The global economic crisis and the cost of distributing food are combining to send many people to food pantries for the first time.
That according to World Hunger Year co-founder and president Bill Ayres, my guest today on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com.
Locally grown food, Ayres says, by medium sized farms, can help obviate some of the problem. So can home and community gardens.
Ayres says programs to feed the hungry vary from community to community and nation to nation. But he says the problem is increasing, both domestically and globally.
Nichols
The political correspondent for The Nation, John Nichols, will be my guest on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com tomorrow, Thursday October 16 to help us analyze the third and final presidential debate tonight.
Paltalk users will also be able to give their post-mortems as well, tonight, at 10:30 PM New York time after the debate.
Nichols, a pioneering political blogger, has written the Online Beat since 1999. His posts have been circulated internationally, quoted in numerous books and mentioned in debates on the floor of Congress.
Nichols writes about politics for The Nation magazine as its Washington correspondent. He is a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times and the associate editor of the Capital Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and dozens of other newspapers.
Nichols is a frequent guest on radio and television programs as a commentator on politics and media issues. He was featured in Robert Greenwald’s documentary, “Outfoxed,” and in the documentaries Joan Sekler’s “Unprecedented,” Matt Kohn’s “Call It Democracy” and Robert Pappas’s “Orwell Rolls in his Grave.” The keynote speaker at the 2004 Congress of the International Federation of Journalists in Athens, Nichols has been a featured presenter at conventions, conferences and public forums on media issues sponsored by the Federal Communications Commission, labor unions and political and community organizations.
To join in the conversation following tonight’s debate in the Obama McCain Debate room and to talk to Nichols at 5 PM New York time tomorrow
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Despite the current market rebound, top food experts say the world is heading for a food crisis. The U.S., in particular, is at risk because of its deregulated food system and recent economic crash.
In conjunction with World Food Day this Thursday,
World Hunger Year and its partners are launching a national call to action: Step Up to the Plate: Ending the Global Food Crisis.
Joining us to talk about this impending food shortage on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com tomorrow, Wednesday October 15 will be WHY co-founder and executive director Bill Ayres (no, not Bill Ayers).
Ayres, who has developed and implemented programs to combat hunger for more than two-decades, co-founded WHY with the late singer, Harry Chapin. He is also a board member of Long Island Cares, Long Island’s food bank.
Ayres has also led local initiatives to promote ideas and policies that have made significant impacts upon the communities that they serve, including the creation of the New York Hunger Hotline in New York City and the Center for Food Action in New Jersey.
Ayres, a radio and TV broadcaster for nearly three decades, hosts a weekly Sunday night radio show on WPLJ 95.5FM in New York. Through his work in communications Bill has developed extensive contacts in the world of media. He is the co-author of the book
All You Need Is Love.
To talk to Ayres at 5 PM New York time Wednesday October 15
CLICK HERE. There is no charge.
Paltalk is the largest multimedia interactive program on the Internet with more than 4 million unique users.
News Talk Online is also syndicated by CRN Digital Talk Radio to 12 million additional households.
Goldenseal
RED BANK, NJ – One in three or one in four homeless people in the United States, depending on whose figures one cites is a veteran.
While the government has programs designed to help them, many men and women returning to civilian life find it difficult finding and accessing services.
A number of organizations have been established to help them through their problems. Among them, VetWork, located in New Jersey.
New Jersey also has a very vibrant music scene and community. Two musicians, the lead singers of the band Goldenseal, have made it their mission to use their music to raise money to help VetWork help veterans.
They are donating proceeds from their CD, which includes the great single, Streets Of America, a song written by Goldenseal’s Joe Hughes, to VetWork.
Hughes and fellow Goldenseal musician Danny Rongo were my guests today on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com. They performed Streets and two other songs live from the Downtown Cafe in Red Bank, NJ.
Hughes and Rongo were joined by VetWork President Joe Arata, who described the problems many veterans have transitioning back into civilian life.
Arata believes that those who join the armed services of the United States are bright and well trained. While in the military they must master sophisticated weaponry and are generally of good moral character. They are, Arata believes, well qualified for work in the civilian sector. They just, he says, need to be presented with opportunities.
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Photo credit: Gary Baumgarten
