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June 17, 2020

Youth Organization Today is the Future of Social Movements

Across the U.S. and around the world, youth organizing continues to be an integral part of creating meaningful social change. WhyHunger is committed to working with and assisting the organizing efforts of youth movements. Not only do the youth represent the next generation of a…

May 3, 2013

Celebrating Pete Seeger!

We’re proud to say that American folk icon Pete Seeger is a longtime supporter of WhyHunger. How long? Well, he turns 94 today! For just…

May 2, 2013

What We’re Reading: Salt Sugar Fat

Investigative reporter Michael Moss caused a stir— and won a Pulitzer Prize— with his 2009 New York Times article questioning the safety of “pink slime,”…

April 30, 2013

2013 Food Sovereignty Prize: Call for Nominations

“Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define…

April 26, 2013

Stories from the Hotline: Navigating Life After Prison

Robb recently called the National Hunger Hotline from Houston, Texas. He had spent time in prison for drug possession and had just been released. He…

April 25, 2013

Snapshots from the Field: Mississippi Delta

Brooke Smith, Director of WhyHunger’s Grassroots Action Network, is on the road this week in the Mississippi Delta, visiting our partner, Delta Fresh Foods Initiative…

April 23, 2013

Dolores Huerta, Saru Jayaraman Speak Out Against Food Systems Injustices

Last week in New York City, The New School held its 29th Social Research Conference, “Food and Immigrant Life: The Role of Food in Forced…

April 18, 2013

White House Recognizes Coalition of Immokalee Workers Fair Food Program

President Barack Obama recently singled out CIW’s Fair Food Program in a new report, calling it “one of the most successful and innovative programs” addressing and actively changing…

April 17, 2013

What We’re Reading: Food News in Brief

Some of the articles and reports about the global food issues that caught our eye this week: Tunis 2013: If we rely on corporate seed,…

April 15, 2013

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization Executive Director Wins the Goldman Environmental Prize

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), a 2013 Harry Chapin Self-Reliance Award Winner, has given us yet another achievement to celebrate! Executive Director Kimberly Wasserman-Nieto was just…

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