BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//NextToU//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3a019988-167b-4871-865e-38b513405713@nexttoyou DTSTAMP:20261107T013834Z DTSTART:20261119T013000Z DTEND:20261119T033000Z SUMMARY:UO Oxfam America Hunger Banquet LOCATION:Knight Library Browsing Room\, 1501 Kincaid Street\, Eugene\, OR 97403 DESCRIPTION:Hunger is not an accident of nature\, but a result of how reso urces get distributed. The UO Oxfam Hunger Banquet is an immersive event designed to make food distribution impossible to ignore. When you arrive at this event\, you draw a card at random\, and it will assign you to a h igh-\, middle-\, or low-income tier\, in proportions drawn from current g lobal inequality statistics. The event meal distribution will go like thi s:\n\nTwenty percent of guests are seated at tables and served a full mea l. Thirty percent receive rice and beans. The remaining half sit on the f loor with a small portion of rice and water. Nobody chooses their tier\, and that is the point. After the meal\, everyone comes together to talk a bout what they experienced and what can be done with it. Oxfam has been r unning Hunger Banquets for more than fifty years\, beginning with the 197 4 Fast for a World Harvest\, when 250\,000 people across the United State s skipped a meal to take a stand against hunger and inequality. Since the n\, nearly a million people have attended one of Oxfam's Banquets.\n\nWe are also running a campus-wide food drive. Everything collected goes to t he Student Food Pantry. We encourage donations of non-perishable food ite ms\, including canned beans\, canned proteins (such as tuna)\, spices\, c ondiments\, and holiday foods such as canned cranberry sauce. Other non-p erishable food donations are also welcome!\n\nSince 1974\, Oxfam has been working with volunteers to create awareness of hunger and inequality. Ox fa\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/3a019988-167b-4871-865e-38b513405713 URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/3a019988-167b-4871-865e-38b513405713 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR