Feed The US

Celebrities:                               Proposed Contribution:
•    Oprah                                    Hook us up! We need some joy rising Africa-style
•    Arianna Huffington            Thought this idea up watching Oprah’s Life Class & you
•    Ellen DeGeneres                  Thanks for all you are doing! Can you feature some shows and publicize for us?
•    Rachel Ray                            Thanks for your efforts too, can you help
•    Quincy Jones                        Done it before; How about Black Eyed Peas & Bruce Springsteen?
•    Michelle Obama                   Thanks, can you pull some strings with the armed forces since so many impoverished are unemployed veterans?
•    Chef Sam Kass                      Can you and the White House Kitchen help?
•    Obamafoodorama/Edie     Can you blog and help us out Edie?
•    Paula Deen                            You know what this is about
•    Emerill Lagasse                    Please help us
•    Chef Michel Nischan and all you other great chefs; can you raise awareness & magic?
•    Ed Schultz                             Can you support & shine lens on children of the #99ers?
•    Scott Pelley                           Can you support & shine lens on children of the #99ers?
•    Ali Velshi                              Can you support & shine lens on children of the #99ers?
•    Nicole Sandler                     Can you support & raise your voice for the children of the #99ers?
•    Thom Hartmann                 Can you support & raise your voice for the children of the #99ers?
•    Rachel Maddow                  Will you support this movement by making it “the best new thing in the world”?

Celebrities in Social Media:            Requested Contribution:
•    Alyssa Milano:                   New mom, children’s advocate w/UNICEF and all you’ve done for Haiti and children worldwide. New mom; UNICEF & Haiti, can you help withsome tweets and any other strings?
•    MC Hammer:                    Social media wizard & master all that is good
•    Lady Gaga                         Please use your incredibly big heart & Twitter power to help the littlest          Monsters
•    Justin Bieber                    Millions of children, teens and LGBT youth are suffering homelessness        and hunger. Will you support them?

Corporations:                      Proposed Contribution:
General Electric:                      Innovative yet paid zero taxes: Implement a system to                                    coordinate shipping of shoes/boots, socks, jackets,                                         etc. with:
UPS:                                            specialists in logistics we’ve heard
USPS:                                          who are the ONLY service to thousands of rural communities in the U.S./Congress cutting while burdening with unnecessary debt by Congressional mandates. (We also know you know what children want from Santa and maybe you can help!)
FedEx:                                        We definitely need you too! please.

Manufacturers:
Socks & Underwear:
•    Hanes
•    Fruit of the Loom
Shoes:
•    Brown Shoe Company
•    Capps Shoe Company
•    Converse
•    Etnies
•    Deckers Outdoor Equipment
Boots:
⁃    Acme
⁃    Muck Boots
⁃    Sorrels
⁃    Old Navy
Jackets:
⁃    Lands End
⁃    Sears
⁃    Target
⁃    Gently used and clean (donated)
Food: ($100 gift certificates)
⁃    Walmart
⁃    Kroger
⁃    Safeway
⁃    CostCo
⁃    Winn Dixie
⁃    Local chains
Backpacks or similar carrier:
⁃    The North Face
⁃    Jan Sport
⁃    Technicolor Cool
⁃    REI
Toys:
⁃    Mattel
⁃    Hasbro
⁃    Bandai
⁃    Lego
⁃    Tiger
Dental Care:
•    Oral-B
•    Aquafresh
•    Colgate-Palmolive
•    etc.
Education:
•    Highlights
•    Scholastic magazine
•    Amazon books
Fleece throw:
•    Accent Essentials: Interaxions, NYC

Retailers: Step up!:
•    Walmart
•    Target
•    Kmart
•    Kohls
•    Amazon
•    JC Penny
•    GAP
•    Zappos
•    Etc. Etc.

Grocery chains & food companies: Step up!  $100 gift certificates for food
•    Walmart
•    Kroger
•    Safeway
•    CostCo
•    Winn Dixie

Food Companies:  Same request as that made of Kraft Foods
•    Kraft Foods                monetary, gift certificates & food donations to Feeding America & local orgs.
•    Nestle USA
•    ConAgra Foods
•    Tyson Foods
•    PepsiCo
•    General Mills

Organizations:                    Proposed Contribution:
•    Feeding America            promote/support this movement
•    Share Our Strength        promote/support this movement
•    Bread for the World       promote/support this movement
•    Joel John Roberts
•    Marian Edelman Wright
•    Half In Ten
•    Coalition on Human Needs

Mayors, government officials, etc.:
•    Cory Booker
•    Michael Bloomberg
•    Mayors everywhere
•    USDA Sec Tom Vilsack
•    Dept of Ed Sec Arnie Duncan

Entities:                                    Proposed Contribution:
Chase & Goldman Sachs           donate $1 billion between them, as a good will gesture for the bail out they got & all the money they make thru food stamps, unemployment benefits, etc. services.

News Media: Shine your lens on this 99% effort & report across the nation, or face a strike on Dec. 5, 2011.
News Media:                Proposed Contribution: Same for all networks
•    ABC                           Air time/coverage
•    CBS
•    CNN
•    FOX News
•    NBC/CNBC/MSNBC
•    NY Times
•    LA Times
•    Denver Post
Thanks to Ann Curry, Steve Osunsami, Scott Pelley and Katie Couric for your past efforts in shining the lens on hunger.

Telethon: Step up, PLEASE!:
•    Quincy Jones
•    Screen Actors Guild

Musicians:
•    Black Eyed Peas
•    Bruce Springsteen

Actors:
•    Jeff Bridges: 28 year hunger fighter
•    David Arquette
•    Matt Damon
•    Ben Affleck

Athletes, etc.:
•    Erin Andrews
•    Chad Ochocinco

Chefs:
•    Michel Nischan
•    Sam Kass
•    Paula Deen
•    Emeril Lagasse
•    Talk Show Hosts:
•    Oprah
•    Ellen Degeneres
•    Rachael Ray

Big Oil with subsidies our children are paying & Top 1% who get tax breaks:
•    Exxon
•    BP
•    Waltons
•    Rupert Murdoch
•    Koch Brothers

Organizers & Activists: Step up!:
•    CBC
•    Al Sharpton
•    Ed Schultz
•    Richard Trumpka
•    Feeding America
•    Bread for the World
•    Share Our Strength
•    Coalition on Human Needs
•    Half In Ten
•    InvisiblePeople.TV

Organizations: help ascertain the children’s needs, coordinate w/organizers, and coordinate the distribution.
•    Health & Human Services
•    Schools
•    Food pantries
•    Churches

Celebrities in Social Media:
•    Alyssa Milano: New mom, children’s advocate w/UNICEF and all you’ve done for Haiti
•    MC Hammer: Social media wizard & master all that is good
•    Lady Gaga
•    Justin Bieber

Ask Yourself These Questions!
•    Can you imagine being one of those 5 children, living in poverty with nothing to look forward to? That’s 5 children out of every classroom of 25 children, the national average. These kids hide their stories!
•    Can you imagine what it’s like to want to give presents, but there isn’t even an art program in school anymore, so you can make your parent a ceramic dish or ugly ashtray?
•    Can you imagine what it’s like to be 1 of 4 children in that same classroom that goes hungry each night, waiting for their next and probably only meal in the day, their school lunch? That’s 6 kids enduring hunger in that same classroom that has 5 living in poverty.
•    Can any of the children really grow when so many of their friends are falling so far behind in learning/studies because of depression, loss of attention, sleep, stress of arguing parents, etc.? These are the same kids getting bullied because they don’t fit in.
•    Do we want our children to be bullies or empathetic/compassionate?
•    Do we want 17.2 million children suffering this much?
•    Is this good for their futures or the future of our national security?
•    Can you imagine the guilt, grief, depression, etc. of the parents of those children, unable to provide the basic joy most of us lived and enjoyed during our childhoods?
•    Can you imagine the joy that will rise?