{"id":9489,"date":"2011-04-12T17:04:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T16:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=9489"},"modified":"2011-04-12T17:04:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T16:04:43","slug":"protestors-oppose-soup-run-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=9489","title":{"rendered":"Protestors oppose soup run ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Parasuram das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Westminister Council are trying to pass a law that will criminalise people who distribute free food. It will also criminalise people who are homeless if they are caught sleeping on the street. Such a law will certainly affect Food For Life, which is based in Soho street temple, and Food For All which is based at Matchless gifts in Kings Cross.<\/p>\n<p>Protestors vowed they will clog up the courts if Westminster Council proceeds with a proposed ban on rough sleeping and soup runs in parts of the borough. Hundreds of protestors turned out to oppose the ban, which the local authority wants to introduce with a new bye-law. The protestors included volunteers, church representatives, homelessness charities and rough sleepers. Alastair Murray, deputy director with homelessness charity Housing Justice, said the new law would &#8216;effectively criminalize compassion&#8217;. &#8216;I would be quite happy to be arrested for buying someone a cup of tea,&#8217; he said. &#8216;There will be a long queue of people being arrested for buying a cup of tea. If that is what Westminster wants then bring it on.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Jenny from the Bellstars and the Matchless Gifts band (Who brought you such hits as, &#8216;You Are Soul&#8217;) appeared in all the media publications of the event.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/22335924?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SS-2011-04-14_19.27.50.jpg\"\/><strong>By Parasuram das<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Westminister Council are trying to pass a law that will criminalise people who distribute free food. It will also criminalise people who are homeless if they are caught sleeping on the street. Such a law will certainly affect Food For Life, which is based in Soho street temple, and Food For All which is based at Matchless gifts in Kings Cross<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}