Keith McHenry says they are worth it if they help stop cities' anti-homeless laws.
Keith McHenry recently spent 17 days in jail in Orlando, but it's not the first time a cell has been home to a founder of Food Not Bombs.
The organization began in Boston in the 1980s, and since then McHenry has been jailed throughout the U.S. and in various countries. But he told a crowd at the Civic Media Center on Saturday night that the arrests of him and other Food Not Bombs supporters are worth it.
“While we are getting brutalized, at least we have been stopping this current wave of anti-homeless and anti-meal laws,” McHenry said, citing several Florida cities that have dropped planned laws. “If we had not put up resistance in Orlando, there were going to be limitations on sharing free meals with the hungry all over the United States.”
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