Experts Worry as Population and Hunger Grow
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR Published: October 22, 2009 The number of hungry people in the world rose to 1.02 billion this year, according to the United Nations, despite a 12-year concentrated effort to cut the number. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/world/22food.html
Plenty’s Fall 2009 Bulletin now available at Plenty.org
Dear Friends, Just wanted to let you know that Plenty’s Fall Bulletin is now posted on our website. To go directly to the Bulletin please click here. This issue includes the following: • Introduction • In Memory of Karen • Bakahno Pawanka Women’s Cooperative • Kids To The Country • Imani House Liberia Medical Clinic […]
25,000 children die each day due to poverty
According to UNICEF, 25,000 children die every day due to poverty. And they “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.”
At Least 529 by Quake on Indonesia Island
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/world/asia/02quake.html
High Cost of Death Row
Published: September 28, 2009 States waste millions of dollars on verdicts, security and maintenance in pursuit of the death penalty. Abolishing it makes economic, not just moral, sense. High Cost of Death Row
Death Toll Expected to Rise After Storm in the Philippines
By CARLOS H. CONDE Published: September 29, 2009 Countless people remained trapped on Monday because of floodwaters in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Ketsana. Death Toll Expected to Rise After Storm in the Philippines
A Human Rights Breakthrough in Guatemala
A Human Rights Breakthrough in Guatemala A chance discovery of police archives may reveal the fate of tens of thousands of people who disappeared in Guatemala’s civil war * By Julian Smith * Smithsonian magazine, October 2009 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Digs-Paper-Trail.html
LIBERIA: War wounds left to fester
IRIN Africa | West Africa | Liberia | LIBERIA: War wounds left to fester | Economy Health & Nutrition Aid Policy | News Item Shared via AddThis
Join Us at the 10th Continental Bioregional Congress
A growing number of people are recognizing that in order to secure the clean air, water and food that we need to survive, we have to become guardians of the places where we live. People are joining with neighbors to discuss ways we can work together to learn what our special local resources are; plan […]
Graphic Memories of Katrina’s Ordeal
Graphic Memories of Katrina’s Ordeal By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES The magnitude of Hurricane Katrina is depicted on a personal level in the new graphic novel. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/books/24neufeld.html