this sunday:

come on down for mad zine fair, musical performances, pinatas and eating party! oh the awesomeness!!!

coming soon:

fnb cook book zine. a collection of handy tips about food safety, urban foraging, 5-ways with bulk ingredients and other gour-met delights.

coming soon-er:

an fnb-er's "how to" guide. are you keen to get involved in fnb but don't know where to start? sick of asking people what's to be done about starvation / environmental degradation / over-consumption / waste / animal cruelty? this handy guide will help you combat all these and more social ills!

climate camp

it ruled. if you missed it, you missed out! sydney fnb-ers did loads of chopping in the kitchen for the camp, alongside rising tide, newcastle fnb and other happy campers.

for the mass action we were part of team salad (sometimes all lentils act defiantly; sending affinity, love and defiance; supporting activists laughing at danger), providing support for people's bellies as they stood up for climate action. many activists got onto the train track to help stop coal deliveries - including our very own ash! YAY! we also had to chop TEN BOXES of oranges and apples into quarters cos the po-po thought we were gonna chuck em willy nilly at officers. ha! as if we would waste such delicious tucker on them!

mad props to our sanger station which managed to feed most of the 300 activists at the camp, and many more on the day. photos (maybe) forthcoming.

xxx trini

ps youse should send us more mail...

updates!

hi all!

just a quick not to let y'all know what's been happening with food not bombs recently.

REGULAR SERVINGS

these have been going gang busters. we're serving every fortnight on a saturday afternoon on the corner of king and forbes streets in newtown, from 4.30pm. feel free to pop on down for some tasty chow! if you're really keen and wanna come cook with us, it's from 1pm at jura bookshop which is 440 parramatta road in petersham. we're doing one NOW / today, so the next will be in a fortnight.

CLIMATE CAMP

a whole bunch of us are heading up to newcastle in two weeks for climate camp. check out all the details here: www.climatecamp.org.au come for the whole five days, just the weekend or even for the day of action on the sunday. we'll be there making tasty vegan food, going to workshops, making props for the march, learning dances and generally having an ace time learning about how we can minimise our effect on the planet.

feel free to come along and join our neighbourhood and camp / eat / chill with us.

FUNDRAISING SHOW / ZINE FAIR / EATING PARTY

if so, food not bombs sydney is holding a MASSIVE fund raising show / zine fair / eating party at jura bookshop on sunday the 27th of july. it'll start about 2pm, with the outside stuff packing up at sundown. drop us a line if you want to bring your stuff along and have a little table. tables are free, but a small donation would nice if you sell lots of stuff.

bands playing thus far (more coming):
* cripple gypsy
* the thaw
* bare arms

there'll also be spoken word from fez (and hopefully others) and some acoustic music after dinner. come give us your dollars so we can purchase a van and do even more rad dumpster runs, tastier servings and other ace community projects.

OTHER

we like notes, new people and recipes. send all or some here!

also, check out our forum at www.sydfnb.tk where we have loads of chats! all are most welcome to throw their ideas in!

oh, and our blog: www.sydfoodnotbombs.blogspot.com

xxx trini

harro!

there's more where this came from:




food not bombs sydney need your help! come and organise with us on our forum! we cook amazing food and have stacks of fun.

hope to see you next time!

x steph

FNB lives!

thanks to all who came down to the collective meeting! good to know kids are still keen!!!

we'll be continuing our fortnightly servings on the corner of king and forbes streets in newtown. the next one will be THIS saturday the 17th of may from 4.30pm. come down for some free, delish, vegan chow! if you'd like to get involved in food collection (ie dumpstering) or cooking drop us a line at: sydfoodnotbombs @ gmail . com OR head over to our forum: www.sydfnb.tk

we have some exciting events coming up:

• climate camp film screening: june 14th @ jura books from 2pm
• fnb film: the history and theory of food not bombs, including ace footage from the early days of fnb in the usa and some totes awes scenes of actions!
  
• fundraising show! sometime in june, more deets to follow!

also, HUGE thanks to at the vanishing point art gallery for donating a massive 10 kg bag of potatoes to the cause!!! whoot whoo!

stay involved!

xxx trini

Collective Meeting on May 3rd

On Saturday May 3rd we will be holding a collective meeting at 12pm at Jura Books (440 Parramatta Rd, Petersham).

We will be looking over the year so far, evaluating and making plans for the future. Everyone is welcome, you don't have to have been part of the group before.

After the meeting we will prepare for the regular 4pm serving on the corner of Forbes and King St, Newtown.

action against police brutality

hola!

this weekend we're doing a special solidarity action against police brutality. it's been prompted by the treatment of comrades in moscow, russia. come along to show solidarity and partake in delish food at the same time!

below is a message from russia:

Wrongful deeds of police do not surprise anyone in today's Russia. Disregard of law, violation of rights, illegal detention and searching are by now considered business as usual.

4th of April 7 peaceful young men were beaten up and illegally arrested by police in Moscow near Sokolniki subway station. These persons were not resisting arrest, as videos made by their friends and other eyewitnesses prove. The only thing they made to protest against the illegal arrests was merely forming a chain and demanding from police to abide laws.

Due to this "crime" (which unlike actions of the police, does not contradict any law), the cops started knocking the guys down, beating them with batons, kicking them, using electroschokers and handcuffs, as if people in front of them were not innocent youth but especially
dangerous criminals.

During the following hours, cops were brutally torturing the arrested guys, 3 minors included, in the Sokolniki police-station Arrested were
beaten with batons, kicked, beaten with chairs, their heads were beaten to walls and they were given electric shocks all around the body, head and groin included. While torturing, cops lavished chauvinist and racist comments. One of the tortured guys got a heart attack from electric shock, but he was not given any proper medical care.

When the parents of the persons arrested came to the station, cops told them that "nobody was even touched at the station" and all the injures were received in a street fight (which cops claimed in media they had prevented). Arrested did not got their property back, passport of one of the detained persons is still held by the police.

All hospitals which were approached by the tortured youth refused to record wounds, as required by the law, as doctors learned that wounds were result of police brutality. This in order to make it impossible for the tortured to sue police. Apparently police has such a well-established pattern of "cooperation" with the health care system. Police also started criminal investigations against the tortured, statute "Violent resistance against a police officer" is a felony with a sentence of up to 5 years in prison.

We are already aware that such practices happen in this (and many other) police stations, and not the first time. Many crimes are "solved" with such a way, as police is demanded a stable percent of solved crimes by their superiors, innocent people keep being arrested and are forced to sign testimony against themselves by torture.

In most of the cases victims are afraid to sue police, as they are afraid of them and are certain that there is no way to gain justice through the system. Officials got used to all of this for a long time ago, and they are reigning in impunity. And more there are such cases, more confident the criminals in grey uniforms feel themselves.

This Friday 11th of April in Slavyanskiy square of Moscow 7 PM there will be a big demonstration against police brutality, to support those tortured by police in Sokolniki police station and all victims of the police brutality in our city!

We ask you to support a week against police brutality from 11th to 20th of April! We ask you to make a picket of solidarity or other action for victims of the police brutality in Russia at the local Russian embassy or in any other place in your city!

Right now no-one is safe from police brutality in Russia. As the case in Sokolniky proved, whoever of us may become a victim of illegal acts from "defenders of the order".

We want, that all this was not merely ignored!

doin' it for the kids

hola crew!

this sunday is a rad YOUTH WEEK event that we'll be serving at. we got some cash-money so we is gonna be totes dope for this one! tofu burgers ahoy! shizzle is goin down:

Sunday April 13th
Marrickville Youth Week Show
11am - 5pm @ Jack Shanahan Park, near Dulwich Hill Station
Bands, skate comps and Food Not Bombs

if peeps wanna get some extra food for salads, accompanyments and cakes that'd be ace! check out the forum (www.sydfnb.tk) to get involved!!!

meet at jura books at 10am on sunday morning to prep food, or rock up at the park about 12pm to lend a hand there.

also, just a reminder that there was a request on the weekend for food not bombs to do something for this event. deets are:

monday 14th april (the one coming) from 6pm at redfern community centre

voices for self-determination with vince forrester (elder from mutujulu)
speak out against the NT intervention
by aboriginal rights coalition (arc)

i personally can't do this but it'd be rad if someone else could! please indicate asap if you can help out on this!!!

xxx trini