Letters
From The Whole Avaaz Team - 4 June 2008
Dear friends,
The world food crisis is skyrocketing – steadily rising prices
are squeezing billions and triggering food riots from Bangladesh to
South Africa. Aid agencies say 100 million people are facing
starvation.
In response, the United Nations is convening an emergency summit
of world leaders in Rome this week. There is a real danger that rich
country leaders will push half measures and band-aid solutions – we
need a huge global outcry to demand rapid, massive, coordinated
action.
The head of the UN, Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, will receive
our petition at the summit at 9:30AM on Wednesday morning. This is a
huge opportunity for our voice to reach our leaders directly, but we
need half a million voices in the next 48 hours. Click below to sign
the petition if you haven't yet, and forward this email to everyone
you know:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/world_food_crisis/17.php?cl=96534859
Already over 200,000 Avaaz members have joined our call for
emergency food aid and deeper solutions such as investing in food
production in poor countries and fixing harmful rich country
policies such as burning food as biofuels. Our campaign was launched
in response to a personal video appeal to our community from the
foreign minister of Sierra Leone, where 90% of the population are
facing severe hunger. Click above to watch the video.
The food crisis, like the climate crisis, is a planetary
emergency. It's another sign of how interdependent and fragile our
world is. And how we all need to work together, across all our
borders and divisions, to save it.
With hope,
Paul, Ricken, Graziela, Galit, Iain, Ben, Pascal, Veronique,
Milena and the whole Avaaz team.
PS – here's a link to see past Avaaz campaigns:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/report_back_1
