Re: {PBJFlorida} More arrests for sharing food possible.

Thanks so much Michael, I learned that another group was stopped in
Massachusetts yesterday. Seems to be a national wave of threats against
sharing meals in public. I will keep you posted.

Thanks again for your support.

Keith

On 2013-10-12 11:28, Michael Rodriguez wrote:
> Thanks Keith for always being on the side of the poor and oppressed!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 12, 2013, at 1:05 PM, keith@foodnotbombs.net wrote:
>
>> 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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