SOUP STREET
A memoir by Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry

SOUP STREET
A memoir by Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry
The people who feed America can't afford to eat. Thank you to Jose Oliva, HEAL Food Alliance for sharing this reality on Conversations on Food Justice.
Watch: https://aspenfood.org/video/the-people-who-feed-us/
#FoodJustice #FarmWorkerRights
Farm workers aren't just filling labor gaps, they're the future of American agriculture. Aspen Food Leaders Fellow Vanessa Garcia Polanco of the National Young Farmers Coalition on Conversations on Food Justice.
https://aspenfood.org/video/the-people-who-feed-us/
#FoodJustice #FarmWorkers
ICNA Relief's 2025 Ramadan program served 1,180,477 people across 38 countries.
This is zakat — not charity, obligation. Solidarity as spiritual practice.
With SNAP cut and USAID gutted, they are holding communities together.
Dignity isn't a benefit. It's a baseline. Emma Scott, Vermont Law & Graduate School, on why worker-owned cooperatives are gaining ground.
More: https://aspenfood.org/video/the-people-who-feed-us/
#FoodJustice #WorkerOwnedCoop
Conversations on Food Justice recording now available: 4 leaders on building a fairer food system—employee ownership, farm labor organizing, and why 2 in 3 food workers can't afford to eat the food they help produce.
Watch: https://ow.ly/rA4y50ZUHoU
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Episode #105 - Keith McHenry.
Artist, activist, and author Keith McHenry co-founded Food Not Bombs in Boston with seven friends in 1980. He has recovered, cooked and shared food with the hungry with Food Not Bombs for over 37 years.
Food is more than nourishment. It's memory, culture, and power.
Grateful for an evening of good food, meaningful conversation, and collective vision at Feed Black Futures' funder dinner in Oakland. 🖤
This distrust is hard-earned and completely valid. When food deserts, contaminated water, and mislabeled products hit Black neighborhoods hardest — returning to seasonal, whole, locally-sourced food isn't just wellness, it's resistance. 🌿 #BlackHealth #FoodJustice
NYCHA houses 1 in 16 New Yorkers — and gets zero city composting service. Across all five boroughs, community farmers are stepping in to fill the gap. #FoodJustice
Ensuring safe food and clean water should always be universal policy and essential to a healthy human future on Earth.
#CleanWater #FoodJustice #PublicHealth #EnvironmentalJustice #RightToFood
FYI: German Appeals Court Lets Vegan Drink Keep “Liqueur Without Egg” Name #Vegan #PlantBased #VeganLiqueur #SustainableLiving #FoodJustice
We want more people to be able to access small-scale food growing, to have control over what they eat and how it is grown.
#foodsystems #foodjustice #climatechange #biodiversity
From 400 seedlings to 213,000 pounds of food distributed: Christina Greer on 15 years of Harlem Grown. #HarlemGrown #FoodJustice
German Appeals Court Lets Vegan Drink Keep “Liqueur Without Egg” Name #Vegan #PlantBased #Liqueur #EggFree #FoodJustice
‼️ End the farm line.
Incarcerated people at Angola are still forced to work in extreme heat, facing solitary confinement if they don't meet daily quotas, rooted in Louisiana's history of slavery.
A federal court recognized the harm, and still, the farm line continues. #FoodJustice
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Dignity for food workers looks like fair pay, safe working conditions, and real representation.
Senator Padilla just reintroduced three bills to deliver that for the 21 million people who grow, process, and prepare our food.
Read our full press release 👇🏾
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