[Wamvan] Fwd: FOOD IS A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEGE

[Joanna Chiu]

Thanks for sharing! Feel free to post any events to our facebook page, too!
https://www.facebook.com/wamvancouver



On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:40 PM, jana g <janagee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thought WAMmers would be interested in this upcoming event
> of solidarity ... in the spirit of Food Security for All !   jj
>
>
> From: "Chris Johnson" <chris at bchannelnews.tv>
>
> http://www.foodnotbombs.net/food_is_a_right.html
>
> We are proposing that people all over the world consider sharing free
> meals in celebration our right to food and participate in our campaign for
> an end to laws restricting acts of compassion. Celebrate our right to feed
> the hungry with music, theater, and the sharing of food.
>
> SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 2012
>
> It has been distressing to receive so many reports in the past few weeks
> of people being threatened with arrest or cities adopting new laws
> limiting people's right to share free food with the public. People in
> England, New Zealand, California, Texas, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and
> Florida contacted Food Not Bombs about having been threatened with arrest.
> Others report that their local governments are considering laws to limit
> acts of compassion.
>
> This new wave of threats is happening as half of all Americans are
> struggling to survive. The Department of Agriculture's February report
> shows that 46,286,294 people relied on food stamps in November of 2011.
> People have been arriving at Food Not Bombs meals claiming they had not
> eaten in four days because other food programs had exhausted their
> resources. The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 1 in 7
> people or 925 million people world wide went hungry in 2010. We are
> announcing a global campaign to recognize that sharing food with the
> hungry is an unregulated activity of compassion and should not be
> interfered with by the authorities.
>
> Our movement started when the "Diggers" occupied St George's Hill in
> Surrey, England on April 1, 1649 in a protest for the right of landless
> people to feed themselves. We are announcing our global campaign for the
> right of all people to share food with the hungry without regulation on
> the anniversary of the first act of the peaceful resistance by the
> "Diggers" of St George's Hill.
>
> The public is encouraged to share meals with their community on Sunday,
> April 1, 2012 to celebrate our right to share food and end all efforts to
> restrict acts of compassion.
>
> ENDORSED BY
>
>     Barbara Ehrenreich - author of Nickel and Dimed
>     Dr. Cornel West - author and professor Princeton University
>     Noam Chomsky - author and professor M.I.T.
>     Michael Parenti - author and lecturer
>     Raj Patel - author of Stuffed and Starved
>     Eric Holt-Giménez - Food First/Institute for Food and Development
> Policy
>     Bill McKibben - author Deep Economy
>     David Barsamian - founder and director of Alternative Radio
>     David Rovics - Musician, USA
>     Kevin Devine - Musician, Brooklyn, NY
>     Dorinda Moreno - Fuerza Mundial Collaborative
>     Rev. Brian Burch - President, St. Clare's Multifaith Housing Society
>     Francisca James Hernández, Ph.D. - Southwest Institute for Research on
> Women
>     Kathy Kelly - Co-coordinator, Voices for Creative Nonviolence
>     Max Ventura - Musician, Activist, Mom, USA
>     Michele Burke - St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
>     Rabbi. Auri V. Ish - Musician, Nederland Colorado
>     Christina Persaud - Halifax Nova Scotia
>     Can Baskent - Practical Anarchy, New York City
>     Planting Justice - Oakland, CA
>     KT Terry - Founder Homeless Not Hopeless Poets For Change
>     Marian Wagner - The North Country Coalition for Justice and Peace,
> East Ryegate, Vermont
>     Tessza Udvarhelyi - The City is for All, Budapest, Hungary
>     Tristram Stuart - organized "Feeding the 5000"in London's Trafalgar
> Square UK
>     Kathy Mitro - Daytona Beach, Florida USA
>     Agustina Vidal - Myrtle Beach Food Not Bombs
>     Birmingham Food Not Bombs - Birmingham, UK
>     Keith McHenry - Co-founder of the Food Not Bombs Movement
>     Lauren Melodia - Founder & Co-organizer Milk Not Jails USA
>     Tom Ferguson - Author, Atlanta, Gerogia USA
>     Comida, no bombas - Monterrey, Mexico
>     Tampa Food Not Bombs - Tampa, Florida USA
>     Grand Rapids Food Not Bombs - Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
>     The Civil Liberties Defense Center - Eugene, Oregon, USA
>     Durango Food Not Bombs - Durango, Colorado, USA
>     Houston Food Not Bombs - Houston, Texas, USA
>     Budapest Food Not Bombs - Budapest, Hungary
>     Randall Amster - Chair of the Master's Program in Humanities at
> Prescott College, and also serves as the Executive Director of the
> Peace & Justice Studies Association. USA
>     Ellen Murphy - Bellingham, WA, USA
>     Cincinnati Food Not Bombs - Cincinnati, OH, USA
>     Miakoda (jyll taylor) - founder & director of Fierce Allies
>     Washington D.C. Food Not Bombs - Washington D.C. USA
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