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Yale's College Republicans hold BBQ near a hunger strike to increase protesters' anguish
mic.com ^ | 4/29/2017 | Jack Smith IV

Posted on 04/30/2017 11:25:54 AM PDT by Beave Meister

Most union-busting techniques are explicit, like legal challenges and anti-union campaigning. But when all else fails, go for the gut.

Yale University's local College Republicans chapter held a barbecue on Friday near the fasting site of campus union organizers participating in a hunger strike directed against the university. Bragging about the wafting, delicious smells on Facebook, it appears to have been a move to torment the fasting grad students, who have thus far gone days without food in a protest for their worker's rights struggle.

"It'll taste (and smell) delicious!" the event description said on Facebook.

The tactic drew comparisons to another recent barbecue halfway across the world, where an Israeli youth group held a barbecue outside a prison in which Palestinians were engaging in a hunger strike.

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KEYWORDS: barbecue; bbq; collegefun; collegerepublicans; facebook; hungerstrike; israel; liberals; palestinians; protesters; republicans; yale
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To: DaveA37
WHO DOESN'T LIKE BBQ?

People who don't eat meat.

If they are so liberal that they are vegans, it may have no effect on them.

Better cook bacon. Even if they don't eat it, the smell is intoxicating.

21 posted on 05/01/2017 7:15:06 AM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (If you choose not to deal with reality, reality will deal with you - and not on your terms)
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in a hunger strike directed against the university.

Hunger strikes are nothing more than childish exercises in self-congratulation.

22 posted on 05/08/2017 6:23:09 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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