Sights and sounds from the 2009 Feast of Caring, including a prayer from the rabbi of Temple Emanuel.
“Let us realize that as long as there are poor in our community, as long as there are poor, then there truly is a lack of justice.”
– Rabbi Fred Guttman
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The News & Record and WFMY report that the owner of the University Mart in Greensboro has been charged with food stamp fraud. He’s accused of making purchases at local grocery stores with food stamps that weren’t assigned to him. The University Mart is on Warren Street, near the intersection with Spring Garden.
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Dropped off food for two homeless friends flying signs. Tough times for them. Addiction, hunger, violence, poverty. A day in the life.
Greensboro’s homeless day center, Interactive Resource Center, is sponsoring a team in the Greensboro CROP Hunger Walk.
What is a CROP Hunger Walk? Neighbors walking together to take a stand against hunger in our world. Together we raise awareness and funds for international relief and development, as well as local hunger-fighting.
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RT @greensboro_CROP: The Greensboro CROP Hunger Walk is on Facebook! Be sure to search us out and friend us!
RT @phxmission: Sobering. US Hunger, Poverty & Homeless Facts: Growing Poverty and Despair in America http://bit.ly/Cspfx
Hey Jeff Probst: Want a real challenge? How about for next season’s Survivor, you pit a team of homeless people against a team of homed folks? Even better, instead of a tropical paradise, set the show in the chaos of a crime-infested, metropolitan inner city.
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cooking 4 homeless w/student campers at HIVE, 1pm, 1214 grove st, greensboro. their camp focus: hunger. help! we need food donations!
The Myrtle Beach City Council has placed serious restrictions on group that feed the homeless in city (public) parks. Church groups are currently feeding the homeless and hungry in obedience to their faith — weekly in one park and monthly in another. A new ordinance will require them to obtain a permit and restrict feedings to four times per year. The ordinance is a response to neighbors’ complaints, such as perceived safety issues for children in the park, and crimes alleged to have been committed by some of the homeless people in the parks. But those who serve the homeless point out that children are among those being fed (children and families are homeless, too), and that homeless people will be in the parks whether meals are served or not.
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A local blogger who likes to send me links to often unflattering articles about homeless or poor people emailed me this today:
Recently Michelle Obama went to serve food to the homeless at a government funded soup kitchen .
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Tonight’s yummy dinner from Food Not Bombs:
Serving at 6:00 p.m. at the downtown public library. Garden salad, fruit salad, macaroni and cheese, bread, and more. Donated food, cooked by volunteers, served free!
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photo credit: Paul Morigi, Getty Images; inset photo: Reuters
Michelle Obama is catching flak for wearing a pair of $540 designer French sneakers to volunteer at a food bank. My reaction? Who cares? Isn’t it a little… judgey, maybe??… to cast aspersions on the First Lady for what she chooses to put on her feet while she serves others? I would never make a judgment on the homeless or poor people that I meet or minister to because of the shoes they’re wearing. Why should I care what a fellow servant wears on hers?
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