Who's with me?
I'm thinking really seriously about starting a Food Not Bombs chapter in Roanoke.
If you don't know what that is, it's a movement wherein groups of people organise to procure, cook, and serve free vegan meals to whoever needs/wants them in some public place. :] It's centered around the idea that there is enough food out there for everyone, but all of it goes to waste because of the way we run our society. Instead of making sure people don't starve, the government concentrates on RAWR MILITARY and YAY CAPITALISM! [Not to mention all the crops raised and wasted just to fatten animals for meat...] Beacause it would be a waste of government money to feed people who are too worthless to feed themselves and Contribute to Society, right?? :D
Anyway, it's pretty damn cool. And it makes a lot of sense.
And I don't think Roanoke has enough free food, or really pays enough attention to the people who need it. Aside from the RAM house, there's really not much going on in that area.
We could probably get food from the Co-op, and maybe Kroger... and I'll bet the YWCA downtown would let us use their kitchen. Or the library. And if not, there are a million churches downtown that should like the idea...
And we could serve like once a week in Elmwood park. Or in front of the library in that little pavilion, maybe.
Anyway... I don't know. Would any of you be interested in the grassroots part of this venture? I haven't really planned much out because the thought only just came to me last night. XD But I feel the need to do something. The activist part of me that died after the Day of Silence in high school is tugging on my sleeve. XD
Anyone...?
http://www.foodnotbombs.net