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Now that they’re no longer on the wrong side of the law, Food Not Bombs meets every Sunday this semester to serve free meals to people in Middletown:
Come cook and share food this Sunday with Middletown Food Not Bombs! FNB is an anti-authoritarian association dedicated to the principles of cooperation, mutual aid and direct action [...]
[ November 4, 2009; 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM. ]
Food Not Bombs co-founder (and delightful storyteller) Keith McHenry will discuss the history, principles and current actions of the Food Not Bombs movement and share tales from his 30 years of personal involvement for which he spent two years in jail and faced life in prison in California.
Food Not Bombs, an anti-authoritarian, anti-hunger, anti-military (dis)organization, [...]
The Food Not Bombs issue is blowing up. Not content to try shutting down Food Not Bombs’s activities, the Middletown Health Department is now also limiting local churches and soup kitchens from distributing food.
We had previously reported that Food Not Bombs had a hearing last month to contest their citation and cease-and-desist order from [...]
Food Not Bombs had a hearing with the Middletown Health Department in Hartford on August 11, to appeal the cease-and-desist order they were issued earlier this year for serving food without a license.
Two witnesses from the Health Department testified about their investigation of FNB, but the hearing ended before any other witnesses could be called. [...]
New York Times contributor Barbara Ehrenreich wrote an Op-Ed this weekend about the increasingly poor treatment of those suffering from poverty in America, and mentioned Middletown among its examples of local crackdowns on food sharing:
The viciousness of the official animus toward the indigent can be breathtaking. A few years ago, a group called Food Not [...]
Video footage of Food Not Bombs in action two weeks ago, when a Middletown health department official confiscated the free food being distributed on Main Street. Listen to one of FNB’s frequent patrons assess the situation as it happens:
In what amounts to an escalation of the Middletown Health Department’s crackdown on Food Not Bombs, today’s meal was interrupted—for the second week in a row—by Public Health Sanitarian Manfred Rehm and officers of the Middletown Police Department. Rehm (see photo on right), after consulting with supervisor Sal Nesci, confiscated all the food that Food [...]
Wesleyan student group Food Not Bombs, after months of defying a cease and desist order from the Middletown Health Department, has been fined for continuing to serve food on Main Street in violation of city health ordinances.
Members of Food Not Bombs, who prepare vegetarian meals for the Middletown community using food that would otherwise have [...]
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