Food Not Bombs Colorado

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Denver Food Not Bombs at a Counter-Coronation Jan. 20th, 2005.

The state of Colorado has seen FNB chapters active in Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver, Durango, Fort Collins and Pueblo.

In 2005, Food Not Bombs chapters in Colorado and Wyoming organized a caravan of aid for Katrina and Rita survivors.

1 Chapters
2 Food Not Bombs and Surveillance
3 Related

[edit] Chapters

[edit] Boulder

Boulder FNB Info:

Serving:

We serve at the Bandshell located between Canyon and Broadway every Friday at 4:30 pm.

'Contact Info: Email: fnbboulder@gmail.com

Website: www.foodnotbombsboulder.com[1]

[edit] Denver

Wednesdays:
Serving at four at Civic Center Park rigth off 14th in between Bannock and Lincoln, across from big chair sculpture. Saturdays:
303.629.8557
Serving at 4:00 PM at Sunken Gardens Park 8th and Spear, across from Denver General. denverfoodnotbombs@yahoo.com

[edit] Fort Collins

Fort Collins Food Not Bombs
To join the Fort Collins Food Not Bombs email list, visit http://uproot.info/mailman/listinfo/foodnotbombs and follow the subscription instructions there. You must be a member to post to this list.

[edit] Food Not Bombs and Surveillance

Officer Mike Ryan was part of the raid on a Denver FNB house in 2003

Denver Food Not Bombs has been put on the map for repeated instances of surveillance by several different governmental agencies.

Spying on Denver activists first came from what became known as the Denver Spy Files. The Denver Police were caught spying on various political and community groups, including Denver Copwatch, Colorado American Indian Movement and the Transform Columbus Day Alliance. Denver FNB worked closely with these groups and some members were also members of other groups discovered to be under the radar of the DPD.

On August 1, 2003 the Denver Police raided one of the houses that meals were cooked and prepared at. Residents were were hit with truncheons, choked by their jewelry and put in pain compliance holds just for asking to see a warrant. In the end they were issued petty misdemeanors. One resident reported being stopped and threatened by Officer Mike Ryan who was present at the raid.

Civil Liberty issues resurfaced once more when FNB members were questioned by the FBI because of supposed plans to disrupt the upcoming Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention. The ACLU discovered that the FBI, Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) and Denver Police together conducted surveillance which included information on Food Not Bombs groups throughout Colorado and had further information on specific Denver FNB members and their political activities. This cooperation between FBI officers and the Denver Police Department violated the agreement that SPD made during their Spy Files scandal. These "pre-text interviews" were also part of a wave of FBI visits across the country intended to intimidate anarchists and other activists.

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