Houston Food Not Bombs To Keep Serving, Despite Being Told To Move

The Library’s Patience For The Homeless Apparently Has Expired
By Paul Knight in Spaced City
A Houston police officer confronted some members of Food Not Bombs on Monday night – the group serves food to the homeless outside the library – to tell them to start thinking about another base of operation.
“There were some other cops talking [...]

Food Not Bombs Under Scrutiny in Petaluma, California

Police to revisit food-provider location
Food Not Bombs volunteers continue to serve day laborers, despite prior warning
By DAN JOHNSON, ARGUS-COURIER
Food Not Bombs volunteers are still serving food to day laborers at Washington and Howard streets on Saturdays, and the Petaluma Police Department intends to again send officers to the location to determine whether or not they [...]

Good People, Food Not Bombs

-News10abc
SACRAMENTO, CA – In these tough economic times, life can be even harder for those without a place to stay and don’t know when they will eat their next meal. This week’s Good People are a group of local volunteers who make sure that those less fortunate don’t spend their Sundays with an empty stomach.
They [...]

Framing the ‘RNC 8’

By Sam Stoker, In These Times
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The city that became a battlefield between police and protesters, who took to the streets during the Republican National Convention (RNC) in early September, is now embroiled in a new fight — a legal battle over freedom of speech and assembly.
In an unprecedented application of Minnesota’s [...]

anti-Food Not Bombs Law Overturned

ORLANDO — A homeless feeding at Lake Eola Park Wednesday night was the first since a court overturned a city ordinance.
The ordinance banned homeless feedings, saying the weekly meals created safety and sanitary problems for nearby businesses.
However, last week a U.S. district judge overturned the ruling, saying it violated the constitutional rights of activists who [...]

Is Planning a Protest a Terrorist Act?

by John Basel, OpEd News
The City of St. Paul in Minnesota has for the first time exercised a new law which, much like the U.S. Patriot Act, is aimed at preemptively stopping terrorist actions. Charges of “conspiracy to commit riot” have been levied against an anarchist group called the “RNC Welcoming Committee”. The group’s goal [...]

Minnesota Food Not Bombs homes and offices raided. Volunteers arrested.

Crackdown Begins: Food Not Bombs House Among Saturday Raids Ahead of
RNC. Food Not Bombs volunteer arrested in Denver and Berkeley office
raided on Wednesday.
As the all volunteer movement Food Not Bombs prepares to respond to
Hurricane Gustav the police and FBI raid several Food Not Bombs houses
in Minneapolis and a office in Berkeley where police seized 13
computers.

Dumpster Diver Court Victory

Food security activists in Victoria declared victory today in a 2 1/2 year old dumpster diving court case.
Charges against four people who were arrested in January of 2006 were stayed after one of the Crown’s witnesses failed to appear.
Dozens of supporters gathered on the courthouse lawn with Food Not Bombs and Homeland Food Security (groups [...]

Free Food Debate Continues

Andrew Abela – Waterloo Imprint
Over a month has passed since Food not Bombs received a letter from Kitchener city clerk Randy Gosse instructing them to “cease and desist free food distribution at Civic Square.” And since the cease and desist appeal meeting on May 5, UW-based group Food not Bombs has continued debating with downtown [...]

Orlando Food Not Bombs plans more protests of rule against feeding homeless

Mark Schlueb, Orlando Sentinel
Eric Montanez – twice arrested and twice cleared by jurors — vowed Tuesday to continue to fight Orlando’s rules about feeding the homeless.
A jury last week acquitted Montanez and three other homeless advocates of violating the city’s noise ordinance by beating on drums during a protest outside a campaign fundraiser for Mayor [...]