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DESCRIPTION:FOOD NOT BOMBS RETURNS\nSanta Cruz Food Not Bombs continues its weekly 
 public feeding in front of the Main Post Office.\n\nLast week it was driven 
 by police and postal officials from the spot it had served at for the 
 previous month--under the eavs of the Post Office.  \n\nAt that spot it did 
 not block traffic, was protected from the wind and rain, and operated 
 without difficulties--except that postal employees objected for unspecified 
 reasons (anonymous complaints).  \n\nLast week under threat of arrest, FNB 
 was forced to the sidewalk to serve.  \n\nMore on this at 
 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/19/18730563.php?show_comments=1#18730857 
 and the main story to which this comment is attached.\n\nTHE BROADER 
 THREAT\nAllowing bureaucrats and cops to deny the community the right to 
 assemble is a dangerous precedent.  Two and a half years ago City Hall and 
 the Library were made curfew zones at night to stop peaceful protest.   
 \n\nLast year, Chief Administrative Officer Susan Mauriello decreed a 7 PM 
 to 7 AM curfew at the courthosue and county building against Occupy Santa 
 Cruz.  This curfew is still in force--as though we were under martial 
 law.\n\nCONTACT INFORMATION\nThe e-mail address and website for for Santa 
 Cruz Food Not Bombs are foodnotbombs-sc@riseup.net & www.scfnb.org .\nThey 
 also have a facebook page.  The best way to reach them is to come to the 
 Saturday 4 PM meal and volunteer.\n\nRobert Norse of HUFF (Homeless United 
 for Friendship & Freedom) is posting this event.  At our weekly meeting we 
 voted to support FNB and encourage others in the community to cook and 
 serve.  We also urge folks to come witness and be in solidarity with FNB 
 servers as they rightfully use the public space to both feed and raise 
 important social and political questions.\n\nTHE BROADER PICTURE\nThe 
 attack on Food Not Bombs may be part of a broader agenda by groups downtown 
 (the Downtown Association, Santa Cruz Neighbors, SCPD, City Council) to 
 remove visible poverty from sight and "make Santa Cruz a less welcoming 
 place for the Undesirable". \n\nAttacks on food servers has been done in 
 the past in Santa Cruz and other cities and only stopped when FNB and other 
 feeding groups refused to stop feeding, even in the face of threats of 
 arrest.\n\nA HISTORICAL LOOK BACK\nFor an account of my jailtime and its 
 impact in helping to stopp the harassment of Food Not Bombs in San 
 Francisco two decades ago 
 see:\n\nhttp://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/001.SoupCrime%20In%20San%20Francisco=8-96.pdf 
  &\n\nhttp://www.huffsantacruz.org/StreetSpiritSantaCruz/002.SoupCrime%20In%20S.F.%28cont.%29=8-96.pdf\n\nUPCOMING 
 ATTACKS ON THE HOMELESS\nCity Council with its right-wing majority is 
 likely to pass the anti-homeless recommendations of the Public Safety [sic] 
 Committee, perhaps as early as next Tuesday.  See \n"New Attack on Homeless 
 Slated in City Council's "Public Safety" Committee Meeting 
 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/29/18730942.php .\n\nI hope that 
 our local FNB will continue the work of its predecessors in taking direct 
 stands to dramatize the abuses of the anti-homeless groups (and phony 
 povertypimps).\n\nThose who have aided and abetted the anti-homeless sweeps 
 of the last year using "needle hysteria" to scapegoat already vulnerable 
 poor people need to be confronted and exposed.\n\nDISCLAIMER\nThese are my 
 opinions, though I think many in HUFF share them (even some in FNB).  I do 
 not speak for FNB (nor for the homeless community), but only for 
 myself.\n\nPlease get in touch with FNB and sign up to cook and serve.  And 
 show up with cameras, video and audio devices, and friends to witness and 
 support.  \n\nThe only thing that illegitimate power understands is the 
 power of the community aroused.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/30/18731070.php
SUMMARY:Food Not Bombs Back In Spite of Police & Postal Harassment
LOCATION:On the sidewalk next to the Main Post Office at the intersection of 
 Pacific, Front, Mission, N. River, and Soquel Streets.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/30/18731070.php
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