Homelessness is not a crime — and neither is feeding the hungry!
Thirty-three cities already ban or are considering banning giving food to homeless people — and some are threatening to throw people in jail if they're caught feeding the hungry.
These laws claim they're about preventing government-run anti-homelessness programs from being diluted. They're really about keeping non-profits and individuals from shining a light on just how bad things have gotten for our country's poor, even as the homeless are treated like criminals for being without food and shelter.
Charity work like sharing food with the homeless is essential in a country where protecting the poor and needy is never at the top of the list, and is found to help those without shelter get back on their feet.
"Cities think by cutting off the food source, it will make the homeless go away," NCH community organizing director Michael Stoops said. "It doesn't."
Help stop this pointless, baseless cruelty. Call on these 33 cities to ditch plans to ban giving food to the homeless now!
These laws claim they're about preventing government-run anti-homelessness programs from being diluted. They're really about keeping non-profits and individuals from shining a light on just how bad things have gotten for our country's poor, even as the homeless are treated like criminals for being without food and shelter.
Charity work like sharing food with the homeless is essential in a country where protecting the poor and needy is never at the top of the list, and is found to help those without shelter get back on their feet.
"Cities think by cutting off the food source, it will make the homeless go away," NCH community organizing director Michael Stoops said. "It doesn't."
Help stop this pointless, baseless cruelty. Call on these 33 cities to ditch plans to ban giving food to the homeless now!
http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4753?share_ref=FDIVWczRlhwPETITION TO 33 CITY MAYORS: Homelessness is not a crime — and neither is feeding the hungry. We call on you to lift current and proposed bans on sharing food with the hungry and homeless now.
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Te bizar voor woorden... De alomtegenwoordige Amerikaanse hypocrisie, haar gespleten tong:
'This guide helps explain how any state or municipality, as well as any private business that deals with food, can reduce its solid waste by facilitating the donation of wholesome surplus food according to the food hierarchy.[..]
More than one quarter of America’s food, or about 96 billion pounds of food a year, goes to waste—in fields, commercial kitchens, manufacturing plants, markets, schools, and restaurants. While not all of this excess food is edible, much of it is and could be going to those who need it.
Food waste is not only unfortunate in terms of the lost opportunity to feed hungry Americans but also in terms of the negative effects on our environment.
The nation spends an estimated $1 billion a year to dispose of excess food.This guide is about what YOU can do. It lists ways you can join the growing food recovery movement. In short, it provides a framework to help you protect the environment while making a difference in the daily lives and futures of hungry families across our Nation.'
Carol Browner, Administrator Dan Glickman, Secretary
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency U.S. Department of Agriculture
http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/pubs/wast_not.pdf
die het mogelijk maakt en, for the record, een overweldigende hoeveelheid beeldmateriaal, een onverwacht effect van de camera waarmee tegenwoordig zowat elke smartphone is uitgerust waarmee praktijken kunnen worden geregistreerd die weinig tot niets aan de verbeelding over laten...
While a strategy like 'feeding the animals' didn't quite work out the way it was planned for the police, neither will the hungry and homeless die unnoticed. Or will they?
The voted top comment beneath this article: "the thing that scared me the most about that wasn't the cop being a total dick bad that deserves to lose his job, it was how scared the person video taping the situation was. when you fear the police, there is a serious issue in society. when you fear recording the police, the issue is out of hand."
En dat, terwijl het voor burgers legaal is de brutaliteit van de politie op video vast te leggen, zegt eigenlijk veel over het gevoel van onveiligheid van de gemiddelde Amerikaanse burger binnen haar zelfverklaarde 'democratie' waar steeds frequenter onwettig, schandalig politieoptreden aan de orde van de dag lijkt. Niet in de laatste plaats vanwege de bizarre mishandeling van 2 journalisten, geen gewone burgers, die in Ferguson het politieoptreden bij protesten na de dood van Michael Brown filmden. Hoezo politiestaat Wanneer er in 1980 in de Vondelstraat 'n dode was gevallen, omdat onze politie er met scherp mocht schieten, had er op de daaropvolgende 30 April hier ook meer in de fik gegaan het bleek echter een vrijbrief protesterenden met terugwerkende kracht harder aan te pakken door de kraakbeweging te criminaliseren wat culmineerde in strengere wetgeving die speculatie niet heeft weten te voorkomen noch de schrijnende (sociale)woning nood (wachtlijst in A'dam nu 10 jaar, gaat in Juni afgeschaft, valt te veel op...) en waardoor de burger belastingbetaler jaren later opdraaide voor de kosten van vier Nederlandse grootbanken die dreigden om te vallen.Er uitgerekend vlak daarna een minister voor wonen in het leven is geroepen die vooral de belangen van het establishment met hypotheekschulden behartigd en daarop zijn strategieën baseert, alsook het afbreken en privatiseren van onze verzorgingsstaat, iets dat steeds meer vorm krijgt door de elkaar opvolgende neoliberale kabinetten en hun steunpilaren de laatste jaren, zal hier, ben ik bang, de dag dat thuislozen als een steeds grotere last voor de samenleving zullen gaan worden aangemerkt ook niet echt lang meer op zich laten wachten.
Why this is needed. Police @ Ferguson
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