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actions, cut up thousands of potatoes, peppers, and carrots, broken up fights, wheatpasted
and stickered both public and private spaces, shared food at a number of political protests,
scalded my eyes with jalapeño juices, cut my fingers, broken stirring spoons, composted
dozens of pounds of food scraps/refuse, and had to explain at least one hundred times that
we are NOT with a church.
The top 9 states account for over 57 (recalc) percent of all U.S. collectives, of 181 total.
Table 10. Top 9 States with Food Not Bombs collectives
State Collectives
California 37
New York 11
Florida 11
Illinois 10
Texas 9
Pennsylvania 7
Michigan 7
Ohio 7
North Carolina 7
Source: foodnotbombs.net; Date accessed: December 12, 2003. Author's analysis.
Interviews/questionnaires/surveys for FNB activists:
● general vision for FNB as a movement?
● positions taken and values held by FNB collectively?
● how long has FNB been operating/active?
● cross-participation in other activist organizations?
● campaigns run by FNB (homeless, gentrification, war, globalization, animal rights)?
● is FNB an anarchistic organization?
● rate of turnover?
● Ever a lull in FNB activity? (personally and overall as a group)
● food sharing locations?
● Number of times per week food is shared?
● Ever tried sharing more times per week?
● Number of people food is shared with every week?
● ever "catered" at an activist event?
● how many times and what events?
● primary subcultures represented (hippie, punk, activist, student)?
● how many anarchists in FNB?
● how often hold meetings?
● use consensus?
● how well does consensus work?
● problems internal to FNB?
● police harassment?
[ Williams 79 ] [ this is a draft. do not cite. ]