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Take Action: You Can't Tell Me Where to Eat!
Oppose legislation that prohibits people from giving food to the homeless in Philadelphia.
Goal: 15,000
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Progress: 4,273
Sponsored by: The Hunger Site
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter recently announced a ban on the outdoor feeding and sharing of food with homeless residents. In Philadelphia, you can eat your own lunch in the park and even feed the squirrels; but you can't feed someone who needs it.
Suddenly, the "City of Brotherly Love" moniker doesn't seem to ring so true. Has misguided fear and hysteria led us so far down a path of madness that we now must suspect any act of kindness as a potential threat to our health or safety?
Write to Mayor Nutter telling him you disagree with his decision and ask him to closely reconsider the ramifications of his actions.
Dear Mayor Nutter,
Food is a right, not a privilege. Apparently you disagree, because you recently instated a law banning feeding homeless people in the city. You have claimed the act of kindness threatens both sanitation and the dignity of the homeless.
Don't you think that providing one's own body with nutrition is dignity in and of itself? Personally, I don't find refusing food even though someone is hungry dignified at all. That's why I'm writing to you — so that you will realize all you are doing is putting more homeless people in danger.
I'm saddened to think that we have become a society so suspicious of one another that we can't perform simple acts of altruism without being worried for our safety.
I hope you will act in the name of kindness and remove this pointless ban.
Thanks for your time.
Petition Signatures
May 13, 2013
N Sayer
May 11, 2013
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May 10, 2013
Barbara Thomas
I'd go to jail before I would sit by and let someone go hungry in front of me!
May 10, 2013
lihi kapach
May 10, 2013
(Name not displayed)
What would Jesus do? What you do unto others...you do unto me!
May 9, 2013
Cindy Potts
I'm sorry, but I we lived in a free country? We should be able to share our food (or anything else we own) with anyone we choose.
May 9, 2013
(Name not displayed)
ARE YOU TRULY LIVING UP TO YOUR NAME????!!!
May 9, 2013
Grace Lim
May 9, 2013
R Ellen kuyper
May 9, 2013
Joan Brown
May 9, 2013
mark stavropoulos
May 9, 2013
Sky Hiatt
May 9, 2013
(Name not displayed)
May 9, 2013
fernando j pont
as a former resident of your great city I must say to me you are a disgrace as a mayor!!!!
May 9, 2013
Dianne Reed
May 9, 2013
Kay Baumgartner
What a shameful action to take in the City of Brotherly Love. Or anywhere, for that matter. Please come to your senses, Mayor Nutter, and do the right, the simply right thing.
May 9, 2013
Len Novick
Too weird for words
May 9, 2013
Peggy Duveen
May 9, 2013
(Name not displayed)
i agree with all the comments which have been said! (and with all those which will be said aswell!!)
May 9, 2013
Simonne Walvisch
May 8, 2013
kim nethercutt
To let any living thing go hungry is uncivilized & cruel
May 8, 2013
Ksenija Selimović
May 8, 2013
Cara Starks
i see no reason why people can't share their food with the homeless. maybe you should try being homeless for a while see if your opinions change.
May 8, 2013
Ana Flores
May 8, 2013
Marianna Widel
May 8, 2013
Margaret Scown
May 8, 2013
theodore lillicrap
If this is supposed to be a country of liberty then I am appalled
May 8, 2013
Tricia Allen-Stewart
May 8, 2013
Susan Kelbus
May 8, 2013
Ms. Carla Compton, Advocate/Activist
May 8, 2013
Dianne Sorrell
May 8, 2013
(Name not displayed)
Sad, just sad.
May 8, 2013
Bettina Leonard
May 8, 2013
Shanna McDonald
Please reconsider.
Do you really want this ban to be your lasting legacy?
Put yourself in the place of the hungry AND those who might be able to help them.
May 8, 2013
Fran Reddy
Walk a mile in 'their' shoes Mayor Nutter.
May 8, 2013
(Name not displayed)
This is unbelievable and it makes me sick, this Mayor has some issues and needs to get them fixed fast.
May 8, 2013
Alicia Otero Speelman
This bann on feeding the homeless is very cruel and uncalled for.
May 8, 2013
(Name not displayed)
May 8, 2013
Lisa Saje
May 8, 2013
Shonie Buenvenida
May 8, 2013
Linda George
Let these people eat.
May 8, 2013
elsa fernandes
May 8, 2013
(Name not displayed)
May 8, 2013
Lisa Riedel
May 8, 2013
Alexandra Hinton
May 8, 2013
Paige Sharp
May 8, 2013
(Name not displayed)
May 8, 2013
Stephanie Potter
May 8, 2013
Carmen Alvarez
May 8, 2013
Antonio Saavedra
