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TitleFree Food
Author
PublisherFree City Collective
PlaceSan Francisco
Year
Date 110/1/1967
Date 2n.d., ca.
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MediumBroadsheet
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CatalogFC-1-007b
CollectionSOLA-o; SS-o (MH)
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FC-1-007b
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Notes
Of note, this sheet marks the shift from the public sphere to a more inward communal sharing. Grogan describes the “Free Food Home Delivery Service” in Ringolevio, p. 440.
Abstract
This Free City sheet is a direct organizing notice for the expansion of free food beyond the Panhandle into the communes, calling for a practical network of daily distribution and shared provisioning. Listing donated staples—meat, vegetables, dairy goods, fish, fruit, and greens—it presents food not as charity or relief but as collective property: “It’s free because it’s yours.” The airy feather- or peacock-like imagery softens the page visually, but the message is urgent and concrete, ending with an insistence that the work of feeding “the brothers and sisters in your house” must begin at once.
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Free Food
          Lion Meat
          Soul Vegetables
          Blue Chip Dairy Goods
                    Everymorning delivered to
                    your commune.
          Fresh Fish
                    Ripe Fruit
                              Solid Greens
                    Everyevening feed the brothers
                    and sisters in your house.
It's Free Because It's Yours
              Give your address and the number of
              people in the commune to the behind
              the counter cousin at the Psychedelic
              Shop.
 
                                 ...Must Be Done Now...

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