[APWW-Meet] Food Crisis

["Martinez, Luz Maria " <lmmartinez@mc.edu.ph>]

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Subject: Food Crisis: 60 hours left

From: annewalker@iwtc.org


 Dear friends,


An emergency summit of world leaders is addressing the skyrocketing food
crisis. The head of the United Nations will receive our call to action
at
the summit this Wednesday. Help us hit 500,000 signatures! Sign the
petition
<http://www.avaaz.org/en/world_food_crisis/5.php?cl=94568075>

The world food crisis is skyrocketing - steadily rising prices are
squeezing
billions and triggering food riots from Bangladesh to South Africa. Aid
agencies say 100 million people are facing starvation.

In response, the United Nations is convening an emergency summit of
world
leaders in Rome this week. There is a real danger that rich country
leaders
will push half measures and band-aid solutions - we need a huge global
outcry to demand rapid, massive, coordinated action.

The head of the UN, Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, will receive our
petition
at the summit at 9:30AM on Wednesday morning. This is a huge opportunity
for
our voice to reach our leaders directly, but we need half a million
voices
in the next 60 hours. Click below to sign the petition if you haven't
yet,
and forward this email to everyone you know:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/world_food_crisis/5.php?cl=94568075

Already over 200,000 Avaaz members have joined our call for emergency
food
aid and deeper solutions such as investing in food production in poor
countries and fixing harmful rich country policies such as burning food
as
biofuels. Our campaign was launched in response to a personal video
appeal
to our community from the foreign minister of Sierra Leone, where 90% of
the
population are facing severe hunger. Click above to watch the video.

The food crisis, like the climate crisis, is a planetary emergency. It's
another sign of how interdependent and fragile our world is. And how we
all
need to work together, across all our borders and divisions, to save it.

With hope,

Paul, Ricken, Graziela, Galit, Iain, Ben, Pascal, Veronique, Milena and
the
whole Avaaz team.

PS - here's a link to see past Avaaz campaigns:
www.avaaz.org/en/report_back_1
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