Word: hungering
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...more years of exile, Lenin finally arrived by train at the Finland Station in Petrograd on April 16, 1917. He climbed onto an armored car and began making a speech. "The people need peace. The people need bread. The people need land," he cried. "And they give you war, hunger, no bread . . . We must fight for the social revolution...
3.We actively sought input from Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) leadership in developing the poster. Before proceeding with this project, we consulted several PBHA Steering Committee members, including one of the directors of the Hunger Action Committee. Through him, we got a student to work with us, one who had a lot of volunteer experience with hunger and homeless programs. Her input helped to guide the project; and her research helped us to develop the list of services included on the poster...
While we agree that it is naive to expect any informational campaign to solve massive social problems, making needed information available to the public is important nonetheless. Creating poster is clearly not a solution to the problem of hunger and homelessness, nor was the intention of this project to lull the Harvard community into a false sense of comfort...
...Africa. In Ethiopia upwards of 4.5 million people, more than four times the number wiped out by the great famine of 1984-85, may starve this year if food relief is not provided -- and soon. In Sudan, where as many as a quarter of a million people died of hunger in 1987-88, the most dire estimates suggest that 3 million could suffer the same fate by the middle of this decade. Once again the world may see those sickening images: skeletal children too weak to swat away the flies that swarm around their eyes; old people slumped against herding...
...hunger crisis may hit as early as March because most of the people at risk are trapped behind lines controlled by the three insurgent armies battling Mengistu's troops. Mengistu so far refuses to let relief convoys enter rebel-controlled territories for fear the food may go toward feeding the insurgents or the trucks may be ferrying arms to them. His obstinacy follows a year of humiliating defeats for his forces in Eritrea and Tigre...