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17 Sep 2017, 7:26 am
“When his mother tried to tell him off for playing with [games and machinery] too much and not studying enough, he wouldn’t talk back, but he would protest in other ways, like going on a hunger strike. [read post]
20 Aug 2017, 5:55 am
Across the decades he went on dozens of hunger strikes, over issues including the Vietnam War, the failed Equal Rights Amendment, police brutality, South African apartheid, nuclear power, prison reform, drug abuse and American Indian rights.And he reveled in conspiracy theories, elaborating on them in language that could be enigmatic and circuitous. [read post]
26 May 2017, 6:52 am
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein [official profile] voiced concern [UN press release] on Wednesday over the treatment of hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. [read post]
12 May 2017, 2:56 am
of the labor relations world, including an antitrust challenge to an attempt to unionize drivers at Uber and Lyft, three cases involving students who either are, or claim to be, legal “employees,” a hunger strike that may involve pizza and cheeseburgers, Scabby the Rat balloon’s ignominious surrender to a cat balloon (we kid you not), and much more. [read post]
9 May 2017, 10:30 am
September 2016 — Chelsea ends a hunger strike she launched in protest of the army’s refusal to provide her with medical treatment related to her gender dysphoria, after receiving assurances from the military that it would grant her request for gender transition surgery — a first for a transgender inmate. [read post]
8 May 2017, 2:51 pm
"Palestinian leaders dismissed the videos, released on Sunday, as fakes aimed at deflating the strike of over 1,000 prisoners.... [read post]
8 May 2017, 5:00 am
Zvia Gordestky Turns to Hunger Strike for Divorce Gordestky is on hunger strike outside of Israel’s parliament building because, according to Jewish law, both husband and wife must agree to a divorce. [read post]
6 May 2017, 7:40 am
Beverly Milton-Edwards took a look at the ongoing hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails. [read post]
3 May 2017, 9:30 am
Since mid-April, nearly 1,500 Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails have been engaged in a hunger strike. [read post]
30 Apr 2017, 8:55 am
This is a hunger strike where you get to eat if you get too hungry. [read post]
27 Apr 2017, 5:38 pm
The bill was so extreme that it brought about hunger strikes from protestors. [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 1:14 pm
Via Newsweek, the news that Turkey has released Italian journalist Gabriele Del Grande, who was arrested on April 9, and began a hunger strike on April 18. [read post]
17 Apr 2017, 12:26 pm
[JURIST] Over 1,000 Palestinian political prisoners in six Israeli prisons embarked on an indefinite hunger strike starting on Monday, in observance of Palestinian Prisoners Day. [read post]
17 Apr 2017, 10:41 am
Over a thousand Palestinians in Israeli prisons are participating in a major hunger strike led by Marwan Barghouti, a detainee widely considered to be a potential replacement for the Palestinian Authority’s embattled President Mahmoud Abbas. [read post]
17 Apr 2017, 4:52 am
This new hunger strike will demonstrate once more that the prisoners’ movement is the compass that guides our struggle, the struggle for Freedom and Dignity, the name we have chosen for this new step in our long walk to freedom. [read post]
12 Apr 2017, 1:54 pm
Hundreds of detainees at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) [official website] in Tacoma, Washington began a hunger strike on Monday [NWDC Resistance press release]. [read post]
3 Apr 2017, 10:14 am
Court of Appeals rejected a request to release recordings of military personnel in Guantanamo Bay force-feeding a detainee who was on a hunger strike. [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 11:00 am
Kalimah Priforce, whose first activism was a hunger strike at age eight, and Kimberly Bryant, a successful engineer turned founder of Black Girls Code, are organizing large-scale hackathons preparing youth to redesign the future through the power of coding. [read post]
27 Jan 2017, 1:59 am
These are pretty striking figures – especially given that the survey asked about deliberate bias, rather simply whether the media have been unduly negative in their reporting. [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 6:47 am
Among those activists, eight are believed to be on life threatening hunger strikes, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, Asma Jahangir [profile, PDF]. [read post]
