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3/12/2023
Irish Legend Should Inspire the Fight Against Famine Today
by William Lambers
The Irish show Riverdance has incorporated elements of legend derived from the Irish experience of famine, and raised funds to help victims of hunger around the world, an example to follow at St. Patrick's Day.
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SOURCE: Spectator
4/3/2022
After Invasion, Famine
by Scott Reynolds Nelson
Russia has stopped 300 grain ships from leaving Ukraine. People in north African and south Asia will bear the brunt of higher prices and shortages.
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4/25/2021
The "Doughboys" Made their Biggest Contribution Fighting Postwar Hunger
by William Lambers
At the anniversary of American entry into the first World War, we should remember the role of American troops in distributing food as part of the American Relief Administration.
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2/14/2021
How Abraham Lincoln Can Inspire Peace for Yemen
by William Lambers
The postwar "friendship train" campaign involved Americans personally in delivering food to the hungry in Europe, and symbolized the nation's larger commitment to the Marshall Plan. A similar broad effort could help advance the policies needed to end the humanitarian crisis of war and starvation in Yemen.
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12/20/2020
"A Christmas Carol" Makes the Same Demand Today: Feed the Hungry
by William Lambers
Three ghosts visiting Americans this holiday might show the lifesaving benefits of food aid in the past, the scope of food insecurity today, and the prospects of hunger worsening in the future.
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11/22/2020
Take a Lesson from the Persistence of the Founder of Modern Thanksgiving
by William Lambers
Sarah Josepha Hale pushed Abraham Lincoln to declare a national Thanksgiving holiday as a day to seek healing and unity. Fighting to end hunger is a way to recommit to the spirit of the holiday.
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7/3/2020
This Independence Day, Celebrate and Carry On America's Past Generosity
by William Lambers
As we celebrate America’s birthday on July 4th, let’s remember how our nation’s generosity has aided many hungry and oppressed people around the world.
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
5/26/2020
COVID-19 Didn’t Break the Food System. Hunger Was Already Here.
by Carla Cevasco
The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing the hunger underneath the rhetoric of American plenty.
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5/10/2020
V-E Day Must Inspire Our Fight against Hunger and Pandemic
by William Lambers
The Greatest Generation won a world war and fed the hungry. We need that same spirit today as we face the Coronavirus menace and a world hunger crisis.
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11/10/19
The World War I Battle That Didn't End with Armistice Day: Hunger
by William Lambers
Even after the Armistice of November 11, 1918 ending World War One, American soldiers were carrying out heroic missions. Lieutenant Orville C. Bell and officers in the American Relief Administration saved civilians in Montenegro from starvation.
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7/3/19
A Declaration of Independence from Hunger
by William Lambers
Food is of the utmost importance to our domestic and foreign policies. Each one of us can do something about it, especially when it comes to helping charities fight hunger.
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3/3/19
Remembering Audrey Hepburn's Best Role
by William Lambers
How her experiences as a child motivated her commitment to ending children's hunger.
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12/23/2018
We’ve Helped Starving People Before. We Need to Do It Now.
by William Lambers
"Across 46 countries, 83 million people require emergency food assistance in 2019, 75% more than in 2015." -- Study
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10/7/18
We’ve Known since the 1940s that Kids Don’t Do Well in School When They’re Hungry
by William Lambers
So why don’t we fully fund programs to feed kids worldwide?
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5/27/18
We Used to Understand the Connection Between Hunger and War
by William Lambers
We shouldn’t have to relearn the lesson today that prompted the Marshall Plan.
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4/8/18
The Lesson General Grant Taught Us that's Still Relevant
by William Lambers
On the anniversary of the end of the Civil War, it's worth remembering, as we read about other countries facing the challenge of national healing.
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10-26-17
We Are Spending Six Times More on Halloween Candy and Costumes than We Do to Feed the Poor Overseas
by William Lambers
Can’t we do better?
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2-19-17
We’re in a Global Hunger Crisis. Solution? Take JFK’s Approach.
by William Lambers
Like JFK and other presidents, Trump should feed the hungry. It will help bring peace and stability.
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3-16-15
The UN Success Story Nobody Talks About
by William Lambers
On the fifth anniversary of the Syrian Civil War, it’s worth remembering that but for the UN millions would have starved to death.
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SOURCE: Special to HNN
7-10-13
William Lambers: The Food Law That Changed the World
William Lambers partnered with the UN World Food Programme on the book Ending World Hunger. He is a member of the Feeding America Blogger Council. Lots of laws gets signed in Washington D.C., but how many have saved millions of lives as the one inked by President Dwight Eisenhower on July 10, 1954? It was called Public Law 480 and with a title like that you might just skip over it and read about something else. But this law has another name: Food for Peace. It was started because there was so much food in the United States, it made sense to avoid costly storage and move it overseas where there were hungry people. This meant food for flood victims in Austria, earthquake relief in Chile, and school meals for millions of children in war-torn Japan and Italy. South Korea's road to recovery from its own war also included millions of school meals for children. India received the largest Food for Peace shipment ever including a food reserve to protect against natural disasters. Food for Peace was a way to continue the amazing humanitarianism of the United States so demonstrated following World War I and II when we fought famine in dozens of countries. Food for Peace was a continuation of the the Marshall Plan which rebuilt Europe after World War II.