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Keith McHenry is an American activist, best known as the co-founder of Food Not Bombs. [1] He also co-founded Homes Not Jails and contributed to the founding of the Independent Media Center.
McHenry was born in Frankfurt, West Germany, in 1957, where his father was stationed in the US army. [2] The family then moved to Logan, Utah, while his father earned his master's degree at Utah State. Keith’s father became a park ranger in the National Park Service and the family lived at a number of parks including Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Big Bend, Shenandoah and Everglades.
Starting in 1975, McHenry attended Boston University, studying painting [2] and sculpture. He took a class in American history with Howard Zinn. Keith and his work with Food Not Bombs is mentioned in Zinn's A People’s History of the United States. Zinn wrote the introduction to McHenry’s first two books.
While at Boston University, McHenry became active with Clamshell Alliance, making several trips to Seabrook, New Hampshire to protest nuclear power. He began to organize actions in cities on the east coast of the United States against nuclear arms and war, while promoting alternative energy and organic gardening.
In 1980, he and others started the first Food Not Bombs chapter in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The group provided entertainment and vegetarian meals in Harvard Square and the Boston Common after making deliveries of uncooked food to most of the housing projects and shelters in the area.
In 1988, McHenry moved to San Francisco, where he started a second Food Not Bombs group. He was one of nine volunteers arrested for sharing food and literature at Golden Gate Park on August 15, 1988. [1] In the following years, Keith was arrested over 100 times for serving free food in city parks; he spent over 500 nights in jail. He faced 25 years to life in prison under the California Three Strikes Law, but in 1995, Amnesty International and the United Nations Human Rights Commission brought about his release. [3]
He has started Food Not Bombs groups around the world. He gave up his graphics design career to pursue FNB. [4] In 2005, he helped coordinate food relief as well as shipments of clothing and other supplies to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
In 2012, he founded the Food Not Bombs Free Skool, which teaches a summer course covering social issues, community organizing, nonviolent social change, cultural events, and sustainable agriculture.
In 2017, McHenry went on Kevin Barrett's podcast Truth Jihad to discuss the September 11 attacks as a false flag event. [5]
In 2021, McHenry came out as an anti-covid vaccination activist, publishing an anti-vaccination post that said, in part, "...I first wrote a letter on this subject when I received an invitation to attend a meeting forming a new progressive alliance. To participate you had to provide proof of a vaccination or a negative COVID test. I wrote to invite the progressive community to stand in solidarity with the working class by refusing to meet in facilities that demand proof of participation in the vaccine experiments." [6]
Keith McHenry/Food Not Bombs Archives University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives
Howard Zinn was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist intellectual and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States in 1980. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People's History of the United States.
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