Pour info : Action "food not bombs" en russie. (ces actions consistent à
distribuer de la nourriture végétarienne ou végétalienne aux personnes qui ont peu de moyens)
Acticle trouvé sur : http://www.animalconcerns.org/
The first Food Not Bombs action in Petersburg happened in the end of
January 2005, so now we can celebrate first half a year of our activities.
The local kids (all coming from diy-punk-hardcore scene) got huge
inspiration from people in Moscow who had started distributing free food
some months before that.
This article was written in July 2005 for Abolishing The Borders From
Below magazine - http://www.abb.hardcore.lt
Food Not Bombs in Petersburg - first half a year by Buckwheats and CarrotsThe first Food Not Bombs action in Petersburg happened in the end of
January 2005, so now we can celebrate first half a year of our activities.
The local kids (all coming from diy-punk-hardcore scene) got huge
inspiration from people in Moscow who had started distributing free food
some months before that. First we planned to make actions once a month, but then it became clear that it's possible weekly! All meals have been cooked at home, in our own humble kitchens. Unfortunately, we found no way to get the food for free (dumpster-diving is not really an option), so everything needs to be bought.
Money has been raised from various punk-hardcore etc. gigs and donated
by some kind persons. Lack of funds is often a problem, so actions could be canceled, but in fact it only happened a couple of times. So every week up to 100 portions of hot vegan / vegetarian food is being distributed, in cold season like winter and spring there is more demand for it, now in summer - a bit less. The whole thing takes place on Vladimirskaya square in the center of the city, where many homeless and just poor people are hanging out.
At one of the first actions some nazis came to the square to distribute their bullshit leaflets and wanted to attack hardcore-punk kids who just brought a pot with food. But then nazis were stopped... by cops who
took away their leaflets and a hammer which one of the teenage patriots had on him. Fortunately, cops have nothing against distibuting free food (in Moscow the situation is the same), they only want us not to throw garbage on the street (which we don't do). But the problem with nazis remained - they have been making their pickets (permitted by the authorities) nearby 2-4 times a month, and once they took some pictures of our action. First there was a decision to move to another place, but it was not successful, because very few possible "clients" came there. So we returned to Vladimirskaya and decided to start a couple of hours later than before, so that we don't coincide with nazis' action in any way.
There is now a CD-R compilation available - it is benefit for our Food
not Bombs group and includes songs by 27 local punk-hardcore-whatever bands.
You can order it from "Epicenter" distro address (epicenter-infoshop at
nm.ru).
Also this year new Food Not Bombs groups had been founded in Kirov and
Togliatti (Russia), Kiev (Ukraine) and Minsk (Belarus).