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Their food usually consists of: home made soup and a

fresh green garden salad served with Bread.

At times the produce are organic greens freshly donated by

a local farmer’s market.

 

Unlimited portions to hungry public.

 

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Warning long email, a few repeats, but not much:

 

Soup Stock '09 -- Food Not Bombs free concert and

conference May 24 & 23

 

'Food Not Bombs' is a network of autonomous chapters, across the world, that

collect free food from grocery stores, bakeries, farmers markets etc... and

transport it to a place where we cook it into nutritious vegan food and serve

it to hungry people.

 

'Soup Stock' is our festival style free concert the park, with music and free

food. This is a resurrection of the concerts they had in the 90's to draw

attention to the inequity of the food supply. The free outdoor concert is

Sunday May 24th in the amphitheater in McLaren Park,

Noon to 7pm.

 

This year we are also having a 'Convergence Conference' for all grass roots

groups working towards sustainable alternatives; with the simple premise:

 

" Interconnectivity will help each of us. Coming together to share

knowledge and enthusiasm will strengthen our community of activism. "

 

We will come together to talk and share; there will be a few keynote speakers

and a couple of skill shares and a lot of spontaneous conversation.

 

The Convergence Conference will be Saturday May 23rd from 10am til 6pm.

 

Please visit our web-site << soupstock.org >>

 

or

 

Contact

 

William @ soupstock09

 

Diamond Dave Whitaker

 

514-240-0286

 

dmndv (AT) hotmail (DOT) com

 

For long explanation please read whole letter below.

 

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This year's SoupStock is on Sunday, the 24th of May, at the Jerry Garcia

Amphitheater in McLaren park in San

Francisco; it is on the 29th anniversary of Food Not

Bombs. The Last Soupstock in SF was in 2000 and was huge Visit

soupstock.org for more information and photos of 2000's SoupStock. Please

come and be a part of this one.

 

We are hoping to bring people in from all over the state and

 

from different groups to teach each other, learn from each

 

other and co-create some momentum for our movement towards

 

actual sustainability that is both environmentally conscious

 

and socially equitable. The idea of free food as a step towards equality

and how equality is the first step towards peace.

 

There will be several excellent local bands; varying in

 

genre from punk-rock to folk music and hip hop, otherwise and in

 

between; and possibly a special guest ?????????

 

Lineup of bands so far in no particular order: Shelly Doty, Rebecca Cross

and the Saints, Mama Crow, Ottomobile... Full line up to be

announced soon.

 

There will also be speakers between the bands talking about

 

the Food Justice movements and some History of other

 

movements that are a part of local San

Francisco culture.

 

We are still looking for a few more speakers during the concert, if you have

people in mind that you know would or may speak on pertinent topics please

contact < carling (AT) riseup (DOT) net

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There will be some tables set up for literature from

 

various groups with pertinent interests and ideologies.

 

There will also be some spoken word and poetry that speaks to the desire to

co-create a better future than the one we are inheriting.

 

There will be clowns too.

 

There will also be a childcare collective, providing safe, responsible and

experienced free child care at the concert with interactive games that teach

children about food and farming as well as other activities.

 

We are having Free Food Potluck style, brought by the people and for the

people. All of the local Food Not Bombs servings are going to coordinate

a large meal providing the victuals for your day. Please try and bring

food: fruit, desserts, bread, treats, salads ect... This will be a real

stone soup experience; as we are going to be cooking large pots of soup on site

from the prepared chopped veggies that are brought.

 

We are excited about utilizing McLaren

Park in the

 

spirit of using resources that are underutilized. This park

 

is huge and in the south part of the city yet many people do

 

not know where it is. Free food.

 

Contact

 

William soupstock09

 

Diamond Dave Whitaker 514-240-0286

 

dmndv (AT) hotmail (DOT) com

 

soupstock09

 

This concert is being held in conjunction with a Convergence

Conference on Saturday May 23rd. This has a open invitation to those who

are part of inspiring projects and movements.

 

We want to talk about what we are learning and doing in to a context of how

Food Not Bombs and Food Justice fits into the bigger picture for social change

and how conservation and sharing are corner stones to the change that is

needed.

 

This is a call out to peoples and groups to come together to talk and share and

cooperate and communicate and synchronize our energy into synergy, or at least

learn what each other is doing and how we can help other in making the world a

better place.

 

We are also planning to compile a small book/zine of

 

pertinent information on solutions to saving the Planet from

 

us and how to protect each other from ourselves.

 

If you come please bring the finished 5 page submission: ideas ranging

from sustainable technologies and practices to radical political theory and

historical lessons... Imagine how much info you could convey with 5 pages

of succinct paragraphs and websites, some artwork a poetry welcome.

 

We are inviting people who will add to the body of knowledge and be a part of

the spectrum of perspective needed to see how " We can all

 

work together; as we can do more together, than any of us can

 

do on our own. " We will formulate new ideas about how to help serve

 

our own individual communities.

 

Food Not Bombs is a crucial element in demonstrating our

 

ability to take care of each other and taking control of

 

flawed system that wastes more than is needed. With out the

 

mega-corporations ability to create poverty on lands of

 

bounty they would not be rich because we would not be poor;

 

and when we can fulfill our own needs they will have no

 

power. But right now they have the power to starve nations in

 

order to steal their resources and pollute the Earth in the

 

process. Now is the time to rise up and take back the

 

wealth of the land and we are starting with taking back the

 

'garbage' and sharing it and living off of it in

 

better health than the trash that is sold as fastfood.

 

If you are

 

interested in being a part of the Convergence concert please Contact:

 

William soupstock09

 

Diamond Dave Whitaker

 

514-240-0286

 

dmndv (AT) hotmail (DOT) com

 

visit our website soupstock.org

 

Visit the san francisco

web site << sffnb.org

 

All donations of food from grocery stores and bakeries and restaurants ect...

to be picked up on Friday May 22nd.

 

We also need some good transportation to help move large

 

amounts of food around the city from donation point to

 

kitchens to park, any car would help a van would be great;

 

bicycles are our normal solution but this scale necessitates

 

an automobile; any volunteers???

 

We need to send a mass E-mail letter to list and friends,

 

as advertisements for papers and web-sites.

 

We need to send out the invitation to student groups all

 

across the state and beyond.

 

and to the groups whom we want to play some part in this, we need them to

contact us with questions and an outline of what it is your group does and what

you want to do or bring to the conference of concert.

 

We are exploring different methods of Green Energy to power

 

the sound systems for the bands; if anybody knows of more

 

people or resources that might help please put the word out

 

and let us know.

 

The Bicycle coalition is going to handle the bike parking as they have in the

past.

 

And Finally we are planning on this years Soupstock being

 

the resurrection of Soupstock and a template for the 30th

 

anniversary of Food Not Bombs next year, where we are hoping

 

there will be a soupstock in the Thousand cities across the

 

world; and thus we are wanting to document the particulars

 

of this years event.

 

We are wanting to put together a documentation team, to

 

both record the bureaucratic and logistical hurdles and the

 

actual events.

 

We are hoping that it will help people in the future in

 

planning similar events and be a source of continual

 

inspiration for people.

 

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So please come, think of what you want out of it and what you want to share,

communicate, interact, contact us, visit soupstock.org

 

Spread the word. SoupStock free concert and conference 24th and 23rd May

 

If you read the whole letter you are obviously dedicated thank you and I'll see

you there.

 

Peace

 

have good days

 

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Forwarded by veggie “Win”

 

 

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