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Raleigh, NC: A city in need of a heart transplant - RgrF - 08-25-2013
what would Jesus do?
This morning we showed up at Moore Square at 9:00 a.m., just like we have done virtually every Saturday and Sunday for the last six years. We provide, without cost or obligation, hot coffee and a breakfast sandwich to anyone who wants one. We keep this promise to our community in cooperation with five different large suburban churches that help us with manpower and funding. Today officers from Raleigh Police Department prevented us from doing our work, for the first time ever. An officer said, quite bluntly, that if we attempted to distribute food, we would be arrested. wrote:
Re: Raleigh, NC: A city in need of a heart transplant - Chakravartin - 08-25-2013
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/25/3135843/police-stop-charities-feeding.html
Mayor pledges 'solution' after police stop some charities feeding Raleigh homeless
RALEIGH — The mayor and a city councilwoman pledged Sunday to find a solution after police barred charitable groups from feeding the homeless in downtown Raleigh’s Moore Square during the weekend.
In the last month or so, police have been telling these volunteers to pack up their buffet tables, slow cookers and coolers or face being arrested. A city ordinance prohibits individuals or groups from distributing food in city parks without a permit...
Seems that the problem is redevelopment limiting the number of locations for these events.
Re: Raleigh, NC: A city in need of a heart transplant - Speedy - 08-25-2013
Chakravartin wrote: Seems that the problem is redevelopment limiting the number of locations for these events.
Well, it is North Caolina. The new North Carolina.
Re: Raleigh, NC: A city in need of a heart transplant - Lemon Drop - 08-25-2013
http://lovewins.info/2013/08/feeding-homeless-apparently-illegal-in-raleigh-nc/
The blogpost that Roger posted tells it more like it is than the "News and Observer."
Threatening to arrest these people and refusing to let them hand out hot food and coffee they had already purchased for people already waiting in line was an incredibly bad call on someone's part - whether it was city council leadership or police or what.
Essential food programs need to be replaced or resituated before they are shut down, jeez loueeze.
Badly done Raleigh - boo.
Don't become like LA and Atlanta - we have enough mean cities already!!
Re: Raleigh, NC: A city in need of a heart transplant - Fritz - 08-25-2013
yeow! check that off the list of possible cities.
Re: Raleigh, NC: A city in need of a heart transplant - anonymouse1 - 08-26-2013
Red-state brain drain?
Re: Raleigh, NC: A city in need of a heart transplant - Don C - 08-26-2013
Jeffersonville, IN ran into something similar. An encampment of homeless had taken up residence under an I-65 bridge. "Officials" decided that the entrance to the city should look more inviting and started to interfere with people who were trying to provide food and other assistance.
The uproar did cause the city and concerned citizens to have a discussion about what to do with the homeless.
That said, site needed to be moved for more practical reasons. A new bridge over the Ohio River is being built along I-65 and the encampment was dangerously close to heavy equipment putting residents at risk of harm.
I know there was discussion about where these folks could go; I don't know the outcome of that discussion.
Re: Raleigh, NC: A city in need of a heart transplant - Grateful11 - 08-26-2013
I've lived in NC my entire life. I've never been more ashamed of this state than I have in the last several months.
Re: Raleigh, NC: A city in need of a heart transplant - Rolando - 08-26-2013
I had something clever to say about conservative "Christians" but a much smarter man beat me to it!
Jesus Christ was a man who traveled through the land
A hard-working man and brave
He said to the rich, "Give your money to the poor,"
But they laid Jesus Christ in His grave
Jesus was a man, a carpenter by hand
His followers true and brave
One dirty little coward called Judas Iscariot
Has laid Jesus Christ in His Grave
He went to the preacher, He went to the sheriff
He told them all the same
"Sell all of your jewelry and give it to the poor,"
And they laid Jesus Christ in His grave.
When Jesus come to town, all the working folks around
Believed what he did say
But the bankers and the preachers, they nailed Him on the cross,
And they laid Jesus Christ in his grave.
And the people held their breath when they heard about his death
Everybody wondered why
It was the big landlord and the soldiers that they hired
To nail Jesus Christ in the sky
This song was written in New York City
Of rich man, preacher, and slave
If Jesus was to preach what He preached in Galilee,
They would lay poor Jesus in His grave.
Re: Raleigh, NC: A city in need of a heart transplant - RgrF - 08-26-2013
Lemon Drop wrote:
http://lovewins.info/2013/08/feeding-homeless-apparently-illegal-in-raleigh-nc/
The blogpost that Roger posted tells it more like it is than the "News and Observer."
Threatening to arrest these people and refusing to let them hand out hot food and coffee they had already purchased for people already waiting in line was an incredibly bad call on someone's part - whether it was city council leadership or police or what.
Essential food programs need to be replaced or resituated before they are shut down, jeez loueeze.
Badly done Raleigh - boo.
Don't become like LA and Atlanta - we have enough mean cities already!!
The group is clearly motivated by a need to contribute, had they been the least political they would have defied the police order and provoked arrests, a course I might have chosen had I been in their place.