no spam, unsubscribe anytime.
You Can't Tell Me Where to Eat!
Oppose legislation that prohibits people from giving food to the homeless in Philadelphia.
Goal: 15,000
•
Progress: 4,289
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 22, 2013
(Name not displayed)
PLEASE HAVE A HEART AND RECONSIDER IF SOMEONE HAS FOOD,CLOTHING IT SHOULD BE THEIR RIGHT TO SHARE OR GIVE FREELY TO WHOMEVER THEY WANT NOT OTHERS DECESIONS. I WAS RAISED TO SHARE AND GIVE FREELY WHENEVER POSSIBLE
May 22, 2013
Carrie Cullen
May 21, 2013
(Name not displayed)
this ban is stupid! period! I'd give any food I had to a homeless person! I actually did! I gave him my sandwich I had been saving for a long commute home but I decided he needed it instead. Get it together PA
May 21, 2013
Muriel Servaege
May 21, 2013
Andrea Frankel
This makes me ashamed to be a Philadelphian!
May 20, 2013
Phil Butler
May 19, 2013
Jill Tatter
May 19, 2013
(Name not displayed)
Please, there are many needs in our world, close to home and far away. We each need to reach out and help...starting with our own neighborhoods. Please look deep into your heart. May God be with you.
May 19, 2013
(Name not displayed)
May 19, 2013
kris batty
May 18, 2013
Fran Fulwiler
May 17, 2013
macarena rivera
May 16, 2013
Robert Payne
May 14, 2013
Linda Beach
May 13, 2013
N Sayer
May 11, 2013
(Name not displayed)
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.
