posted by Charles Johnson at 10:23 am
We’re happy to announce that Food Not Bombs Las Vegas has opened up a second weekly Free Picnic in the Park! In addition to our ongoing Sunday picnics at Baker Park, FNBers, activists, community members, and anyone who’s hungry will now be joining together for a free vegan meal and community picnic, every Wednesday from 4-6pm, at Paradise Park (4775 McLeod Dr, in between Harmon & Tropicana. Paradise Park is a great space, with a comfortable, laid-back atmosphere, some beautiful trees, lots of shade, playground equipment for kids, and a lot of picnic tables.
And you’re invited! Come on down and join us for community, conversation, and a delicious vegan meal. Please feel free to drop in whenever you can — it’s a picnic, and many folks who can’t make it at 4 might be able to make it at 5 or 5:30.
If you’re interested in volunteering to help bring food or drinks to the picnic, or in helping to prep and cook food with other FNBers, contact Charles (by e-mail, or by voice or text at 734-262-2129).
WHAT: Food Not Bombs Las Vegas new Wednesday weekly meal
WHEN: This Wednesday, 7/7, 4pm-about 6:30pm, and every Wednesday thereafter 4-6pm.
WHERE: Paradise Park, 4775 McLeod Dr (between Harmon and Tropicana), Las Vegas
WHO: Anyone who wants to eat!
We’ll be out at Paradise Park every Wednesday from here on out. Feel free to spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested in this community/activist picnic.
See you all at the park!
—Charles Johnson
Tags: Meals, Paradise Park, Project Wednesday
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posted by Charles Johnson at 7:21 pm
Today, Sunday, July 4, Food Not Bombs Las Vegas gathered to celebrate Revolution Day and to hold our weekly Free Picnic in the Park at Baker Park, from 10:30am to 12pm. We had rice, veggie chili, salad, vegetable soup with rye bread, fresh fruit, and banana bread, with juice, water, and some iced coffee to drink. FNBers Daniel, Charles, Sarita, and Sean; Gail sent along some food. And three new friends we met at this weekend’s First Friday tabling came on down to join us, with some delicious vegan lemon bars. We put on the boombox, talked about the World Cup and local organizing in Vegas, and had a great time Feeding The Revolution. All told, about 25 people joined in the meal at the Park.
This was a special occasion because of the holiday; but we come out to Baker Park every Sunday to share a free vegan picnic, with food for anyone who wants to eat. See you at the park next week!
—Charles Johnson
Tags: Baker Park, Holidays, Meals
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posted by Charles Johnson at 10:45 pm
Las Vegas Food Not Bombers Sarita, Charles and Brian had a great time tabling for FNBLV at this month’s First Friday in the downtown Arts District on July 2 from 7-11:30pm. We set up an outreach table with banana bread, pastries, fresh fruit, lemonade and iced coffee; we also had handbills to get the word out about our weekly picnics, literature, Food Not Bombs bumperstickers and buttons. Charles did the baking and FNBer Kelly contributed literature and merch.
We got a great response from folks passing by the booth, whether just because they were looking for a bite to eat, or because they knew Food Not Bombs and wanted to know how to get involved here in Vegas. We had a lot of good conversations with friends old and new, and are looking forward to doing more tabling events at First Friday and other public gatherings in the future.
See you at the park this weekend — and at the next First Friday in August!
—Charles Johnson
Tags: Downtown, Events, First Friday, Las Vegas, Meal, Outreach
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posted by sffnb at 4:05 pm
This syndicated post has been reprinted from San Francisco Food Not Bombs.
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posted by Charles Johnson at 6:53 pm
Today, Sunday, from 10:30am – 12:00pm, Food Not Bombs Las Vegas gathered for our weekly Free Picnic in the Park in Baker Park. Today marks the 30th anniversary of the first Food Not Bombs action in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and we celebrated with a big meal and some good conversation. We shared rice, chili beans, potatoes, hot salsa, bread, vegetable soup, fresh fruit, salad, and muffins for the meal, with hot coffee, cold water, orange juice and citrus punch for drinks. About 35 people joined in the meal this week. Food Not Bombs organizers Sarita, Sean, Kelly, Charles, Daniel, and Gail came out to meet up, celebrate the occasion, and keep the table from blowing away in the wind.
We had a great meal, and some good conversations about organizing spaces and community support for Food Not Bombs.
We come out to Baker Park every Sunday to share a free vegan picnic with food for anyone who wants to eat.
See you at the park next week!
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—Charles Johnson
Tags: Baker Park, Meals
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posted by Michelle Irish at 12:06 pm
Food Not Bombs Las Vegas participated in Aprils First Friday event in Downtown’s Arts District on April 2 from 6:30pm to 10:00pm. We had banana bread, brownies and fruit. Charles brought fruit, Gail supplied banana bread and Michelle brought banana bread and brownies. Michelle and Brian worked the booth.
Though, off to a rough start, having to relocate multiple times, we seemed to have had a great response from people at the booth, many of whom were familiar with FnB, but unaware of a local chapter. Others were interested in the effort, and curious about participation. Overall we felt the booth was a successful form of networking, and hope that FnB will be able to participate in future First Friday events.
—Michelle Irish
Tags: Events, First Friday, Las Vegas, Meal, Outreach
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posted by Sean Daily at 8:34 pm
Food Not Bombs Las Vegas held our weekly Free Picnic in the Park at Baker Park on March 28th from 10:00am to 12:00pm. We had rice, beans, salad, potatoes, salad and fruit for the main course, with juice and fruit punch to drink. Sean brought juice; everything else was yet again courtesy of Gail.
About 40 people joined in the meal this week. Food Not Bombs organizers Charles, Kelly and Sean were there. The weather stayed nice. We talked about community organizing and just generally enjoyed the nice weather.
See you at the park next week!
—Sean Daily
Tags: Baker Park, Meals
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posted by Sean Daily at 8:32 pm
Food Not Bombs Las Vegas held our weekly Free Picnic in the Park at Baker Park on March 21st from 10:00am to 11:30am. We had rice, beans, salad, potatoes, salad and fruit for the main course, with juice and fruit punch to drink. Daniel and Sean brought juice; everything else was yet again courtesy of Gail.
About 20 people joined in the meal this week. Food Not Bombs organizers Daniel, Kelly and Sean were there. The weather was warm and sunny. We talked about community organizing and just generally enjoyed the change in the weather.
See you at the park next week!
—Sean Daily
Tags: Baker Park, Meals
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posted by Nick at 7:52 pm
Hey FnB’ers, Nick Poole here. As some of you know we’re trying to expand food not bombs to Wednesdays at Paradise Park. This week we’ll be having a rehearsal of sorts in the form of a picnic for ourselves as a meeting to work out logistics. For anyone who would just like to come to the meeting and eat, excellent! We’d love to have you. We’ll be at Paradise Park (on McLeod between Trop and Harmon) this Wednesday, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM. Anyone who wants to help prepare the food can come by my house between 9:00 AM and 10:45 AM Wednesday morning.
I’m going to be going out on a dumpster mission tomorrow (Tuesday) night to collect food. If you’d like to come with and help out, great! All skill levels are welcome. It’s guaranteed to be a marvelously sticky treasure hunt. If swimming in garbage isn’t your thing, but you’d still like to help out, there’s plenty of room for that too.
If you have any questions, you want to help out, or you’re just feeling lonely, you can reach me at 702-358-2898.
Solidarity and all that,
Nick Poole
—Nick
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posted by Sean Daily at 11:44 pm
Food Not Bombs Las Vegas held our weekly Free Picnic in the Park at Baker Park on March 14th from 10:00am to 11:30am. We had rice, beans, salad, potatoes, salad and fruit for the main course, with juice and fruit punch to drink. Daniel brought juice and donuts and Sean brought juice; everything else was yet again courtesy of Gail.
About 20 people joined in the meal this week. Food Not Bombs organizers Daniel, Brian and Sean were there. The sun was out and, though the wind threatened to blow us away early in the morning, things calmed down by about 11pm, and it turned out to be really nice. We talked about community organizing and how budget cuts might affect homeles and other services, and tried to be as productive as we could be.
See you at the park next week!
—Sean Daily
Tags: Baker Park, Meals
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