hunger strike

Archive, CultureDecember 12, 2013

Fight to the ‘Death’ and Go ‘Hungry’ at Hunger Games Camp

By Jodi Eichler-Levine

Inmates at Guantanamo Bay are hunger striking in an attempt to make their suffering visible while children at a camp in Florida are using the fantasy of hunger as entertainment.

Politics/LawDecember 5, 2010

Misusing Cesar Chavez in Immigration Debate

By Luis Leon

Last week Harry Reid announced plans to use the brief lame duck congressional session to bring controversial Senate Bill 3963, known as the DREAM Act, to a vote of cloture. The DREAM Act would provide citizenship for an estimated two million undocumented residents who enroll in college or enlist…

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- 14 hours ago

"Authoritarians and fascists don’t have a majority in the U.S., but with the Big Lie, conservatives have found a myth, a stab-in-the-back-myth, which serves directly as a tool of demonization and mobilization," writes @ardenthistorian: https://t.co/jy3zkvX2vb

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- 1 day ago

"In order for the center-left to attract the soft right to join its movement, discussion about the Occupation must be muted, or excluded,"writes Shaul Magid. "In a sense, the Occupation is essentially sacrificed for the larger cause of Jewish democracy." https://t.co/KcYJGvgq2s

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- 2 days ago

Watch the full CNN segment here to see @C_Stroop explain the intent behind the "inclusive" sounding ad campaign in the long run: https://t.co/2uV3pMNMmV

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