Action Center

Join Tina Fey and Mercy Corps to End World Hunger

The worldwide hunger epidemic is real. Rising costs of fuel and food, persistent conflicts, disease and global warming mean that the crisis will get worse before it gets better.

That's why Mercy Corps is opening a new Action Center to End World Hunger — to get ordinary U.S. citizens like you motivated, equipped and mobilized to end hunger. The new Center opens October 16 in New York City.

All of us, working together, can end the world hunger epidemic. How? Become a hunger activist. Get your children, neighbors, family and friends to become hunger activists. Visit the ActionCenter.org website, and if you're in New York, stop by the Center and get in the action, right now.

Your Action Center visit puts you up close and personal with our field work around the world — in a fascinating, dynamic setting abuzz with smart conversations, high-tech media and hundreds of ways to get involved right now.

For starters, watch this Tina Fey video about the hunger epidemic and how you can take action with Mercy Corps' to end hunger worldwide. Then visit Mercy Corps' ActionCenter.org website to learn more.


Breaking News

Major Shippers Skirt Gulf of Aden to Avoid Pirates

The Epoch Times - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 19:44
Major shiping companies might be rerouting their cargo to avoid pirates active off the Somali coast.

South Africa to Withhold Zimbabwe Aid Over Deadlock

The Epoch Times - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 19:44
South Africa will withhold Zimbabwe aid until a representative government is in place, the first pressure put on Zimbabwe.

Ecuador Seeks to Sell Rainforest

Spiegel Online - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 19:45
Ecuador is the first country in the world to announce plans to leave the oil reserves beneath its rainforests in the ground. The country wants foreign businesses to cover the cost of not drilling by purchasing CO2 certificates.

EU Farm Policy Revamped

International Herald Tribune - Thu, 11/20/2008 - 11:02
Longstanding subsidies now enjoyed by large farms will be diverted into countryside programs — breaking the link between how much farmers produce and the amount of subsidy they receive.

Cutting Emissions in Rural China

World Changing - Wed, 11/19/2008 - 09:02
An experiment aims to mobilize farmers to use readily accessible, traditional bioenergy sources — like straw — to help China reduce its carbon footprint.

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