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We know. Money is tight. Very tight. But people are starving in San Francisco. Not just the homeless, but people you might even know. People close to you. Your friends and family and neighbors. Seriously.
Which is why, even though we stuck this plea in yesterday's Day Around the Bay, we're going to bring this up again today: SF Food Bank has a great dollar-for-dollar (up to $10,000!) deal going on right now. But you have to give today. Why? Because the dollar--for-dollar deal ends tomorrow.
Please visit SF Food Bank for more information, to send them a donation, or whatever. Can afford to give? No problem. You can share this link on your Facebook page, spam it to your pals with disposable incomes, or Retweet it. Just do it today, please.
SF Food Bank, for those of you who don't know, provides nutritious food to low-income families in San Francisco "to ensure that no one goes hungry this holiday season or any time during the year."And in this seemingly endless recession, they're hurting. Bad. Help them out, won't you? (Note: if you don't give, you will make this cat commit suicide.)
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Thanks for posting this - I kicked in a donation yesterday because of your post.
Thanks for posting this, I just donated as well.
OK - this topic is a gut-churner for me. For years I've been kicking into SF Food Bank, even when getting there and finding the place to be pitch black, no lighted signs, blah-blah-blah.
Then, because I spend hours of the day having to drive around the city, I've noticed that virtually every church has Loooooong lines on certain days of the week; people lined up for food. That sight really tugs at me, but then I notice that the group is almost exclusively one demographic. S'up?? People like to say that this group is the hardest working, thriftiest group in town. S'up?
Then one day, I'm shooting photographs on 6th Street - the Low-Low-Low rent end of 6th street, and there I see people with all kinds of food items spread out on the sidewalk and they're selling it.
I've seen brawls break out at the distribution point at Grove & Buchanan, and now I'm wondering if word has gotten out for a certain group to make some ducats from free food.
I'm bugged by what I've been seeing, because food and hunger are real, but I'm starting to see a pattern and that's not good.
oh come out with it, fuck the PC bs. You are talking about the cute little Chinese ladies that post up near the farmers market at Civic Center. They sell the foods they don't want to eat - certain canned food items and cereals (you need milk for cereal, and milk is expensive). For what it's worth, I really doubt they make much money and I haven't seen anyone buy any of their stuff.
I don't blame them for wanting to supplement their measly SSI checks and savings (if they have any).
Amen.
Ramon: Try to imagine for a moment, the desperation of a person who is in need of help, when the only saleable thing they have is food, regardless of where they got it. It's kind of heartless to consider that any "certain group," your somewhat veiled ethnic slur, would consider this a profitable way to earn a living, if there were other sources available.
Consider too, the purchasers of this food. Why are they reduced to buying food of unknown origin on the street?
You're not seeing a "pattern," you're seeing how the bottom of society lives. Judge not....