On Friday 18 May, people gathered in Christchurch's Cashel/City Mall, at the “Hack Circle” to “reclaim” this public space from the clutches of Christchurch City Council (CCC) and the Business Community. Food NOT Bombs was there for the regular Friday lunchtime food sharing and to support this action.

The city council wants to reintroducve traffic into this pedestrian free space which students from the local high school and Food NOT Bombs activists say is an attempt to colonise public space.