I went to the FNB here in Omaha, Nebraska about 4 months ago. Unfortunately, it was not what I was expecting. I first read about it in the VWAV cookbook, so I guess I had high expectations.
The things I noticed about the FNB here: 1. They "start" at 11 or noon and then serve at 2 p.m. When I showed up at noon, the food had been prepared already, so people were just watching a movie. 2. My was excited to meet other vegs (or even veg friendly people), but most of them that I talked to were omni. 3. The people were rude to me. I'm not sure why. I have not gone back since this experience.
I'm overall disappointed with FNB in my community. I really hope that you have a better experience!
Hello! I live in Canada and I've been doing Food Not Bombs every Sunday for a year now. We also sometimes cook extra meals for things like anti-poverty rallies, Aboriginal gatherings, etc
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The Food Not Bombs here has basically become my child. I love it to death. I used to do stuff for it like 4 years ago, but then it kinda went into hibernation with the death of one of our members. Earler this year, a friend and I decided to restart it. The ball got rolling way more quickly than we though it would. To be totally honest, I'm happiest at a distribution. It's a bunch of punks and anarchists and hippies, young and old, playing music and distributing food and just having an amazing time. Then people walking by will stop and eat and within an hour we have a fortress of 30-40 people. It's wonderful. We have so much fun while doing a good thing. There's a huge sense or community and solidarity.
Of cooourse, all chapters are different. I'm just lucky to be part of an awesome one.
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The things I noticed about the FNB here:
1. They "start" at 11 or noon and then serve at 2 p.m. When I showed up at noon, the food had been prepared already, so people were just watching a movie.
2. My was excited to meet other vegs (or even veg friendly people), but most of them that I talked to were omni.
3. The people were rude to me. I'm not sure why. I have not gone back since this experience.
I'm overall disappointed with FNB in my community. I really hope that you have a better experience!
Also, you might check out the lj community for fnb: http://community.livejournal.com/fnb/
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I used to do stuff for it like 4 years ago, but then it kinda went into hibernation with the death of one of our members.
Earler this year, a friend and I decided to restart it. The ball got rolling way more quickly than we though it would.
To be totally honest, I'm happiest at a distribution. It's a bunch of punks and anarchists and hippies, young and old, playing music and distributing food and just having an amazing time. Then people walking by will stop and eat and within an hour we have a fortress of 30-40 people. It's wonderful. We have so much fun while doing a good thing. There's a huge sense or community and solidarity.
Of cooourse, all chapters are different. I'm just lucky to be part of an awesome one.
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