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Remember that old TV commercial where a brokerage company was promoting itself saying, "when [our company] speaks, people listen..." Well, I've got a great listen for you.  Our western regional field organizer Robin Stephenson was featured in the February edition of Breadcast.Click here to listenRobin was joined by fellow organzer...

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Check out this cool promo from The ONE Campaign, featuring my friend Rochelle Gibbs from Minnesota.  This 1-minute message below is part of ONE's initiative called  "Women ONE2ONE" Here is what it's all about: It's all about women taking action and connecting with each other to fight poverty. With every voice...

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Catholic Relief Services PresentsThe Story of Ghana’s THOMAS AWIAPO: How Operation Rice Bowl Saved a LifeWednesday, March 10, 20107:00pm-8:30pmArchdiocese of Santa Fe Catholic Center, Sandia Room4000 St. Joseph Place NW, AlbuquerqueThis free program will include information about using Operation Rice Bowl in your family and parish. Thomas Awiapo has a...

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Marge Williams, one of our most active and loyal Bread for the World members in Albuquerque, is leaving our community to live near her brother in Florida.  Marge has been a leader in the local anti-hunger and anti-poverty movement (and connected this passion to her advocacy for environmental protection, simple living...

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New Mexicans have become used to ranking near the top of the list on many hunger and nutrition deficiency categories.  Therefore, it was a mild surprise not to find our state in the Top 10 in the new measure of Food Hardship created by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)....

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The Center for Budget Policy and Priorities (CBPP) is urging you to observe Earned Income Tax Awareness Day today, January 29.  Believe or not, it was the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U.S. Treasury Department that delared this commemoration today.Download a flier in English or SpanishFind other resources As you...

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By Alaina Paradise Valentine’s Day is still a few weeks away, but One World Flowers is swamped with preparation work for the busiest floral holiday of the year.Valentine’s Day wholesale orders are due on January 26, so the company is busy processing customer requests and communicating with the farms in...

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Most Holy Creator God, Lord of heaven and earth, we bring before you today your people of Haiti. It is You who set in motion the stars and seas, You who raised up the mountains of the Massif de la Hotte and Pic La Selle. It is You who made...

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The Haitian dance group Racine Kreyol needs help raising donations and collecting dried goods and survival items to send to Haiti. Come celebrate Haitian culture and arts while supporting the earthquake relief effort! Saturday, Jan. 2310:00 AM - 5:00 PMThe Peace and Justice Center (Harvard and Silver, UNM area)Needs: Dried bagged...

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As part of the commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday, I would like to share this is a hopeful video made by Rev. Roy Howard, a Bread for the World member and pastor of St. Mark's Presbyterian Church in Rockville, Md. ...

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"...the rich must not ignore the poor because both rich and poor are tied in a single garment of destiny. All life is interrelated, and all men are interdependent. The agony of the poor diminishes the rich, and the salvation of the poor enlarges the rich." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.1964...

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HELP EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS IN HAITI!!!!A LOCAL GROUP OF HAITIANS ARE ORGANIZING A TRIP TO PERSONALLY DISTRIBUTE THE GOODS ALL DONATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED-Especially needed items are blankets, hygiene supplies, non-perishable food items, medical supplies, anything!BEGINNING TODAY JANUARY 14Hands of the Caribbean, 501-3C Non-profit109 San Pablo SEAlbuquerque, NM(505)922-5550...

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Nancy Pope of the New Mexico Collaboration to End Hunger sent out this note:I have been asked by members of the New Mexico Collaboration to End Hunger to coordinate pooling donations from any members that are interested in donating money to hunger relief for the victims of the earthquake in...

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By now you've probably seen dozens of appeals come across your e-mail or your social networking site with suggestions about how to help the victims of a devastating earthquake in Haiti this week.Indeed, the international community has come through in a big way.  Click here for Bread for the World's...

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Patricia Anders, an attorney at the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty, brings us a bit of good news about changes in the rules of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that will open the program to more New Mexicans.  SNAP is commonly known as "the Food Stamp program."The...

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It's the Colts and the Saints in Super Bowl XLIV! Actually, that's wishful thinking for the big event in South Florida on Feb. 7. (It's no secret that I'm a big New Orleans fan. GEAUX SAINTS!) But the Super Bowl aside, I would like to bring attention to an event...

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According to the think tank Think New Mexico and political blogs New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan and FBIHOP, the proposal to reimpose a food tax, led by the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, may not have much life in this session of the State Legislature, which runs from Jan....

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Thanks to The ONE Campaign blog for sharing this item.A new episode of the PBS program “Great Decisions” looks at the Millennium Development Goals and the state of the world’s “bottom billion”. The spot focuses on a discussion between Noam Unger of the Brookings Institute and Jonathan White of the...

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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) have put together a campaign to recruit 1 million Catholics in the United States to join with them in efforts to confront global poverty.If you're Roman Catholic, this is a great opportunity to become involved efforts to...

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It's about six months too late, but I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the new Under Secretary of Democracy and Global Affairs: Maria Otero.  Maria was chair of  Bread for the World's board of directors for most of the six years in which I served on that deliberative...

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(Reprinted with permission from Institute Notes, the blog of the Bread for the World Institute.  This piece offers great background for Bread for the World's 2010 Offering of Letters)By Todd PostAt a time of high unemployment rates and a consensus among economists that this will be the norm for some...

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St. Joseph Community Health has created a comprehensive directory for local food sources called Food Resources in Your Community.  You can also find the directory under the resources listing in the website of the New Mexico Collaboration to End HungerKudos to Janet Page-Reeves and Linda Perez for all the hard...

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There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.- Hubert Humphrey,U.S. vice president 1965-1969 ...

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New Mexico Appleseed, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that focuses on policy solutions for poor and underserved communities, recently issued a report discussing deficiencies in the meal programs in the Albuquerque Public Schools and how the problem can be addressed in all the school systems in New Mexico. The organization is...

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I found this quote almost a week-and-a-half after Christmas.  But it's appropriate to post it now because the message applies more than ever. I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year....

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