San Francisco Food Not Bombs

SF Food Not Bombs has updated the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection’s list of empty and abandoned buildings through September 2022 on this webpage:  https://sffnb.org/list-of-san-francisco-empty-and-abandoned-buildings/.

Please note that this list contains the addresses from the DBI database. We do not verify the buildings’ status.

The next update will be in winter 2022.

If you want the complete DBI database, please contact us at sffnbvolunteers@riseup.net.

SF Food Not Bombs has updated the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection’s list of empty and abandoned buildings through April 2022 on this webpage:  https://sffnb.org/list-of-san-francisco-empty-and-abandoned-buildings/.

Please note that this list contains the addresses from the DBI database. We do not verify the buildings’ status.

The next update will be in summer 2022.

If you want the complete DBI database, please contact us at sffnbvolunteers@riseup.net.

SF Food Not Bombs has updated the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection’s list of empty and abandoned buildings through September 2021 on this webpage:  https://sffnb.org/list-of-san-francisco-empty-and-abandoned-buildings/.

Please note that this list contains the addresses from the DBI database. We do not verify the buildings’ status.

The next update will be in early February 2022.

If you want the complete DBI database, please contact us at sffnbvolunteers@riseup.net.

Back in 2011 the Travel Channel filmed and broadcasted an awesome segment on your local San Francisco Food Not Bombs! Check it out here:

https://mega.nz/embed/tP5wAJ7S#ZDDeggbcYERCx-9bLkSKaonYwfO21An5_RmYHy13TzU

It was really cool to have someone in the television business so supportive of the volunteer work we do ❤ More info here.

Since March 2020, because of the COVID-19 situation, the Wednesday Mission District chapter of San Francisco Food Not Bombs has been preparing and distributing by foot boxed vegan meals in the area surrounding 16th and Mission Streets.

On Wednesday, April 14, 2021, we returned to the 16th/Mission BART Plaza to share a delicious vegan meal from our table to anyone who wanted one. SF Food Not Bombs has been sharing a weekly meal at the BART Plaza for many years. None of the active members knows exactly when this sharing began.

We invite you to join us at the 16th/Mission BART Plaza on Wednesday at 6:30 PM for a nutritious, delectable, vegan home cooked meal. For more information about eating or volunteering with us, check out this webpage: https://sffnb.org/serving-schedule/.

The Wednesday Mission District sharing in the 16th/Mission area needs volunteers!!! We are reopening the sharing to new volunteers after being more restrictive because of the Shelter-in-Place order that started in March 2020.

Here is the information from our Serving Information page:

Food Not Bombs in the Mission is open to volunteers from 3PM to 7PM every Wednesday at St. John the Episcopal Church, 110 Julian Avenue (at 15th))!  Please email beforehand so we can make sure there is someone to welcome you and arrive with a mask over your nose and mouth.  We maintain 6 feet of distance distance among us and have windows and doors open.  See you soon!

For information or to volunteer:  send email to sffnbvolunteers@riseup.net.

Cookhouse:  St. John The Evangelist Church, 110 Julian Avenue (at 15th).

Food Pickups: 110 Julian Avenue-3:00PM to 4:00PM–Help Needed!

Cooking:  110 Julian Avenue–4:00 PM to 6:30 PM–Help Needed!

Sharing: 16th and Mission BART Plaza–6:30 PM–Help Needed!

Cleaning Up:  110 Julian Avenue–after Cooking–6:30 PM – 7:30 PM–Help Needed!

Read about New Paltz (NY) Food Not Bombs here: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/hudson-valley/human-interest/2021/02/02/food-not-bombs-new-paltz

Teen Vogue, that’s right, Teen Vogue wishes Food Not Bombs a happy 40th anniversary.

The congratulatory article mentions our San Francisco chapter:

There is also still a strong Food Not Bombs presence in San Francisco. Eddie Stiel, a member of the San Francisco chapter and a longtime housing activist says that these days they face less harassment from police (though a blog post from the group says that officers arrested several members and destroyed the group’s meal on May Day in 2014). Stiel says that the best part of Food Not Bombs San Francisco is that the group serves food to the community every week, and that “we’ve been able to keep it going for all these years.”

On April 16, the city of San Francisco barricaded the 16th Street/Mission and 24th Street/Mission BART Plazas except for walkways into the stations.  The walkway at the 24th Street Plaza is exactly six feet wide, making it physically impossible for people passing each other to maintain proper physical distance.  San Francisco has closed the public spaces around only these two Mission District stations, not at any of the other six San Francisco BART stations.

16th Street/Mission BART Plaza, Photo from Bart Director Bevan Dufty’s Twitter Page

These two plazas are some of the only public spaces available to homeless and poor people, many of whom live in tiny SRO rooms.  Supposedly, the reason to close the plazas is to enforce physical distancing.  However, by closing the plazas, San Francisco has forced people to hang out in an even smaller area, most notably on the sidewalks near the plazas, making it more difficult to maintain six feet of separation among each other.

This arbitrary and discriminatory closure of the BART Plazas is the latest example of San Francisco trying to erase poor and homeless people from public view.

24th Street/Mission BART Plaza, Photo from Gay Shame Twitter Page

BART and San Francisco held no public meetings and did not solicit any public input before closing the plazas.

Outraged?

Contact these elected officials.

Bart Director Bevan Dufty:  510-464-6095, bevan.dufty@bart.gov.

San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen:  415-554-5144, Hillary.Ronen@sfgov.org.

As Las Vegas city officials further criminalize poverty and homelessness, at least one misguided resident blames Las Vegas Food Not Bombs for these increasing structural problems.

From https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/13/las-vegas-homeless-sleeping-ban-no-lodging:

“The other half of the Huntridge homeless story is the perpetuation of homelessness by an organization whose members do not reside here,” [Dan] Evans said regarding Food Not Bombs, a group that drew the neighborhood’s ire by serving free meals in the park twice a week.