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London's Independent has chronicled the spread of Adam Weissman's New York-inspired freegan movement, which according to their website defines freegan as derived from "free" and "vegan". If you can wade through endless jargon and vicious superlatives used to describe corporations and hideous waste of food, you'll find some surprisingly intriguing bits about latter-day Abbie Hoffman-inspired dumpster diving going on around Manhattan. (Let's not forget that dear departed Abbie wrote about this stuff 35 years ago.)
In case you missed last Wednesday's Tribeca/Soho/Chinatown Trash Trailblaze, fear not. Next Sunday, February 22, freegan features an Urban Foraging 101 Discussion/ Trash Tour of Morningside Heights, departing from Nussbaum and Wu on the southwest corner of 113th St. and Broadway at 8 pm. Of course, given so many starving students (or rich students posing as starving students) at Columbia and Barnard, Fresh expects hordes of warmly-attired youth to wander around Morningside Heights at the 9 o'clock evening hour, doubtless thieving many fine stale castoffs that otherwise would land in the shopping carts of the homeless armies that have been trolling the dumpsters long before a bunch of concerned vegans discovered just how much good food goes to waste every day in Manhattan. Do bear in mind: Abbie Hoffman theory is still far more amusing to read than the freegans' website.
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abbie hoffman, dumpster diving, freegan, vegan
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Posted on 2/19/2006
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