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EMBRACE THE COMPASSION OF COMMUNITY

April 5, 2026

Our message of food not bombs is needed more today than at any time in our 46 year history,

“It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. We have to take care of one thing: military protection” – Donald Trump – April 1, 2026

Staggering food prices. The slashing of programs to aid the dispossessed. Possibly a Great Depression scale economic collapse. Flag draped coffins returning from the war. Talk of a military draft in the US. Fuel shortages across the globe. Power and water draining AI data farms and food farms that can’t afford fertilizer. Current events are unsettling. Frightening really.

Our Food Not Bombs chapters the are already mobilized to respond to the catastrophe.

Volunteers in Manila are responding to the fuel crisis by activating a “Free Rides Not Bombs” service in addition to their meal and grocery program. Their shiny silver jeepney winds through the narrow streets of Pasig taking passengers to their destination. Volunteers in Beirut are faced with a flood of refugees fleeing the attempted invasion of southern Lebanon. The lines of those joining Food Not Bombs continue to grow longer.

People are eager to help. Requests to add new chapters to our website map arrive in our inbox nearly everyday. A parade of donations arrive all afternoon at my local group in Santa Cruz, California. I get the impression that a spirit of solidarity is growing as fast as the gas prices.

Food Not Bombs volunteers are in a unique position during this period of crisis. The emotional support of community one can feel at a Food Not Bombs meal could be more important than the meals offer.

Thousands of Food Not Bombs volunteers have spent years practicing the logistics of food recovery, meal preparation and sharing. Many of our volunteers have experienced the chaos that is possible in extreme conditions such as providing food under martial law in Myanmar or feeding the survivors in Medan Indonesia after the 2004 Christmas Tsunami. Food Not Bombs volunteers prepared hundreds of meals at the Park Slope Community Church and sharing meals in Red Bank and The Far Rockaway after Hurricane Sandy.

Food Not Bombs is celebrating our 46th anniversary this May. Over four decades and billions of meals prepared and shared. I detail some of amazing events that make up our 46 year history in my new memoir Soup Street. You can join me in my journey from the adventures I enjoyed as a child living the wilderness of America’s National Parks, the events that inspired me to dedicate my life to ending capital’s exploitive system to the founding of Food Not Bombs and the decades of traveling the world preparing and sharing meals.

Please don’t despair. Food Not Bombs is up to the task.

Soup Street will be available in paperback this May 2026.

Visit www.foodnotbombs.net to purchase a copy.

Food Not Bombs

PO Box 422, Santa Cruz, CA 95061 USA

1-800-884-1136

www.foodnotbombs.net

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ANOTHER FBI INVENTED TERRORIST PLOT

December 16, 2025

Audrey Carroll, 30 , Zachary Page, 32, Dante Gaffield, 24 and Tina Lai, 41 were arrested in what is likely an FBI invented terrorist plot.

The criminal complaint against the just formed “Turtle Island Liberation Front” suggests this was another FBI invented terrorist attack and that the four people arrested were set up.

The FBI used an informant from the beginning and then added an “undercover employee” (UCE) so they could “disrupt” the fake plot they were setting up.

The timing of the arrests and massive media attention accusing the newly formed Turtle Island Liberation Front was a leftist pro Palestinian anti ICE and anti-capitalist “terrorist” group supports the Trump agenda of fear as outlined in September 25, 2025 National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-7) called “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence”.

It seems very unlikely that the four that have been arrested would have called any such plot “OPERATION MIDNIGHT SUN” and would call themselves “Order of the Black Lotus” but one could believe the FBI would invent such a name.

It appears from the complaint that this plot was initiated by a paid FBI infiltrator and that both the informant and an FBI agent who graduated from the academy last year guided the defendants through the plot and to the site where the arrests were made. What are the chances that a bomb plot emerged naturally out of a small group chat that a paid informant and undercover agent were both passively members of?

Based on past FBI invented plots it is likely that we will learn that the “hand written” plans were drafted by the informant. The pebble in the shoe and the buying of “bomb making” items on Amazon and the photograph of the “evidence” still life that the authorities are sharing that looks like past frame ups also point to an FBI invented plot.

We saw a similar evidence still life provided by the FBI in the terrorism arrests of eight Food Not Bombs volunteers during the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in 2008

I have direct experience with FBI invented terrorist plots FBI infiltrator “Anna” Zoe Elizabeth Voss spent time at the Food Not Bombs literature table and kitchen at St Marks during the 2004 protest at the Republican National Convention in New York City. A year later she participated as a “medic” at the protest against the Biotech industry. Zoe Elizabeth Voss, Zach Jenson, Lauren Weiner, Eric McDavid and I shared the second floor porch of a Food Not Bombs volunteers home in West Philadelphia each night during the 2005 Food Not Bombs World Gathering. The four of them traveled across the country afterwards in a car provided by the FBI to a California ski lodge provided by the FBI. The FBI raided the house arresting Eric, Zachary and Wren. Zoe Elizabeth Voss was paid over $65,000 for her role in securing Eric McDavid’s 19 year sentence on a FBI invented terrorist plot. On January 8, 2015, after he spent eight years and 360 days in prison, McDavid’s conviction was overturned after the prosecution conceded that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had withheld thousands of pages of potentially exculpatory evidence.

FBI infiltrator “Anna” Zoe Elizabeth Voss

Five cooks at Occupy Cleveland were arrested by members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force on April 30, 2012 on charges of conspiracy and attempted use of explosive materials to damage physical property affecting interstate commerce.

The FBI affidavit makes it clear that the five ‘black bloc’ anarchists were swept into an FBI sting operation using an agent provocateur and an FBI Special Agent. According to the criminal complaint the FBI’s informant and Special agent spent over half a year systematically pushing the five to participate in an FBI invented plot to plant C-4 explosives on the Brecksville-Northfield High Level Bridge over the Cuyahoga Valley National Park near Cleveland. All five were convicted and sentenced to a decade in prison.

If the local charismatic member of your activist group asks you to join their secret organization for “serious people” in order to make bombs you must assume they work for the feds.

I have a chapter in The Anarchist Cookbook “Avoiding FBI entrapment”.

“Still it is not always possible to avoid being the target of the authorities, so take precautions to limit the damage if the state seeks to silence you. Taking actions that you can be proud of may be the most important single thing you can do. Think of the consequences of your acts. How will you feel if someone is injured or killed because of something you did? Could your actions be used to discredit the movement? Could they add to the divisions, fear, and paranoia in the community?”

The arrests of the “Turtle Island Liberation Front” for the New Years Eve plot using that evenings fireworks to hide what is supposed to be an act of political violence follows the arrest of 17 activists in Texas after launching fireworks on July 4, 2025 outside the Prairieland ICE facility. An unidentified person shot and hit a policeman in the neck. KERA reporter Caroline Love writes, “Court records don’t identify who fired the shots,” suggesting the shooter may well be working with law enforcement.