Food Bank Federal Funding Cut: Hunger Cuts Deep
“Funding for the national Emergency Food and Shelter Program program was cut 40 percent by Congress in this year’s budget – from $200 million to $120 million.
For the first time … [Keep reading >>]
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Fasting for Those Who Go Hungry
” 28 Members of Congress are joining 35,000 Americans in former Congressman and Ambassador Tony Hall’s Hungerfast — an effort launched March 28 to demand that the budget deficit not be balanced … [Keep reading >>]
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Foodie Fasts To Protect the Powerless
Mark Bittman, whose “Minalmist” cooking show on PBS I have often cribbed ideas from, has a piece on the Op/Ed page of today’s NY Times. It doesn’t appear that he … [Keep reading >>]
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Salgado: Misery and Art
The demons of confusion are always with me at large-scale photo exhibitions of Sebastiao Salgado. They didn’t fail to come by during a recent visit to the David Brower Center … [Keep reading >>]
