Nutritious Food is a Human Right
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Hungerthon is here! Learn how you can join the fight to end hunger in America for good at
Hungerthon.org
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WhyHunger
kicked off its 34
th
annual Hungerthon drive on November 1. The multifaceted campaign, which runs through the holiday season, raises critical funds for the fight to end hunger and helps spread awareness that hunger is a solvable problem.
The campaign
brings together celebrity supporters including Yoko Ono Lennon, Carlos Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello, Mickey Factz and Frzy among others, and radio partners including SiriusXM and Entercom New York stations and their digital platforms for a month of action and awareness building.
See the full press release
here
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Hungerthon 2019 Stories: Sam
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People thrive when they have regular access to fresh and healthy food; however, in many neighborhoods across New York City, bodegas and fast-food restaurants are the only options around. With the help of The Campaign Against Hunger, Sam was able to provide fresh food for herself and her family... and that was just the beginning.
Learn more about Sam's story
here.
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Get your 2019 Hungerthon Merch!
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The 2019 Hungerthon merchandise is here! Don't miss out on these incredible gift items with your donation,
including a Bruce Springsteen "Hungry Heart" t-shirt and zip hoodie, Carlos Santana “Supernatural” scarf and John Lennon “Imagine There’s No Hunger” t-shirt and knit blanket, among others.
Show your support in style and v
isit
Hungerthon.org
to make a donation.
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2019 Black Farmers & Urban Growers Conference
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WhyHunger was proud to be a sponsor of the 9th Annual Black Farmers and Urban Gardeners (BUGs) Conference at The New School in New York City
. Land Cultivators from all across the globe gathered together for workshops, panels, field trips and moments of networking and reflection on Black Food Sovereignty, the history that lies within the land & how to re-connect with the soil.
Check out some images from the weekend
here.
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WhyHunger Executive Director Judges the 2019 Annual Creative Climate Awards
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The 2019 Creative Climate Awards featured artwork from 24 international artists addressing the current climate crisis. This year, WhyHunger's Noreen Springstead was one of the judges for the Human Impacts Institute's 9th annual award.
Learn more about the art and how you see it on display in NYC until Dec 4th
here.
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The 4th Annual Hungerthon Roast 11/19
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The 4th Annual Hungerthon Roast is around the corner! Join us at Carolines on Broadway where friends & colleagues of Universal McCann CIO, Jon Stimmel, will get their roast on, with all proceeds benefiting our 34th Hungerthon!
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Nov/Dec Events:
Mark your calendar for these fun-filled upcoming Hungerthon events to support WhyHunger.
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11/23 @
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
12/1 @ Crossroads
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Civil Eats:
The Farmworkers Who Pick Your Food Don’t Get Paid Overtime
Farmworkers perform some of the most arduous jobs, often in extreme heat, with heavy equipment, large animals, and a high risk that they will be exposed to hazardous chemicals. And yet—unlike the vast majority of Americans who get paid time-and-a-half
when they work more than 40 hours per week
—farmworkers are generally excluded from federal and state-level overtime pay.
Food & Power:
Farmers, Workers, and Students Rally Outside Aramark for More Ethical Food Sourcing
A coalition of students, farmers, ranchers, fishers, and food workers rallied outside the Philadelphia headquarters of cafeteria operator, Aramark, to demand the corporation invest in more just and sustainable food systems.
Yes! Magazine:
Colonization, Fire Suppression, and Indigenous Resurgence in the Face of Climate Change
“We are closely related to fire. Fire takes care of us and we take care of fire.” —Leaf Hillman, Director, Karuk Department of Natural Resources.
The Guardian:
Higher Temperatures Driving ‘Alarming’ Levels of Hunger
The climate crisis is driving alarming levels of hunger in the world, undermining food security in the world’s most vulnerable regions, according to this year’s global
hunger index
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Report on the State of the Right to Food and Nutrition 2019:
The Stories Behind the Numbers
by Alison Cohen
WhyHunger has joined with social movements, front-line organizations and advocates around the world to call for the universal right to nutritious food. Three years ago, WhyHunger became an organizational member of the
Global Network on the Right to Food and Nutrition joining
50 member civil society organizations (CSOs) and social movements from 5 continents – representing peasants, fisherfolk, pastoralists, landless people, consumers, urban people living in poverty, agricultural and food workers, women, youth, and indigenous peoples – that recognize the need to act jointly for the realization of the right to adequate food and nutrition.
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Putting Rural Land Back to Work in Brazil
Founded in 1984 and now Latin America’s largest national popular movement, MST works to identify and settle on unused or underutilized land, gain legal title to it, and bring it into productive use through sustainable, agroecological farming. In the past three decades, MST has reclaimed over 18 million acres of land for 370,000 families who are now producing fresh produce, grains and animals for consumers in Brazil and abroad. Often the land reclaimed by MST has been decimated and abandoned by industrial agriculture. Through intensive agroecological farming and agroforestry, MST is not only feeding themselves but also bringing the soil back to life and working to reverse the effects of climate change.
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CIW March Against Wendy's on Wendy’s Nov. 18 in NYC
For years now, Wendy’s has stubbornly refused to open its supply chain to the CIW's Fair Food Program. Instead, Wendy’s has turned to long-discredited, for-profit social auditing companies such as SA8000 to monitor its suppliers’ operations. With only infrequent, superficial audits for visibility into day-to-day working conditions, those for-profit companies provide consumers little or no transparency into the farms where Wendy’s buys its produce. Join CIW in the streets of Manhattan to take action and demand dignity for farm workers!
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Our Mission:
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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