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By Cranford Joseph Coulter, on May 18th, 2012
May 19 – In protest of Mayor Nutter’s unconscionable and imminent ban on sharing food outdoors in city parks, human rights advocates, religious groups, and affected individuals will be holding An Alternate Opening of the Barnes Museum: An exhibit on poverty, class warfare, and hunger, sponsored by Food Not Bombs.
Saturday, May 19th
6:30pm
20th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Press Contact: Niko Rayer (215) 881-5734
Mayor Nutter is on his way to outlawing sharing free food with homeless Philadelphians because of money and tourism. The newly opening Barnes Museum is one of the biggest reasons the mayor wants to starve homeless folks off the Parkway, keeping Philadelphians he has done little to help out of sight and out of mind.
On May 19, the Barnes Museum will hold a cocktail reception, with dinner and dancing – at a cost of $1,500 per plate. Those who attend will say they’re there to observe and celebrate art, valuable because it reveals truths about the human condition.
But the truth is, for most of us, $1,500 isn’t a plate of food — it’s more than a month’s income, more than a winter’s worth of heating bills, more than six months worth of food stamps allotments. And that’s for Philadelphians who are squeezed tight in this economy, but nonetheless more fortunate than many who may be displaced from the Parkway by Mayor Nutter’s ban on sharing free food outdoors.
So we’ll be holding our own art show. Outdoors, for all to see. And, this show will focus on class warfare, on hunger, on being poor. These are not abstract themes. Pennsylvania may soon cut General Assistance, for example, even while major homeless shelters in our city are closing down. These are the parts of the human condition we face here in Philadelphia, real people’s problems that need to be confronted instead of swept under the rug.
To illustrate these themes, we’ll show artwork from Barnes’s own collection, alongside art by those outraged by the city’s ban on sharing free food outdoors. And while the city’s upper-crust dine, we’ll be sharing free food, home-cooked by volunteers – because we believe that no one in our city should go hungry.
Join us for an unforgettable evening.
By Cranford Joseph Coulter, on May 4th, 2012
It is now the policy of The King’s Jubilee that we will not sign the community service forms of students other than regular volunteers with us. We disagree with the community service requirement in the curricula of schools as it has the opposite of its intended effect. We have seen that it actually inoculates young people against participation in voluntary service by, in effect, making it mandatory service. Young people are now required to do X number of hours of “voluntary” service to graduate high school. This turns it into homework. How many of us voluntarily picked up homework right after high school? You catch my drift. This requirement has put a damper on volunteerism among twenty-somethings for a while now. We’re dropping out.
We do not need tourists or kids who are here to be taught a lesson, either. We welcome anyone who wants to try it. Come join us for an evening. If you enjoy serving with us, come back. If you do not, we trust God will lead you to something that you are more suited to.
By Cranford Joseph Coulter, on April 30th, 2012
On Memorial Day weekend, Holy Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Elkins Park, is hosting their annual OPA Festival. Thousands of people come for the food and the crafts and the dances. Again this year, someone is sponsoring ads for both The King’s Jubilee and “Come and See” Icons, Books & Art to help this ministry. In fact this year, there will be two ads for TKJ. Since they asked to sell the magnets at the Resource Center, we are using the business card ad to advertise the magnets.
Here are the PDFs of the ads:
The King’s Jubliee color ad
TKJ business card ad
“Come and See” Icons, Books & Art ad
By Cranford Joseph Coulter, on April 28th, 2012
The Spring 2012 Report is available for download in PDF for printing and distributing with church bulletins, etc. Please feel free. We need to spread the word and increase our bases of support: financial, prayer and volunteer.
Here it is: TKJ Spring 2012 Report
Thank you for your support.
May God bless you.
By Cranford Joseph Coulter, on April 27th, 2012
The Philadelphia City Council unanimously censured Mayor Nutter over his misuse of power to use regulatory decrees of the Parks and Rec Dept. and the Health Dept. to make serving of the poor and homeless outdoors illegal. They pointed out that there were no funds available for the enforcement of these new regulations, much less to . . . → Read More: Update on Philadelphia Hijinks
By Cranford Joseph Coulter, on April 27th, 2012
The Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery are organizing several cleanup days over the next several months. We want to encourage participation in this worthy work. We would like to participate as a TKJ team. So shoot me an email or give a call if you plan on attending so we can coordinate and fellowship as we . . . → Read More: Mount Moriah Cemetery Clean Up Days
By Cranford Joseph Coulter, on April 26th, 2012
Nearly everyone who reads this blog is unaware of my misspent youth as a rich, suburban kid. Yes, I grew up around money. Thankfully, my dad never forgot his working class roots and never was snooty about being successful. And my mom learned as much about life from the maids growing up as she did from . . . → Read More: Bundling: It’s not just for babies and politicians.
By Cranford Joseph Coulter, on April 26th, 2012
TKJ-mobile
There are certain responsibilities that come with riding shotgun in the TKJ-mobile (well one) that have been explained in the newsletter, yet most who ride shotgun, do not perform these duties (really one lame task) up to standards. So, in the spirit of bad parenting, since I can’t find anyone else to do it up . . . → Read More: I’ll Ride Shotgun!
By Cranford Joseph Coulter, on April 25th, 2012
Press Release – Parks & Rec
Attempts To Prevent Public Testimony
By Moving Hearing Up At Last Minute To
Today April 25, 2012 @ 6:00 PM
The city’s attempt to undermine the legal process and pass this unconstitutional regulation is clear. Upon announcement of the Mayor’s ban on outdoor meals to the homeless, the public had 30 . . . → Read More: Chosen 300′s Press Release on Nutter’s Shenanigans
By Cranford Joseph Coulter, on April 25th, 2012
Mayor Nutter is pulling more shenanigans. They have to hold hearings on these decrees. The first hearing was supposed to be next Wednesday. I just opened my email to find this:
Good morning, we literally just found out that the Parks & Recreation Department
has changed the meeting scheduled for
Wednesday May 2, 2012 at 6:00 PM at the . . . → Read More: More Nutter Shenanigans
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The King's Jubilee has been ministering in Jesus' Name among poor and homeless people in Philadelphia since February of 1989. We also seek to equip and encourage any who wish to join us in similar service, wherever they are located.
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