Schedule a presentation by Food Not Bombs co-founder, and author Keith McHenry.

Schedule a presentation by Food Not Bombs co-founder, and author Keith McHenry.


Keith has a unique perspective on current events because of his daily connection with activists working for peace and social justice in every corner of the world. He has a message of hope in this time of crisis. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about all the great community actions brave people are taking to defend the earth, culture and human rights.

Keith helped start the global movement Food Not Bombs in 1980 and co-wrote the book “Food Not Bombs, How to Feed the Hungry and Build Community” published in four languages. He spent over 500 nights in jail for his human rights work, was tortured and declared a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International. Two of the movements he helped start, Food Not Bombs and Indymedia are listed on the FBI's terrorist watch list. This past two years he has visited Food Not Bombs chapters and worked with activists in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America. Food Not Bombs groups in several cities in North America are threatened with arrest for feeding people. Nine volunteers are in jail in the Philippines.

He is an experienced, engaging and inspiring public speaker with a wealth of knowledge about community organizing, domestic spying, vegetarian and vegan diets, animal rights, nonviolence, movement building, peace and social justice issues, consensus decision-making, poverty and hunger, disaster relief and world events. His work is featured in many books, and periodicals and has spoken at many universities and conferences. He has spoken on several tours including the "Rent is Theft Tour", the "UnFree Trade Tour" that inspired the 1999 protests against the WTO in Seattle and the Drop Bush Not Bombs tour of Europe and the Middle East. Keith has participated in protests for peace and economic justice all over the world, planting olive tress on the West Bank, feeding blockaders at Shannon Airbase in Ireland and sharing vegetarian meals at the Food Not NATO actions in Turkey. He joined Zagreb Food Not Bombs at their Anti-McDonalds action and helped feed the protesters in Cancun at the demonstration against the WTO. He organized the kitchen and food recover for Camp Casey in Crawford, Texas and he coordinated Food Not Bombs Katrina relief effort across the Gulf region working with groups such as the American Medical Student Association on the relief effort. He would be excited about sharing his experience with your community. He is speaking at the 2006 Bioneers Conference and the 2006 African Conference on Formal Consensus and Nonviolent Social Change. Consider inviting Keith to speak to your students, at commencement ceremonies or to your community. He can also provide video and literature at the presentation. His fees are reasonable. Keith relies on speaking engagements to support his humanitarian work. Consider requesting funds from your student activity fees or department budget. Please call Keith at 1-800-884-1136 to make arrangements. Call soon because he is already filling his calendar with these years’ presentations.

Keith McHenry, co-founder of the Food Not Bombs movement
http://www.foodnotbombs.net/speaker.html

Food Not Bombs
P.O. Box 424, Arroyo Seco, NM 87514 USA
505-776-3880
1-800-884-1136
keith [at] foodnotbombs.net

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