FOOD NOT BOMBS LEGAL RIGHTS

Learn about your legal rights when in the United States.

Many Food Not Bombs volunteers are told they do not have the right to display their banners, hand out literature and post flyers but these activities are protected by the U.S. Constitution and other conventions. If the police or other authorities tell you can only share food but not information remind them about our right to free speech. Visit these sites to learn more about organizing a Food Not Bombs group and find information about skills you may need. You will find that you can do a lot more than you think.

The National Lawyers Guild	American Civil Liberties Union
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)	Common Sense By Thomas Paine
United States Constitution	The 11th Circuit Court of Appeal Rules against Food Not Bombs
The Magna Carta	The Declaration of Independence
Protestor Privacy and Free Expression Rights	Using consensus for better way to govern ourselves
Nonviolent social change and our rights	Your Rights from the Human Rights Act of 1998 from the England
Universal Declaration of Human Rights	The Right to Food