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<\/strong> From: Protect Animals (170943611)<\/p>\n Global days of action May 18 – 24, 2011 – Arresting Food Not Bombs is Censorship- Support the Orlando Volunteers<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n Arresting Food Not Bombs is Censorship- Support the Orlando Volunteers http:\/\/www.foodnotbombs.net\/arresting_fnb_censorship.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n “There has to be some kind of (police) action. At this point it seems “They don’t want to feed the hungry, they just want to make an On April 12, 2011 the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the The authorities don’t object so much to the groups feeding of the We first realized the power of sharing vegan meals and literature on We decided to make that point visible by dressing as hobos and setting Thirty years later the world is facing the most lethal nuclear disaster When the San Francisco police started arresting us in 1988 they told April 5, 2007 Orlando Food Not Bombs activists Eric Montanez, was The United States is not alone in attempting to silence Food Not Bombs. A young Tunisian produce worker Tarek al-Tayyib Muhammad Bouazizi set Back in 1981 we could not have seen was that our tiny theatrical soup We are eager to welcome you to our table. There is enough for everyone Please forward…<\/span><\/p>\n Orlando Large Group Feeding Permit Law \n Advocate for Saving Dogs\u2122 on Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>Please join me at Friendburst<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>Advocate for Saving Dogs\u2122<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>Animal Rights<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>\u2665We\u2665Are\u2665All\u2665Connected\u2665<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>Wolfen Warriors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>Free Fall \u24cb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Photobucket\"](\"http:\/\/i288.photobucket.com\/albums\/ll176\/advocateforsavingdogs\/dogwalk.gif\")
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\nto be a political statement on their part not a food give away issue.”
\nSAN FRANCISCO POLICE SPOKESMAN JERRY SENKIR 1988<\/span><\/p>\n
\nanarchist type statement and we aren’t going to allow it.”
\nSAN FRANCISCO POLICE CAPTAN DENNIS MARTEL 1989<\/span><\/p>\n
\nCity of Orlando could limit Food Not Bombs right to share information
\nand food to the public to twice a year per park. Other Florida cities
\nmay follow Orlando’s path. This ruling comes at a time when the message
\nof Food Not Bombs is more important than ever. Poverty and hunger are
\nincreasing as military spending grows and public investment social
\nservices, education and healthcare are slashed. The city of Orlando
\ncould begin its arrests of Food Not Bombs volunteers as early as May 18,
\n2011, the first meal 30 days after the ruling. Food Not Bombs groups
\nhave been invited to share free food and literature under their banner
\nthat week in a global defiance of this order.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nhungry. What worries government and corporate leaders is our message.
\nThe San Francisco police made this clear in 1988 when they offered to
\nprovide city buses to take the hungry out to an armory at Ocean Beach
\ntelling the media that they didn’t object to our providing food and that
\nthe problem was that we were “making a political statement” and that was
\nnot allowed. After 1,000 arrests the San Francisco Police used a more
\neffective strategy. They figured out a way for the group to discontinue
\nbringing literature and a banner to the meals. San Francisco Food Not
\nBombs slowly became invisible and they fed less and less people. People
\npassing the meal assumed they were a well meaning church group. The
\ndiscussions about national priorities ended. Instead of feeding two or
\nthree hundred people the group was sharing food with forty or fifty of
\nthe cities most needy people at a time when more people need food and
\nthe economy was in decline. People that happened to know this meal was
\norganized by Food Not Bombs naturally assumed this was the method that
\nhad inspired ten years of police repression and reproduced the food only
\nmeals in other cities around the United States. Those groups were
\nsending the message that as long as we are providing food to the hungry
\nour political and economic system is fine. Most people had no idea they
\nwere part of a global movement organized to change society so no one had
\nto rely on a soup kitchen for food and that everyone would have the
\nfreedom to eat when and where they wished without having to worry about
\nwhere their next meal would be coming from. The impact of sharing food,
\ninformation and conversation with hundreds of people with the goal of
\ninspiring social change and rebellion was absent. When millions of
\nAmericans go hungry each day how can we spend half the federal budget on
\npreparing for war? In the past year San Francisco Food Not Bombs is
\nturning this image around. Encouraging this debate is easy. Collect
\nstacks of literature from local organizations, print up some flyers
\nabout Food Not Bombs, place them in a bag or box and place your Food Not
\nBombs banner on top. Take this to the meal, set out the literature and
\nhang the banner in a way where the most people possible can see it and
\nstart sharing your tasty vegan dishes. After two hours dozens of people,
\nmaybe hundreds will have contemplated the idea that we really can end
\nhunger and poverty if only we redirected our resources from wasteful
\nprograms like the military. Repeat this every week and before long as
\nhappened in Iceland at our weekly Food Not Bombs action people will be
\nmarching to the parliament and inspiring change.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nMarch 26, 1991 when the first Food Not Bombs collective dressed as hobos
\nand shared soup outside the stockholders meeting of the National Bank of
\nBoston to protest their investment in Seabrook Nuclear Power Station.
\nOver 50 people came to share food and express concern about the dangers
\nof the nuclear industry. We were attempting to build popular support
\nagainst the nuclear industry. We were seeking to stop the board of
\ndirectors from investing their depositor’s money on risky and dangerous
\nprojects. Projects that could lead to nuclear meltdowns, ecological
\ncollapse or as Reagan suggested, nuclear war. The Board of directors of
\nthe Bank of Boston also sat on the board of Babcock and Willcox, the
\ncompany that was building Seabrook Nuclear Power station and many of
\nthem also sat on the board of the Public Service Company of New
\nHampshire who was buying the power station. These bankers also profited
\nfrom the nuclear weapons industry. Their policy of lending themselves
\nmillions of dollars with little public oversight was reminiscent of the
\nbank practices that caused the Great Depression in the 1930’s.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nup a soup line outside the annual stockholders meeting of the bank. I
\nwas a produce worker and discarded several cases of produce every
\nmorning so soup was an easy vehicle for our protest. As we prepared tour
\nhuge pot of soup we became concerned that there would not be enough
\npeople participating to represent a Depression era soup line so I went
\ndown to the Pine Street Inn and told the assembled homeless that we were
\nplanning a protest at noon outside the Federal Reserve Bank at South
\nStation. They responded with excitement about the protest. Even so we
\nwere surprised when over 50 people showed to partake of the first Food
\nNot Bombs meal. We set out literature including the details of how the
\nboard members of the bank also controlled companies like General
\nElectric, Raytheon and other leaders in military contracts. We also
\nshared literature from the War Resisters League showing that half the
\nfederal budget was spent on the military.Our banner and literature
\ncaught the attention of stockholders and business people passing our
\ntable and before long men in expensive suits were having serious
\nconversations with people that often slept at the Pine Street Inn.
\nPeople that never spoke to one another discovered that there wasn’t much
\ndifference between them. Our literature inspired debate on the issues of
\nmilitary spending and the real security of housing, education,
\nhealthcare and food.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nsince the atomic bombings of Japan. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power
\nstation is on the verge of melting down. The global economy is in crisis
\ndue to the policies of bankers investing for their own benefit. Experts
\nmight call it the “Great Recession” but for billions of people it feels
\nmore like a Great Depression is on the horizon. Bank executives lobbied
\nfor deregulation, sold bad mortgages, reaped the profits letting the
\neconomy collapse. Food prices are increasing at fastest pace in thirty
\nyears as speculators move to invest in commodities. At the same time the
\nSupreme Court ruling in the Citizens United case claims that
\ncorporations have the First Amendment right to spend unlimited money to
\ninfluence American politics while the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
\nruled that Food Not Bombs is limited to express it’s message to twice a
\nyear per park in Orlando. Food Not Bombs volunteers are defying the
\nruling and continue to share food and literature under the banner Food
\nNot Bombs willing to risk arrest to defend the First Amendment right to
\nexpress our message that food is a right and not a privilege and that
\nreal security could be achieved by diverting military spending towards
\nhuman needs.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nthe media that they didn’t have a problem with us feeding the hungry but
\nthat Food Not Bombs was trying to make a “political statement” and they
\nwouldn’t “allow that.” The banner and literature where the first targets
\nof the police during the nearly nine years of arrests and beatings in
\nSan Francisco. When it was clear that strategy was backfiring the police
\ndeveloped a more effective policy of sending informants to discourage
\nthe use of banners and literature. Having erased the political statement
\nFood Not Bombs was free to share food and the chapter slowly devolved
\ninto the environment feeding less and less hungry, recovering less and
\nless food and retaining fewer volunteers until it became an invisible
\n“Nine Gallons” of soup as described in Susie Cagle’s graphic novel.
\nChurch groups handed out their bible tracts and potential volunteers
\ncalled discouraged that they had gone to United Nations Plaza but could
\nnot find Food Not Bombs. Those activists that were persistent and
\nlearned that it was Food Not Bombs started their local chapters based on
\ntheir impression that the San Francisco group was he most significant
\nchapter and reproduced the model sharing vegan meals without literature
\nand a banner not realizing volunteers had suffered violent beatings,
\ntorture and faced long prison sentences defending the First Amendment
\nRight to share literature under the banner Food Not Bombs. Food Not
\nBombs volunteers in San Francisco are working hard to make sure banners
\nand literature are at every meal. Authorities will not silence their
\nmessage. Their visible presence is sure to encourage more volunteers,
\nfood donations and attract more hungry to their meals. Their historic
\nposition in the Food Not Bombs world is sure to inspire a stronger more
\nvisible challenge to a militaristic United States as they influence the
\nuse of banners and literature at chapters all over the United States at
\nthis critical time.<\/span><\/p>\n
\narrested for sharing food with more then 24 people in violation of the
\ncities “Large Group Feeding Permit” law. Eric was found innocent and a
\nFederal judge ruled the law unconstitutional and a violation of our
\nFirst Amendment right to Free Speech but on April 12, 2011 the Eleventh
\nCircuit Court of Appeal ruled the city could restrict Food Not Bombs to
\nsharing it’s message and food to twice a year per park. The message that
\nresources should be redirected from the military to basic human needs
\nshould be supported. The impact of showing volunteers are able to
\nprovide nutritious vegan meals to hundreds of hungry Americans while
\nencouraging conversation on our national priorities should happen every
\nday on every corner and park in every town and city in the United States
\nnot restricted to twice a year per park.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nThe Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko is also ordering the arrest of
\nour volunteers each week in Minsk attempting to silence efforts to
\ndevelop a free and democratic future.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nhimself on fire on December 17, 2010 fed up by police abuse and high
\nprice of food sparking a global wave of uprisings. Those wealthy bankers
\nare seeking to squeeze every last cent out of an increasingly desperate
\npeople. Hunger and cruelty of the super rich is sparking a global
\nuprising. The billionaires are responding by murdering their people. The
\nglobal revolt is spreading from Tunisia, Egypt, Oman, Libya, Bahrain,
\nYemen, Algeria to China, Korea and the United States. People are rising
\nup from Wisconsin and Michigan to England, Iceland, Greece, Croatia, and
\nFrance. Replacing failed social structures with a sustainable system
\nmaybe more difficult then over throwing governments. But still there is
\nan urgent desire to bring democracy, dignity, basic necessities, if
\nnothing else some sanity to our world. The richest 2 percent already own
\nover half the world’s wealth and resources. And they seem to want more
\neven though nearly a billion people go hungry each day. Are we really
\nprepared to allow our last penny to be delivered to the ruthless
\ndestroyers of our future? As the Food Not Bombs faces repression in the
\nUnited States we are witnessing unprecedented disasters stemming from
\nthe public’s cooperation with a mad political and economic system. We
\nlet the billionaires lead us to this point. Too many of us bought their
\nproducts and their philosophy. The owners of BP continue to live in
\nspender after they commanded one of the world’s worst oil gushers as do
\nthe Wall Street executives that plunged millions into unemployment,
\nhomelessness and hunger. These mad men claim ownership of billions of
\nsuffering animals farmed in factories, the genetics of our food seeds,
\nacres of ancient forests, gallons of fresh water, oil, gas and minerals
\nall treated as products to be sold to a world of consumers. Now we are a
\nworld of consumers without money, shelter, food or dignity. Consuming
\nwar, radioactive fallout, near slavery and toxic “food.” What near
\napocalyptic event or poverty inducing theft is in our future? While
\nladling soup outside stockholders meeting we were concerned that we
\ncould face a future of nuclear disasters, environmental catastrophes and
\na global economic collapse. We urged those visiting our first Food Not
\nBombs meal to join us in building resistance to the policies that could
\nbring ruin to our world. Our literature and speech invited them to
\nwithhold their support of the “culture of death” and join us in
\ntransforming society. Maybe by practicing democracy using consensus in
\nour groups or sowing hope and a feeling of abundance with our sharing of
\nvegan meals we would have some influence in our community. Thirty years
\nlater it is clear that our concerns were well founded and the need for
\nchange couldn’t be more urgent. There has never been a time when
\nencouraging dialog on the issue of redirecting military spending towards
\nfood, healthcare and education is more urgently needed. Defying the
\ncourts order to restrict our ability to reach the public with our
\nmessage and feed as many people as possible is our obligation under the
\ncurrent conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nline would be joined by thousands of others. Not only seeking to end
\ntheir own painful hunger but to join us in our effort to stop the web of
\ndisastrous policies. Each crisis has inspired another wave of volunteers
\neager to participate with Food Not Bombs. Eager to take a stand and feed
\nthe hungry. Rushing to participate, having been forced into poverty or
\ninspired to insurrection by the untenable conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nif we withdraw our support for the system of exploitation and have the
\npassion to implement a nurturing community where everyone’s ideas are
\nrespected. Cultivate community and reap revolution. Cook for peace and
\ntransform the world with food not bombs.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nExcept for activities of a governmental agency within the scope of its
\ngovernmental authority, or unless specifically permitted to do so by a
\npermit or approval issued pursuant to this Chapter or by City Council:
\n(a) It is unlawful to knowingly sponsor, conduct, or participate in the
\ndistribution or service of food at a large group feeding at a park or
\npark facility owned or controlled by the City of Orlando within the
\nboundary of the Greater Downtown Park District without a Large Group
\nFeeding Permit issued by the City Director of Families, Parks and
\nRecreation or his\/her designee. (b) It is unlawful to fail to produce
\nand display the Large Group Feeding Permit during or after a large group
\nfeed- ing, while still on site, to a law enforcement officer upon de-
\nmand. It is an affirmative defense to this violation if the offender can
\nlater produce, to the City Prosecutor or the Court, a Large Group
\nFeeding Permit issued to him\/her, or the group, which was valid at the
\ntime of the event. (c) The Director of Families, Parks and Recreation or
\nhis\/her designee shall issue a Large Group Feeding Permit upon
\napplication and payment of the application fee as es- tablished by the
\nCity. Not more than two (2) Large Group Feeding Permits shall be issued
\nto the same person, group, or organization for large group feedings for
\nthe same park in the GDPD in a twelve (12) consecutive month period. (d)
\nAny applicant shall have the right to appeal the denial of a Large Group
\nFeeding Permit pursuant to appeal procedure in Section 18A.15 with
\nwritten notice to the Director of Families, Parks and Recreation and
\nwith a copy to the City Clerk.<\/span>
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