Take Action: Hunger Crisis
Right now, 30 countries are in immediate need of emergency food assistance and essential seeds and fertilizer.
As world leaders meet in NYC this week to discuss the Millennium Development Goals at the UN Summit, ONE members are signing a petition to the G8 leaders asking them to commit critical funding to address the world food crisis. Without addressing this crisis now – all other poverty-fighting efforts will be blunted.
If you haven’t already, please sign today. And if you have, please forward this on to your friends.
Petition text:
Please provide life-saving food and essential seeds and fertilizer to the 30 countries that need it most by filling the 2008 food and agriculture funding gap of $1 billion without delay.
-Virginia Simmons
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September 23, 2008 at 2:47 am
Both Obma or Mcain speak on poverty. However NAder does:
Please contact media outlets by this Friday 9/26 as The first of the debates is Friday.as well as email Janet Brown of The Commision on Presidential Debates: jb@debates.org or call them at 202-872-1020
Also,
Plase respond to the question posed by The US News and World Report which just came out this Mon 9/23:
http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/2008/09/22/should-third-party-candidates-like-ralph-nader-bob-barr-and-cynthia-mckinney-be-included-in-the-presidential-debates.html
Also, contact both McCain and Obama urging them to insist that Nader be included as this is a democracy after all.
Obamas’s contact number : 1-866-675-2008 Press 6 to Speak to a campaign volunteer.
McCains Contact number1-713-418-2008