RIP Aaron Bushnell
Free Palestine - "I will no longer be complicit in genocide."
Before Aaron gave his life to end the genocide in Palestine he volunteered with is local anarchist collective in San Antonio to meet the needs of the homeless.
"Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it." - Aaron Bushnel
HOUSTON FOOD NOT BOMBS UNDER ATTACK BY THE CITY
Sharing food is always unregulated gift of compassion.
The Houston police are issuing tickets to our Food Not Bombs volunteers each evening when they share their meals outside the downtown library. The first jury trial was set for June 1, 2023. After juries found ruled in our favor the state regrouped and tried again. When they couldn't find anyone who thought it reasonable to fine people $500 for feeding people the city is rethinking their strategy.
The first ticket was issued on March 1, to HFNB volunteer Benjamin Franklin Craft-Rendon. Since then, members of the group, as well as a member of a religious organization also handing out meals, have received at least five tickets. One volunteer, Shere Dore, has been ticketed twice. Each ticket comes with a fine of $50 to $2,000. Houston Food Not Bombs has another victory as a Federal Judge ordered the city to stop ticketing the volunteers.
'A huge win': Judge orders Houston to stop ticketing 'Food Not Bombs' for feeding homeless downtown
Food Not Bombs trial rescheduled after too many jurors objected to $500 fine for feeding homeless
Houston activists: Mayor 'should be ashamed' for cracking down on homeless
In what appears to be a coordinated use
of "Lawfare" against America's homeless, cities and states succeeded in
getting the United States Supreme Court to hear their case to repeal
Martim v Boise. Boise then asked the Supreme Court to hear the case and
today the Court rejected that request, thereby affirming that within the
9th Circuit, “the Eighth Amendment preclude[s] the enforcement of a
statute prohibiting sleeping outside against homeless individuals with
no access to alternative shelter.” the Johnson v. Grants Pass case. The
9th Circuit Court of Appeals Court ruling in Martin v Boise that
homeless persons cannot be punished for sleeping outside on public
property in the absence of adequate alternatives. At the same time the
CIA linked, Cicero Institute, is pushing an agenda to remove the
homeless into internment camps.