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[Houston Chronicle] Houston just started enforcing a decade-old ban on feeding the homeless. Volunteers are fighting back. (www.houstonchronicle.com)
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Volunteers giving out free meals with the organization Food Not Bombs have wracked up 40 tickets seeking more than $10,000 in fines since March 1, four weeks before visitors began pouring into downtown for the Final Four.

The Houston law they were charged with violating — an ordinance against giving away meals unless you have permission from the property where you’re doing it, even if the property is public — was put in place by City Council in 2012 but largely had gone unenforced for over a decade, municipal records show.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fuck them, if I want to help another human being I'm going to help them and theres nothing anyone can say do outside of violence that would stop me. This is inhumane.