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Three Decades of Dedication and Achievement
A 30th year commemoration is planned, including local initiatives and a collective called "A Food Not Bombs Menu" to help others find and establish local chapters globally. Various materials are available to help, including books, t-shirts, and other ways to promote FNB principles. Through nonviolent direct action, it hopes to create "a world free from domination, coercion and violence," in which "Food is a right, not a privilege," but dark US forces threaten them.
FBI and Local Police Gestapo Tactics Against Nonviolent Activism
For many decades, federal and local authorities targeted groups like FNB. For example, on May 18, 2005, the ACLU charged the FBI and local police with investigating and intimidating "law-abiding human rights and advocacy groups, according to documents obtained through a series of Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests."
Groups targeted, among many others, include Greenpeace, United for Peace and Justice, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, and FNB.
"The FBI is taking tax dollars and resources established to fight terrorism and instead spying on (and harassing) innocent Americans who have done nothing more than speak out or practice their faith. By recruiting the local police (to help), they are also sowing dissent and suspicion in communities around the country" illegally.
Like others, FNB volunteers have been bogusly called terrorists. Some have been arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned. Internal government documents suggest high-level concern that they're turning Americans away from militarism, instead advocating social justice, including quality education, universal health care, and good living wage/essential benefits jobs - the direct opposite of current US policy under either dominant party, each like the other, only pretending to be different.
As a result, FBI informants infiltrate local groups, in some cases getting volunteers unwittingly to travel with them on government-paid missions "to burn down research laboratories, lumber mills, model homes or auto dealerships," then charge them with domestic terrorism, the new Patriot Act established provision.
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