Nine anti-nuclear activists started the Food Not Bombs group in Cambridge, Massachusetts after a friend was arrested at the Occupation Attempt of Seabrook Nuclear Power Station on May 24th, 1980. While holding bake sales to raise monies for the legal fees, one person came across a discarded poster with the wording "it will be a great day when our schools get the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." From the statement on the poster and the bake sales, the activists started feeding people at homeless shelters and public housing projects. The meals that were free and vegetarian or vegan. When Keith McHenry moved to San Francisco, he started a group there. Since 1980 more groups across the United States and world-wide have formed. Food Not Bombs takes direct nonviolent action to create a world without domination,coercion, and volience. The organization was founded on the prinicple that food is a right not a privelege. The three principles of Food Not Bombs are 1) Always vegan or vegetarian and free to everyone; 2)Each chapter is independent and autonomous and makes decisions using the consensus process; and 3)Food not bombs is not a charity and is dedicated to non-violent social change.