The grace period at the Houston Public Library for all undesirables is officially over, it seems. A Houston police officer confronted some members of Food Not Bombs on Monday night - the group serves food to the homeless outside the library - to tell them to start thinking about another base of operation. "There were some other cops talking to some homeless people about an incident with a drunk woman, so at first it seemed like they were a part of that, but as soon as they started talking to us,
This afternoon, the folks from Food Not Bombs, a local group that serves vegan food to the homeless four nights a week in front of the Houston Public Library, met with some people from the library to decide how they could avoid another confrontation. "It was a lot more chill than I expected," Nick Cooper, a member of Food Not Bombs, tells Hair Balls. "What we really realized in this meeting was that you can't really call the downtown library anti-homeless, because they're providing all kinds of
The saga between Food Not Bombs and the Houston Public Library continues. The group, which serves vegan food to homeless people four nights a week outside the downtown branch, had its first run-in with the library people about a year and a half ago, a few months before the big renovation was complete. In January of this year, Houston police told Food Not Bombs they might have to move from the library, then the group met with library officials and a city council woman, and everything seemed to be
