The city of Orlando will drop all criminal charges against the 25 activists arrested for violating the city’s Large Group Feeding ordinance, Mayor Buddy Dyer announced today. Given that the group Orlando Food Not Bombs (OFNB) has been sharing food in front of City Hall without incident for the past two months, the Mayor...
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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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The group Orlando Food Not Bombs (OFNB) held its regular Monday food sharing in this morning in an irregular spot—the steps of City Hall. The group is taking Mayor Buddy Dyer up on his invitation to “let Food Not Bombs gather in front of City Hall any time they liked, saying he’d even donate...
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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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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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