A-Infos (en) US, BAAM #35 of the Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement - Celebrating 30 Years of Food Not Bombs

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Celebrating 30 Years of Food Not Bombs

On May 23rd 2010, the Boston Chaptors
could add their own experiences to
the Food Not Bombs celebrated the
movement’s 30th anniversary with a
one-day festival on the Boston Common. The
event brought a couple thousand people to the
park for the day to take part in a whole myriad
of activities.
Things got kicked off early at the Really
Really Free Market organized by BAAM
(Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement). Be-
fore the festival had even started people began
exchanging goods at the Free Market amidst
the volunteers coming to set everything up.
A Really Really Free Market uses the con-
cept of the gift economy, whereby people
who own an excess of items give them away
to people who lack those items. There is no
value put on any items and no tally put to who
takes what. Gift economics is a revolutionary
practice that has been in existence for ages.
At noon, things got kicked off with the first
musical acts of the day. Three were two stages
of live music going simultaneously with full
schedules of performers on each stage. One
stage was powered from the bandstand on the
Common and the other used the Sustainable
Sound bicycle-powered PA system.

Not long after this the first workshops of the
day started. There were amazing workshops
throughout the day and almost all of them were
very well attended. Jules started things of with her
workshop titled “Capitalism Makes Us Sick,”
Matt did a Fermentation workshop at the same
time. We also had work-shops on Sprouting your
Food, Tenants’ Rights, Composting, Urban
Gardening, how to start a Food Not Bombs,
and a “fishbowl” style meeting of the homeless
community on the Boston.

The Boston Food Not Bombs group also put together
a sort of history exhibit with a giant story book
chronicling the last 30 years. There was
a timeline where visittors could add
their own experiences to the
story. And of course, there was an enormous
free meal. Over 1000 people were served, and
it was all gone in a little over two hours.
The day closed with speeches from some
members of Boston’s homeless community
who are part of the Leadership Campaign,
a grassroots organizing group for home-
less based out of Eccelsia Ministries in St.
Paul’s Cathedral. After them, Modern Times
Theatre—all the way from Vermont—did a
wildly hilarious puppet show on issues sur-
rounding food security.
On May 24th, 1980 activists from Boston/
Cambridge came together at an occupation of
the Seabrook Power Plant in Seabrook, NH.
Later the group began serving meals in Bos-
ton and became known as Food Not Bombs.
Overall, most members of Food Not Bombs
thought the day was very successful. The big-
gest question now, is whether or not to do it
again next year.
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