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Global Food Security - The Kojo Nnamdi Show
Transcript for David Beckmann's interview on The Kojo Nnamdi Show on Global Food Security.
The Kojo Nnamdi Show on April 6, 2011
Fighting Poverty with Better Nutrition for Women
Hunger and poverty continue to be major obstacles to the well-being of millions of women and children around the world. The Bread for the World Institute says those problems can be reversed by improving the social, economic and political status of rural women.
Voice of America on March 31, 2011
Anti-Hunger Advocates Fast to Protest US Budget Cuts
Leading anti-hunger advocates are fasting to protest U.S. budget-cutting proposals that could threaten some of the world's most vulnerable people.
Voice of America on March 30, 2011
More on Budget Cuts, Hunger and Poverty
A little more about the fast, the budget cuts and the protests.
New York Times on March 30, 2011
Why We're Fasting
I stopped eating on Monday and joined around 4,000 other people in a fast to call attention to Congressional budget proposals that would make huge cuts in programs for the poor and hungry.
The New York Times on March 29, 2011
Fasting and Praying for the Poor
(RNS) Faced with an unjust rule of Persian king who threatened the very lives of her Jewish people, the Jewish heroine Queen Esther called on the faithful to fast and pray for their rulers to have a change of heart.
The Christian Century on March 28, 2011
Hunger strike aims at congressional cuts
Amid a delicate dance to cut the budget in Congress, agitated religious leaders in Washington said Monday that the cuts being proposed are too deep.
CNN Belief Blog on March 28, 2011
Religious Leaders Launch Fast to Protest Budget Cuts
Earlier this morning, religious leaders and anti-poverty advocates announced that they will begin fasting to protest budget cuts that they argue "balance the budget on the backs of poor people." Progressive evangelical leader Jim Wallis and David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, joined former Democratic congressman Tony Hall in calling on others to join them in the fast and on Congress to restore funding for hunger programs and other anti-poverty initiatives.
TIME on March 28, 2011
Prayer and Fasting Campaign on Budget Cuts
As Congress continues to debate deep cuts to the federal budget, a coalition of 38 faith-based and anti-hunger advocacy groups launched a new prayer and fasting campaign to protect funding for programs that help poor and vulnerable people in the US and around the world.
PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly on March 28, 2011
Fast to begin Monday to protest proposed GOP budget cuts
The heads of five anti-hunger organizations on Monday will lead open-ended fasts to protest proposed cuts to domestic and international food programs contained in the House-passed six month spending bill.
The Hill on March 27, 2011
Fast, Pray and Protect Hungry People
My friend Tony Hall told me several weeks ago that he felt called to a period of fasting in response to the budget debate that now dominates Congress. I have decided to join Tony (a former member of Congress who now heads the Alliance to End Hunger) in a one-week, water-only fast beginning March 28. Along with Sojourners and other coalition partners, we plan to form a circle of protection around programs that benefit hungry and poor people in the United States and abroad -- programs that new budget proposals threaten to cut in the name of reducing the deficit.
Huffington Post on March 25, 2011
Fast, Pray and Protect Hungry People
My friend Tony Hall told me several weeks ago that he felt called to a period of fasting in response to the budget debate that now dominates Congress. I have decided to join Tony (a former member of Congress who now heads the Alliance to End Hunger) in a one-week, water-only fast beginning March 28. Along with Sojourners and other coalition partners, we plan to form a circle of protection around programs that benefit hungry and poor people in the United States and abroad -- programs that new budget proposals threaten to cut in the name of reducing the deficit.
Huffington Post on March 25, 2011
Budget cutters' knives are aimed at the poor
On Monday, David Beckmann, the 2010 World Food Prize laureate, is going to stop eating.
Connecticut Post on March 25, 2011
NAE: Reduce Debt but Protect Poor
The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) is calling for the federal government to reduce debt, but not on the backs of the poor. The NAE board of directors approved the resolution “Lowering the Debt, Raising the Poor” at its semiannual meeting.
Christianity Today on March 21, 2011
U.S. Lenten campaign seeks to bolster dialogue about poverty
New York, March 15 (ENInews)--U.S. anti-poverty advocates have launched a 40-day Lenten campaign to put the issue of global poverty into sharper focus. The campaign, organized by Yale Divinity School under the banner "Mobilizing Faith, Fighting Poverty," is intended to bolster public dialogue about poverty and ways to fight it.
The Christian Century on March 15, 2011
EDITORIAL: Best tool to defeat hunger? Letters
Will you invest a quarter-hour to lift millions of people out of poverty and chronic hunger?
Baptist Standard on March 12, 2011
Fighting hunger makes economic and political sense, Christian activist says
DALLAS—Despite deep divisions in U.S. society, Christians can lead the way toward bipartisan solutions to the pain of poverty, insisted one of the world’s top hunger fighters.
Baptist Standard on March 11, 2011
Grupos dicen que ayuda foránea frena migración
Ayudar a familias que sufren hambre en África o Latinoamérica podría no ser una prioridad para Estados Unidos en tiempos de crisis de presupuesto, pero no deja de ser un deber moral, afirman algunos líderes religiosos.
Al Día (Texas) on March 5, 2011
DeHaven: U.S. budget cuts shouldn't strike at 'least of these'
The House of Representatives recently passed a Continuing Resolution to fund the federal budget for the rest of the fiscal year 2011. The legislation slashes programs that save the lives of some of the poorest people on the planet.
News-leader.com on March 4, 2011
Del otro lado de la frontera
El actual debate migratorio está tan polarizado que casi todos los analistas y legisladores reconocen que una reforma inmigratoria integral es poco menos que imposible durante los próximos dos años.
El Nuevo Herald on March 3, 2011
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