North Philly Food Not Bombs
Serving Hot, Free, Vegan Meals Since 1999
Food Not Bombs operates on the belief that we must work to build alternative institutions now, to help create the society we would like to live in. This is why Food Not Bombs is all-volunteer, collectively run, non-hierarchical, and anti-authoritarian. All decisions, within each autonomous chapter, are made by consensus. No one is in charge. No one gives us orders. We have no leader or headquarters. Things get done because people see that something needs doing.
Food Not Bombs is not and never will be a charity. The French Queen, Marie Antoinette, tried to stop a revolution by offering rioters at the palace gates cake and pastry. That's charity. Charity ignores and distracts from the causes of poverty and hunger. By throwing spare change into a hat or a tithing to a church, the rich and middle class seek to absolve themselves of responsibility for the poor. Yet, the system they thrive in, capitalism, is the same mechanism which creates and institutionalizes poverty.
We refuse to ignore the root problems of these societal horrors: we demand they be confronted, and call for the destruction of the capitalist machine that perpetuates them.
Note: The above descriptive information came from the organization's Facebook About page.
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