Word: hungered
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...kind of doubtful, The Crimson decided to do its own study (we guarantee ours is much more cost-efficient). After two minutes, 119,000 Google results, and zero dollars (if you don’t include the coffee that we’re drinking to curb our pangs of hunger), we stumbled upon the exact same answer...
...SEIU 615, which represents 16,000 workers throughout New England, has long advocated for living wages for janitorial workers. Earlier in the decade, union members and students used a variety of demonstration tactics—including sit-ins, rallies, and hunger strikes—to successfully negotiate for raises and benefits from Harvard...
...Hunger may not have the cinematic ring of An Inconvenient Truth, but its sponsors clearly hope that their appeal to Gore will do for malnutrition what his 2006 documentary did for climate change. "Gore is one of the most famous and media-savvy people on the planet," says Juan Nonzioli, creative director of the Shackleton Group, the advertising firm that designed the campaign for Action Against Hunger. "Just as he has used that power to raise awareness about climate change, we're asking that he use it for our campaign against hunger...
...Gore has yet to respond, according to Action Against Hunger. "We hope that when we launch the U.S. campaign, he'll invite us for a meeting," says Nonzioli. "That would be great." But at his office in Nashville, a spokeswoman for Gore said he was currently busy with stimulus-package discussions. "They want him to put aside climate change and switch to world hunger?" she asked, somewhat incredulously. Informed that the organizers hoped he would add the issue to his list of concerns, she conceded a bit. "It's quirky, but I have to admit it's a good idea...
...That's what Action Against Hunger is banking on. The organization, which has offices in five countries, hopes to garner 100,000 signatures when it presents its petition to Gore this spring. But even if Gore decides to stick to climate change, the NGO says it can still claim success. "We have a strong message - that this is a disease that can be treated, that we can minimize the number of malnutrition deaths. We just needed a campaign that would make people listen," says Carmen Gayo, spokeswoman for Action Against Hunger...