Food Not Bombs Las Vegas

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!

—Charles Johnson

Food Not Bombs Las Vegas held our weekly Free Picnic in the Park at Baker Park on March 28^th 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

Food Not Bombs Las Vegas held our weekly Free Picnic in the Park at Baker Park on March 21^st 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

Food Not Bombs Las Vegas held our weekly Free Picnic in the Park at Baker Park on March 14^th 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

Food Not Bombs Las Vegas held our weekly Free Picnic in the Park at Baker Park on March 4^th from 10:30am to 12pm. We had rice, beans, Oriental noodles, potatoes and salad for the main course, with various juices and fruit punch to drink. Daniel and Sean brought juice, Charles brought taters and onions and Gail whipped up everything else

It was cold, windy, cloudy and just generally miserable. But we persevered. About 15 people joined in the meal this week. Food Not Bombs organizers Charles, Kelly, Daniel and Sean were there. We talked about plans for upcoming events. The pavilion at Baker park  also held host to a meeting of CopWatch. All things considered, a great day was had by all.

See you all this weekend!

—Sean Daily

Food Not Bombs Las Vegas held our weekly Free Picnic in the Park at Baker Park on February 21^st from 10:30am to 12pm. We had rice, chili beans, vegetable soup, sweet potatoes, stewed squash, salad,  banana bread and fruit for the main course, with orange juice and fruit punch to drink.

It was a beautiful day out but a small group. About 15 people joined in the meal this week. Food Not Bombs organizers Charles, Kelly, Daniel, Nick, Vanessa, and Gail were there. It was beautiful and warm as long as the sun stayed out, but with a wind that kept blowing around our utensils. Dogs were walked; we talked about plans for upcoming events; and had a great day in the sun.

See you all this weekend!

—Charles Johnson

Food Not Bombs Las Vegas held our weekly Free Picnic in the Park at Baker Park on February 21^st from 10:30am to 12pm. We had rice, chili beans, noodle stir fry, homestyle potatoes, salad, chili peppers, banana bread and fruit for the main course, with orange juice and fruit punch to drink. Charles and Kelly brought the banana bread and Charles brought the taters; everything else was yet again courtesy of Gail.

About 30 people joined in the meal this week. Food Not Bombs organizers Charles, Kelly, Sean, Kaleb, Irina, Joanna and Nick were there. It was cold with the wind, which threatened to blow us into Arizona a few times. But we persevered, threw around the football, listened to some music and talked about community organizing. Hope the weather gets better, and see you at the park next week!

—Sean Daily

Food Not Bombs Las Vegas held our weekly Free Picnic in the Park at Baker Park on February 14^th from 10:30am to 12pm. We had a big mess of rice, beans, vegetable soup, homestyle potatoes, salad, chili peppers (that some of us mistook for okra, with comical results), bananas, banana bread and apples for the main course, with orange juice, citrus punch, and fruit punch to drink.

About 25 people joined in the meal this week. Food Not Bombs organizers Charles, Kelly, Sean and Daniel were there. The lousy weather finally broke this weekend, and it was sunny and fairly warm. Everyone had a chance to kick back to some good tunes brought by Charles. Hope the weather holds, and see you at the park next week!

—Sean Daily

Food Not Bombs Las Vegas held our weekly Free Picnic in the Park at Baker Park on February 12^th from 10:30am to 12pm. We had a big mess of bagels, rice, beans, vegetable soup, and salad for the main course, with fresh fruit and a delicious vegan apple crisp for desert, and orange juice, citrus punch, and fruit punch to drink.

It was cloudy and a bit chilly and started to rain toward the end of the meal. About 25 people joined in the meal this week. Food Not Bombs organizers Kelly, Kaleb, Sean and Daniel were there, and Charles made it back after a month of traveling. Gail cooked the soup, beans, and rice and made the salad, and dropped by later in the meal. Laura made up the apple crisp and had Charles deliver it.

In spite of the cloudy skies, the weather is starting to turn nice, and we had a good chance to talk about the community in the park and anarchist organizing in Vegas. No music this week — but the boombox will be back, with fresh batteries, next Sunday. See you at the park next week!

—Charles Johnson