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Arizona college students threaten hunger strike if voting bill isn't passed by Jan. 17
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Posted on 01/11/2022 3:18:50 PM PST by matt04

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To: matt04

What’s the downside ?


21 posted on 01/11/2022 3:28:01 PM PST by redrhino47
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To: matt04

She said the next hunger strike will be “a lot bigger” than the 15-day one organized in December.


I don’t think they understand how to do it.

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


22 posted on 01/11/2022 3:28:24 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: matt04
"He took our vitals twice a day."

And in that 15 days the doctor found no brain activity among any of them.

23 posted on 01/11/2022 3:28:52 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: matt04
"I have seen the consequences of a broken democracy my entire life..."

I never imagined the phrase "Where my free s*$t?" could be dressed up in so many different English prose expressions. :)

24 posted on 01/11/2022 3:28:56 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: matt04

Good. Bunch of cry babies.


25 posted on 01/11/2022 3:29:36 PM PST by Trillian
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To: Luke21

Took the words out of my mouth, LOL!


26 posted on 01/11/2022 3:29:53 PM PST by DMD13
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To: matt04

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.


27 posted on 01/11/2022 3:30:27 PM PST by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: matt04

Hunger strike, good. That will help inflation.


28 posted on 01/11/2022 3:31:20 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: matt04

Let all the commies kill themselves. Lots like the Moslems. Gotta like that about them.


29 posted on 01/11/2022 3:31:39 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: matt04

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


30 posted on 01/11/2022 3:31:53 PM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: matt04

OK. Whatever.


31 posted on 01/11/2022 3:33:42 PM PST by MAGA2017
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To: matt04

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!


32 posted on 01/11/2022 3:33:55 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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To: matt04

STUPID! They think we actually care if they do. Go ahead and DO IT!


33 posted on 01/11/2022 3:34:14 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Luke21

They could lose some weight. Nobody willing to jim jones it?


34 posted on 01/11/2022 3:35:30 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: matt04

good. a new years cleanse it is.


35 posted on 01/11/2022 3:36:34 PM PST by ronniesgal (if more folks would mind their own business the world would be a better place.)
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To: matt04

Can someone help me understand the downside here?


36 posted on 01/11/2022 3:36:51 PM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: Fish Speaker
There’s a lot of obesity in the country. Maybe this will help with co-morbidity deaths from COVID-19.

and more food on the shelves for others

37 posted on 01/11/2022 3:37:54 PM PST by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: matt04

Life’s hard sometimes...cupcake.


38 posted on 01/11/2022 3:38:20 PM PST by Osage Orange (1961 VW Two Door Truck)
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To: Luke21

Yup.

With you on that one.

I despise coercion.


39 posted on 01/11/2022 3:38:56 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: matt04

Sounds good to me. Most liberal student democrat-social-communist women screaming shrews (er, activists) need to lose a couple of dozen pounds anyway.


40 posted on 01/11/2022 3:39:34 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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