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Police shutting down Hempstead food share threatening arrest (video)

“Removing” issues from view doesn’t make them nonexistent and…doesn’t solve problems.   Community Solidarity is more than a nonprofit; more than a grassroots movement; it’s a philosophy. A philosophy based on the belief that empowered compassionate communities can heal themselves…

People in LA Are Feeding Each Other the Food That Would Be Wasted

Americans waste 30 to 40 percent of all food. These organizers connect the excess food in their neighborhoods with hungry people—rather than the dump. By April M. Short In any given U.S. city, on any given night, chances are that…

Face 2 Face with Payal Mehta

LIVE SHOW – Friday, June 18 at 11 AM On this show we speak with Payal Mehta, volunteer at the Community Solidarity – Food is a right.  An all volunteer organization that rescues and distributes food to those marginalized and the…

Nobel peace prize: hunger is a weapon of war but the World Food Programme can’t build peace on its own

By awarding the 2020 Nobel peace prize to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), the Nobel committee said that it wanted to “turn the eyes of the world to the millions of people who suffer from or face the threat of hunger”.…