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Anche negli USA fanno la fame!!!



Mentre me ne sto qui a torcermi le budella come tutti noi di fronte allo
scandalo del nostro parlamento che vota la guerra contro i poveri, apro la
mailbox per trovare uno sconvolgente messaggio dal bollettino di The Hunger
Site (si', proprio quello che regala razioni di cibo in aiuti umanitari
ogni volta che ci si fa click sopra). Titolo:

How your clicks fight rural US hunger

ovvero: come i vostri clicks combattono la fame nelle aree rurali degli
Stati Uniti.

FAME!!!

Non solo. Leggete il testo qui sotto: si parla di 26 MILIONI DI AMERICANI
che dipendono da aiuti alimentari!

Facciamo girare questa informazione il piu' possibile: per chiunque
sostenga la politica degli Stati Uniti nell'illusione - logica per quanto
cinica - che un paese che si comporta cosi' fa la ricchezza e il benessere
dei suoi cittadini. E' bene che si sappia che i primi a fare la fame, con
questo sistema di amministrare il mondo, sono gli stessi cittadini
statunitensi!

paola





                           YOUR CLICKS FIGHT HUNGER IN RURAL AMERICA




 					The Hunger Site's domestic
beneficiary, America's Second Harvest, works throughout the year to serve
26 million Americans for whom hunger takes no holiday. Hungry Americans
include farmers, ranchers and low-income families in rural America, where
hunger rates exceed the national average.


 					In the United States, one of the
most advanced agricultural societies in the world, a proud generation of
farmers and ranchers now relies on food donations from social service
agencies, church pantries and soup kitchens to feed their families.
According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), one in 10
rural households faces hunger each day. The Rural Policy Research Institute
reports that 23 percent of rural children live in poverty.


 					Throughout the Corn Belt and the
Great Plains, rural families are negatively - -and sometimes severely --
impacted by droughts, storms, floods, and a consistently depressed
agricultural economy.

 					Visitors to a food pantry in North
Dakota include farmers, unemployed workers, working couples barely living
on minimum-wage pay, and senior citizens who must survive on low and fixed
incomes. In eastern North Dakota, recent increases in emergency food
requests come from laid-off construction workers, laid-off telemarketers
and seniors. Many of these individuals now have difficulty feeding their
families and must rely on their local food bank, as well as on the local
public school to serve breakfast through the National School Breakfast
Program, which provides nutritious meals to low-income children.