If you've never seen 'The Animal's Film' it's a pretty brutal documentary on factory farming, vivisection, the fur industry, animal testing and other forms of animal abuse. By this time (Oct 1988) I had already been a vegetarian for several months, after reading an article on factory farming in MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL. A.W.O.L. were the group of older Anarchopunk activists, mostly based in Long Island, that taught us a lot about political activism, especially around animal liberation and radical environmentalism. And I remember the vegan food (which I'm sure was cold chili with brown rice) was actually quite delicious! A.W.O.L. recruited a lot of people via the kitchen! After some of their members went to San Francisco they returned to open the first NYC Food Not Bombs, which was run out of the dingy Anarchist Switchboard sometime in 1989.
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