{PBJFlorida} More arrests for sharing food possible.

YOU DON'T NEED PERMISSION TO END HUNGER
On Sunday, October 6th Sacramento Food Not Bombs was kicked out of the
Cesar Chavez Park by the Sacramento police. Volunteers were greeted by
about 15 officers when they arrived at the park when they normally do in
time to start sharing the meal they created by 1:30pm. They were told
that our stuff would be confiscated and we would get a summons due to an
ordinance that has yet to even be passed that would prevent any group
from handing out free hot meal in the park.
Last week advocates for the poor were told to stop sharing meals with
the hungry in Sacramento and Santa Monica, California, Taos, New Mexico,
and Olympia, Washington.
Groups were confronted and threatened with arrest in Boulder, Colorado;
Raleigh, North Carolina, Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington and other
cities across the United States this summer. In all over 50 cities in
the United States have passed laws banning or limiting the sharing of
meals with the hungry in the past two years with enforcement on the
increase this fall.
Our food is vegan, organic and no one has ever reported being made ill
eating with Food Not Bombs. The goal of giving the public the impression
we are required to get a permit is to justify forcing us to stop. We
have no paid staff, our food is a gift and unregulated by the
authorities. Like all acts of compassion no permission from the
government is necessary.
Just before the government shut down the U.S. Congress approved a
three-year nutrition bill (H.R. 3102), with a partisan 217-210 vote,
that aims to cut about $40 billion over 10 years for the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and provide various reforms to the
program. House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, said the
bill includes "reasonable changes" to address the "growing and growing
and growing" amount of SNAP recipients. "There are still jobs available
in America," Sessions said. "They may not be ones you want to stay in
your whole life." Democratic congress people said that 4 million
low-income people, including 170,000 veterans would be cut from the food
stamp program because of the vote.

The government shut down will stop payments to over 9 million low-income
women and children who qualify for the Special Supplemental Nutrition
Program for Women, Infants, and Children also known as WIC. Feeding
hungry children is not considered essential yet 350,000 furloughed
civilian employees of the Pentagon returned to work on Monday.

Please support Sacramento Food Not Bombs. We will be risking arrest on
Sunday, October 13, 2013 at Cesar Chavez Park at 1:30 PM - For more
details you can call Sacramento Food Not Bombs volunteer Davida at
916-451-6503
Keith McHenry
co-founder of the Food Not Bombs Movement
P.O. Box 424
Arroyo Seco, NM 87514 USA
575-770-3377


BLACK INK
The official site for Hofstra University's Association of Black
Journalists' newsletter
http://habjblackink.com/2013/10/10/food-not-bombs-volunteers-face-arrest-on-sunday/

http://www.foodnotbombs.net/YOU_DONT_NEED_PERMISSION_TO_END_HUNGER.pdf
http://www.foodnotbombs.net/fnb_resists.html

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