OUR LOCATIONS

Downtown

Serving free burritos every
Saturday from 9-11 AM.

½ block south of the Alvarado Transportation Center on 1st St SE.
Under the Lead Ave bridge.

International District

Serving free pozole every
Sunday at 3 PM.

Trumbull Park
445 Pennsylvania St SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108

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We never charge for the food we make, so our operation is funded entirely through community and member donations. It costs us about $800/month to keep running, so any help is greatly appreciated!

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Who We Are and What We Do

Feed and Defend the People

The John Brown Breakfast Club serves a weekly community meal for working-class and colonized people, many of whom are unsheltered. Where capitalism denies people access to food, we practice mutual aid—the horizontal sharing of resources, time, and abilities—to satisfy people’s need for a nourishing meal. We welcome and defend those without money for food in the very areas where police and business owners try to remove such folks to serve the interests of capitalism.We practice solidarity not charity. Sharing a weekly meal with people robbed of the means to feed themselves is a radical anti-capitalist action of caring for each other. This solidarity challenges how capitalism separates us into hierarchies in which those with more look down on those who go without, or how we are conditioned to act as self-interested individuals competing against each other for resources. We reject these forms of separation. Through the tools of mutual aid and community defense, we’re building the power to care for each other in immediate and direct ways. We do this while working to win a world where common people, not wealthy private individuals, own and control the means of producing the goods and services necessary to satisfy people’s needs.

Seizing Space for the People

The location of our weekly community meal is a public space near city transportation and low-income housing. It is an area with a heavy presence of police and business owners who target for removal poor and colonized people. When we serve our weekly meal we carve out a space of refuge for people facing such violence. We do so by making it a zone free of cops, business owners, and other abusers of the people. We see this as a form of taking back space and repurposing it to serve the interests of working class and colonized people. This challenges the ways public space is used to serve capitalism and white supremacy. Along with our meal share, we also offer know-your-rights education and do skill-shares on site that help people better defend themselves against police abuse.

Abolition and Community Defense

In doing this, we pursue an abolitionist goal of organizing to defend and liberate people whose poverty and/or existence is criminalized by the capitalist state. Our work supports socialist and anarchist movement goals of developing self-governing or autonomous zones among working-class and dispossessed people. Developing ways to feed the hungry in our community and carving out spaces of refuge for poor and unsheltered residents are our humble first steps toward the building of independent, self-directed, people-powered institutions that can give us the power to care for ourselves and defend against state or fascist violence. As these institutions are further developed, they will serve as our tools for returning stolen lands to Indigenous nations, abolishing policing and prisons, and placing under the control of workers the economy’s means of production.If you wish to join us in this work, contact us at:
[email protected]
(505) 302-5502