Cuba is in crisis. Already reeling from a four-year economic slump, worsened by hyper-inflation and the migration of nearly 20% of the population, the 67-year-old #communist government is at its weakest. After Washington’s successful military operation against #Cuba’s ally Venezuela at the beginning of January, the #US administration is actively seeking #RegimeChange.
Stoking concerns is news that lack of fuel is hampering the UN World Food Programme’s efforts to relieve suffering from last year’s Hurricane Melissa. The organisation, which keeps a low-key presence on the island, is now having to draw up plans for a new, far larger crisis. “We’re already seeing the impact in the availability of fresh produce in the cities,” said Étienne Labande, the WFP’s country director.
Here we're combating #climate change and fight #hunger through #planting fruits #trees in schools and other public places. Each child at a certain school in our community was requested to plant a tree on every birth day which world help yo increase the number of trees planted each year.
As Fill the Empty Stomachs Farming Initiative, we greatly appreciate #everyone who has supported us and enabled as achieved what we have so far. Our journey towards gaining our own #land and fight #hunger in our #community is still continuing and so any form of support through sharing, donating and any other form is greatly appreciated
With the world busy acting "brave" standing up to Orange Hitler plans to take over Greenland on world circus stage, the genocide in Gaza is still ongoing and the famine in Yemen have reached a new catastrophic level after US and Israel destroyed the only functioning seaport in Saana and UN and other aid agencies allmost stopped all food shipment to the country.
Today in Labor History January 17, 1915: Lucy Parsons, anarchist and IWW cofounder, organized and led a hunger march of 1,500 people in Chicago. They carried banners saying, “We want work, not charity,” and “We refuse to starve!” Police attacked them with clubs and shot at them. Amazingly, no one was killed. They also arrested 15, including Parsons, for marching without a permit.
Photo of Lucy Parsons with the following quote: Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.
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Meghan McCain had a baby and
now realizes that the US needs paid
maternity leave, she explains on The
View. She says personal experience
helped open her eyes.
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The conservative ethos distilled: It's
not a problem unless it happens to
me, and when it does happen to me I
am absolutely outraged that other
people let it happen to me
John Pavlovitz posted the following: "Stop spending so much time and energy trying to make gay people "not gay" or transgender people "not transgender"—it isn't going to happen.
Instead, try making: hungry people not hungry, hurting people not feel hurt, lonely people not feel alone."
Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
monica_artang 20h What if a drug addict used your tax dollars to get SNAP benefits?" My brother in Christ, the government uses my tax dollars to bomb villages, arm warlords, fund coups, and traffic children through proxy states. If a junkie eats because of me, that's the most moral thing my taxes have ever done. You're worried about a Twinkie. I'm worried about a drone strike.
Yesterday, Pope Leo posted the statement below (it's from his Dilexi te) on Twitter (aka X), and MAGA went wild plastering the posting with enraged comments. Someone shared this tweet in a Reddit posting devoted to Christianity and enraged MAGA posted so many hateful comments that Reddit took the posting down.
MAGA wants to wrap the cruelty of denying food to children in Jesus. Leo begs to differ.
"Performative Jesus washing is everywhere, and it seems to work. You can cover anything, the most bigoted, misogynist, hate-filled speech, any falsehood, and cover it with glitter, and flash, and CCM, make it acceptable, and even worshipped."
~ Rev. Rob Christ
N.B. My sharing of material from any -platform does not = endorsement of the platform.
"MAGA Catholic influencers are cheering the cutoff of food stamps — even as Catholic bishops, backed by Pope Leo XIV, plead for a restoration of benefits and mobilize the Church to feed those in need."
Oh,people with generous hearts Please make my childs joy complete.He is innocently appealing to you.Please do not stop here &continue with us There is not much left.Please listen to my childs plea and do not let him down.He only wants the most basic rights that he is deprived of🥺🙏
Hunger is a drawing in ink and charcoal showing black hands holding a belly glowing white with hunger, a reflection on increasing hunger where I live in Brazil, after hunger being practically eradicated over the last thirty years.
Hunger is a drawing in ink and charcoal showing black hands holding a belly glowing white with hunger, a reflection on increasing hunger where I live in Brazil, after hunger being practically eradicated over the last thirty years.