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Food Not Bombs activist arrested and charged for feeding people

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Saturday April 07, 2007 14:30author by Seán Ryan Report this post to the editors

Eric Montanez arrested and charged with feeding the hungry.

Food Not Bombs, a 'radical' group in the US have made headlines all over the planet this morning.

21 year old activist, Eric Montanez, has been arrested in Miami for feeding hungry people. Apparently, Montanez decided to become a criminal, as he thought that feeding people was more important than trying to sell stuff to them.

Montanez, broke the law by attempting to feed a group of 30 people, in violation of a law that states that feeding groups of more than 25 people is illegal. Apparently poverty, homelessness and starvation, tends to put people off, in regard to splurging out for luxuries in the shops of Florida.

Montanez will be the first person ever to be prosecuted under this law.

Police took samples of the stew that Montanez presumed to feed people with. In Florida, in order to feed groups of more than 25 people, one needs to secure a special permit. One can only be issued a special permit twice a year.

Well done Food Not Bombs and Eric Montanez.

There are many such laws in the US. For example, in Atlanta, it's illegal to give a starving person a sandwich that you prepared at home.

How long will it be before we catch up with these progressive laws, in good ole, flexible and impressionable Ireland?

Related Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN05171935200...70405

author by Seán Ryan - Eric Montanezpublication date Sat Apr 07, 2007 15:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

http://www.foodnotbombs.net/fnb_resists.html

Eric Montanez
Eric Montanez

author by coop - ofnbpublication date Thu Apr 12, 2007 23:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

just wanted to make a correction on the article. eric was arrested in orlando not miami. the two are quite a ways away from each other. easy mistake. thanks for posting the article

author by Justin from Orlandopublication date Tue Apr 24, 2007 15:58author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Just a correction...Eric Montanez was arrested in Orlando, FL.

Related Link: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/community/news/southofdowntown/orl-mcfbriefs12_307apr12,0,7839297.sto
author by Hungerpublication date Tue Apr 24, 2007 16:55author address author phone Report this post to the editors

That link is incomplete and does not work. So I tracked down these original reports on that site

Activist arrested while feeding homeless in downtown Orlando
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-bk...story

Arrest is first under homeless-feeding law
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-homeless0507apr05,0,...story

Orlando Freed activist returns to feed Eola homeless
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/community/news/southofdo...story

 
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