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Santa Cruz Protest Against Arrests For Feeding People
Photo of protesters committed to the radical idea that people have the right to share food. Photo by Denica De Foy
On Saturday in Santa Cruz, CA we held a protest in solidarity with food sharing activists in Fort Lauderdale, FL who were arrested for feeding hungry people. The group Food not Bombs organized and fed large numbers of people at the Santa Cruz event.
Santa Cruz has its own history of struggle to win the right to feed hungry people. Here as there, this struggle included arrests. One person who was arrested in Santa Cruz was retired school teacher Sandy Loranger. She spent 20 days in jail for feeding homeless people soup. When the judge offered her probation instead of jail, Sandy Loranger wouldn't take it. Instead, she indicated that she couldn't adhere to the probation requirement of obeying all laws and replied to the judge, "If it's a crime to feed my brothers and sisters when they are hungry, then I am beyond rehabilitation." Outrage ensued in the community. T-shirts were printed up that said "I Am Beyond Rehabilitation!" Eventually, the movement won the right to feed hungry people in Santa Cruz.
In Fort Lauderdale, FL Arnold Abott, a 90 year-old World War Two veteran is similarly defying a ban on feeding hungry people. He and others have been arrested and now face possible jail time for these actions. As in Santa Cruz, this oppression was carried out by a Democratic Mayor, showing once again that both the Democrat and Republican parties are rabidly anti-poor and anti-working class parties that represent only the capitalist ruling class.
For the Right to Share Food!
For the building of a revolutionary party of the working class.
-Steven Argue of the Revolutionary Tendency.
Revolutionary Tendency
https://www.facebook.com/RevolutionaryTendency
For more information on the Fort Lauderdale arrests, see:
90yo US WWII vet vows to defy arrest for feeding homeless
http://rt.com/usa/202711-fort-lauderdale-homeless-feeding/
For more on the history of the homeless struggle in Santa Cruz, see:
Some History of Blatant Political Repression in Santa Cruz, California
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/05/18718924.php
Santa Cruz has its own history of struggle to win the right to feed hungry people. Here as there, this struggle included arrests. One person who was arrested in Santa Cruz was retired school teacher Sandy Loranger. She spent 20 days in jail for feeding homeless people soup. When the judge offered her probation instead of jail, Sandy Loranger wouldn't take it. Instead, she indicated that she couldn't adhere to the probation requirement of obeying all laws and replied to the judge, "If it's a crime to feed my brothers and sisters when they are hungry, then I am beyond rehabilitation." Outrage ensued in the community. T-shirts were printed up that said "I Am Beyond Rehabilitation!" Eventually, the movement won the right to feed hungry people in Santa Cruz.
In Fort Lauderdale, FL Arnold Abott, a 90 year-old World War Two veteran is similarly defying a ban on feeding hungry people. He and others have been arrested and now face possible jail time for these actions. As in Santa Cruz, this oppression was carried out by a Democratic Mayor, showing once again that both the Democrat and Republican parties are rabidly anti-poor and anti-working class parties that represent only the capitalist ruling class.
For the Right to Share Food!
For the building of a revolutionary party of the working class.
-Steven Argue of the Revolutionary Tendency.
Revolutionary Tendency
https://www.facebook.com/RevolutionaryTendency
For more information on the Fort Lauderdale arrests, see:
90yo US WWII vet vows to defy arrest for feeding homeless
http://rt.com/usa/202711-fort-lauderdale-homeless-feeding/
For more on the history of the homeless struggle in Santa Cruz, see:
Some History of Blatant Political Repression in Santa Cruz, California
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/05/18718924.php
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The right to food is a human right protecting the right for people to feed themselves in dignity, implying that sufficient food is available, that people have the means to access it, and that it adequately meets the individual's dietary needs. The right to food protects the right of all human beings to be free from hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition.
They are feeling the pressure. The Fort Lauderdale government has suspend the law that Arnold Abott was arrested under for thirty days. Arnold Abott, 90, has vowed that he will "never stop feeding the homeless."
The law that was suspended for 30 days was suspended by the government's courts, not the city government.
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