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In 1993, Congressman Tony Hall fasted for 22 days in response to budget cuts that would have had a devastating impact on poor people at home and around the world. Today, nearly 20 years later, Tony Hall is fasting again, provoked by similar budget cuts currently under consideration by Congress. Click here to join him in fasting and prayer.
WATCH: Tony Hall Thank You Video Ambassador Tony Hall fasted for 28 days, without food, to call attention to Congressional ...
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Congressman Jim McGovern Delivers Floor Speeches Supporting HungerFast.org (video) Washington, D.C. - For the past week, Congressional hunger hero James P. McGovern (D-MA) ...
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Watch the HungerFast.org Launch (video) Washington, D.C. – At a press conference on Monday, March 28th, a large coalition ...
More Information...The Silent Crisis | Cheryl Morden
Hunger is sometimes called the silent crisis. Silent crises are the ones that are overlooked, crowded off the front pages by late-breaking news. Years of experience tell us that when hungry people are silent, they go unnoticed by the rest of the world. Apparently, to become a real and present crisis, those of us with ...
The Fast Is Ending, But the Movement Is Just Getting Started | Tony Hall
Back in 1993, as a Member of Congress, I went on a 22 day fast to protest the lack of conscience of the U.S. Congress towards poor and hungry people. Now, almost twenty years later, the stakes are even higher. That’s why on March 28, 2011 — almost one month ago — I stopped eating and ...
Fasting in Solidarity | Leland Fellows
Below are short reflections from a few of the current class of Congressional Hunger Center’s Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows Program who are participating the fast as part of their commitment to become leader in the fight against hunger worldwide. I think a little bit of solidarity is in order. Back in the heyday of ...
Understanding Hunger | Elyssa Koidin
Even though I have worked closely on the issues of poverty and hunger for the past eight years, I have been blessed to never have had to know these struggles personally. I understand the impact of policy on programs. But the reality of how the programs impact people’s lives is rather foreign to me. Starting ...
America’s National Humiliation | Tony Hall
Almost three weeks ago I stopped eating and started fasting, calling people of faith and conscience to do the same. At the height of the Civil War in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling the nation to a day of fasting, prayer and what he called, “national humiliation”. Taking his clues from the ...
We Pay For Hunger | Ed Nicholson
I did not eat last Wednesday, along with thousands of others who care about hungry people in our country and around the world. It’s all part of the campaign HungerFast.org, in which the nation’s most prominent anti-hunger/ anti-poverty organizations (including some of our partners- Share Our Strength, Feeding America, FRAC, and The Congressional Hunger Center) are encouraging their ...
An Assault Against the Very People God Instructs Us to Protect | Dave Miner
I did not eat, at all, last week. Right now our nation is in the middle of important discussions about how to cut its deficits. Living within our means is something we must do, and how we do it is a very important moral decision. The initial proposal passed recently by the House of Representatives ...
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