http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090601/ten_things
From the Nation:
1 Write letters to the editor and op-ed articles in your local paper calling on the government to cut or end subsidies that encourage large agribusinesses to overproduce grains and dump their surpluses on the developing world at sub-market prices. This ultimately places poor communities at the mercy of volatile global commodity prices. Learn [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘africa’
June 5, 2009
To Do: Fight World Hunger
November 5, 2008
A personal Kenyan note regarding Obama
This was sent to me from my friend Beryl. She is a 20-something young Kenyan woman. Just a different perspective…
For a couple of months now America was taken to a test and while the rest of world knew the answer they wanted, they still put America to test anyway.
I am amazed, at how highly America [...]
September 16, 2008
AJWS action for DARFUR now!
Just yesterday, Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK) introduced a resolution (S. Res. 660) calling for an expansion of the U.N. arms embargo on Sudan. This legislation is a critical step toward stopping the arms flow fueling the genocide in Darfur. We need your help to make sure it passes.
According to a 2005 U.N. Security [...]
August 5, 2008
ARDC refugees in the Israeli media
Survivor’s stories from our (ARDC) shelter….
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1215331152189
July 16, 2008
NBC, the olympics and Darfur
http://action.ajws.org/campaign/didyouknow_nbc
Did you know that NBC owns the exclusive U.S. broadcasting rights to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games?
Did you know that NBC paid almost $900 million for this privilege?
Did you know that NBC will broadcast more than 1,000 hours of the Olympics on its various stations and hopes to sell $1.1 billion in Olympic ad sales?
Did [...]
June 28, 2008
G8 action call on Darfur
PHR is working together with Human Rights First and other
advocacy groups to ask the G8 countries – US, Canada, Japan, the
UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Russia – to act on Darfur.
In two weeks, the G8 leaders meet in Japan for their annual
Summit to debate action on issues of global concern. If the
violence in Darfur – [...]
May 28, 2008
Grieving for the Future
M is a 30 year old, mother of 3, pregnant woman living in a shelter in Tel Aviv. She has a sweet disposition and despite the fact that her 3 year old son (up until this week her other two children were in Egypt) can be a total “terrible three” terror, handles herself and him [...]
May 27, 2008
Things are getting uglier for the African refugees here…
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/985061.html
May 27, 2008
Do something!
Bring Life Saving Global AIDS Legislation to a Vote Now
The greatly improved and expanded version of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is stalled in the Senate’s legislative process. The bill authorizes $50 billion in funding and largely focuses on evidence- and human rights-based treatment, prevention and care programs. It must be passed [...]
