Food Not Cops – Mutual Aid (Friday)

Food Not Bombs is a decentralized organization that started in the 1980’s as a nuclear disarmament movement. Groups will recover food that would go to waste and use it to feed their communities. Food Not Bombs Burlington, VT combined with our local copwatch group, BTV Copwatch, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to become the daily lunch known as Food Not Cops (FNC). We serve lunch everyday 1-2pm at City Hall Park in Burlington. We’d love to meet week of action participants – come by to help serve, clean up, and spend time with our neighbors.

FNC is a little different compared to other Food Not Bombs. Our friends enjoy meat so we often will have meat dishes as opposed to other groups that do their best to remain vegan. We also hold our abolitionish values very closely as our friends who are experiencing homelessness and whom are in unstable housing interact with the cops a lot. We copwatch to help keep our friends safe. We also distribute a lot of camping supplies as well. We hope that the message we spread is that there are enough resources for everyone to eat. All we need to do is come together and share what we have. All Power To The People.