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FOOD NOT BOMBS ALERT -- URGENT ACTION NEEDED!!!
THE NEXT SCHEDULED SERVING IS WEDNESDAY, MAY 9TH 2001 AT 5:30PM.
As part of the latest wave of human rights abuses directed at poor and homeless people in San Francisco, Food Not Bombs had their 5:30 food serving to homeless people in UN Plaza disrupted by SFPD.
This is following the midnight removal of the plaza's benches Saturday, April 28th in supposed "official reaction" to an investigative report on the Hearst Corporation's KRON that aired on the previous evening's news. The KRON newscast was slanted to portray all of UN Plaza's homeless residents as violent drug addicts.
Subsequent FOIA requests made by the the Coalition on Homelessness revealed that Mayor Willie Brown's office has been planning the benches' removal since October, 2000 -- in callous and cynical disregard of the valid needs and reasonable accommodations for disabled and senior citizens, homeless or not.
FNB'ers at risk of arrest relocated the serving across Market St. from the plaza, regrouped, then decided collectively to return to their regular serving spot in the plaza. Two cops on bikes advised FNBers that they were in violation of a court order and would be arrested if they did not stop serving. They did not stop serving and the cops called it in.
Lt. McDonough, SFPD arrived shortly with court order in hand and simply pointed and arbitrarily said, "you're arrested" to FNB servers and organizers present. Soon after there were at least 8 police cars, a police van, and 6 more bicycle cops.
A total of four FNBers were cited, two were cited and released, and two were taken into custody for lack of proper identification.
Details will follow.
ACTION NEEDED:
FOOD NOT BOMBS NEEDS OUR SUPPORT!!!
THE NEXT SCHEDULED SERVING IS WEDNESDAY, MAY 9TH 2001 AT 5:30PM.
BE THERE! BRING A CAMERA! BRING A RECORDER! BRING A FEW FRIENDS!!!
EVERYONE TAKE NOTES, NAMES, BADGE AND VEHICLE NUMBERS!!!!
¡¡¡¡BE CREATIVE!!!!
It's time to end human rights abuses in the United States.
It's time to end ONGOING human rights abuses within spitting distance of a monument to the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING...
--
Not to know is bad.
Not to want to know is worse.
Not to hope is unthinkable.
Not to care is unforgivable.
-Nigerian saying
STREET SHEET
A Publication of the Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco
468 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
415 / 346.3740-voice • 415 / 775.5639-fax
streetsheet [at] sf-homeless-coalition.org
http://www.sf-homeless-coalition.org
This is following the midnight removal of the plaza's benches Saturday, April 28th in supposed "official reaction" to an investigative report on the Hearst Corporation's KRON that aired on the previous evening's news. The KRON newscast was slanted to portray all of UN Plaza's homeless residents as violent drug addicts.
Subsequent FOIA requests made by the the Coalition on Homelessness revealed that Mayor Willie Brown's office has been planning the benches' removal since October, 2000 -- in callous and cynical disregard of the valid needs and reasonable accommodations for disabled and senior citizens, homeless or not.
FNB'ers at risk of arrest relocated the serving across Market St. from the plaza, regrouped, then decided collectively to return to their regular serving spot in the plaza. Two cops on bikes advised FNBers that they were in violation of a court order and would be arrested if they did not stop serving. They did not stop serving and the cops called it in.
Lt. McDonough, SFPD arrived shortly with court order in hand and simply pointed and arbitrarily said, "you're arrested" to FNB servers and organizers present. Soon after there were at least 8 police cars, a police van, and 6 more bicycle cops.
A total of four FNBers were cited, two were cited and released, and two were taken into custody for lack of proper identification.
Details will follow.
ACTION NEEDED:
FOOD NOT BOMBS NEEDS OUR SUPPORT!!!
THE NEXT SCHEDULED SERVING IS WEDNESDAY, MAY 9TH 2001 AT 5:30PM.
BE THERE! BRING A CAMERA! BRING A RECORDER! BRING A FEW FRIENDS!!!
EVERYONE TAKE NOTES, NAMES, BADGE AND VEHICLE NUMBERS!!!!
¡¡¡¡BE CREATIVE!!!!
It's time to end human rights abuses in the United States.
It's time to end ONGOING human rights abuses within spitting distance of a monument to the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING...
--
Not to know is bad.
Not to want to know is worse.
Not to hope is unthinkable.
Not to care is unforgivable.
-Nigerian saying
STREET SHEET
A Publication of the Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco
468 Turk Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
415 / 346.3740-voice • 415 / 775.5639-fax
streetsheet [at] sf-homeless-coalition.org
http://www.sf-homeless-coalition.org
For more information:
http://www.sf-homeless-coalition.org
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