Keith McHenry

Keith McHenry is an American activist, best known as the co-founder of Food Not Bombs. He also co-founded Homes Not Jails and contributed to the founding of the Independent Media Center.

Early life McHenry was born in Frankfurt, West Germany, in 1957, where his father was stationed in the US army. The family then moved to Logan, Utah, while his father earned his master's degree at Utah State. Keith's father became a park ranger in the National Park Service and the family lived at a number of parks including Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Big Bend, Shenandoah and Everglades.

Starting in 1975, McHenry attended Boston University, studying painting

He has started Food Not Bombs groups around the world. He gave up his graphics design career to pursue FNB. In 2005, he helped coordinate food relief as well as shipments of clothing and other supplies to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. In 2012, he founded the Food Not Bombs Free Skool, which teaches a summer course covering social issues, community organizing, nonviolent social change, cultural events, and sustainable agriculture.

Controversies

In 2017, McHenry went on Kevin Barrett's podcast Truth Jihad to discuss the September 11 attacks as a possible false flag event.

In 2021, McHenry came out as an anti-COVID vaccination activist, publishing a post noting the left used to question authority but in 2020 they fell in line with that authoritarian state and military that saying, in part, "(...) I first wrote a letter on this subject when I received an invitation to attend a meeting forming a new progressive alliance. To participate you had to provide proof of a vaccination or a negative COVID test. I wrote to invite the progressive community to stand in solidarity with the working class by refusing to meet in facilities that demand proof of participation in the vaccine experiments."