The Global Hunger Alliance

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The Global Hunger Alliance is looking for local project coordinators in

Asia. Below is a guide which will give you an indication of the type of

work involved.

 

Please pass this on to any Asian green groups that you think might be

interested.

 

Any person who is willing to take on this task should write to:

pattrice le-muire jones

Coordinator

Global Hunger Alliance

pattrice

 

Global Hunger Alliance

 

Guide for Local Organizers

 

Goals of the Alliance

The overarching goal of the alliance is to promote genuine solutions to the

problem of world hunger. Genuine solutions to the problem of world hunger

include those solutions which result in more efficient and equitable use of

existing food resources as well as those solutions which promote the

redevelopment of sustainable cultivation of indigenous and locally-adapted

food crops in low-income food-deficient nations.

 

Members of the Alliance understand that the exportation of intensive animal

livestock operations to low-income food-deficient nations would lead to more

rather than less hunger. Members of the Alliance further understand that the

exportation of intensive animal livestock operations to low-income

food-deficient nations would further impoverish those nations by extracting

corporate profits and by both depleting and polluting natural resources.

 

Hence, the specific aims of the Alliance are as follows:

1. To educate the public and policy makers about potential plant-based

solutions to world hunger;

2. To educate the public and policy makers about the hazards that intensive

animal livestock operations pose to people, animals, and the environment;

3. To encourage the World Food Security Committee of the Food and

Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to support genuine solutions

to the problem of world hunger;

4. To discourage the World Food Security Committee of the Food and

Agriculture Organization of the United Nations from continuing to support

the exportation of intensive animal livestock operations to low-income

food-deficient nations;

5. To bring the concerns of the Alliance to the forefront at the World Food

Summit in November of 2001;

6. To build working relationships among Alliance members so that joint work

can continue after that date.

 

Tactics of the Alliance

The Alliance was created out of the understanding that the most effective

social change efforts are those that involve coordinated use of a

multiplicity of tactics. Hence, the Alliance is pursuing a three-track

strategy in which individual Alliance members may utilize the tactics with

which they are most comfortable. The ³inside track² will consist of lobbying

efforts such as petitions, calls, and letters to hunger policy makers as

well as the creation and collation of position papers and other scholarly

materials supporting the Alliance¹s positions. The ³outside track² will

consist of planning for protest events associated with the World Food

Summit. The ³support track² will consist of media relations and public

education efforts intended to gain public awareness of and support for

Alliance positions.

 

Operations of the Alliance

The Alliance is a loosely structured coalition of activists and

organizations who share the aims of the Alliance as elaborated in its

statement of principles. Individuals and organizations are encouraged to

take independent actions in furtherance of the aims of the Alliance and to

mention their membership in the Alliance so long as they do not claim to be

speaking for the Alliance as a group.

 

Certain events associated with the Alliance, such as planned November events

in Rome and DC, will be explicitly sponsored by however many Alliance

members wish to endorse those specific events. Similarly, Alliance members

will work together to create lobbying documents and other materials which

they will endorse.

 

All Alliance members will be invited to sign onto key documents, such as a

joint letter to the FAO and a position paper to be presented to participants

in the World Food Summit. The format for signing such documents will be ³A

project of the Global Hunger Alliance endorsed by [list of endorsing

organizations]²

 

In short, very few documents will be generated by the Alliance as a whole.

This cuts down on decision making logistics and leaves all Alliance members

free to take independent or collaborative action on the aspects of the

project which most interest them.

 

Role of Member Organizations

Any organization endorsing the statement of principles may list itself as a

member of the alliance. Member organizations are also encouraged to, but

need not, endorse the joint letter to be delivered to participants in the

World Food Summit. Member organizations also are encouraged to act alone or

with other member organizations to take any or all of the following steps:

1. Developing and distributing lobbying documents such as position papers

or summary reports;

2. Encouraging their members to participate in lobbying efforts by signing

petitions or writing letters to the FAO and to their United Nations

delegations;

3. Including issues relevant to the work of the alliance in educational

publications and presentations;

4. Seizing upon local and national media opportunities to bring issues

relevant to the work of the alliance to the attention of the public;

5. Sponsoring and/or helping to plan events in Rome and DC during the World

Food Summit;

6. Engaging in any other independent actions consistent with the aims of

the alliance.

 

Role of Local Organizers

Local organizers are perhaps the most important component of the Alliance.

Acting alone or in concert with one another, local organizers may undertake

any or all the following tasks:

1. Promoting public awareness of the hazards of factory farming and the

promise of plant-based solutions to the problem of world hunger;

2. Alerting local or regional animal welfare, animal liberation,

environmental, and anti-globalization organizations and activists to the

activities of the Alliance;

3. Assisting local or regional animal welfare, animal liberation,

environmental, and anti-globalization organizations and activists in taking

their own actions concerning the issues of concern to the Alliance.

 

Role of Alliance Coordinator

The Alliance Coordinator is responsible for recruiting Alliance members,

keeping track of the operations of the Alliance, providing support to

Alliance members, providing support to local organizers, facilitating

communication among Alliance members, facilitating communication among local

organizers, and ensuring that each of the aspects of the Alliance plan are

in place.

 

Logistical Details

Member organizations are requested to keep the alliance coordinator informed

of their relevant activities. Local organizers can and should coordinate

their actions by communicating frequently with the Alliance coordinator. In

turn, the Alliance coordinator will make resources and information available

to local organizers. Once the Alliance website is operational, it will serve

as a repository for leaflets, sample letters, research articles, and other

items to be downloaded for use by local organizers.

 

Alliance Coordinator: pattrice le-muire jones, basta, USA

410-651-4934