by Lance Winslow
There appears to be many people in Afghanistan that were starving and it is said that over 3.5 million Afghans face a severe and critical food shortage. Now some might say this is because they are busy planting poppies instead of planting crops and indeed that is true. However, the fact that people […]
Anti-poverty activists and civil rights advocates filed a lawsuit against the city of Las Vegas this week challenging an ordinance that makes it illegal to feed homeless people in public. The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada filed the suit Wednesday on behalf of activists with Food Not Bombs, a grassroots anti-poverty group that provides […]
by Lance Winslow
This week 500 human beings died in China and a massive flood, but no one seems to care because they are too worried about the Israel-Hezbollah War. In the conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon 300 people have died over a 10-day period, where as in China 500 […]
by Donna Warnock and Laura Briggs (From Handbook for Nonviolent Action, published by the War Resisters League)
We live in the wealthiest country in the world, but the greatest percentage of that wealth is in the hands of a tiny percentage of the population. It is environmentally and technically possible for everyone to enjoy a good […]
by Lance Winslow
We have a serious crisis in feeding the world as we approach some 10 billion humans on the planet. That is a lot of people and mouths to feed. Then there are the locust plagues, water issue and agricultural problems they face in the third world, specifically Africa.
Indeed and perhaps there a […]