[asia-apec 1751] Support Food First: Challenge Grant

[Anuradha Mittal]

For 25 years Food First has been a leader in the fight to eliminate 
the injustices that perpetuate hunger amidst plenty.

I know that you support our work, and I want to ask you to make a 
special donation that will be matched by the Alan Shawn Feinstein 
Million Dollar Challenge Grant during March and April, 2001.  Food First 
is proud to have been selected to participate.

You will also be joining millions of other Americans in sending the 
message to President Bush and the U.S. Congress that HUNGER IN AMERICA 
IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE.  Right now more than 25% of U.S. children are 
growing up in poverty.  It doesn't have to be this way.

Instead of investing in our children, President Bush and the 
Republican-dominated Congress are determined to push through a tax cut 
that favors the rich.  In 1990, CEOs of U.S. corporations earned an 
average of 80 times more than the average worker.  That gap increased to 
485 times the pay of the average worker by 1999.  The federal tax cut 
will give a 43% tax cut to the richest one percent of Americans.  The 
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities indicates that the Bush tax cut 
will provide no tax relief for 12 million lower and moderate-income 
families.

Today 36 million Americans do not get enough to eat.  Demand for food at 
food pantries and food banks across the country is the highest it has 
been since food banks were started in the early 1980s. Food pantries are 
now distributing food in the evening to serve working poor people who 
cannot come during weekday hours.

Food First's May 2001 "California Economic Human Rights: The Time Has 
Come" bus tour will focus on the needs of those who have been 
marginalized by the globalization of jobs and the failure of minimum 
wage to keep up with the cost of living here in the U.S.

I hope you can make a special donation to Food First during March or 
April for the 4th Annual Alan Shawn Feinstein $1 million dollar 
challenge grant. This is a smart way to make your donation go farther.

You can also help put the pressure on Congress and President Bush by
gathering signatures for the petition drive that has been started by 
Alan Shawn Feinstein.  The attached petition calls upon Congress and 
President Bush to make a commitment to ending hunger in America.  To get 
more copies of the petition, which already has more than 786,000 
signatures, go to www.feinsteinfoundation.com.

Remember, your special matching gift must be received here at Food First 
during March or April to count toward the Feinstein challenge grant.  
You can donate by credit card on our secure server web site - 
www.foodfirst.org or by mail (simply send us your card number and 
expiration date). Or you can simply write a check made out to Food First 
for this challenge grant.

This is a chance to double the impact of your support.

Working together we can make our voices heard for the right of all 
people to feed themselves.

With respect for justice,

Anuradha Mittal, Co-Director


Here's my March/April 2001 special gift to match the 1 million dollar 
Alan Shawn Feinstein challenge to fight hunger in the U.S.


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