THE SMASHING HUNGER SQUASHING POVERTY TOUR

THE
SMASHING
HUNGER
SQUASHING POVERTY
TOUR

MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE PRESENTATION

A SAMPLE SCHEDULE OF THE PRESENTSTION
The presentation includes these basic elements with sample times used here as an example. At some commuter colleges or high schools it is better to start the presentation at 4:00 PM so the times would change. We provide even more detail on the schedule below.

STAFF A LITERATURE TABLE AT STUDENT UNION DURING LUNCH - 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
SET UP THE LITERATRE TABLE AT VENUE - 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM
STAFF TABLE AS PEOPLE ARRIVE - 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
INTRODUCTION BY A MEMBER OF HOST ORGANIZATION - 7:00 PM - 7:10 PM
PRESENTATION AND COOKING DEMONSTRATION - 7:10 PM - 7:55 PM
VIDEO ON FOOD NOT BOMBS IN AFTRICA - 7:55 PM - 8:10 PM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS - 8:10 PM - 8:25 PM
AUDIENCE VISITS THE LITERATURE TABLE - 8:25 PM 8:45 PM

LITERATURE TABLE PACKED UP AND VENUE CLOSED -8:45 PM - 9:00 PM

STARTING THE PROCESS OF ORGANIZING THE PRESENTATION

IMPORTANT - TALK WITH LEADERS OF STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS ON CAMPUS!

As soon as you know you want to bring the tour to your campus you will work with Keith to set a date and start to seek a venue and funding. Keith will email you the forms and promotional materials at that time. You will also figure out a plan to raise the honorarium, transportation funding, a place for Keith to stay, secure video equipment and start the process of paper work with the school and student senate. Keith can help you navigate the process. The school administration, professors and department heads DO NOT bring presentations like this to your school. You must ask student groups to sponsor the presentation and request funding.

In the weeks before the presentation your club can post flyers about the event around campus and your community. You can also send out the public service announcemnet to the media and your email lists. It is a very good idea to call your student newspaper and radio station and schedule an interview before Keith arrives. Keith will contact you a week before he arrives and a day before to let you know he is on the way and to help with any issues that may come up. Please review the check list and promotion pages.

THE PROCESS ON THE DAY OF THE PRESENTATION
Keith likes to arrive to the student union or cafeteria about 11:00 AM the day of the presentation and set up a literature table so students and teachers can visit and learn about the tour. Please reserve a table with the student union. About thirty minutes before the event is scheduled to start Keith will go to the venue to set up the information table and Food Not Bombs banner and test the video. This is a great time for the local Food Not Bombs chapter to arrive with a free vegan meal so everyone has a chance to experience Food Not Bombs first hand. The SMASHING HUNGER SQUASHING POVERTY presentation starts with an introduction by members of the local student groups hosting the event. If there is a local Food Not Bombs group in the community where we are holding the presentation one the volunteers will describe when and where they share their regular meals and invite the audience to participate in the local chapter. After the local introductions Keith shares the history, principles and current actions that Food Not Bombs is taking to end hunger and poverty while also demonstrating the preperation of his tofu spread recipe. He will also speak about the campaign to end the criminalization of poverty and how you can participate in the global protest movement against austerity! After Keith's 45 minute presentation he will show a 15 minute video about Food Not Bombs in Africa. When the film is finished everyone is invited to ask Keith questions and talk about how they can get involved in Food Not Bombs and the organizations hosting the SMASHING HUNGER SQUASHING POVERTY tour. After the questions and comments the participants are encouraged to visit the literature table, sign the contact list and purchase a book or other materials and take copies of the free literature. Keith's new book HUNGRY FOR PEACE - How you can help end poverty and war with Food Not Bombs will also be avalible at the table.

It can take about 15 minutes to pack up the literature and banners. This is a great time to make sure we have collected the DVD from the projector. At times we might need to leave the venue by a certain time so the staff can lock up and head home to their family. Keith is happy to visit with you and your friends after the presentation. It is also important that he have a place to sleep that evening after visiting. Some colleges have a relationship with a local hotel or provide a place for speakers to spend the night. At times a family off campus or student will have a guest room or some other place for Keith to sleep. Keith has slept on a blanket on a concrete floor or on boxes stacked on the roof of a school building but his bones are getting old so a bed with a mattress would be fantastic. Sometimes a private hotel room is a nice change so consider seeing if that is a possibility.

Keith loves to help local Food Not Bombs groups collect, prepare and share food so please contact your lacal Food Not Bombs group and find out the time and location of thier regular meal. Please invite the local Food Not Bombs group to participate in the presentation. There may be other actions happening in your community like an occupation. Keith would like to visit other activists and participate in local protests.

YOU CAN ALSO CHOOSE ONE OR MORE OF THESE WORKSHOPS IN ADDITION TO THE PRESENTATION
Keith is happy to speak to classes and organize a workshop while visiting your school. Ask your professors if they would like him to address their classes. You can also arrainge to have any one or more of these workshop.

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MORE ON WHAT YOU AND YOUR CLASSMATES WILL LEARN FROM THE PRESENTATION

Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry will give a presentation about the history, principles and Food Not Bombs global campaign to end the criminalization of poverty, the movements participation in the occupations and how you and your classmates can participate in the global protest movement against austerity! There is already lots of news about national, state and local elections yet little news about how the candidates plan to end hunger and poverty. Instead most candidates are electing to transfer more of our taxes to the military, banks and the world 's wealthy.

Volunteers recover, prepare and share vegan meals and groceries in nearly 1,000 communities, feeding the hungry, supporting nonviolent direct actions in resistance to the global economic, political and environmental crisis while implementing a foundation for a sustainable future.

Food Not Bombs started in 1980 when eight college aged activists dressed as generals and started holding bake sales pretending to buy a bomber. Thirty years later Food Not Bombs organized a two month long vigil outside the White House baking bread in a solar oven to build popular support for a conversion from a carbon based war economy to a sustainable solar future.

The SMASHING HUNGER SQUASHING POVERTY presentation will inspire your classmates and community members to take action for a sustainable future. We face greater challenges of hunger, climate change, political repression and abuse of the earth and its animals. Over 900 million more people are going with out regular meals as a result of the global economic crisis. Data shows the climate is in crisis. Millions face death and starvation as the environment is stressed from the exploitation of the earth's resources. Over 20 percent of public school students in America are homeless. Record foreclosures are sending families to seek meals at Food Not Bombs in communities all over the globe. Fortunately, Food Not Bombs is responding to the global economic and ecological crisis by sharing vegetarian meals every week in over 1,000 communities, planting community gardens, housing the homeless in abandoned building, organizing really Really Free Markets and taking nonviolent direct actions to stop logging, mining and other assaults on our planet. THE SMASHING HUNGER SQUASHING POVERTY TOUR includes a number of workshops and presentations. The presentation includes a solar baking demonstration details about the history, principles and the current actions taking place in communities around the world. Learn the story of how eight college students started Food Not Bombs in Boston in 1980. Learn about the principles of Food Not Bombs and why it is so important for the movement to have no formal leaders and is able to be so effective because of its decentralized autonomous structure. The presentation explores Food Not Bombs dedication to the principles of nonviolence, how decisions are made by consensus, that why the meals are always free to anyone who wants them without restriction and why the food is vegetarian or vegan. Your classmates and community members will be inspired to join your student group after they attend this exciting presentation. Ask your student senate to fund this valuable experience.

The presentation also includes some of these stories about what Food Not Bombs is doing to end hunger and work for social justice and the environment:

Food Not Bombs volunteers have been providing food and logistical support at occupations all over the world.
Food Not Bombs groups are increasing their response to the global food crisis by starting Food Not Lawns community gardens, Homes Not Jails squats, organizing Really really Free Markets and increasing the number of meals we share.
Food Not Bombs feeds the protesters in Thailand and striking auto workers in South Korea.
Find out more about the Food Not Bombs groups in Reykjavik, Iceland, Santiago, Chile and Hobart, Tasmania and their work to feed climate change activists.
How did Food Not Bombs start animal rescue shelters in 24 cities in Slovakia.
Learn more about how Amnesty International worked to free Food Not Bombs volunteers in the United States, Philippines, and Mexico.
Food Not Bombs volunteers plant olive tress on the West Bank in Palestine.
Irish groups from all over the island feed the blockaders at Shannon Air Base.
Sharing vegetarian meals at the Food Not NATO actions in Turkey.
Kiev Food Not Bombs fed the tent city protest outside the Parliament Building during the Orange Revolution.
Zagreb and Belgrade Food Not Bombs share vegan meals at their Anti-McDonalds actions.
Food Not Bombs fed thousands of protesters at Cindy Sheehan's Camp Casey outside Bush's Ranch in Crawford, Texas.
Food Not Bombs helped organize America's largest food relief effort, feeding the survivors of Katrina when the American Red Cross and FEMA failed to respond.
How did Food Not Bombs start Food Not Lawns gardens, Bikes Not Bombs, Indymedia, Homes Not Jails, the October 22nd No Police Brutality Day, Really Really Free Markets and coined the term "freegan" on the Rent is Theft Tour?
How did Food Not Bombs and Indymedia ended up getting listed on the FBI's Terrorist Watch List.
Get literature, books, buttons, stickers, patches, DVDs and other helpful information about peace and social justice.
Food Not Bombs participation in providing food during the occupations.
Find out how you can start a Food Not Bombs group or learn how you can get involved with your local chapter.
Talk about how people can participate with the Food Not Bombs Free Skool in Taos, New Mexico.
View our 15 minute dvd about the work of Food Not Bombs in Africa.

The new book HUNGRY FOR PEACE - How you can help end poverty and war with Food Not Bombs will also be avalible at the literature table at every presentation.

IMPORTANT - MORE ON HOW YOU CAN BOOK THE PRESENTATION AT YOUR SCHOOL

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SCHEDULE A PRESENTATION ON YOUR CAMPUS
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LISTEN TO THE PRESENTATIONS AND LEARN MORE ABOUT KEITH

Listen to Keith's lecture at Oberlin College Keith's art and designs

The Food Not Bombs Menu and Keith's daily work Keith gets arrested for feeding the hungry

Keith's local chapter Taos Food Not Bombs Homeland Security, Police and FBI spying of Food Not Bombs

Kate Byrd interviews Keith on KRZA Keith Speaks on Taos Currents with host Mike Tilley

Media Interviews August 3, 2007 FBI Letter about Keith on the Terrorist Watch List

Wisconsin Network For Peace and Justice Speaker's Bureau Photos about Keith's Presentations

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Listen to Keith's lecture at Oberlin College	Keith's art and designs
The Food Not Bombs Menu and Keith's daily work	Keith gets arrested for feeding the hungry
Keith's local chapter Taos Food Not Bombs	Homeland Security, Police and FBI spying of Food Not Bombs
Kate Byrd interviews Keith on KRZA	Keith Speaks on Taos Currents with host Mike Tilley
Media Interviews	August 3, 2007 FBI Letter about Keith on the Terrorist Watch List
Wisconsin Network For Peace and Justice Speaker's Bureau	Photos about Keith's Presentations