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3 Easy Ways to Help Fight Childhood Hunger in Lane County this Summer
FOOD for Lane County and Junction City & 4J School Districts run a Summer
Food Program at 58 sites located throughout Lane County. This USDA-funded
program provides free meals to all children and youth, ages 2 to 18,
during the summer when school is out and free and reduced-price meals are
not available.
When families are struggling to make ends meet, the cost of daily meals
adds up. The Summer Food Program can help offset these costs, allowing the
family budget to stretch just that much farther. All kids and youth are
welcome; there are no applications or income qualifications required.
Free Lunch For All Kids is a website that is geared toward promoting the
Summer Food Program to parents and caregivers in Lane County, making
finding a meal site just a couple of mouse-clicks away.
Here’s how your agency can help:
1. Help us make sure that parents and kids know about this wonderful program.
Print and copy the attached fliers and make them available to your clients.
2. Place our Free Lunch For All Kids graphic and link
(www.freelunchforallkids.org) on your agency’s website.
Please see the attached instructions for how to do this.
3. Contact Karen Roth at FOOD for Lane County, (541) 343-2822, to find out
more information on how you can help!
United for Peace and Justice Alert
It's hard to believe, but the 2009 War Funding Supplemental is actually worse than before.
In addition to funding a continued war in Iraq and an escalated war in Afghanistan, the Senate version contains the Lieberman-Graham amendment, which prevents the release of torture photos by amending the Freedom of Information Act. Plus, the Senate version also authorizes $108 billion for U.S.-backed loans to be distributed by the IMF, which threatens to exacerbate the global economic crisis, not diminish it.
The first time around, 51 antiwar House members voted against the war funding. Now, House Republicans are threatening to oppose the bill because of the IMF provision. To get the money for the wars, there is great pressure on those antiwar House members to switch their vote.
That's why we need them to hold them firm and for Peter DeFazio to join them! Congressman DeFazio voted 'YES' the first time. Express your disappointment with his vote and ask him to vote against further war funding this time. At the same time, thank him for supporting Rep. McGovern's bill HR 2404, which requires the Defense Department to produce an 'exit plan' for Iraq no later than December 2009.
Call Congressman DeFazio ASAP at (202) 225-6416.
For more information on the IMF issue, please take a look at Maxine Waters' (and 41 other House members) letter to the House Appropriations Committee, rejecting the lack of transparency and oversight of the IMF loans. Plus, click here to read Robert Naiman's analysis of the IMF funding issue.
For other steps you can take, please click here.