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WHEREAS, Just Harvest is a membership organization which promotes economic justice and works to influence public policy and to educate, empower, and mobilize the citizens of our community toward the elimination of hunger and poverty; and,
WHEREAS, Just Harvest- A Center for Action Against Hunger, focuses its goals around advocacy, education, outreach and organizing and empowering citizens to take action to eliminate hunger and has done so throughout its history with programs and projects such as the National School Breakfast Program, a Tax Preparation Project, the Empty Bowls Dinner, support of Farmer's Markets in Southwestern Pennsylvania through the Farmer's Market Alliance, their Women's Leadership and Organizing Project, the Hometown Hunger research study and report , the publishing of their Welfare Rights Handbook and the Welfare Justice Project, and the influence of public policy through their work with public officials; and,
WHEREAS, Just Harvest will be hosting its 19th Annual Harvest Celebration Dinner on World Food Day, Tuesday, October 16, 2007, at the Omni William Penn; and,
WHEREAS, this year's Annual Harvest Celebration Dinner will feature noted political strategist, Donna Brazile, a commentator for CNN and ABC News, who will share her unique insights into the politics of hunger and poverty with an address titled Poverty and Policy: Repairing the Social Safety Net; and,
WHEREAS, this year's Annual Harvest Celebration Dinner will also present the 4th Seeds of Justice Award to the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work for its extraordinary service to the cause of social and economic justice and for its integral involvement with Just Harvest since its inception.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh does hereby recognize the crisis of hunger and poverty in our region and notes that Just Harvest makes a remarkable difference in the lives of our hungry neighbors through advocacy, educ...
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