{"id":1275,"date":"2013-08-26T05:48:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T05:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2013-09-08T05:53:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T05:53:59","slug":"raleigh-n-c-bans-church-group-from-serving-free-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/raleigh-n-c-bans-church-group-from-serving-free-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Raleigh, N.C. Bans Church Group From Serving Free Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NOTES BY\u00a0 NORSE:\u00a0\u00a0 Food Not Bombs [FNB]<\/em>, unlike Hollowell’s Love Wins Ministry<\/em>, has repeatedly ignored “disperse the homeless”-motivated attacks on its free food meals in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Orlando, and many other cities in the past.\u00a0\u00a0 Currently FNB is under attack in Portland, Seattle, Detroit, and Boulder.\u00a0 (Seehttp:\/\/www.foodnotbombs.net\/fnb_resists.html<\/wbr><\/a>).
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In Santa Cruz, food serving has generally been driven out of the Pacific Avenue area either to the ghetto-area of the Homeless (Lack of) Services Center [HLOSC], or to San Lorenzo Park. \u00a0 Funding for ID checks at the HLOSC\u00a0 as\u00a0 well as a $100,000 security gate appropriation (by city and county paranoid-enablers) was passed recently.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs<\/em> still feeds each Saturday in front of the Main Post office on the sidewalk.\u00a0 Go to their facebook page to offer support–they need carrot choppers, soup-servers, and postermakers!
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Keith McHenry, FNB co-founder, will be calling in to the stream of Free Radio Santa Cruz<\/em> at during the Thursday evening show (6-8 PM) and again for a longer interview Sunday sometime between 9:30 AM and 1 PM) at http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/FRSC-s47254\/<\/wbr><\/a> <\/strong>.\u00a0 Call in with questions at 831-427-3772<\/a> or 832-469-3119<\/a>.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Free Radio Santa Cruz still desperately needs a transmitter site in Santa Cruz.\u00a0 If you know anyone with a tall tree or second story house, please contact them at www.freakradio.org<\/a> .<\/p>\n

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Protesters gathered Sunday evening at Moore Square in response to a series of cease and desist requests targeted at groups distributing food to the homeless.<\/p>\n

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The latest cease and desist request was enforced Saturday morning when the Raleigh Police department, in accordance with a city ordinance, forbade Hugh \u201cThe Reverend\u201d Hollowell and his Love Wins Ministry from distributing coffee and breakfast to area homeless people.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt seemed less like \u2018get the people out of the park\u2019 and more like \u2018how do we punish homeless people,\u201d Hollowell said.<\/p>\n

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According to Hollowell his group had handed out breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays for 6 years before the cease and desist request on August 24th.<\/p>\n

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Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane attended the event to reassure protesters and charitable organizations that no arrests will be made for handing out food at Moore Square.<\/p>\n

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According to McFarlane at least 32 different groups distribute food at Moore Square. She also said that more homeless people might have their needs met if these groups were more evenly distributed across the city.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve gotten to where there are so many people coming and and bringing food and wanting to help that it is almost sometimes overwhelming,\u201d McFarlane said.<\/p>\n

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City officials provided little information as to why police recently enforced the ordinance after years of interaction between organizations and homeless people, though McFarlane and City Councilman Russ Stephenson both cited an overabundance of groups donating and haphazardly dropping off food as reason for reform.<\/p>\n

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Donald Zepp, leader of Humans Beans Together and former professor of entomology at Cornell Univeristy, said that the police disallowing the distribution of food \u201ccame as a complete surprise considering we had police officers previously coming over to us to say \u2018thank you for being here\u2019 and \u2018we appreciate what you are doing here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Zepp also said he familiarized himself with the city ordinance that prohibits the distribution of food and it could theoretically be applied to extent that \u201cif you\u2019re here with your family and you feed your kid a sandwich, you\u2019re breaking the ordinance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hollowell expressed a surprise similar to that of Zepp, stating that \u201cWhen a man with a gun tells you that you\u2019re not permitted to do something, what do you do?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are not the mayor\u2019s enemies, we are not the City of Raleigh\u2019s enemies,\u201d Hollowell said. He mentioned that during a conversation with Mayor McFarlane she expressed her own surprise toward the incident and assured him that Love Wins would not be arrested if it returned the following Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Jes Cronmiller of Food Not Bombs, a political organization that frequently distributes food in Moore Square, noted that the number of people picking up food on Sunday afternoon was below normal. Many of her regulars had forgone acquiring food out of a fear of being ticketed or arrested by the police.<\/p>\n

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The sentiment of many of the protesters in attendance was that the police overextended their reach and used an obscure ordinance to remove homeless citizens from the park.<\/p>\n

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According to McFarlane, lawmakers and public safety officials will meet this week to address the future of food distribution in Moore Square and across the city. In the meantime, Love Wins, Food Not Bombs and Human Beans Together plan to conduct their food-giving schedules as normally as they are allowed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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