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Back From Haiti, Rev. Jesse Jackson Calls for Emergency Food Aid to a Starving Nation Devastated by Longtime U.S.-Led Interfe
Thursday, May 1, 2008 :Reverend Jesse Jackson has just returned from Haiti, where the World Food Program is warning of a "major crisis" if international donors fail to help feed Haiti's poor. Prices of rice, beans and cooking oil, have doubled in the past few months. The soaring food prices have had a devastating effect -- two-thirds of Haitians live on less than a dollar a day and 47 percent are undernourished. We speak to Rev. Jackson about the U.S. responsibility to feed a nation long targeted by Western subversion. Rev. Jackson also shares his thoughts on the recent fallout between Democratic candidate Barack Obama and his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
The World Food Program warned Wednesday that Haiti is facing a “major crisis” if international donors fail to help feed Haiti’s poor. Prices of rice, beans and cooking oil, have doubled in the past few months. The soaring food prices have had a devastating effect—two-thirds of Haitians live on less than a dollar a day and 47 percent are undernourished. At least five Haitians died in recent food protests and Haiti’s Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis was recently forced out of office. The Rev. Jesse Jackson has just returned from Haiti. He joins us in our Firehouse studio.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil rights leader with the Rainbow-Push Coalition.
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