The Huffington Post just did a great interview with David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World and winner of this year’s World Food Prize.

Mr. Beckmann is truly a modern-day Renaissance man (he’s a Lutheran minister, an economist and author of “Exodus from Hunger“), so it’s great to get to read a bit more about him, particularly about his upbringing and faith. Read the interview if you can — he says some really insightful things about poverty in America and the need for Americans to vote.

Photo courtesy of Bread for the World

Susan McCue, John Ryan, Weldon Kennedy, Aaron Banks, Annisa Wanat and I are back from YearlyKos, the progressive netroot’s yearly conference.

Our mission: to make ONE a presence.
The fact: People kept telling me, “it seems like ONE is everywhere.”

Throughout the weekend
*We hosted a global poverty panel;
*Distributed ONE bands and shirts to each of the 2,000 attendees;
*Held a demonstration outside (expect a post from annisa on it);
*Attended five democratic presidential candidate caucuses (Obama, Edwards, Clinton, Richardson and Dodd); and
*In the process of building a crowd for our panel and talking about global poverty issues at other panels, and in the hallways in between, we did our best to get the word out to every one we saw.

Our panelists

*Susan McCue (ONE’s President);
*Christina Siun (blogger at FireDogLake);
*David Beckmann (Bread for the Word’s President);
*Natalie Sugira (native Rwandan and ONE ambassador); and
*Gene Sperling (Center for Universal Education Director and Global Campaign for Education U.S. Chair)

were remarkable. If you get a chance to see them speak, do.

You can view the first 12 minutes of the panel on this ustream video, and you can check out Matthew Yglesias’ live blog post, from the event.

(Important comment to conservative bloggers: build a conference and ONE will be there!)