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New Post 3/5/2009 8:16 AM
  ian c
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Bombs not Food! 

I's soo jonsing to do this mission guys! I love the FNB people, what they do, and the ethos of the group.

I really think this could be a hugely funny as well as politically stinging operation.

These are some ideas I got so far:

 

  • Characters in the theme of business people, cops, military personal.. government officials..
  • Giving out "bombs"
  • In the style of Stephen Colbert - sarcastic, ironic... (this is key!!!)
  • Create a table that is the antithesis of the FNB table
  • Use actual facts and figures to paint the picture of the weapon situation in the US and world

 

 

This is just a start though, I would love to do some brainstorming with anyone interested in doing this mission. We can keep it on the forum, or meet up in person - perhaps with some of the Food Not Bombs peoples! So, ideas people, ideas~!!

 
New Post 3/5/2009 10:23 AM
  Mike Smith
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Re: Bombs not Food! 

This really could be awesome.  What would we hand out?  Fake molotov cocktails?  Tin-foil fakes?  Nuclear codes?  (Those would be cheap.) 

Or how could we make some that look like the ones in cartoons--you know the black ball, the round rise, a fuse...this could totally be done.  All we'd need would be foam balls from Hobby Lobby, wooden rings, something like pipe cleaners for the fuses, and some spray paint....  We could make a hundred of them and stack them in a pyramid for handing out.

Also, since we're "Bombs Not Food," shouldn't we encourage people not to eat? 

We can say something like "___[This many]__homeless people in America don't eat every day, and ___[this many]___people around the world every year apparently prefer dying to eating.  Eating is overrated, and obviously not everyone does it.  Fuck eating, let's kill."

I like you character theme idea as well.  We could all be dressed in camoflouge, business suits, uniforms....

This seems like it would be an awesome statement.

I have an idea that seems like a key to this being a success though: I think we should do this when Food Not Bombs is doing one of their events, and we should be directly across from them.  Maybe we could even get into a (prearanged) shouting match with them about things; we could even seem to be on the side of UNM in the whole UNM vs. Food Not Bombs fiasco. 

This whole thing is such a great idea--it could be so awesome.


"Such a dream of shifting images this world is, yet how attached we get...." --Matsuo Basho
 
New Post 3/5/2009 11:13 AM
  Lapayasa
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Re: Bombs not Food! 

Great ideas.

Patrick and Emma from Food Not Bombs are both members of the Brigade who couldn't be present at the meeting... I spoke to them about this mission yesterday, and they seemed really into it.  They will also be at the Whole Foods Freeze on Saturday, so if we meet up afterwards to de-brief hopefully you guys can touch base with them and run your ideas by them.

As a place to start, I reccomend doing some research into Food Not Bombs... check out foodnotbombsburque.blogspot.com/

You can also email them at FNB_505@yahoo.com

Also, since there's quite a few missions in the works, let's start making a calendar.  Ian, when-ish would you like to make this one happen?  Seems like we'd have to schedule a prop-construction meeting prior to the mission itself.  Let me know, and I'll keep updating the "Calendar of Events" as we go.

 
New Post 3/5/2009 8:26 PM
  Danarchy
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Re: Bombs not Food! 

I think it would be cool if some interested people could commit to spending an afternoon making cartoon style paper mache bombs that would be awesome.

It would cool to be able to hand out something physical along with some sort of flyers with some facts on them.

 
New Post 3/5/2009 8:30 PM
  makahlamay
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Re: Bombs not Food! 

Yeah that would be really cheap and easy. If we just use balloons for the shape it should be fairly simple....

 
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