Publish to Newswire
Add an EventFrom the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature
Cooking for the Occupations - Elect to End Hunger & Poverty, w/FNB's Keith McHenry 3-25
Import event into your personal calendar
Date:
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Time:
4:00 PM
-
7:00 PM
Event Type:
Other
Organizer/Author:
Linda Lemaster, Steve Pleich
Email:
Phone:
831-331-1153, 831-466-6078
Address:
FOOD NOT BOMBS, P O Box 424, Arroyo Seco, NM
Location Details:
India Joze Restaurant, 418 Front St, Santa Cruz, across from Metro Transit and like 2 blocks from Occupy SC's Sunday General Assembly at Post Office steps.
Cooking for the Occupations --
ELECT TO END HUNGER AND POVERTY
KEITH McHENRY, Food Not Bombs co-founder
Sunday, March 25, 2012
India Joze Restaurant - 418 Front Street, Santa Cruz at 4:00 PM
Presentation is Free and Open to All!
Contributions for locally indicted legal defendants (River St Eleven -- political prosecutions) and food justice activities welcome
Sharing the campaign to end the criminalization of poverty,
and how you can participate in the global protest movement against economic austerity!
An inspiring, lively presentation by Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry and video about the FNB movement in Africa.
McHenry ~ "Most people would elect to end hunger and poverty but many of the people running for office have another agenda, cutting social services while transferring our tax dollars to wealthy military contractors and their corporate friends. While elected officials cut social services likeunemployment insurance, food stamps, education, health care and other basic necessities, they pass laws against the poor and evict the occupations seeking to defend the 99%.
"Food Not Bombs is responding to this crisis by recovering, preparing and sharing vegan meals and groceries with the hungry in nearly 1,000 communities. This presentation will inspire you and your friends to join the Food Not Bombs movement and help our dedicated volunteers organize, implement and feed the global
campaign to end hunger and poverty."
Copies of Keith’s new book “Hungry for Peace”, as well as local grassroots, alternative and Occupy literature and information will be available at this event.
Local Food Not Bombs cooks and justice advocates will be there to share local news and introduce emerging Food and Justice Coalition of Santa Cruz's vision.
News about the River Street Eleven's political prosecutions, too. Santa Cruz County District Attorney has indicted local and grassroots media people, and Occupy participants, for alleged felonies in response to a bank building take-over they merely witnessed. Learn about their legal support and needs.
The event is presented by Food Not Bombs international and Occupy Santa Cruz food justice working group.
Cosponsors and supporters include: United Nations Association, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Food Not Bombs Santa Cruz, local chapter American Civil Liberties Union, Homeless Persons Legal Assistance Project, Resource Center for Nonviolence, local Move On, and Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom. (and YOU! ~~ call if you can help out!)
Very special appetizers and drinks at India Joze Restaurant, with surprises, following McHenry presentation. Donations requested between $5 and $15 for those who can, no one turned away for lack of funds.
BRING YOUR INFO TO THE LITERATURE TABLES
To help or for more info, contact our event volunteers; Steve Pleich at 831 466 6078, Casey Livingood at foodnotbombssantacruz [at] gmail.com, and me, Linda Lemaster, (Housing NOW! in Santa Cruz) at 831 331 1153 or
. homes4everyone [at] yahoo.com
ELECT TO END HUNGER AND POVERTY
KEITH McHENRY, Food Not Bombs co-founder
Sunday, March 25, 2012
India Joze Restaurant - 418 Front Street, Santa Cruz at 4:00 PM
Presentation is Free and Open to All!
Contributions for locally indicted legal defendants (River St Eleven -- political prosecutions) and food justice activities welcome
Sharing the campaign to end the criminalization of poverty,
and how you can participate in the global protest movement against economic austerity!
An inspiring, lively presentation by Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry and video about the FNB movement in Africa.
McHenry ~ "Most people would elect to end hunger and poverty but many of the people running for office have another agenda, cutting social services while transferring our tax dollars to wealthy military contractors and their corporate friends. While elected officials cut social services likeunemployment insurance, food stamps, education, health care and other basic necessities, they pass laws against the poor and evict the occupations seeking to defend the 99%.
"Food Not Bombs is responding to this crisis by recovering, preparing and sharing vegan meals and groceries with the hungry in nearly 1,000 communities. This presentation will inspire you and your friends to join the Food Not Bombs movement and help our dedicated volunteers organize, implement and feed the global
campaign to end hunger and poverty."
Copies of Keith’s new book “Hungry for Peace”, as well as local grassroots, alternative and Occupy literature and information will be available at this event.
Local Food Not Bombs cooks and justice advocates will be there to share local news and introduce emerging Food and Justice Coalition of Santa Cruz's vision.
News about the River Street Eleven's political prosecutions, too. Santa Cruz County District Attorney has indicted local and grassroots media people, and Occupy participants, for alleged felonies in response to a bank building take-over they merely witnessed. Learn about their legal support and needs.
The event is presented by Food Not Bombs international and Occupy Santa Cruz food justice working group.
Cosponsors and supporters include: United Nations Association, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Food Not Bombs Santa Cruz, local chapter American Civil Liberties Union, Homeless Persons Legal Assistance Project, Resource Center for Nonviolence, local Move On, and Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom. (and YOU! ~~ call if you can help out!)
Very special appetizers and drinks at India Joze Restaurant, with surprises, following McHenry presentation. Donations requested between $5 and $15 for those who can, no one turned away for lack of funds.
BRING YOUR INFO TO THE LITERATURE TABLES
To help or for more info, contact our event volunteers; Steve Pleich at 831 466 6078, Casey Livingood at foodnotbombssantacruz [at] gmail.com, and me, Linda Lemaster, (Housing NOW! in Santa Cruz) at 831 331 1153 or
. homes4everyone [at] yahoo.com
Added to the calendar on Fri, Mar 16, 2012 7:44PM
Add Your Comments
Comments
(Hide Comments)
Does Keith know city politicians are going to be welcome there?
From a now removed posting @OccupySantaCruz with my commentary following:
An open letter to John Krug @Occupysantacruz:
"Two members of the santa cruz city council have been invited and are planning to attend this coming sunday’s “cooking for occupies” event downtown. knowing this now i won’t be attending myself…." ... "what part of this picture is not contradictory to the mission statement and stat...ement of nonviolence of occupy santa cruz???"
John... That's the question I've been posing in my diatribes directly, and indirectly, in a number of different ways, for quite some time. I'll repeat my underlying premise. This in NOT #OccupyAnything. It's turned into a vehicle for the marketing of local progressive-liberal political machine issues. Actually, in my estimation, except for a short period of time that involved the camp, the dome, and #75River, that's all it ever was.... That's the cohort I saw usurp the 'podium' at the first GA in London Nelson Park, all standing there intermingling with the wannabe 'organizers-in-a-provincial-teapot', and that's all that's left.
Wannabe organizers who need a 'Brand" to glom onto, and local political machine operatives.
I cut my activist teeth in the 60s NY antiwar movement and many people took breaks from the repression, spying, police raids, upstate in Woodstock or other pristine places where one could relax and regroup before wading back in to the fray. Personally I spent alot of time in Boiceville with friends at the end of a road that dead-ended in the Catskills or up at the Ohayo Mountain commune in the hills around Woodstock.
In this millennium... On this coast, people come to Santa Cruz from places like NY, Seattle, Portland to "...relax and regroup before wading back in to the fray...".
You just can't expect a lot of activism here. It's a small town, with highly polarized population economically, socially, and politically. I think the truly activist elements fought the stasis and status quo elements of Santa Cruz' class war to a standstill.
The Status Quo element hung on and market themselves as brand-name #Occupy even as the term becomes history, and the REAL activists move on to the next battle.
#AmericanSpring... Can't you smell the insurrection in the air?
March 20 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary:
#AmericanSpring… All It Takes Is 20 Dedicated Citizens Out Of 100 To Make History
http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/19632490152
From a now removed posting @OccupySantaCruz with my commentary following:
An open letter to John Krug @Occupysantacruz:
"Two members of the santa cruz city council have been invited and are planning to attend this coming sunday’s “cooking for occupies” event downtown. knowing this now i won’t be attending myself…." ... "what part of this picture is not contradictory to the mission statement and stat...ement of nonviolence of occupy santa cruz???"
John... That's the question I've been posing in my diatribes directly, and indirectly, in a number of different ways, for quite some time. I'll repeat my underlying premise. This in NOT #OccupyAnything. It's turned into a vehicle for the marketing of local progressive-liberal political machine issues. Actually, in my estimation, except for a short period of time that involved the camp, the dome, and #75River, that's all it ever was.... That's the cohort I saw usurp the 'podium' at the first GA in London Nelson Park, all standing there intermingling with the wannabe 'organizers-in-a-provincial-teapot', and that's all that's left.
Wannabe organizers who need a 'Brand" to glom onto, and local political machine operatives.
I cut my activist teeth in the 60s NY antiwar movement and many people took breaks from the repression, spying, police raids, upstate in Woodstock or other pristine places where one could relax and regroup before wading back in to the fray. Personally I spent alot of time in Boiceville with friends at the end of a road that dead-ended in the Catskills or up at the Ohayo Mountain commune in the hills around Woodstock.
In this millennium... On this coast, people come to Santa Cruz from places like NY, Seattle, Portland to "...relax and regroup before wading back in to the fray...".
You just can't expect a lot of activism here. It's a small town, with highly polarized population economically, socially, and politically. I think the truly activist elements fought the stasis and status quo elements of Santa Cruz' class war to a standstill.
The Status Quo element hung on and market themselves as brand-name #Occupy even as the term becomes history, and the REAL activists move on to the next battle.
#AmericanSpring... Can't you smell the insurrection in the air?
March 20 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary:
#AmericanSpring… All It Takes Is 20 Dedicated Citizens Out Of 100 To Make History
http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/19632490152
It is true that Mayor Don Lane and Councilmember Katherine Beiers are reportedly attending the Benefit for the Santa Cruz Eleven and the local Food Not Bombs. The event is open to all members of the public. Anyone who wants to stop these prosecutions is welcome to chip in and come on down.
THE LANE-BEIERS RECORDS
Some may have some illusions about the past record and present loyalty of sitting City Council members, but many do not.
Then Vice-Mayor Lane and Councilmember Beiers both said nothing while the San Lorenzo campground was crushed and despoiled by Chief Kevin Vogel's SCPD and subsequent peaceful protest marches to City Hall on December 8th confronted with massive police intimidation, the shutdown of city offices, and subsequent prosecution of numerous marchers.
Beiers said in an interview that she did press to have the San Lorenzo Park bathrooms open to those camped in the park (at the same time the City was pressing for an Injunction to shut down the campground because of poopoo and peepee problems; Lane opposed such an opening.
Both have repeatedly voted for anti-homeless measures such as the "3 Infractions = a misdemeanor" ordinance. They have refused to speak out against the City's conspiracy against homeless health and safety--the City's 11 PM to 8:30 AM Sleeping Ban. They have refused to move to reform the Downtown Bigotry Association (aka the Downtown Business Association)'s repressive Downtown Ordinances which target homeless people, political activists, and street performers.
Both gave no support to either PeaceCamp2010 or those now being prosecuted for peaceful protest in that three month long vigil which provided a safe place to sleep for 50-75 homeless people at its height and the only all-night bathroom facility in Santa Cruz.
UNINDICTED CO-CONSPIRATORS
Beiers and Lane have acknowledged they were both on the property--Beiers actually in the building. Police Detective D. Gunter, Badge 182, fingered Beiers in his Supplemental Report 11S-10203, part of the discovery obtained by the Santa Cruz Eleven. He observed Beiers' vehicle in the parking lot of the vacant Wells Fargo Bank property and subsequently recommended she be prosecuted for felony "conspiracy" and misdemeanor "trespass". He also testified to this under penalty of perjury in the Preliminary Hearing for Alex Darocy and Bradley Stuart, two of the defendants being falsely charged in this case.
That leaves only another 282 trespass/conspirator criminals to catch (probably under-estimating the number of people entering and leaving the property during the 3-day occupation).
Both have been silent, though on the Board of Directors of the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center [HLOSC] as HLOSC Executive Director "Mumbo-Jumbo" Monica Martinez imposed repressive rules on shelter-seekers and political protesters there.
MCHENRY ON THE AIR
Keith McHenry will be on the air this morning at http://audio.str3am.com:5110/listen.pls and 101.3 FM sometime between 9:30 AM and noon, probably closer to 9:30 AM, depending on how quickly he eats breakfast.
The show will be subsequently archived at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb120325.mp3 (at least 2 hours into the audio file).
THE LANE-BEIERS RECORDS
Some may have some illusions about the past record and present loyalty of sitting City Council members, but many do not.
Then Vice-Mayor Lane and Councilmember Beiers both said nothing while the San Lorenzo campground was crushed and despoiled by Chief Kevin Vogel's SCPD and subsequent peaceful protest marches to City Hall on December 8th confronted with massive police intimidation, the shutdown of city offices, and subsequent prosecution of numerous marchers.
Beiers said in an interview that she did press to have the San Lorenzo Park bathrooms open to those camped in the park (at the same time the City was pressing for an Injunction to shut down the campground because of poopoo and peepee problems; Lane opposed such an opening.
Both have repeatedly voted for anti-homeless measures such as the "3 Infractions = a misdemeanor" ordinance. They have refused to speak out against the City's conspiracy against homeless health and safety--the City's 11 PM to 8:30 AM Sleeping Ban. They have refused to move to reform the Downtown Bigotry Association (aka the Downtown Business Association)'s repressive Downtown Ordinances which target homeless people, political activists, and street performers.
Both gave no support to either PeaceCamp2010 or those now being prosecuted for peaceful protest in that three month long vigil which provided a safe place to sleep for 50-75 homeless people at its height and the only all-night bathroom facility in Santa Cruz.
UNINDICTED CO-CONSPIRATORS
Beiers and Lane have acknowledged they were both on the property--Beiers actually in the building. Police Detective D. Gunter, Badge 182, fingered Beiers in his Supplemental Report 11S-10203, part of the discovery obtained by the Santa Cruz Eleven. He observed Beiers' vehicle in the parking lot of the vacant Wells Fargo Bank property and subsequently recommended she be prosecuted for felony "conspiracy" and misdemeanor "trespass". He also testified to this under penalty of perjury in the Preliminary Hearing for Alex Darocy and Bradley Stuart, two of the defendants being falsely charged in this case.
That leaves only another 282 trespass/conspirator criminals to catch (probably under-estimating the number of people entering and leaving the property during the 3-day occupation).
Both have been silent, though on the Board of Directors of the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center [HLOSC] as HLOSC Executive Director "Mumbo-Jumbo" Monica Martinez imposed repressive rules on shelter-seekers and political protesters there.
MCHENRY ON THE AIR
Keith McHenry will be on the air this morning at http://audio.str3am.com:5110/listen.pls and 101.3 FM sometime between 9:30 AM and noon, probably closer to 9:30 AM, depending on how quickly he eats breakfast.
The show will be subsequently archived at http://www.radiolibre.org/brb/brb120325.mp3 (at least 2 hours into the audio file).
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!
Donate
$75.00 donated
in the past month
Get Involved
If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.
Publish
Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.
Topics
More
Search Indybay's Archives
Advanced Search
►
▼
IMC Network