from Orlando Weekly's Happytown section–Jan. 25, 2007

While we've got you in a civilly disobedient mood, get your protest pants back on by 5 p.m. Jan. 30, because several groups – the ACLU, Stop the Ordinance Partnership, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the local NAACP, ACORN, Students for a Democratic Society, to name a few – will gather in front of City Hall to let Orlando officials know just what they think of the city's policy restricting homeless feedings. (Our guess: They don't like it.) The keynote speaker is none other than Lee Vern Jones , whose homeless brother died in December, a few weeks after city officials confiscated and trashed a bag that contained his heart medication (see "Did Orlando kill Bobby Jones?", Jan. 4).

But don't call it a demonstration. Under city rules, that would require a permit. Instead, this is a permit-free "super [sic] supper summit," says local ACLU head George Crossley.

"The city's done everything to try to divide us," Crossley says. The goal now is "broadening the coalition."