In a recent video added to YouTube, Stephen Colbert talks to professor Jeffrey Sachs about his book “The End of Poverty“, or why eradicating poverty might be more effective in fighting terrorism than the military. (The Colbert Report, March 2, 2006) See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUdc7atFiHg With a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Jeffery Sachs is […]
Category Archives: Politics and Commentary
The Inherent Link Between War and Hunger
by Scott Hughes Sure, those who want to end world hunger also happen to often want to end war. Sure, sympathetic activists sympathize with both causes – the fight against hunger and the fight for peace. However, the reason war and hunger are linked is not just that these two movements happen to be motivated […]
Peace.org
I’d like to take this time to point out that there will never be peace without freedom & justice for all. Freedom and justice are prerequisites of peace. There will never be peace so long as innocent children starve, so long as hard working people are poor, and so long as people are judged, not […]
Afghanistan Starvation
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 […]
Confronting Classism
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 […]
Wikipedia: The Politcs Of Hunger
As of 2006, hunger continues to be a worldwide problem. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “850 million people worldwide were undernourished in 1999 to 2005, the most recent years for which figures are available” and the number of hungry people has recently been increasing. An orange awareness ribbon is […]