Always Looking Forward

Last week, I talked about the food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa. Today, I’d like to go back and talk a little more about that from a different angle.

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Urgent: Sahel Day of Action

The Hunger Games are never truly at an end, as we all know. The only question is, where’s the next arena? Well, the Sahel region of West Africa looks like a very likely candidate, unless we can put a stop to it before it’s too late.

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“Capitol”-ism in Action: Classism and The Hunger Games

Staffers Kaci Ferrell and Amber Surface discuss the constant slurs that Southerners, and especially Appalachians face in our society, and how this form of classism has been brought to light by The Hunger Games.

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It’s a Wrap! Hunger is #notagame.

The Hunger is Not a Game campaign is coming to a close. Check out the results and tell us what you thought of it!

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It Tastes the Same If you Close Your Eyes

Close your eyes. Ok, don’t close them, you’re reading my words, but just sit back and pretend I’m talking to you for a moment. You’re running out of options, you’re in a big city, you’re trying to find that one last crumb of food. Sure, most of us haven’t been there, but I’m sure we [...]

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Clean Your Plate

“Finish your food. There are starving children in [insert country here], you know.” Did your mom ever use that line when you were growing up and the last thing you wanted to do was finish those lima beans on your dinner plate? Turns out she wasn’t so far off-base on that persuasive argument. According to [...]

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Never Left Behind

The economic crisis has hit us all, but as usual, those with the least have been hit the hardest. While Americans feel the strain in many ways, people in poorer countries are faced with a slew of problems that are drying up their meager livelihoods and leaving them to face starvation. A recent article about [...]

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Food is the Ultimate Leverage. It’s #notagame

Have you been following our cross-platform discussions? If not, go read our tumblr post from this week and Kelly’s vlog from Wednesday. Caught up now? Excellent. So Kelly asked us to answer – what motivates leaders who use hunger a tool to control? Well Kelly, it’s hard to tell for sure. But I do have [...]

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One Moment of Knowing That Full-up Feeling

Quinn talks about the hunger epidemic in America, and what you can do to help.

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The Accidental Art of Leading a Fandom

Jenn Nguyen is 21 years of age and is currently residing in the wonderful Garden State (no Natalie Portman and Zach Braff are not here. And no she is not orange like the Jersey Shore people). She has her associates degree in English and Writing and is currently working to gain her bachelors in the [...]

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