For the past few years, Food Not Bombs PHX has set up tables and distributed food on the patio outside the student center at Arizona State University’s downtown campus overlooking Civic Space Park. Volunteers bring scavenged and donated vegan and vegetarian food — curries, pastas, fruits — to serve to anyone who wants it, homeless or not.
But the last few weeks have been different. Instead of setting up on the school’s patio under the awning, the organization’s tables were on the grass under the trees in the park itself, where a proposed city of Phoenix ordinance may soon forbid its activities.
ASU had kicked them out of their spot…