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The newest campaigns or information about the Food Not Bombs movement.

These updates made on April 2, 2013

Garam Masala - When Bread Becomes Butter for Protests

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An Anarchist and Autonomous Community-Based Resource Center in Muntinlupa City (Manila south), Philippines

US Activists Target Obama's Drone Program for Protest Campaign
The protests will begin on April 3 with a rally in New York, followed by three days of protest outside the facilities of companies that make drones, including at San Diego-based General Atomics which makes Predator and Reaper drones. Later in the month, protests will take place at universities and other institutions that conduct research into drones or help train drone pilots and operators. At the end of the month, rallies and demonstrations will target military bases in the US from where drones operate, including Hancock air base near Syracuse, New York.

APRIL PROTESTS AGAINST DRONES
Unmanned Aerial Systems International Headquarters - lobby association in the Washington DC area.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Systems and Operations Validation Facility
Domestic Drones - ACLU Living Under Drones
www.knowdrones.com

#GOLDMAN
Senate Investigation Singles Out Goldman Sachs, Finds 'Rampant Conflicts of Interest' Responsible for Financial Crisis
Adbusters, the group that helped kick-start Occupy, is launching a campaign against Goldman Sachs, "the most powerful and unrepentant of the financial fraudsters," and its 73 offices around the world. #GOLDMAN is an indefinite real-time, live-action game wherein protests will win points for "speed, spectacle, courage, and innovation." Since helping crash the economy, Goldman has already been investigated, fined $550 million, and mock-tried by Chris Hedges, Cornel West and Occupy. Richly deserved, all.
The Tax Free Tour and the Price We Pay for Globalized Capitalism
SEEK A FUTURE BEYOND CAPITALISM

MASTER PLAN TO DESTROY INDONESIA
The beautiful islands of Indonesia is under threat
Food Not Bombs activists in Indonesia shared the Master Plan formulated by The Boston Consulting Group at One Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts which will cause much poverty and distruction of the beautiful landscape in Indonesia. Huge coal and gold mines connected to new sea ports by a system of trains will drive thousands from their land and poison the water and sea. This plan is already underway and must be stopped. Please organize in your community, outside all Indonesian embassies and the offices of Boston Consulting. World wide dates of action comming soon.
STOP BOSTON CONSULTING GROUPS ATTACK ON INDONESIA

Global Day of Action on Military Spending
Monday, April 15, 2013
We are organizing a Global Day of Action on Military Spending each year in April to coincide with the release of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institutes (SIPRI) annual figures on world military expenditures. It is also Tax Day in the US. In 2013, GDAMS will take place on Monday, April 15. On this day, people on all continents will join together in joint actions to focus public, political, and media attention on the costs of military spending and the need for new priorities. Such events will help us to build an international network around this issue.
demilitarize.org

Idle No More
Idle No More calls on all people to join in a revolution which honors and fulfills Indigenous sovereignty which protects the land and water. Colonization continues through attacks to Indigenous rights and damage to the land and water. We must repair these violations, live the spirit and intent of the treaty relationship, work towards justice in action, and protect Mother Earth.
Idle No More

THE ELECT TO END HUNGER AND POVERTY SPRING TOUR
with Food Not Bombs cofounder Keith McHenry
Food Not Bombs co-founder can speak to your community or school about the history, principles and current actions of the movemnet. This is a great way to help start a Food Not Bombs group in your communinty or encourage more participation in your local chapter.
THE ELECT TO END HUNGER AND POVERTY TOUR

Enough Is Enough: N3 National Day of Action
Food Not Bombs, more than a meal, we are a movement with a message. Feed your local Solidarity Against Austerity action on November 3rd
On November 3rd Occupy Portland and the Portland Action Lab invites all people to mobilize, march, and take direct action against austerity. Corporations control our governments, hoard wealth, privatize our community resources, and burden us with enormous debt. This is AUSTERITY and we say Enough is Enough! We resist 1% austerity budgets at all levels, creating massive cuts to education, healthcare, and other social services. Our power is in our neighborhoods, building alternatives, and taking to the streets! Let the wealthy and corporations pay for the crisis they created. No matter who is elected, we are part of building a movement where our communities will make our own decisions and control our own resources. On November 3rd, we vote with our feet! Solidarity against austerity!
Contact us at Solidarity Against Austerity - November 3rd. Strike Debt. Resist Cuts. Empower Communities.

via 22 GLOBAL
Sharing food with the actions on the 22nd of each month.
It is modeled on the next steps of the successful student anti-austerity movement in Quebec which ousted the government, repealed an anti-protest law and stopped tuition increases. This movement organized through building networks in universities, then leafletting in the streets,then marching regularly in the Casseroles marches, then creating neighborhood assemblies and now: Via 22! They are encouraging people around the globe to organize monthly marches on the 22nd day of each month. Choose your local issue. Perhaps a different one each month. The difference from a typical march, is that you are encouraged to hold a discussion after the march on the issue and you can share your photos, videos and more on the new global website.
Contact us at via 22 Global

CLIMATE CHANGE, HUNGER AND POVERTY AND OTHER REASONS TO ORGANIZE - PLEASE JOIN US!

Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of It's Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill
Spanish 'Robin Hood' Mayor Sets Off on Three-Week March to Fight Austerity
STOP THE WAR ON IRAN! Bibi's Secret War Plan
Bill McKibben: The Politics of Global Warming
Extreme Weather: Preview or Feature, No One Wants to See the Full Climate Change Show
As Long as the Rich Can Speculate on Food, the World's Poor Go Hungry
The Moral Challenge of 'Kill Lists'
How Extremism is Normalized: Obama's Radical Interpretation of The Bill of Rights

The Autonomous Playhouse with Dan The Pandarchist

The Autonomous Playhouse: the Food Not Bombs ' decentralized radical puppet collective!
Is your neighborhood next to be initiated into the world of anarchy via America's most sinister anthropomorphic revolutionaries? Our tours and shows include educational and entertaining skits and speaking events on homelessness, foreclosures, ecocide, do it yourself culture and more. While our location can vary widely, we're currently performing in South Florida and have a tour this summer going through Louisiana, Texas, and New Mexico. Contact us to set up a show or get information about The Autonomous Playhouse or Food Not Bombs in your area.

Very real threat that the U.S./Israeli war on Iran could escalate this spring.

The U.S and Israel have been waging a bombing campaign inside Iran for months. In early December 2012 the United States started to claim Iran's friends in Syria was planning to use chemical weapons providing a reason for intervention. Several scientists have been killed and there has been at least one recent bombing of a military base killing 16 officers. Iran has invited the United Nations in to inspect their nuclear program and experts agree that Iran is NOT seeking to build a nuclear bomb. Just as we saw before the invasion of Iraq a number of false claims are being made by the Obama Administration. Unlike Iraq this war could lead to an increase in oil prices causing the economy to crash. Russia and China have agreed to defend Iran is the U.S. and Israel continue their attacks. The U.S. is also providing arms to one faction fighting against the dictator of Syria causing a division in the opposition. Iran has supported the Syrian government for years. Covert war against Syria is really aimed at ousting the government of Iran. That might be fine except the replacement will be a U.S. dictator like the Shah.

War with Iran could cause an economic crisis and lead to a global Great Depression and as China's military claims spark World War III.
Iran crisis: Can conflict be averted?

EMERGENCY!

ATTENTION ALL THAT LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES - FOR SOME REASON OBAMA IS RAPIDLY PREPARING FOR MARTIAL LAW

The NDAA's Historic Assault on American Liberty
The NDAA took effect on March 3, 2012. This is the gravest threat to the freedom of all Americans since the emergency laws during the U.S. Civil War. The Constitutional right to trial and the end of a century old law banning the use of the military on U.S. soil came to an end on March 3, 2012. The president has awarded the military extraordinary powers to detain US citizens without trial! This is just one of many new laws, regulations and plans being rushed into being by the Obama administration. Not only did he sign the NDAA giving the military the right to arrest any one even Americans and hold them without trial he opened U.S. air space to police drones in mid- January allowing New York City, Houston and Los Angeles to watch the pubic in a host of new ways. Obama is offering large grants to all local police departments to buy their own fleet of drones.

His administration also started a program to increase intelligence cooperation between the Department of Homeland Security and local, county and state intelligence units. Obama hosted a meeting on January 18th at the White House inviting city police chiefs to coordinate efforts against domestic radicalization. He also started a secret panel that can can put Americans on "kill list." On January 26, 2012 Obama announced an FBI program to scrap information from social networks to build profiles of domestic radicalization which appears to include participants in the occupation movement. Obama also ordered a strategy for protecting national supply chain on that same Thursday. Obama also signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement which sounds fine until one realizes it can lead to the arrest of people saving seeds in violation of Monsanto's property rights.

On a more directly Food Not Bombs related level we started to get emails reporting that the police in several areas of the United States stopped people from sharing food with the hungry. One woman in Daytona Beach started a petition drive after she was threatened with six months in jail for handing our sandwiches. A vegan rights activist was threatened with arrest in Los Angeles for handing out packaged samples of vegan food. Food Not Bombs activists in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina were told they would be arrested if they continued their weekly meal. The city of Chicago passed laws designed to give police more powers during the NATO/G-8 protests. Obama has not publicly asked his former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to respect the rights of those planning to peacefully protest against the harsh economic and military policies of those two organizations.

PLEASE REVIEW THESE ARTICLES FOR MORE ON THE RISH TO A POLICE STATE.
Print out flyer on The NDAA's Historic Assault on American Liberty for your literature table.
Criminalizing Our Voices
RAY MCGOVERN BELIEVES THIS RUSH TO MARTIAL LAW IS INSPIRED BY THE POWER OF THE OCCUPATIONS
Domestic terrorism - Police chiefs at White House to discuss domestic radicalization
Bipartisan panel calls for local emphasis in DHS intelligence
Aspen Homeland Security Group (AHSG) announced the release of its first paper, "Homeland Security and Intelligence: Next Steps in Evolving the Mission"
Secret panel can put Americans on "kill list"
Idea of civilians using drone aircraft may soon fly with FAA
FBI Wants New App to Wiretap the Internet
Obama Orders Strategy for Protecting Nation's Supply Chain
Twitter Enables Censorship, Boycotts Begin
Mass Demonstrations as EU Countries Sign on to Controversial ACTA Treaty
Is the World Spinning Out of Control?

Iran threatens retaliation after drone shot down