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Today the Orlando City Council on a 5-2 vote (with newly elected City Commissioners Sam Ings and Robert Stuart voting "no") passed an ordinance that effectively stops Orlando Food Not Bombs and other groups that share food with homeless people from doing so in city parks. The ordinance defines what it calls "large group feedings" as being 15 or ( Read more... )

ADDENDUM:
WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO PROTEST ON MONDAY. DEPENDING ON THE OUTCOME OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING WE MAY PROTEST AT A LATER DATE.

ALSO, JUST TO CLARIFY: The permits that the city, under the proposed ordinance, would issue for "large group feedings" would be for one-time only. So legally, Orlando Food Not Bombs only would be able to share ( Read more... )

This is the text of the City of Orlando's proposed anti-Food Not Bombs ordinance (taken from the City's website). We're not mentioned in it, of course, but we're the only group in the area covered by the ordinance that regularly does "large group feedings." This measure, if passed would (attempt to) shut us down. The City's bullshit reasons for the ( Read more... )

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Here's an interesting piece of information that i just saw for the first time in an Associated Press article that came out today:

"Beside al-Zarqawi, three men, two women and a girl estimated between the ages of 5 and 7 were killed in the airstrike ( Read more... )

The chickenhawk Bush Administration chose to act as judge, jury and executioner a couple days ago in Iraq when U.S. F-16s dropped two 500-pound bombs on a house where alleged al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi allegedly was meeting with at least five other individuals.

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ANTI-WAR PROTEST

MONDAY, JUNE 12, 11:30 a.m.

At the corner of Livingston St. and Hughey Ave. by the Orlando Centroplex on the public sidewalks. War-mongering ex-President Bill Clinton, whose regime attacked more countries than Bush (Clinton: Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo/Serbia and the Sudan vs. Bush: Afghanistan and Iraq) will be the "honored" guest ( Read more... )

No ceremony, no "decent" burial for this poor lizard...

One or more of our outdoor cats killed a lizard a day or two ago. A horde of ants came along, and with efficiency and dispatch ate all the flesh off its bones. Now all that's left is the spinal column and skull.


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i suppose i have to give the Orlando Sentinel credit for not using the clichéd word "epidemic" to describe the rise in murders this year within the city limits--26 so far this year vs. 22 in all of 2005. Although it did indulge in another cliché: mentioning drugs in the context of violence without questioning whether that indicates that current ( Read more... )