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DESCRIPTION:SANTA CRUZ FOOD NOT BOMBS SHARES IN SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE BEING ARRESTED IN 
 FLORIDA  \n\nSaturday, November 8, 2014 at 4:00 PM\nDowntown Post Office 
 Santa Cruz\n\n“The city is choking out every avenue for the homeless to 
 survive,” Haylee Becker of the Food Not Bombs advocacy group told the 
 South Florida Sun-Sentinel. “They’re all terrible ordinances, but 
 together they’re a death sentence.”\n\nFood Not Bombs volunteers 
 arrested feeding the hungry in Ft Lauderdale. Solidarity action in Santa 
 Cruz Saturday at 4:00 PM at the Downtown Post Office  Six people are facing 
 60 days in jail and a $500 fine for sharing food with the hungry. \n\nNo 
 one should be arrested for helping the community. Sharing food is an 
 unregulated act of compassion. Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs will be sharing 
 vegan meals Saturday, November 8, 2014 at 4:00 PM outside the Downtown Post 
 Office in solidarity with those being arrested in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 
 Many other cities are also passing laws banning or restricting the sharing 
 of food with the hungry in public at a time when poverty is on the increase 
 and social services are decreasing. \n\n A few days after the Republicans 
 won a majority in the House and Senate President Barack Obama went to 
 Congress seeking  $4.14 billion more to fight the Islamic State and 
 accounted he is sending up to 1,500 more troops to Iraq. President Obama 
 signed $8.7 billion food stamp cut into law in February 2014 impacting 
 millions of families at a time when food costs are increasing. \n\nAt the 
 same time cities across the United States are attempting to stop the 
 sharing for meals with the hungry in public in what appears to be an 
 attempt to reduce pressure to fund programs that would end hunger and 
 poverty. American's seeing long lines of hungry people could cause them to 
 wonder how there is always money for wars but never funding to address the 
 countries crisis of poverty and hunger. \n\nDuring the past year 
 authorities have tried to disrupt the sharing of food with the hungry in 
 public in nearly 60 US communities including Fort Lauderdale, Worcester, 
 Sacramento, Olympia, Taos, Boulder, Raleigh, Portland, Philadelphia, 
 Seattle, Saint Louis, Santa Monica, Houston, Birmingham, Los Angeles, 
 Columbia and Chico.\n\nVolunteers are organizing solidarity events in 
 cities all over the world in support of those being arrested in Fort 
 Lauderdale.\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/11/08/18763934.php
SUMMARY:Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs Shares in Solidarity with Those Being Arrested in Florida
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Down Town Post Office at Water and Front Streets
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/11/08/18763934.php
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