraine.

Food Not Bombs provided the only meals during the first three days after the 1989 San Francisco Earthquake.  Food Not Bombs was the first to provide meals to the rescue workers responding to the 9/11World Trade Center attacks. Food Not Bombs also organized America’s largest food relief effort providing meals to the survivors Hurricane Katrina.. We hope you will join Food Not Bombs in taking direct action towards creating a world free from domination, coercion and violence.  “Food is a right, not a privilege.”