Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness
Resolve to Fight Poverty
We know we can live in a world where everyone has a roof over their head, enough food to eat and access to clean drinking water. Unfortunately, despite some advances we’re far from this vision.
Hunger and homelessness are reaching crisis levels throughout the world and the problems are getting worse with the world-wide recession. Natural disasters, extreme weather, political conflicts, rising food and transportation costs and declining incomes have left millions at risk of, or experiencing, homelessness or starvation. It's so bad that the UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 1.02 billion people were undernourished in 2009, a 15% increase from 2006.
In the US, the situation is also striking. At the end of 2009, 15.3 million people were unemployed (10% unemployment). Among those that were unemployed, 4 in 10 were experiencing long-term unemployment (27 weeks or more throughout the year), the highest proportion of long-term unemployment on record.
Despite the problems we’re facing here and abroad, we’ve found little support for either short or long term solutions to poverty. According to the Washington Post, neither the United States nor other nations have actually dispersed the money pledged to rebuild Haiti. Likewise, Congress has been repeatedly unwilling to extend unemployment benefits as we rebuild the US economy.
Unfortunately, the lack of political support is not new. Americans have grown to accept hunger and homelessness as the status quo. While people want the economy rebuilt and want their personal situations to become better, we lack broadbased support for systemic solutions to poverty.
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Campaign Resources
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Student leaders educate the campus about income inequality during National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week.
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We collect petition signatures - lots of them!
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Hunger and Homelessness intern Roua Aboukhadijeh collecting interview footage on campus for a short film on poverty.
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Students campaign for High Speed Rail.
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Fast Trains ARE Cool.
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Students volunteer at a local garden for the National Hunger Cleanup.
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Volunteers wear the textbook mascot costumes to educate students about affordable textbook alternatives.
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Students posing with the textbook Rebellion books, We Want Cheaper TEXTBOOKS!!
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Textbook Rebel and Mr. $200 drew attention to outrageous textbook prices.
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Six media outlets covered a stop on the Textbooks Rebellion tour to promote affordable alternatives to outrageously expensive textbooks.