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Pittsburgh Food Not Bombs under attack!
by Food Not Bombs
Saturday, Jun. 07, 2008 at 2:18 PM
pittsburgh_fnb@yahoo.com
Rich White folks represented by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership (PDP) are trying to remove FNB from Market Square, where the group has served food to hungry people for 15 years.
Food Not Bombs in going to need some help this next Sunday June 8th. Food
Not Bombs has served free healthy vegetarian food to hungry people at Market
Square for the last 15 years, but this past Sunday we got kicked out by the
Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership. We found out that the Pittsburgh Downtown
Partnership has secured permits to use Market Square almost every day until
December, and they do not want us there. This past Sunday they called in
police to force us out of the area. Their rationale is that they are trying
to "economically revitalize" Market Square and that hungry people scare off
the rich people. They also stated that the homeless people do not contribute
to a safe and comfortable atmosphere for the new demographic they are trying
to attract.
We at FNB believe that we should have the right to serve free healthy meals
to hungry people in centrally located public spaces. We will not accept the
attempts by the PDP to hide and ignore the basic needs of the least
fortunate Pittsburghers.
pgh-fnb.activeresistance.org/index.php
We at FNB
by GT
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008 at 3:42 AM
We at FNB believe that we should have the right to serve free healthy meals
to hungry people in centrally located public spaces. We will not accept the
attempts by the PDP to hide and ignore the basic needs of the least
fortunate Pittsburghers.
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just a little at a
by Frank
Friday, Nov. 14, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Free corn
something to think about
A chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange
students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Prof
noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back, and
stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student
told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting
communists, in his native country, who were trying to overthrow his
country's government and install a new communist government . In the midst
of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question: "Do
you know how to catch wild pigs?"
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.
The young man said this was no joke. "You catch wild pigs by finding a
suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it
and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to
coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are
used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn
again and you put up another side of the fence".
"They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue
until
you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The
pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to
eat; you slam the gate shut on them and catch the whole herd".
"Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around
and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to
eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to
forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity".
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees
happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward socialism and
keeps spreading the "free corn" out in the form of programs such as
supplemental income, tax credits for unearned income, tobacco subsidies,
dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine,
drugs, etc. While we continually lose our freedoms - just a little at a
time.
One should always remember:
"There is no such thing as a free lunch!"
Also, "a politician will never provide a service
for you cheaper than you can do it yourself".
Remember this: if you see that all of this "wonderful government
help" is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America; you
might
want to send this on to your friends.
but God help you "when
the gate slams shut!"
In this 'very important' election year,
listen closely to what the candidates are
promising you!
Just maybe you will be able to tell
who is about to "slam the gate shut" on America.
NEVER FORGET:
"A government big enough to give you everything you want,
is big enough to take away everything you have".
- Thomas Jefferson
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