From a Bear's perspective, the United Corporations of Amerika continue to create more and more laws and regulations, that serve no purpose but to make more suffering. Please read Keith McHenry, co-founder of Food Not Bombs post below. Philly is not the first city to create criminally insane laws which have resulted in FNB volunteers being fined and jailed, or limited to being able to feed people one day a month. Any financially poor person will tell you that any subsidy that they may have received in the past from Social Services for food, for households with dependent children or the disabled, has been cut to about a dollar a day. Meanwhile the military industrial complex war machine fat cats roll around in pork bellies.
Please consider calling or writing Mr. Brooks of the NLC to express your outrage. And then make a donation or volunteer at your local Food Not Bombs chapter. ~ Bear
"…James Brooks, the National League of Cities' program director for community development and infrastructure, says he agrees with Philadelphia's approach to banning public feeding."
Religious Charity On Philadelphia Homeless Feeding Ban: 'We're Going To Break The Law"
Dear Mr Brooks,
We sure hope that the National League of Cities reconsiders it's support for laws banning the sharing of food in public. This policy could not be more misguided at this time when the U.S. Census is reporting that one in two Americans are struggling to survive. I meet people every week that have been unable to get food for their families from food banks or indoor soup kitchens and express huge relief that we are able to help. Food Not Bombs has been sharing food out door for over 30 years and provides meals outside in over 1,000 cities and not one person has reported that they were made ill eating our organic vegetarian food. Many people will not eat at indoor soup kitchens because they do not feel safe. We hear this all the time mostly from mothers with children. Even the experts claim we are heading for a Great Depression and food costs are rising. A war with Iran wont be much of a help either so we need groups like Food Not Bombs to build support for real solutions to poverty.
Our volunteers plan to resist this misguided policy in every city where a ban is proposed or implemented. As you may know efforts to stop our meals have cost cities tens of thousands of dollars which could have been better used to support efforts to end hunger. Nearly bankrupt cities should consider this fact when seeking to drive the poor out of sight. Silencing efforts to solve the economic and political crisis is counter productive. When we are able to spend billions to fight war it is clear we have the ability to make sure no one is forced to eat at a soup kitchen. Please join us in ending poverty and despair in our cities. Thanks for your consideration.
Keith McHenry
co-founder of the Food Not Bombs movement
www.foodnotbombs.net
Religious Charity On Philadelphia Homeless Feeding Ban: 'We're Going To Break The Law'
Huffington Post By Jessica Prois 07/17/2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/philadelphia-homeless-feeding-ban_n_1677689.html
...James Brooks, the National League of Cities' program director for community development and infrastructure, says he agrees with Philadelphia's approach to banning public feeding.
Corn May Rally to Record $8.50 as Drought Deepens, Newedge Says
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-07-17/corn-may-rally-to-record-8-dot-50-as-drought-deepens-newedge-says
National League of Cities
http://www.nlc.org/about-nlc
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