Join the SEAC national council in support of the Fast for Famished during this Food Crisis. The fast is starting throughout the U.S. this Friday, the 23rd for three days. The fast will be broken Sunday the 25th at 6 P.M. Join comrades from Agricultural Missions, Inc (AMI), the Community Farm Alliance (CFA), Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), Grassroots International (GRI), the Kentucky Interfaith Taskforce on Latin America and the Caribbean (KITLAC), the Oakland Institute (OI), the Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA), the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC), Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC), Sustainable Agriculture of Louisville (SAL), World Hunger Year (WHY) and other individuals for any duration, be it the entire or just a single meal!

For every faster there should be 5 supporters telling everybody whose path they cross about their comrade fighting the unprecedented rise in food prices that are causing mass hunger around the world. You and I may not be directly affected by the food shortage, but TODAY, 3 Billion people live on $2 per day and are starving. There are solutions, this is not unavoidable. Be a part of the solution. Educate yourself and others about the degredation of indigenous lands, corporate takeover and exploitation of minorities, and Free-trade agreements that put people out of work due to the affects of skewed subsidies.

"Others will continue a rolling fast the last week of May, and in Rome at the meeting of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, there will be a massive convergence, including fasters, to push for new policies to support the rebuilding of local food economies across the planet.

In New York City, fasters will join a gathering organized by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) to protest the egregious behavior of a large agribusiness, Bunge corporation, monopolizing and degrading land and resources for monocultural production of GMO soybeans in Brazil, a big player in profiteering from the food crisis. (andrea (at) ran.org tel: 415-659-0540 ) (May 23rd, 9 a.m. outside Sofitel Hotel, 44 W 44th St.)"

Need to know more, get to the primary sources:
http://www.citizen.org/trade/nafta/
http://www.agriculturalmissions.org/
http://www.fao.org/

"Food is no longer the cheap commodity that it once was. Rising food prices are bound to worsen the already unacceptable level of food deprivation suffered by 854 million people," said FAO Assistant Director-General Hafez Ghanem . “We are facing the risk that the number of hungry will increase by many more millions of people.”

For more information, and to arrange interviews and access background information, please contact Stephen Bartlett, Coordinator for Education and Advocacy, Agricultural Missions, Inc (AMI) at 502 896 9171 sbartlett (at) ag-missions.org