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DESCRIPTION:FOOD NOT BOMBS and NATIONAL UNION OF THE HOMELESS\n\nMemorial Day 2020: The 
 Homeless Union and the 40th Anniversary of Food Not Bombs\n\nSunday, May 
 24, 2020: 12:30 pm PT/ 2:30 pm CT/3:30 pm ET\n\nOnline via Zoom:  
 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85484172758\n\nWe had originally planned a 
 Memorial Day webinar for May 24, 2020 focused on veterans, homelessness and 
 the pandemic. \n\nHowever, we became aware that because of the lockdown, a 
 public celebration and concert marking the 40th Anniversary of Food Not 
 Bombs scheduled for the same day in Santa Cruz could not take place. \n\nWe 
 decided we could not let the anniversary of an organization that has been 
 with the Homeless Union movement from the beginning go unrecognized. And so 
 we have expanded the Memorial Day webinar and have put together a fantastic 
 team of military veterans, Homeless Union leaders and Food Not Bombs 
 volunteers from around the world. \n\nWe are especially honored to have 
 Brother Keith McHenry, creator of Food Not Bombs and now an officer in our 
 National Union join the program.\n\nSPEAKERS:\n\n--Bruce Parry, Treasurer, 
 Coalition of Veterans Organizations\n\n--Keith McHenry, Founder, Food Not 
 Bombs \n\n--Jose Vasquez, Common Defense \n\n--Savina Martin, military 
 veteran and founder, Boston Homeless Union \n\n--Daniel Ochoa, Jr. Imperial 
 Valley Veterans and Families Organizer \n\n--Alicia Kuhl, President, Santa 
 Cruz Homeless Union \n\nand also International Food Not Bombs Volunteers: 
 Bulgaria, South Africa, \nMyanmar and Mexico\n\nABOUT: Food Not 
 Bombs\n\n40th Anniversary 1980 - 2020\n\nFood Not Bombs (FNB) was 
 established in 1980, when Ronald Reagan became president and began an 
 unprecedented shift of funding away from programs for poor people and into 
 a massive expansion of the military budget including “Star Wars” and 
 other war profiteering projects. FNB responded by feeding poor and homeless 
 people in the parks and on the streets; its name was a political protest 
 saying “we should be feeding the hungry, not feeding the military 
 industrial complex: Food, NOT Bombs!”\n\nFood Not Bombs recovers and 
 shares free vegan or vegetarian food with the public without restriction in 
 over 1,000 cities around the world to protest war, poverty and the 
 destruction of the environment. \n\nFood Not Bombs is dedicated to taking 
 nonviolent direct action to change society so no one is forced to stand in 
 line to eat at a soup kitchen expressing a commitment to the fact that food 
 is a right and not a privilege. 
 \n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/FoodNotBombsGlobal/\n\nABOUT: The National 
 Union of the Homeless\n\nThe National Union of the Homeless is an 
 organization of homeless leaders and organizations committed to ending the 
 oppression of all Homeless, Poor and Dispossessed People. 
 \n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/NationalUnionoftheHomeless/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/22/18833182.php
SUMMARY:Memorial Day 2020: The Homeless Union and the 40th Anniversary of Food Not Bombs (virtual)
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/22/18833182.php
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