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Neighbours are the Best Barricades: Interview with Cambridge Community Kitchen - The Commoner
Date
September 23, 2022
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Cambridge Community Kitchen (CCK) emerged out of the same anarchic current that created The Lockon (see this interview), a squat based in Cambridge, UK. Throughout COVID, CCK has bypassed local government to prepare and deliver vegan food to rough sleepers and to anyone else who requests it. Like the squat, it operates through an organised non-hierarchical model which could serve as a blueprint for other groups moving forward. It differentiates itself both from state-funded initiatives and from other volunteer programs in Cambridge in that it steadfastly refuses to collaborate with the police and puts no pre-conditions (drug use, criminal record, immigration status) on aid. Badger, a founding member of CCK, offered their time to The Commoner to discuss their work in providing some measure of food security to those in need around the city.