Posted on 01/11/2022 3:18:50 PM PST by matt04
Arizona college students threatened to go on a second hunger strike if Congress doesn’t pass the Democrat-led voting legislation by Jan. 17.
"We’re prepared to hold out indefinitely now that the holidays are over," Leila Winbury, a junior at Arizona State University, told Fox News Digital. "I have seen the consequences of a broken democracy my entire life, so we're willing to suffer the consequences of hunger striking rather than the consequences of the bill not passing."
She said the next hunger strike will be "a lot bigger" than the 15-day one organized in December.
"Nationwide hunger-striking, more than likely," she noted.
The Un-PAC students are advocating for the Freedom to Vote Act, which aims to take money out of politics, establish more lenient voting rules and make Election Day a federal holiday.
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"The health toll was hard, a lot of us had low blood pressure, but we did have a doctor on site," she told Fox News Digital. "He took our vitals twice a day."
"In Arizona I was able to go back to my dorm. In D.C., we stayed in sleeping bags out front of the Capitol, and then once it would get dark, we would go stay in a hotel," Winbury said.
She shared her message to D.C. lawmakers: "Do your jobs, listen to your constituents. We should not have to put our bodies on the line for you to listen to us."
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What’s the downside ?
She said the next hunger strike will be “a lot bigger” than the 15-day one organized in December.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_strike
Cuban dissidents
See also: Human rights in Cuba and Censorship in Cuba
On April 3, 1972, Pedro Luis Boitel, an imprisoned poet and dissident, declared himself on hunger strike. After 53 days on hunger strike, receiving only liquids, he died of starvation on May 25, 1972. His last days were related by his close friend, poet Armando Valladares. He was buried in an unmarked grave in the Cólon Cemetery in Havana.
Guillermo Fariñas did a seven-month hunger strike to protest against the extensive Internet censorship in Cuba. He ended it in Autumn 2006, with severe health problems although still conscious.[23] Reporters Without Borders awarded its cyber-freedom prize to Guillermo Fariñas in 2006.[24]
Jorge Luis García Pérez (known as Antúnez) has done hunger strikes. In 2009, following the end of his 17-year imprisonment, Antúnez, his wife Iris, and Diosiris Santana Pérez started a hunger strike to support other political prisoners. Leaders from Uruguay, Costa Rica, and Argentina declared their support for Antúnez.[25][26]
On February 23, 2010, Orlando Zapata, a dissident arrested in 2003 as part of a crackdown on opposition groups, died in a hospital while undertaking a hunger strike that had been ongoing for 85 days. His hunger strike was a protest against poor prison conditions. Amnesty International had declared him a prisoner of conscience.[27]
Legal situation
And in that 15 days the doctor found no brain activity among any of them.
I never imagined the phrase "Where my free s*$t?" could be dressed up in so many different English prose expressions. :)
Good. Bunch of cry babies.
Took the words out of my mouth, LOL!
let them enjoy the diet. These spoiled brats won’t skip more than a meal or two.... but if any brave it and actually die (LOLOL) - one less slug to run up a student loan debt they don’t plan to repay.
Hunger strike, good. That will help inflation.
Let all the commies kill themselves. Lots like the Moslems. Gotta like that about them.
The same ilk want to put chips in people to show vaccinations. Too bad they don’t use their effort to show citizenship for voting
OK. Whatever.
Show your ID to buy cigarettes, buy a gun, show your vaccination card…..but don’t you dare ask someone to show their ID to vote!
STUPID! They think we actually care if they do. Go ahead and DO IT!
They could lose some weight. Nobody willing to jim jones it?
good. a new years cleanse it is.
Can someone help me understand the downside here?
and more food on the shelves for others
Life’s hard sometimes...cupcake.
Yup.
With you on that one.
I despise coercion.
Sounds good to me. Most liberal student democrat-social-communist women screaming shrews (er, activists) need to lose a couple of dozen pounds anyway.
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