After yesterday’s article by Mark Schlueb in the Orlando Sentinel on the “truce” between the city and Orlando Food Not Bombs (OFNB), as well as our own coverage of the group in this week’s edition of Happytown, some of those affiliated with OFNB have taken umbrage with the media’s verbiage. Both the Sentinel and...
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Two more activists affiliated with the group Orlando Food Not Bombs (OFNB) were arrested yesterday at Lake Eola Park, bringing the toll of those arrested for holding unpermitted food sharings at the park to 27 since June 1. Though the arrests have occurred with an almost tedious regularity, yesterday marked an important shift in...
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Two more people affiliated with the group Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested yesterday at Lake Eola Park for holding an unpermitted food sharing with over 25 people. Those arrested were Samantha Simpson and Eric Montanez, who are both 25 years old. The arrests were notable given that Montanez was the first and only...
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Though Mayor Buddy Dyer has accused the group Orlando Food Not Bombs of orchestrating recent cyberattacks on the websites of the Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce and Universal Studios, today’s events should serve as evidence that “Commander X” and his/her cohorts are likely not residents of Orlando, or even Florida, for that matter. That’s...
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The group Orlando Food Not Bombs (OFNB) has petitioned the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court today for an injunction against the city of Orlando “from violating… administrative order and from omitting first amendment language from Orlando Police Department trespass warnings.” The administrative order in question, number 2003-39-17, states that arrests for second degree misdemeanors—like violating...
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Three people affiliated with the group Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested yesterday at Lake Eola Park, two charged with violating the city’s Large Group Feeding ordinance, one charged with trespassing. Douglas Coleman, 27, and Allison Estes, 23, were booked into the Orange County Jail yesterday evening after serving free vegetarian food to more...
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The internet hacker collective known as Anonymous (which also identifies itself as the “People’s Liberation Front”) today issued another press release regarding its ongoing campaign against the city of Orlando for its enforcement of the controversial “Large Group Feeding” ordinance. Twenty-one activists affiliated with the group Orlando Food Not Bombs (OFNB) have been arrested...
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In arresting activists for unpermitted food sharings at Lake Eola Park, Mayor Buddy Dyer, the Orlando Police Department, and city’s Parks Department may be in contempt of a court order, said Shayan Elahi, the new lawyer for the group Food Not Bombs, at a press conference this afternoon. Elahi contends that a Ninth Judicial...
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Six more activists affiliated with the group Food Not Bombs were arrested yesterday at Lake Eola Park for providing food more than 25 people (36, to be exact) without a Large Group Feeding permit from the city of Orlando. Some of those 36 people were members of the group themselves, as the feeding suffered...
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Yawn. Police arrested three more Food Not Bombs volunteers this morning at Lake Eola Park for violating the city’s recently reinstated Large Group Feeding ordinance. The arrests continued the routine of the last two weeks–the group intentionally defies the ordinance, the city makes arrests, and a new batch of volunteers is arrested the following...
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