Food Not Bombs - Isla Vista

Happy new year everyone! One of our friends in Santa Barbara needs help supporting his dog. He’s a few dollars short from being able to provide x-rays for his little pug. If you have a few bucks to spare, please consider donating, and please share widely. Thank you ❤️
https://gofund.me/b4d5ab0d

Mike and Lorena of Ebby's Organic Farm supply a huge amount of produce to us and the IV Community Fridge. If you've ever seen their amazing greens or tomatoes in our meals, the Santa Barbara Farmers Market, Isla Vista Food Co-op, or at Trader Joe's, you know their stuff is the real deal.

A new, uncooperative landowner is demanding that they pay the water bill for the entire property, including residential housing. This is a more than 2x increase from before and would put the farm in financial jeopardy. The landowner is also demanding that Ebby's needs to expand the farm to some of the non-arable land located on the property, or they will be kicked out.

This leaves Mike and Lorena no choice but to literally uproot the farm and move somewhere new. Moving during the peak summer growing season means losing thousands of dollars worth of in-ground plants. This includes 5,000 strawberry plants, and hundreds of carrots, beets, lettuces, and greens. Additionally, Ebby's famous tomato crop has not yet been planted in anticipation of being forced out of the property, putting the farm months behind. Mike estimates that the farm is going to lose 30 to 50 thousand dollars during the move.

Raising this money will mean keeping the farm open and continuing to grow delicious, nutritious food for our community.

Please consider donating if you area able! We would love to give back to this family that has helped us so much over the years.

Help Save Ebby's Organic Farm, organized by Ted B Mike and Lorena Iniguez have been farming in Santa Barbara County for over 40 years. They are fir… Ted B needs your support for Help Save Ebby's Organic Farm

Folks, we’ll be tabling at this awesome event today, along with many other rad community organizations. Come by and say hi!

Don't forget that these actions will be taking place across Santa Barbara County tomorrow.

Come through, folks.

Last night news broke confirming our worst fears: the Supreme Court is prepared to end the constitutional right to abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade.

This is far from over. We have strength in numbers and power in our united voices. We are gathering tonight at 5:00 pm at De La Guerra Plaza in Santa Barbara and City Hall in Santa Maria to rally and make our voices heard.

Can’t make it? DM us or email [email protected] a pic showing how you support Planned Parenthood and abortion access for us to share!

No better occasion for mutual aid than May Day.

Just one day to go till our May Day Book Cafe, folks! Don’t forget that we’ll be serving free Zapatista coffee tomorrow! This is seriously some of the best coffee around—probably because it’s infused with the smoky flavor of rebellion.

Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/2l0aR6ye9

In addition to our zines, we’ll also be tabling with these and many other brand new books from PM Press at our May Day Cafe on Sunday! Come through to hang out with us and peruse our titles at your leisure!

Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/2l0aR6ye9

Here are just a few of the brand spanking new zines that we can't wait to share with all of you during our May Day Book Cafe this Sunday!

Please invite your friends and comrades to the following Facebook event to make sure we get a great turnout: https://fb.me/e/2l0aR6ye9! And share our previously posted flyer as widely as possible!

Save the date, and spread the word!

More than two years on from our last May Day Festival, we are very happy to announce that we will once again be commemorating workers' struggles around the world this May 1!

Please join us next Sunday at the brand new Ecovista Collaborative Space--located at 6560 Pardall Road in Isla Vista--for our 2022 May Day Book Cafe! We will be there with our books, zines, stickers, pins, t-shirts, and Zapatista coffee from 12:00 to 3:00 pm. We'd love to hang out with you as we celebrate renewed labor militancy in the United States and beyond and gear up for the fights that lie ahead.

We'll share more details of the event in the days to come. For now, please share this post as widely as possible to ensure that we get a great turnout!

Up, up, up with the workers! Down, down, down with the bosses!

The anti-abortion fanatics we posted about yesterday—who are affiliated with Students for Life SB—were spreading their poison at SBCC today.

We have been informed that they were on the west side of the SBCC campus by the fountain but ended up leaving. Regardless, keep an eye out for them!

Come to the Really Really Free Market, folks!

We’re out here, folks! Come to the Really Really Free Market and say hi!

Come through, folks!

Please note that the location for tomorrow's Really Really Free Market has been changed to Sea Lookout Park.

This person could still use some support- thank you to everyone who has donated and shared so far.

Help a community member escape homelessness, organized by Julia Leary A member of our community, who has chosen to keep her name private, has fallen… Julia Leary needs your support for Help a community member escape homelessness

UCSB folks, you should have all gotten this message.

Watch your backs, and expect a heavy police presence around El Colegio and Storke Road.

We are so excited to be a part of this! Come to the Really Really Free Market next week in IV :)

Happening in two days, folks. Spread the word, and come through!

Please support the Santa Barbara Tenants Union’s excellent work, folks.

Join us for our second general meeting of 2022! Connect with fellow union members to plan actions, review financials, and vote on proposals!

6PM-730PM 2012 Chapala St
(Zoom meeting option available, link will be generated and sent out before the meeting!)

Heads up, friends and comrades in Ventura and Simi Valley: chuds are planning to hold gatherings to cheer on the Flu Trux Klan in the coming days.

Take any and all precautions and counter-measures you consider necessary.

Sundays and Wednesdays serving up food and cold weather essentials! Join us :)

Get them if you need them at the following link, folks: https://special.usps.com/testkits.