Food Not Bombs

Everglades Earth First! Environmental Activists Hold Protest Training Tomorrow

At the very moment public hysteria about government snooping has reached a new, fevered pitch, the radical environmentalists of Everglades Earth First! have decided to hold a very public workshop on the art and science of direct action. Non-violent protest that may involve civil disobedience, direct ... More >>

It's True: Those Plants in Stranahan Park Are Definitely For Keeping Out Homeless People

A couple months ago, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler was on the radio one fine Saturday, after spending the morning on his hands and knees along with local volunteers planting gardens of tropical foliage in Stranahan Park. With Seiler's record of trying to get the homeless to disband from the park ... More >>

Food Not Bombs Prepares to Move On: Photos

The Fort Lauderdale chapter of the food-sharing network Food Not Bombs gathered on Friday afternoon, as it has done most weeks for years, to serve free vegetarian food with a side of anarchist literature, guitar-strumming, and antiestablishment conversation. We covered them in a feature story a whil ... More >>

Food Not Bombs to Celebrate 32nd Anniversary and a Farewell, Before Embarking on Puppet Show Bus Tour

Every Friday for the past few years, Food Not Bombs has been gathering at Stranahan Park in downtown Fort Lauderdale to pass out food to the homeless, hungry, or just plain bored. Our cover story on the group last year found the local chapter bracing for a local crackdown on public food sharing. Whi ... More >>

Five Ways Fort Lauderdale Could Spend the $14 Million It Found Lying Around

The Fort Lauderdale city commissioners must be patting themselves on the back right now for hiring Lee Feldman as city manager: Turns out he's a master at rooting around the couch cushions of city budgets for money that's gone missing.Bucking the trend of cities like Lauderdale Lakes and Hollywood t ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale's Anti-Panhandling Scheme Gets Attention From National Lawyers' Guild

There's a no-panhandling zone in downtown Miami, and Fort Lauderdale currently prohibits asking for change along the beach. But the Fort Lauderdale City Commission is considering some tough new regulations that would effectively ban panhandling in the entire downtown area. That's in addition to a pr ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale to Blow Nearly $30K on Ads Urging Onlookers to Stop Giving to Homeless

​Officials in Fort Lauderdale apparently think the city needs signs and ads urging onlookers to stop feeding loose change to begging beasts homeless people.On Tuesday, the city approved a $26,350 campaign to plaster the slogan "Panhandling: Don't Contribute to the Problem. Contribute to ... More >>

Occupy Is Dead. Long Live Occupy! Or, How Homeless Phobia Is Marginalizing Everything

​Happy new year! You may remember one of the more original social phenomena of 2011. It was called "the Occupy movement." A couple of guys got together and put out a call through Adbusters magazine for disenfranchised folks to sit around and draw attention to the highfalutin few who systematically ... More >>

Food Not Bombs Plans "Anti-Consumerist Festival" in Stranahan Park on Christmas Day

proceedingboldly.blogspot.com​As the 99% draw attention to their less-than-equitable situation, sacrosanct holidays and traditions become a target for protests. Adbusters, the same (Canadian!) publication that launched the Occupy Wall Street movement, has advocated "buy-nothing day" on Black Frida ... More >>

"Occupy Fort Lauderdale" Movement Holds First Demonstration (PHOTOS)

Photos by Stefan Kamph​They started outside the federal courthouse, and marched -- on the sidewalk, escorted by police -- to the front steps of Scott Rothstein's old digs on Las Olas. Outside the restaurant space where the local Ponzi king once cut his porterhouse, people gathered with American fl ... More >>

Occupy Fort Lauderdale Gathering Momentum; ACLU Sends Out Pamphlet of Protesting Rights

​UPDATE: As of 10:20 a.m., there are now 250 people who say they're showing up on Saturday.Occupy Fort Lauderdale appears to be picking up steam -- when we wrote Monday evening that the group announced its first meeting would be held on Saturday, there were about 20 or so people who confirmed on F ... More >>

Food Not Bombs Founder Keith McHenry Tours "Occupy Wall Street" Protests (VIDEO)

​Keith McHenry, founder of Food Not Bombs, who started off our cover story about the movement last month, has spent 30 years traveling around and serving free food at protests and uprisings. So it's only natural that he'd be getting in on some of the "Occupy Wall Street" action that's happening ac ... More >>

Former Fort Lauderdale City Commissioner Tim Smith Meets a Black Male Hooker

Tim Smith"Here is a black male hooker working black hooker road tonight."​Tim Smith, the former city commissioner who once ran for mayor against Jim Naugle and is a frequent jogging buddy of Mayor Jack Seiler, runs a blog in which he sounds off on local issues. He blogged earlier this year about t ... More >>

At the Beach With Arnold Abbott, Fort Lauderdale's Homeless-Feeding Advocate

Stefan KamphAbbott serves food to the hungry​When we were reporting last week's cover story on Food Not Bombs, one name came up again and again as the man who had started the slow avalanche of legal decisions that made Fort Lauderdale think long and hard about its efforts to prevent large-scale me ... More >>

New Park Being Constructed Across Street From Stranahan Park Downtown

​Every Friday, volunteers with Food Not Bombs lug food over to Stranahan Park, where dozens of homeless people while away the day to the chagrin of police, local businesses, and (we're told but haven't confirmed) Broward County Library officials. Until recently, the cops had a mobile "Skywatch" un ... More >>

As Demand for Food Grows, "Food Not Bombs" Is There – Causing a Ruckus

Food Not Bombs: What the Mayor Thinks

​Last week, as we were talking to Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler about sea turtles, we were also finishing up this week's cover story, Food Fight. The story chronicles the ongoing struggle of Food Not Bombs to pass out free food and attract attention to its political message.So, as the mayor wa ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Activists Travel to Fort Myers for Inaugural Food Not Bombs Event

Stefan KamphSharing food in Centennial Park.​On Saturday afternoon, Haylee Becker, a 19-year-old volunteer with Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs who does most of the talking to the media about the local group, sat in a vegan ice cream shop on the other side of the Everglades and talked about confron ... More >>

Cops Suspected Narcotics Activity at Food Not Bombs House, Didn't Find Any

​Last Saturday night around 10 p.m., young activists, Buddhists, and fire-spinners gathered to talk and sing in the backyard of a house in Fort Lauderdale that rents for $650 a month, is missing a few windows, and is a sore subject for Fort Lauderdale law enforcement.The event was an all-afternoon ... More >>

Sharing Food with the Homeless: Churches and Anarchists Agree on Something, It Seems

​Fresh off a late evening with the Hollywood Food Not Bombs group (sharings on Thursday in front of Young Circle Publix, around 7 p.m.), the Pulp woke up early on Friday get another side of the food-sharing story from Robin Martin, the head of HOPE South Florida.HOPE is a coalition of Fort Lauderd ... More >>

Food Not Bombs Shares Food at Fort Lauderdale City Hall, Facing Little Opposition

Stefan Kamph​The local chapter of Food Not Bombs, an international organization that promotes food as a human right and distributes free meals, has a lot on its plate these days. Its members claim they were harassed by Fort Lauderdale police in February, and the organization's Orlando chapter saw ... More >>

Food Not Bombs Protests Anti-Feeding Ordinance by Fort Lauderdale City Hall

Since last month's arrest of Food Not Bombs founder Keith McHenry in Orlando for violating that city's ordinance against holding mass feedings in public parks, the free-food group has been organizing protest events around the state and country. Yesterday afternoon around a dozen Food Not Bombs ... More >>

Anonymous Declares War on the City of Orlando for "Food Terrorists"

thenextweb.com​Anonymous, an online community of anarchist hackers, is taking on its new hacktivist cause -- an apparent "war" on the City of Orlando for the recent arrests of "food terrorists."The group Food Not Bombs -- which has recently been sharing food with people in parks across Florida -- ... More >>

Food Terrorists? 24 Food Not Bombs Activists Arrested for Feeding Homeless; Protest Planned July 1

​Last week, activists from the group Food Not Bombs -- including its cofounder -- were arrested in Orlando for trying to share food with homeless folks. The first arrestees violated a 2006 city ordinance that regulates mass feedings in parks. When others engaged in civil disobedience and continued ... More >>

Food Not Bombs Clashes With Fort Lauderdale Police

​The local collective of Food Not Bombs, an international group dedicated to ending hunger and war, says that members of the group have been harassed recently by Fort Lauderdale police. The group claims that police recently raided a house illegally and that officers are making a concerted effort t ... More >>

Hanging Up On Osama, Food Bombs for the Homeless, Jack Bauer Endorses Art

Phone Call from Obama, Congreswoman. No wait, Osama.Sure, there are a lot of people wondering how much of a dumbass Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is for hanging up on Barack Obama. It took three phone calls before Ros-Lehtinen finally figured out it wasn't a hoax. But in these times, terrorist ... More >>

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