Cases against volunteers with Food Not Bombs were dismissed on Thursday, but the city attorney said he intends to press the issue.

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[+] -4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    if you’re going to do it on public property, do it at the site we’ve set up for this purpose

    From what I've seen when this was first posted on Lemmy, "the site we've set up for this purpose" was the former police headquarters. A lot of people, especially not rich people living unhoused, might not want to go onto police property, especially in a city like Houston.

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  • [+] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    ...the point of the law is to stop people feeding the homeless. In their fucked up minds, if they make the city inhospitable to the people without money or resources, they'll leave. Ignoring the fact that they don't have the resources to do that. So it's basically a "if you're homeless, die quickly" law.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah but you do realize that no one will ever be able to successfully navigate those hoops

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    Seminar sounds like the city can make it difficult by not offering it or charging some ridiculous price. Other than that, finding a business to let you use their parking lot once a week doesn't sound that difficult. People do it all the time.

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