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Ticker tape ain't spaghetti

Posted by Amy Goodman on Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:00 PM

Food riots are erupting around the world. Protests have occurred in Egypt, Cameroon, the Philippines, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mauritania and Senegal. Sarata Guisse, a Senegalese demonstrator, told Reuters: "We are holding this demonstration because we are hungry. We need to eat, we need to work, we are hungry. That's all. We are hungry." United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has convened a task force to confront the problem, which threatens, he said, "the specter of widespread hunger, malnutrition and social unrest on an unprecedented scale." The World Food Program has called the food crisis the worst in 45 years, dubbing it a "silent tsunami" that will plunge 100 million more people into hunger.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Ticker tape ain't spaghetti

Posted by Amy Goodman on Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:00 PM

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