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DESCRIPTION: Occupy Forum presents...\n\n\nBeloved Community:\n\nRadical Volunteerism 
 in theAge of Neglect\n\n \n\nKeith McHenry and Father River 
 Sims\n\n\nInformation, discussion & community! Monday Night 
 Forum!!\n\n\nThe effects of the right wing revolution in this country first 
 became obvious in the 1980s.  With social programs being slashed and the 
 number of homeless multiplying, a growing number of people organized 
 radical volunteer groups that still exist today.\n\n \n\nKeith McHenry is 
 the co founder of Food Not Bombs, which was started in Boston to support 
 anti-nuclear activists.  The second chapter was founded in San Francisco in 
 1988, and immediately led to people being arrested for serving free food 
 outdoors.  After eight years and hundreds of arrests under two mayors, this 
 consensus-based organization wore out its attackers, and the arrests 
 stopped.  In addition to serving the poor and homeless, Food not Bombs 
 served at many protests and political gatherings.  Keith McHenry has not 
 lived in San Francisco for decades, but he has continued to organize more 
 chapters of Food Not Bombs and to risk arrest.  Food Not Bombs still serves 
 in San Francisco, alongside many more mainstream organizations that had 
 previously been afraid to do it, because of the risk of arrest.\n\n \n\nAs 
 a radical priest in the Catholic Worker tradition, Father River Sims felt 
 called to serve the neglected and stigmatized people of Polk Street.  He 
 gave everything from soup and socks to condoms and clean needles to the 
 homeless, runaways, sex workers and drug addicts of the lower Polk Gulch,  
 as well as counseling and ministerial presence. Founding the Temanos 
 Catholic Workers, he practices "Radical Harm Reduction" and has called 
 himself a "Punk Priest." Despite the gentrification of Polk Street, River 
 Sims and the Temanos Catholic Worker also continues. Both organizations 
 welcome volunteers.\n\n \n\nOccupy Forum continues Monday, March 18th from 
 6 - 9 pm\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/03/18/18733826.php
SUMMARY:Occupy Forum presents: Beloved Community: Radical Volunteerism in theAge of Neglect
LOCATION:Global Exchange 2nd floor (#200 on keypad), near Mission and 16th BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/03/18/18733826.php
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