Feeding America: A Weekend of Hope -- Create a Little Night Magic

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Saturday May 09, 2009 · 9:10 PM PDT

2009/05/09 · 21:10

It is midnight here on the East Coast, so as our neck of the woods settles down to sleep, I have the distinct privilege of being among the first Kossacks to shout out a big HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all my fellow moms out there.

But the larger privilege for me is getting to participate in this very important effort. May we feed more hungry people on our watch this weekend.

Feeding America is the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity. Its mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.

Summer is especially hard for families with children who normally benefit from school breakfast and lunch programs. When school is out, these children go hungry. However through Feeding America, for $36, through the Magic of the Internet, you can feed a child for the whole summer!!

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34 votes Show Results

OK, the mom in me has to ask...will you call Mom tomorrow?

34 votes Vote Now!

OK, the mom in me has to ask...will you call Mom tomorrow?

Yes

17 votes

2 votes

I iwll think of my mom in my heart (for those no longer with us here on Earth and bless you)

15 votes

Filling Empty Bowls: 36 Hours for Feeding America (5) Honoring those Childhood Memories

JellyBearDemMom

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Saturday February 14, 2009 · 9:07 PM PST

2009/02/14 · 21:07

One in eight Americans will be hungry this year. That is too many people going to bed hungry, too many people lying awake with hunger pains.

Many of these people are children. And the memories of their childhood will be filled with that angst.

We have it in our power to help. Tonight.

Feeding America

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JellyBearDemMom

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Saturday December 06, 2008 · 5:01 PM PST

2008/12/06 · 17:01

By now you probably know that one in eight Americans will be hungry this year. One in EIGHT!

One might expect that number to grow, while I hope not.

Feeding America

Feeding America is the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity.

Follow me to the Land of Plenty below...

JellyBearDemMom

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 5:38 AM PDT

2008/09/10 · 05:38

I am sitting at home this morning, doing what I don't do so much anymore, watching Morning Joe. He (with Andrea Mitchell) is interviewing Ruth Markus, who has a column in the Washington Post this morning entitled "Palin hits the Motherload" (link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/... and they are giving progressive women a BAD RAP.

But they have a point, more after the fold...

UPDATE: This is a small one, I am enjoying the discussion, but one thing I forgot to add...a lot of the polling is showing that women, especially, white women, are the ones giving McCain his big bump after the GOP convention, women are key!

JellyBearDemMom

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Monday September 08, 2008 · 6:36 AM PDT

2008/09/08 · 06:36

This morning, I left my house at before 7 am, as I always do, to drive my child a mile or so to her adopted bus stop. I do so (when I could just walk her to our corner) to save her over an hour of bus commute time on the bus. I do the same thing in the afternoon (to save her another hour and a half). The perk to driving her to the bus stop in the morning is that (in my working class town) I see probably 100 kids waiting at about twenty-five bus stops in that five minute drive.

Why?

Because schools are so bad in our town that knowledgable parents try to place their kids anywhere they can, to avoid the regular classrooms in our town. They look to parochial schools, private schools, out-of-town magnet schools, and non-regular classrooms (i.e., specialized program classrooms) in town schools. Many of these choices are fairly far away (geographically) and the parents in town thus contribute to the fossil fuels problem by bussing or driving their children when they could probably walk to a neighborhood school. But anything to avoid the regular classrooms in town, which are now huge (in terms of class size) and very inadequately funded. Most parents know, a good education is key to everything.

More after the fold...

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44 votes Show Results

How will I help get people to take a real look at McCain/Palin?

44 votes Vote Now!

How will I help get people to take a real look at McCain/Palin?

I will talk to more people face-to-face about the issues.

15 votes

I will make more phone calls for the campaign.

3 votes

I will try to get more people to vote (by registration drives and GOTV efforts towards election day).

6 votes

I will write letters to the editor.

1 vote

I will donate money so that more words can get out.

3 votes

I will put pressure on the media to do their jobs.

4 votes

I'm not sure exactly how to help but feel a new found sense of urgency.

9 votes

Other, please elaborate in Comments.

3 votes

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Listening to Joe this morning...on the MotherLoad

Intensely Personal (or why my children may drop out of soccer this season)