New York, NY; May 1, 2013—We are not surprised to see lobbyists for Big Ag come out with guns blazing against President Obama’s forward-looking proposal to reform U.S. food aid to poor countries. The proposal would feed at least 4 million more people without costing taxpayers an extra dime. The special interests that oppose the …
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Originally posted on the blog of the Brooklyn Food Coalition. This looks good. As part of the 2014 Budget Request released last week, President Obama included a proposal that would overhaul America’s international food aid system. It’s not a perfect proposal and it still needs to be approved by Congress, but it’s a huge leap …
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Is Shell Oil too big to punish? That’s the question that our friends at EarthRights International (ERI) asked during their recent campaign in which they called upon the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold human rights for people who have been exploited by big businesses. In October of 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments for Kiobel v. Royal …
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New York, NY; April 25, 2013— In response to the passing of Common Cause President and former Congressman Bob Edgar, please find below a statement from Ruth Messinger, President of American Jewish World Service: “A light has gone out. The world has lost a great beacon for social change with the untimely death of Bob …
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New York, NY; April 24, 2013— In response to Senate and House hearings this week on foreign assistance and the president’s FY14 budget proposal, here is a statement for attribution from Ruth Messinger, President of American Jewish World Service, an organization that has been deeply involved in the fight for international food aid reform: “We …
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April 12, 2013— Ruth Messinger, President of American Jewish World Service, and Rabbi Steve Gutow, President of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, sent the following letter to President Obama calling on the US government to renew our commitment to Sudan. Ms. Messinger, Rabbi Gutow, and Martin Raffel, JCPA Senior Vice President, are available for …
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Ruth Messinger issued a statement in support of the significant and historic reforms to the U.S. government’s global food aid program in President Obama’s 2014 budget.
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JDOV Talk Links the Shema Prayer’s Lesson of Listening to Global Activism New York, NY; April 10, 2013—This week JDOV, an online and in-person speaker series dedicated to discussing Jewish dreams, observations or visions, released a videotaped talk by Ruth Messinger, the president of American Jewish World Service (AJWS), the leading Jewish organization working to …
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More than a year ago, Nicaragua passed the Comprehensive Law Against Violence Toward Women (Law 779), which represents significant advances in addressing a pervasive problem in the country. The law recognizes that violence takes many forms—physical, psychological, sexual and economic. It also calls for more state resources to respond to violence against women—in all ways …
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Originally published in The Huffington Post. Every Passover, we gather with family and friends around the Seder table to read the inspiring foundational story of our people’s liberation from slavery in Egypt. We tell and retell this story every year, and millennia later it informs who we are. There are many ways in which Judaism …
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