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Houston City Council Hearings on Anti Food Sharing Ordinance
Houstonians including many Food Not Bombs volunteers speak out against the Amendment to Chapter 20 of Code of Ordinances.
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Houston Food Not Bombs has been sharing healthy vegetarian food with hundreds of hungry people, several nights a week, for over 18 years and is a 2011 Recipient of a Peacemaker Award from the Houston Peace and Justice Center.
Well funded Houston homeless service organizations, developers, and city officials are promoting new regulations for dozens of groups like ours that provide food for the homeless in Houston every week. Read the new amendment on pages 33 – 45 here: http://www.houstontx.gov/citysec/backup/2012/030612.pdf
March 6, 2012, Houston City Council heard arguments against amending chapter 20 of the code of ordinances, imposing five new regulatory and licensing requirements for those who feed hungry people in Houston. These regulations would bring the work of non-professionals who do homeless service work under city and police purview. This law fits squarely in the context of criminalization of sharing of food across the country. Food Not Bombs participants in U.S. Cities have ended up in jail when restrictive new laws came into effect.
Well funded Houston homeless service organizations, developers, and city officials are promoting new regulations for dozens of groups like ours that provide food for the homeless in Houston every week. Read the new amendment on pages 33 – 45 here: http://www.houstontx.gov/citysec/backup/2012/030612.pdf
March 6, 2012, Houston City Council heard arguments against amending chapter 20 of the code of ordinances, imposing five new regulatory and licensing requirements for those who feed hungry people in Houston. These regulations would bring the work of non-professionals who do homeless service work under city and police purview. This law fits squarely in the context of criminalization of sharing of food across the country. Food Not Bombs participants in U.S. Cities have ended up in jail when restrictive new laws came into effect.
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Thanks for the great coverage! Can you please start a new post though, and link back to this one?
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-Indybay Volunteer
This is a new post.
new flyer: Houston is Criminalizing the Sharing of Food
by repost
Saturday Mar 31st, 2012
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/31/18710464.php
new flyer: Houston is Criminalizing the Sharing of Food
by repost
Saturday Mar 31st, 2012
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/31/18710464.php
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