Alice Nuccio, a member of Local 510, the Sign and Display Workers Union, and an activist in the social justice community in the Bay Area, died of cancer on Wednesday, March 21st, 2007, at age 46. Her community held a memorial service on Saturday March 24th at 6:30pm, at the St. Martin DePorres House, 225 Potrero Avenue (near 16th St.). Alice came of age politically in the anti-nuclear peace movement on the east coast in the late 1970s, then moved to San Francisco. In the 1980's, she built a family with her wife Renna and husband Robert. In the 1990s, Alice became a core member of San Francisco Food Not Bombs (FNB), sharing free food at community meals in Civic Center and UN Plazas while opposing militarism and poverty, often risking arrest under Mayors Frank Jordan and Willie Brown. Alice’s involvement in Food Not Bombs was very encompassing - her roles ranged from holding weekly cookhouses at her house, including a women’s cookhouse; to making donation pickups- often by bike; to participating in meetings; and to facilitating the creation of a vision statement that gave an overarching political framework of non-violence, feminism, anti-racism and anarchism to the organization. As part of the SF FNB affinity group, Alice was part of the historic mass actions that shut down the WTO's meeting in Seattle in November of 1999. Alice was a core organizer of the Bay Area Anarchist Cafes from 1998-2005, and brought lessons from her experience in the 1970s and 1980s into her work with younger generation FNB activists. She believed in holistic healing and often spent weeks on end trying to restore her health alone, while maintaining her job and political involvement. She fought for people to have more access to information about their illness, and to more healthy holistic and less intrusive methods.

Alice was known for holding strong opinions and being fiercely independent. As someone who had struggled with intensely difficult health problems for years, she spent long hours researching AIDS and cancer on her own. She was worked on AIDS-related issues with ACT UP. She believed strongly in inclusive, respectful, loving community and worked long hours to build healthy community institutions and projects. She enjoyed community gardening, potlucks, bonfires at the beach, opportunities to connect with others, spending time with her cat, and collective musical experiences such as Grateful Dead concerts and playing music with friends.