WhyHunger August Newsletter

Nutritious Food is a Human Right

Staff volunteering at The Campaign Against Hunger's Far Rock Agro Education Center with Artists Against Hunger & Poverty Ambassador, FRZY, and our Young Professionals!

New at WhyHunger

Homerun for Hunger Charity Suite Event

Get your tickets for WhyHunger’s 3rd Annual Homerun For Hunger Charity Suite Event on September 20th and watch the New York Yankees take on Toronto!

This year, we're delighted to honor Power Consulting for their philanthropic work and vital contributions to WhyHunger.

Enjoy the game from a luxury suite complete with beer and wine open bar and all-you-can-eat ballpark favorites.

For more details on tickets and sponsorships, click here .

TCS New York City Marathon + WhyHunger

I nterested in joining Team WhyHunger in the TCS New York City Marathon on Nov 3rd? It's not too late!

There are just 2 spots left! Sign up today and we’ll help you to meet your fundraising goal. You’ll get bonus perks like free WhyHunger swag, seeing our work in action, and celebrating at our post-run party!

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Get Inspired: Sing Up for The Root Report

Interested in learning about innovative solutions to hunger and poverty that are being put into action across the world?

The Root Report details some of the most inspiring projects in agriculture, community organizing, and social justice taking place globally. Sign up to receive WhyHunger's Root Report in your inbox each week.

Save the Date 10/10: Hope to End Hunger

Save the date! WhyHunger is hosting the annual Hope to End Hunger cocktail party honoring Congressman Jerrold Nadler with the Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award at City Vineyard on October 10 ^th . More updates coming soon! #WhyHungerAwards

Time is running out! Register today for the 2019 Closing the Hunger Gap Conference in Raleigh, NC on September 3-5th.

Join WhyHunger for field trips, keynote speakers & workshops addressing root causes of hunger, systemic inequalities and policy on a holistic path towards resiliency and justice at #CTHG2019.

Hunger & Poverty News

New York Times: Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns

A new UN report warns that climate change and the “unprecedented rates" of exploitation of the world’s land and water resources are putting dire pressure on the ability of humanity to feed itself.

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Civil Eats: Summer Inspiration: 24 Food and Farming Change-Makers

Meet some of the most inspiring people working to make the food system more just, sustainable, and equitable.

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Modern Farmer: Will the New Agriculture Immigration Rules Help Either Farmers or Farm Workers?

The H-2A program is a growing type of temporary visa designed to get farm workers, almost exclusively fro m Mexico and Central America, to American farms that need labor. USDA secretary Sonny Perdue recently announced long-awaited changes to the H-2A rules . But will they actually help?

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The Atlantic: “This Land Was Our Land”- The Great Land Robbery

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.

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Connect Blog

The Fight of Brazil’s National Indigenous Movement:

A Regional Struggle with a Global Impact

by Joao Fonseca

Deforestation of the Amazon is one of the most pressing issues in our struggle to decelerate global warming, mitigate climate change, and ensure a right to food for all. Providing 20 percent of our oxygen, housing 10 percent of the planet’s biodiversity, and helping to stabilize the global climate, preserving the Amazon rainforest’s health is critical on a global scale.

Reflecting on International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples on August 9th, WhyHunger's Joao Fonseca took a closer look at the indigenous-led social movements in Brazil that are on the front lines of the fight against climate change in the Amazon.

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Maintaining the Vision:

A Conversation With the Poor People’s Campaign

by Elena Seeley

Launched fifty years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. announced the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, the contemporary Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival carries these efforts into the present day. Developed out of organizing across the U.S., the Campaign aims to change the narrative of poverty and to understand how it is intimately interconnected with other systems of oppression.

"There’s something fundamentally wrong with poverty & inequality expanding in a time of plenty."

- Shailly Gupta Barnes; Campaign Manager, Poor People’s Campaign & Policy Director, Kairos Center

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Take Action

Statement of Solidarity

WhyHunger joins thousands of advocates and partner organizations standing in solidarity with the immigrant workers, families and individuals being targeted by the recent attacks, raids and policies of the U.S. government.

After 43 years of working to ensure everyone has the right to nutritious food, we are keenly aware of the connections between the spike in anti-immigrant rhetoric and actions, and the issues of hunger, poverty and injustice. Read WhyHunger's Statement of Solidarity and take action.

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WhyHunger believes a world without hunger is possible. We provide critical resources to support grassroots movements and fuel community solutions rooted in social, environmental, racial and economic justice. We are working to end hunger and advance the human right to nutritious food in the U.S. and around the world.

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