A few weeks back I commented on a story about Las Vegas banning an outdoor soup kitchen. Now this
Christian Science Monitor article details additional cities doing the same thing. How sad that efforts to feed the hungry are being hindered by
NIMBY attitudes.
But his Saturday morning feedings became so popular that the city booted him from Pritchard Park, a downtown hang-out, to suburban Aston Park, where a limited number of people come by.
"It's infuriating, because they're deliberately pushing us out of the way," the college student says, after a recent breakfast at Aston. "Plus we don't get as much foot traffic out here."
Asheville is one of several cities that is cracking down on mobile soup kitchens - "soupmobiles" - especially those stationed too close to established neighborhoods or high-rent districts.
A few weeks back I commented on a story about Las Vegas banning an outdoor soup kitchen. Now this Christian Science Monitor article details additional cities doing the same thing. How sad that efforts to feed the hungry are being hindered by NIMBY attitudes.
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In the meditative tradition we would call this an attachment to the mind poison of delusion. It's about the need not to know. If I don't have to SEE the homeless then I don't have to acknowledge their existence OR my responsibility.
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