Strategi Gerakan Sosial Transnasioal dalam Kampanye Perdamaian Internasional (Studi Kasus: Food Not Bombs)

This study focused on transnational social movement strategies in international peace campaign with Food Not Bombs as study case. This study used analytical descriptive method with library research as data collection method. The data type is secondary one which obtained from literatures, books, journals, and information accessed via internet that related with the issues. Analytical techniques used by the author in this paper are qualitative data analysis and quantitative data analysis which used to complement the first one. The result of this study are food distribution as antiwar and poverty symbol and message to public, transnational coalition building, and nonviolence method usage. Transnational coalition used to bring more people to their collective claim. Food Not Bombs dedication towards nonviolence shown in its nonviolence protest act such as blockade, marches, and camps. Penelitian ini membahas tentang strategi transnational social movement – gerakan sosial transnasional dalam kampanye perdamaian internasional dengan menggunakan studi kasus Food Not Bombs. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif analitik, dengan tehnik pengumpulan data yakni dengan studi kepustakaan, kemudian jenis data yang digunakan adalah data sekunder, yang diperoleh dari literatur-literatur, buku-buku, dokumen, jurnal, dan informasi yang diakses melalui internet yang berkaitan dengan masalah yang dibahas, dan tehnik analisis yang digunakan penulis dalam penulisan ini adalah tehnik analisis data kualitatif, adapun data kuantitatif merupakan data pelengkap untuk menjelaskan data kualitatif. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa strategi Food Not Bombs berupa membagikan makanan sebagai pesan anti perang dan kelaparan kepada publik, membangun koalisi transnasional, dan menggunakan metode nonkekerasan. Koalisi transnasional digunakan untuk membawa pesan kolektif dengan massa yang lebih besar. Begitu pula dengan dedikasi Food Not Bombs terhadap nonkekerasan ditandai dengan aksi protes nonkekerasan seperti blokade, kemah, dan pawai.

Religious Gift-Giving Turned Upside Down. On Monks and Punks in Myanmar

In Myanmar, a mainly Buddhist country, gift-giving practices are part of the everyday life. An established practice is dāna, where laypeople support those living a monastic life. Turning this established practice on its head is used as a tool of socio-political protest by a group of punks, who run the local chapter of Food Not Bombs in Yangon. The punks’' protest is contextualized through the local nexus of religion and politics, within which dāna practices occupy a central role.

Food-gifting in Gdańsk. Between Food Not Bombs and the Food Bank

The FoodCitizens? project compares cases of collective food procurement in three countries of the European Union (Poland, Italy and the Netherlands), specifically in three post-industrial cities of comparable size and population, namely Gdansk, Turin and Rotterdam. The project explores how networks of social actors organize themselves at comparable levels of intervention (foraging, namely gathering or producing food themselves; short food chains, namely engaging directly with producers; governance, namely rethinking markets, allotments and modes of procuring food that are relevant to urban procurement). The methodology of the project is to "compare by context" how these three levels materialize in the three cities: which social actors are actually engaged, through which concrete actions, and how politics and governance affect what is otherwise largely depicted as a mere issue of economics and/or sustainability (how to produce and procure food sustainably at affordable prices). This way, so-called (post)socialist food-ways assume a particular significance as not necessarily "the odd one out" in EU regions and economies, but rather as one of the possible identifiable cultural and economic pathways that collectivities take as they are informed by specific histories, territories, local economies, and social or demographic challenges. This article focuses on very different urban forms of food rescue and reallocation in Gdansk, namely through the grassroots activities Food not Bombs and through the Food Bank. Based on participant observation of relevant case studies in gentrifying Gdansk, the article focuses on the re-invention of "food waste", of food gifting, and food rescue.

UNDERGROUND” STUDI DESKRIPTIF KOMUNITAS UNDERGROUND DI KOTA PADANG

This research aims to find and describe the activities of underground community in Padang. Type of this research was qualitative. The main instrument in this study was the researcher. The additional instruments used stationery, recording device and camera. Techniques of data collection were done by taking observation, interviews, literature study and documentation. The steps in analyzing data were carried out by collecting, describing and making conclusion of data. The results show that the number of negative responses from ordinary society to the underground community. Underground is a movement which is not tied to a corporation that is binding. The underground movement is counterculture. Judging from the way they are dressed and the accessories used, unclear and noisy music, underground music is considered as satanic, unhealthy lifestyles such as drugs and drinking. The underground communities respond to the negativeresponse by being apathetic. Yet, they can only show to the general public in particular with activities that are positive for the outside society, for example, such as food not bombs, mayday, free market and reading booths.Keywords: descriptive study, community, underground

Bolt cutters and the politics of expropriation: Homes Not Jails, urban squatting, and gentrification

Chapter 6 looks at the response from the Jordan administration on Food Not Bombs’ sister organization, Homes Not Jails, which illegally housed the homeless in abandoned buildings. In interviews with people involved in both Food Not Bombs and Homes Not Jails, I was often told stories of police leniency with the squatters, something that was unheard of for Food Not Bombs’ actions. This differential treatment concerns the political nature of space and the city’s desire to hide the homeless from public view. Because the city wanted to push the homeless into private space, Homes Not Jails, by illegally housing the homeless in abandoned houses, ended up unintentionally working to help the Jordan administration achieve part of his public space goal. This chapter argues that city agencies react to autonomous political projects differently depending on whether they erupt in what the state defines as public or private space.

Cooking up a revolution

On Labor Day in 1988 two hundred hungry and homeless people went to Golden Gate Park in search of a hot meal, while fifty-four activists from Food Not Bombs, surrounded by riot police, lined up to serve them food. The riot police counted twenty-five served meals, the legal number allowed by city law before breaking permit restrictions, and then began to arrest people. The arrests proceeded like an assembly line: an activist would scoop a bowl of food and hand it to a hungry person. A police officer would then handcuff and arrest that activist. Immediately, the next activist in line would take up the ladle and be promptly arrested. By the end of the day fifty-four people had been arrested for “providing food without a permit.” These arrests were not an aberration but part of a multi-year campaign by the city of San Francisco against radical homeless activists. Why would a liberal city arrest activists helping the homeless? In exploring this question, the book uses the conflict between the city and activists as a unique opportunity to examine the contested nature of urban politics, homelessness, and public space, while developing an anarchist alternative to liberal urban politics, which is rooted in mutual aid, solidarity, and anti-capitalism.

What dumpstered soup tells us about violence, charity, and politics

Chapter 2 provides an introduction to Food Not Bombs and gives a brief history of the group. This shows the group’s strong connection to a large range of movements, and contextualizes San Francisco Food Not Bombs and their role in the rapid expansion of Food Not Bombs, which now has around 1000 chapters worldwide. Finally, an analysis of Food Not Bombs’ political project is provided.

Turning statistics into people: from sick talk to the politics of solidarity

Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to the politics of homelessness by discussing the predominance of “sick talk” in addressing homelessness. In the literature review, I contend that the neoliberalizing of homelessness has shifted the “fault” of homelessness onto the individual, thus pathologizing homelessness and justifying increased criminalization and surveillance. Counter to this view, I present an alternative radical homelessness politics rooted in anarchist political theory and the praxis of Food Not Bombs and the Catholic Workers. This approach seeks to personalize the homeless, while maintaining a systemic critique of capitalism. The chapter ends with a road map for the coming chapters.

Towards an anarchist “right to the city”

Chapter 7 puts the lessons from the anarchist urban activism and praxis of Food Not Bombs and Homes Not Jails into dialogue with the work on the Right to the City. While sympathetic to and inspired by these theorists’ work on radical urbanism, the author criticizes productionist predilections and highlights that centralized homelessness removes the focus on formal economic production. The chapter contends that by focusing on the homeless, a more robust and radical conception of urban space as commons can be developed, which allows for rights to opacity and survival in urban space.