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Salt and Terror in Afghanistan
Non-military aid to Afghanistan, sent by the US since 2002, now approaches 100 billion dollars.
Hunger Strike at Menard Correctional Center Draws Solidarity, Support
Activists are supporting the prisoners at Illinoisu2019 Menard Correctional Facility who have been on hunger strike since January 15 to protest their conditions of confinement.
Stop the Starvation Siege of Syria — Press Conference
Video of a press conference announcing an International Solidarity Hunger Strike for Syria.
Call for Immediate Aid to Syrians Dying of Starvation Due to Siege
Doctors, faith and peace leaders gather at UN to announce International Solidarity Hunger Strike for Syria, demand lifting of military
The War on Women: The Newly Invisible and Undeserving Poor in America
Strangely, the faces of women have disappeared from the debate about cutting food stamps and have been absorbed into abstract “needy families.”
US Officials Will No Longer Provide Information on Guantanamo Hunger Strikers
A spokesman for the US military announced this week that the authorities will no longer provide public information on how many prisoners at the American gulag at Guantanamo Bay …
Five Reasons Cash, Not Cans, Helps the Hungry
New York Cityu2019s Food Bank, which is one of the largest in the nation, says there are 100,000 more people in need today than there were six years ago, …
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Want to Cut Food Stamp Spending? Raise the Minimum Wage
Don't cut programs for the people who need them, cut those people's need for the programs.
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The Hunger Games Are Real: Teenage Fans Remind the World What Katniss Is Really Fighting For
What if we used fantasy not as an escape from our world, but an invitation to look deeper into it? How teenage fans are fighting injustice - in real …
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Real-Life Hunger Is No Game
So let me get this straight: fast-food submarine sandwiches are being used to market a motion picture about people who will do anything to survive a dystopian society in …