They had organized three hunger strikes to protest their treatment.
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She went on hunger strikes to protest the imaginary surveillance.
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In the early 1900s, the Suffragettes waged hunger strikes in prison.
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Banks's song—enduring hunger strikes and, later, in the U.S., force-feeding.
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She has gone on hunger strikes several times before, including this month.
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"When we went on hunger strikes, the Israelis approached us," he said.
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Conditions in Japan's immigration detention system have sparked hunger strikes at other facilities.
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More demonstrations are planned this month, and some protesters are threatening hunger strikes.
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Some protesters began hunger strikes on Ulaanbaatar's central Sukhbaatar Square on Jan. 10.
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Held at Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, Zakka staged at least six hunger strikes.
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When hunger strikes, dine at Cero Bodega, the Cal-Mex restaurant on-site.
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When hunger strikes, don't miss the housemade bread ($264) and roast chicken ($2130).
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The inmates will take part in work strikes, hunger strikes, and sit-ins.
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And when hunger strikes unexpectedly, a grab-and-go snack is never too far.
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Thousands of them organized marches, sit-ins, hunger strikes and visits to Capitol Hill.
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Due to his weeks-long hunger strikes, Gregory shrunk down to a skinny 210 lbs.
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In 2014, her lawyer, Khaidem Mani, challenged it, citing the country's history of hunger strikes.
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Meshaal admitted his biggest problem with the prisoners right now is coordinating their hunger strikes.
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He is said to be in poor health, and has gone on several hunger strikes.
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Gregory, who often resorted to hunger strikes, died of heart failure in a Washington hospital.
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An Iranian journalist, Reza Dehaki, a supporter of his country's hunger strikes, noted that incongruity.
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There they have festered, grown ill, staged hunger strikes, attempted suicide; a handful have died.
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His responsibility included the 2013 hunger strikes and the prisoner exchange for U.S. Army Sgt.
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Some who were arrested went on hunger strikes, prompting force-feedings that shocked the nation.
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Hunger strikes have been one way for imprisoned Iranians without other recourse to pressure authorities.
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The Associated Press reported the hunger strikes and use of force feeding earlier this week.
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His opponents have held protests and hunger strikes in an effort to force him to resign.
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He was among a number of detainees who launched hunger strikes in protest of their detention.
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He was among a number of detainees who launched hunger strikes in protest of their detention.
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Indeed, there has reportedly been a major upsurge in hunger strikes over the past several months.
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The force-feeding of detainees on hunger strikes there has been the subject of recurring dispute.
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Since then, though, ICE has continued to force-feed others on hunger strikes at various locations.
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Some who were arrested went on hunger strikes, prompting brutal force-feedings that shocked the nation.
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The Israeli prison service said that hunger strikes were illegal and that participants would be disciplined.
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The ACLU said in its filing that in recent weeks there have been a new series of hunger strikes at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers in Georgia, Oregon and Washington, adding hunger strikes have previously hit detention centers in Arizona, Florida, Louisiana and Texas.
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Hong Kongers considered it to be part of their heritage and staged protests, vigils and hunger strikes.
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Bananas are my favorite fruit to pack in my backpack for when hunger strikes in the library.
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The movement gave rise to more radical suffragettes, whose tactics included hunger strikes, arson and bomb attacks.
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The rationales ranged from hunger strikes and disciplinary measures to consensual kissing and having a physical disability.
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Congress politicians often put Gandhi's picture on their banners, especially when they hold Gandhi-like hunger strikes.
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There are hunger strikes and car bombs and safe houses and men in balaclavas and Halloween masks.
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That group includes about five men who have gone on hunger strikes to protest, detainee lawyers say.
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He had read about how Okinawans used hunger strikes as a protest tactic while under US rule.
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Many asylum seekers suffer from depression, some have sewn their lips and gone on hunger strikes in protest.
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The idea that Gandhi goes non-violent, he respects, but fasting and hunger strikes are never the way.
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The hunger strikes and forced feedings at Guantanamo left him with health problems, and he walks using crutches.
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Ms Savchenko is not bluffing: she has been on several hunger strikes, including one that lasted 82 days.
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After six weeks of off-and-on hunger strikes and questioning in Syria, Khaled and Issawi were released.
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The movement gave rise to the more radical suffragettes, whose tactics included hunger strikes, arson and bomb attacks.
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There have also been hunger strikes, which mostly came about among inmates who don't have jobs in prison.
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The sex strike came after years of more traditional attempts, like hunger strikes, failed to persuade the government.
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The number of detainees who engaged in hunger strikes and those who were force-fed continued to increase.
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The pope requested his release on humanitarian grounds — he had been on several hunger strikes — and on Nov.
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Dozens of Hindu women organized hunger strikes and threatened to set themselves on fire if the case proceeded.
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Ocalan also said supporters holding hunger strikes to protest against his isolation should not risk their health or lives.
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Three years and several hunger strikes later, the 182 Moroccans were granted the right to stay in the Netherlands.
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A former college athletics star, he became grotesquely fat, until he adopted hunger strikes as a weapon of protest.
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The suit also said that some inmates who have previously launched hunger strikes were met with extraordinarily punitive responses.
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ICE obtained a court order last month to begin the force-feeding and hydration of those on hunger strikes.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities are reportedly force-feeding six immigrant detainees who have gone on hunger strikes.
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Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi, a Tehran prosecutor, recently acknowledged that these hunger strikes are a serious threat to the regime.
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They say their acts of civil disobedience — protests and hunger strikes — have provoked tensions with Berks and immigration officials.
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They defied the law, went on hunger strikes, broke windows and set off bombs in pursuit of their goal.
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These men are not the only ones waging hunger strikes in immigrant jails and prisons in the United States.
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When they were arrested on charges such as obstructing traffic, they staged hunger-strikes from inside their jail cells.
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Their ordeals have galvanized supporters to highlight the hunger strikes on messaging platforms, using hashtags like #savearash and #sosali.
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Some hard-liners say the hunger strikes have been organized with Mr. Rouhani's tacit support to embarrass the judiciary.
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Shock value has long been critical to the most urgent political speech – hunger strikes and flag burning fit this category.
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In that time it pioneered the use of shock tactics such as hunger strikes, borrowed from Russia and emulated elsewhere.
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The increasing population of Iranian political prisoners, together with their worsening treatment, has touched off a wave of hunger strikes.
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Another four detainees are on hunger strikes in the agency's Miami, Phoenix, San Diego and San Francisco areas of responsibility.
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The concerns have led to hunger strikes in immigrant detention centers and demands for more protection from prison employee unions.
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Her hunger strikes and demonstrations made her one of the most influential women in the history of the Arab world.
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That's in addition to three hunger strikes currently ongoing by ICE detainees in New York and New Jersey detention centers.
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"Stewart has probably been hit with the largest number of hunger strikes of any of these facilities," Cho told me.
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She then went on numerous hunger strikes to demand women's voting rights and to protest then-president Gamal Abdel Nasser's dictatorship.
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Others point out that the government has previously used laws against attempted suicide to lock up activists who stage hunger strikes.
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San Francisco police chief He's withstood protests and hunger strikes -- but the fatal police shooting of a woman proved too much.
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Antinuclear villagers went on hunger strikes, accusing Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power executives of bribing older villagers with watermelons and other gifts.
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Some inmates have protested the harsh conditions by going on prolonged hunger strikes, and prison officials have responded with force-feeding.
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Prisoners will conduct work stoppages, hunger strikes, and spending boycotts in the hopes that their list of 10 demands is met.
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Brew your coffee at home, bring a lunch, throw some snacks in your bag for when you're out and hunger strikes.
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Doria Shafik's hunger strikes and demonstrations made her one of the most influential women in the history of the Arab world.
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So when prisoners go on hunger strikes or work strikes, or engage in deadly riots, the public rarely understands exactly why.
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Mr. Hallam also recommends hunger strikes, like the one he undertook to push his university to divest from fossil fuel companies.
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She had also experienced weeks of solitary confinement and gone on hunger strikes, one of which resulted in a heart attack.
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No "detainees at the Stewart facility have been placed in restrictive housing in retaliation for hunger strikes," Owen said in an email.
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Citizens also have organized groups on VKontakte, a Russian social media platform, to coordinate petitions, block roads and even mount hunger strikes.
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Manning's plea comes after a harrowing year fighting for access to health care with hunger strikes, and two suicide attempts behind bars.
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I remember the hunger strikes," but, she said, growing up in the South, "you didn't have the British army on the streets.
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Harbury began a series of hunger strikes, sleeping on the pavement in front of Guatemala's Presidential palace for thirty-two days, demanding answers.
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There was an enormous outcry against the forced placement of temporary feeding tubes in the noses of prisoners on hunger strikes in Guantánamo.
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And, thanks to the hunger strikes and a grass-roots protest campaign, the public spotlight is now falling on the Northwest Detention Center.
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Prisoners have gone on more than a dozen hunger strikes in order to protest what they say are brutal living conditions, CNN reported.
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Throughout March, hunger strikes and protests had swept through multiple ICE detention centers as detainees push to be released and demand better conditions.
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Keep a healthy snack on hand Fast food or something from a vending machine may call your name when hunger strikes on the go.
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NEARLY two years of imprisonment, intermittent hunger strikes and a Russian show trial did little to dull the edge of Ukrainian pilot Nadia Savchenko.
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She made her name during decades of civil rights battles, protracted hunger strikes, headline-grabbing arrests and loud parliamentary debates in Rome and Brussels.
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Some experts point to Northern Ireland, where internment during the Troubles turned civilians against the state and hunger strikes created heroes out of inmates.
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They detail a devastating catalog of self-harm attempts, violent altercations, hunger strikes and incidents of sexual assault and child abuse, according to the newspaper.
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Eventually, in 2008, in response to hunger strikes by mothers of stolen babies and pressure from the UN and receiving countries, Guatemala stopped foreign adoptions.
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Despite the exclusion, Florida farmhands begun organizing in 1993 and went on month-long hunger strikes to demand higher wages, according to the CIW website.
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Thanks to ramped-up staffing following past hunger strikes, guards now often live in flimsy aluminum sheds, according to Kadidal, who's stayed in them himself.
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In other states, inmates have turned to protests like work and hunger strikes to call attention to the conditions they are forced to live in.
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"The government, by giving out such charters, is adding fuel to the fire of the hunger strikes," said Hamidreza Taraghi, a hard-line political analyst.
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Protests - including two hunger strikes by mothers of detained activists - have started up again in recent days, leading to clashes with Ortega supporters and arrests.
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Inside these detention centers, there have been allegations of sexual misconduct by guards, forcible separation of children from mothers, suicide attempts, and stifled hunger strikes.
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In Washington DC, they and their followers picketed the White House, provoking arrest and enduring hunger strikes and force feeding at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia.
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Other weapons of organized civil disobedience, he said, include boycotts, mock funerals, hunger strikes and what he called "dilemma protests," which hornswoggle governments into counterproductive responses.
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Medical professionals at Physicians for Human Rights have expressed concern with ICE's ability to appropriately monitor and treat medical complications that arise during prolonged hunger strikes.
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Hundreds of immigrants at federal detention centers across the country have gone on hunger strikes in recent years, calling for improved conditions or to be released.
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The activists' families said they were bringing water and medicine to the mothers waging hunger strikes to demand the release of more than 150 political prisoners.
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Shahshahani, who has been involved with efforts to close the Lumpkin facility for years, says that the facility also saw hunger strikes in both 2014 and 2015.
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But he has expressed unhappiness about being in Uruguay and has gone on hunger strikes demanding he be allowed to leave and meet with his family abroad.
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Wide-ranging and varied circumstances of hunger strikes, including the age and physical health of the individual before they begin their fast, makes comparisons between protests difficult.
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It also saw the launch of a coordinated series of nationwide work stoppages and hunger strikes by incarcerated Americans, perhaps the largest of its kind in history.
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Mothers of political prisoners launched two hunger strikes, which were met with arrests of activists and clashes by government supporters in the cathedral in the capital, Managua.
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Even some more moderate allies in the opposition coalition are skeptical of Popular Will, viewing its confrontational street tactics - from hunger-strikes to marches - as too hotheaded.
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The humiliation of the entire prison population in March may have been triggered by a series of hunger strikes among prisoners, who are held for months or years.
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Some will stop work, others will start hunger strikes, all in the name of rallying against the injustices of prison labor, which strike organizers compare to modern slavery.
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After weeks of silence on the current hunger strikes, the United Nations has finally issued a statement calling on the Islamic Republic to address the plight of prisoners.
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The hunger strikes are not isolated to Texas, either: At least four more detainees, in Miami, Phoenix, San Diego, and San Francisco, are refusing food, according to ICE.
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Soon after that, Mr. Kassem went on the first of several hunger strikes, refusing solid food for months on end to protest what he called his unjust imprisonment.
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Taheri has gone on several hunger strikes in protest at his detention, lack of access to his family and lawyer, and repeated death threats against him and his family.
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Protesters will refuse to report to assigned jobs, engage in sit-ins and begin hunger strikes, according to a press release tweeted out by a group supporting the strike.
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Under the influence of antiwar leaders, students staged rallies, marches, school boycotts and hunger strikes to protest the war, American intervention and various policies of the South Vietnamese government.
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Despite all his incredible work — and it was selfless, the miles traveled and the hunger strikes — he failed in saving any of the forest and he ended up dead.
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Many court rulings and congressional hearings later, migrants are still forced to live in inhumane conditions in under-regulated detention centers, leading some to even go on hunger strikes.
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In 2004, after men began refusing food to protest their detention, she was asked to devise a protocol for evaluating the mental health of those on prolonged hunger strikes.
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Some went on hunger strikes and force-fed through feeding tubes while imprisoned — all for the equality they had yet to achieve and the progress they sought to protect.
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The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star says it's not always easy to choose the perfect snack, but she's developed an arsenal of her go-to picks when hunger strikes.
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On our part, we had practiced many forms of protests, including token hunger strikes, shutter down strikes, public demonstrations, rallies, and long marches demanding immediate stoppage of human rights abuse.
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Activists around the world signed up to carry out hunger strikes in countries ranging from the Democratic Republic of Congo to New Zealand, Pakistan and Turkey, Extinction Rebellion organisers said.
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ICE detainees at the Hudson County jail and two other facilities in New Jersey launched hunger strikes this week protesting their continued confinement amid the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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They protested, went on hunger strikes, chained themselves to the gates of the outlawed National Congress and marched relentlessly with photographs of their missing loved ones pinned to their chests.
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The essay notes that the board stopped short, however, of calling for an end to clinician involvement in force-feeding or tending to prisoners on hunger strikes or participation in interrogations.
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She helped found the Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared (AFDD) and led hunger strikes, protests and sit-ins that were often violently broken up by the regime's security forces.
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The comedian also protested the Vietnam War, took part in hunger strikes and ran for U.S. president in 1968 as a write-in candidate for the obscure Peace and Freedom Party.
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We occupied houses since there was a shortage of flats to rent in Finland…I joined hunger strikes against government plans to cut subsidies for young and long-term unemployed people.
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Front Line Defenders said he has been held in solitary confinement and has staged hunger strikes in protest against his treatment and the conditions at the prison where he is held.
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Although his early writing reveals his racism towards black people, Gandhi's views evolved to focus more on peace, and his activism, including hunger strikes, eventually led to India's independence in 1947.
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"A hunger strike is very dangerous," said Sergei I. Grigoryants, who served two terms in prison as a dissident in the 1970s and 1980s and was force-fed during hunger strikes.
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He also raised concerns about the costs of moving detainees to the U.S. While commander there, he also placed more limits on media access to Guantanamo and restricted information about hunger strikes.
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He also later went on dozens of hunger strikes to protest various causes, including the Vietnam War, the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment, apartheid in South Africa and Native American rights.
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Meshaal told me he understood that the Irish Republican Army made a success out of hunger strikes by putting prisoners on fast sequentially, so one died, then another, then another, then another.
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The next several decades would see a surge in women's suffrage activism, including marches, lobbying, and more militant methods such as breaking windows of buildings during marches, and going on hunger strikes.
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Over the last year, we and our partner groups have documented hunger strikes in ICE prisons in New Mexico, Louisiana and Texas, the majority of which have been waged by asylum-seekers.
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Amid hardening resistance in Congress to immigration reform, Dreamers brought pressure on Obama — including sit-ins and hunger strikes at his 2012 campaign offices — to use his executive power to create DACA.
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It turned basic rights that should be guaranteed under international law — including some painfully secured through previous hunger strikes — into privileges its prison service decides to grant us or deprive us of.
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The report cites a 2017 Los Angeles Times story, which described at least four suicide attempts at the facility and notes that detainees had gone on hunger strikes to protest conditions there.
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Cho and others spoke with detainees at Stewart who accused staff of using lockdowns and solitary confinement as punishment for hunger strikes that have been ongoing since last year at the facility.
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Related: A Palestinian Journalist is Close to Death, 92 Days Into One of World's Longest Hunger Strikes This is not the first time that a Waze user has been led into danger.
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TUNIS (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee agency said on Friday it was gravely concerned about a deterioration in conditions for migrants held in Libyan detention centers that had led to riots and hunger strikes.
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Palestinians also have a history of hunger strikes as a form of political protest, with the first mass fast in an Israeli jail reportedly being carried out in a Nablus jail in 1968.
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Hunger strikes as a tool of nonviolent political activism are common in India, employed most famously by Mohandas K. Gandhi, who regularly fasted as a means of protest during India's struggle for independence.
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In the early 2000s, CIW staged farmworker boycotts and hunger strikes to pressure Taco Bell into improving wages and working conditions for the farmers that grew tomatos and other produce for the chain.
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By 1967, Hue was a center of urban opposition to successive South Vietnamese administrations, the graceful, tranquil city shaken by demonstrations, self-immolations, hunger strikes and other expressions of struggle against the government.
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While some members of Iran's Parliament have said on their social media accounts that they are investigating the reports, other officials have dismissed the hunger strikes as plots organized by foreign opposition groups.
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Set in rural County Armagh in 1981, the play unfolds against the backdrop of the Troubles, specifically the year-long Irish prison hunger strikes that ultimately claimed the lives of 10 IRA members.
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The detainment logs obtained by The Verge do not specifically address the April incidents but show that, shortly thereafter, detainees at the facility launched a previously unreported series of hunger strikes that spanned months.
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Hunger strikes have broken out in three ICE detention centers in New Jersey as detainees protest what they describe as deteriorating conditions and a failure to adequately address the potential spread of COVID-19.
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New York public defenders said in a statement that they are "deeply concerned" for their clients in ICE custody and noted that detainees in several facilities have been conducting hunger strikes to protest conditions.
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Through referendums, acts of civil disobedience, hunger strikes and campaigns, the party has swayed public opinion in this overwhelmingly Catholic country on several sensitive issues, among them divorce, abortion, conscientious objection and family law.
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Since her arrest in August 2014, she has experienced regular beatings and interrogations, spent two weeks in solitary confinement, and gone on prolonged hunger strikes — one of which resulted in a heart attack last February.
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Incarcerated workers affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World's Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee have used hunger strikes for years as they fight for better living conditions within the maw of the prison-industrial complex.
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Despite being diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2010 and coming out as a transgender woman in 2013, Manning has had to take extreme measures—lawsuits, hunger strikes—in order to have her medical needs recognized.
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Two opposition activists being held in custody, including an ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and a man accused of mass civil unrest, declared hunger strikes on Friday, opposition activists said on social media.
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Amrit Singh, who said his two nephews from Punjab, India, are seeking asylum and are on hunger strikes, told the AP that the men are "really weak" and have been hospitalized a number of times.
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It has been the target of more than a dozen hunger strikes in recent years, each involving from a dozen to hundreds of detainees, over complaints of inadequate food and medical care, among other issues.
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The students' impassioned idealism, hunger strikes, rebukes of officials and grandiose gestures like building a "Goddess of Democracy" on the square drew an outpouring of public sympathy and left leaders divided on how to respond.
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Columbia's expansion into west Harlem — the university prefers "Manhattanville" — marks the university's largest growth since moving to Morningside Heights in the late 19th century, and has occasioned angry op-eds, lawsuits and even hunger strikes.
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"That means mobilizations, marches, concentrations, downing of tools, sit-downs, hunger-strikes, refusal to pay taxes," Guevara told Reuters at a cafe even as El Aissami denounced him as a "terrorist" on TV screens nearby.
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She built a vast grass-roots base, held hunger strikes and sit-ins that were attacked by the police and jumped back into street protests soon after communist workers bashed her head with metal rods.
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For example, thousands of people held in Pelican Bay and other prisons in California participated in a series of hunger strikes in 2011 and 2013, protesting their treatment, including the application of indefinite solitary confinement.
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Whether in Northern Ireland, South Africa, or the United States, prison hunger strikes use the most elemental weapon available to prisoners — control over their own bodies — to interrupt business as usual in the carceral system.
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Nearby Inuit and Innu communities have staged massive opposition—including hunger strikes, blockades, and marches—in a push to clear the area of soil and vegetation prior to flooding, and independent monitoring with full indigenous participation.
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Currently living in Athens' City Plaza squat, an abandoned hotel occupied by anarchists and refugees, they have been involved in hunger strikes and protests over the conditions they found themselves in at the country's notorious camps.
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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.
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Speaking to Reuters by Skype video from Houston, Quynh described her two years in prison, where she said she was isolated from other prisoners to keep her from influencing them, including the previously unreported hunger strikes.
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The Sámi hunger strikes of 278 and 73 were dramatic events during the People's Action against the Áltá-Guovdageaidnu Waterway (27-20551), in opposition to the construction of a dam across the Áltá river in northern Norway.
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Today, strikers have escalated their actions to an "all-out strike" including hunger strikes, work strikes, occupations, and a refusal to cooperate with the mechanisms of detention from the inside, as well as releasing statements and interviews.
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This helps to explain why so many prisoners are joining hunger strikes and work stoppages, demanding better living conditions and an end to exploitative forced labor that does nothing to prepare them for their return to society.
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Wood says it's a "privilege and not a sacrifice" to take action that honors the work done by Cesar Chavez, a labor leader and activist who participated in multiple hunger strikes to bring attention to mistreated farm workers.
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A formal lifting the ban on access by Ocalan's lawyers, just a month ahead of a re-run election in Istanbul, could lead to some of his supporters halting hunger strikes that they launched to protest his isolation.
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The information making the trans-Atlantic jump to the U.S. is sporadic, which prevents many in the States from understanding the severity of an increasingly worrisome situation, complete with politically-driven arrests, detentions, exile, censorship and hunger strikes.
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Thanks to Seamless, GrubHub, the good old Yellow Pages, and America's army of delivery men (and women) who brave rain, sleet and snow day or night, food is no further than a phone call away when hunger strikes.
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In Newfoundland and Labrador on Canada's East coast, indigenous protesters have been staging hunger strikes and sit-ins against the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project, which promises "clean, renewable energy" and yet threatens to contaminate water with toxic methylmercury.
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The Israeli authorities have been grappling with how to deal with Palestinians who use hunger strikes to protest their detention, and lawmakers passed a bill on July 30 that allows for the force-feeding of prisoners in extreme circumstances.
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The process involves supplying nutrients through a plastic feeding tube passed through the nose or mouth into the stomach, and has been used by the U.S. military in response to hunger strikes by detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison.
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The accusations mark a fall from grace for Savchenko, whose steely defiance while on trial in Russia, including hunger strikes and showing a judge the middle finger live on TV, earned her the nickname of Ukraine's "Joan of Arc".
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"In some instances in the past, attempts to provide detainees who claimed that they were on hunger strike with a measure of dignity through voluntary enteral feedings unintentionally created a situation that potentially encouraged future hunger strikes," he said.
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It would all be perfectly jolly, except for our niggling awareness of the shadows cast, by that opening scene with Mr. Malloy and by news of the fatal hunger strikes of Irish Republican Army prisoners in the Maze prison.
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"Comrades who have committed themselves to hunger strikes and death fasts, I expect you to end your protest," Ocalan said in a statement read out by one of his lawyers at a news conference in Istanbul on Sunday morning.
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In Calais, Maya Konforti, secretary of the Association l'Auberge des Migrants, believes Iranian asylum seekers resort to extreme measures like sewing their lips together, hunger strikes, or crossing the Channel in small boats, because of their middle class background.
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Over the last ten years, Aramark's rotten food and low calorie counts sparked enough riots, hunger strikes, violence and protests that a growing number of voices in and around the prison industry are essentially labeling its recipe books a security threat.
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About 65 million people were displaced in India by dams, highways, mines, power plants and airports between 1950 and 2005, the IDMC said, but less than a fifth of those have been resettled, leading to protests, hunger strikes and conflict.
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As hunger strikes and tempers boil, the episode turns into an epic food fight—one in which the closest we ever get to seeing Norm's wife Vera is ruined when she is hit in the face with a pumpkin pie.
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Among the overtures the AKP has made to Kurds in recent weeks was lifting a years-long ban on lawyers visiting jailed Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan, a move that prompted several Kurdish lawmakers and thousands of prison inmates to end hunger strikes.
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Local media said the protesters had rushed to the office of ARY shortly after the MQM leader Altaf Hussain, who lives in exile in London, had criticized Pakistan's media in a telephone address for failing to report on his workers' hunger strikes.
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The Tacoma facility, which holds nearly 1,500 detainees, has been the scene of more than a dozen hunger strikes in recent years -- each involving from a dozen to hundreds of detainees, over complaints of inadequate food and medical care, among other issues.
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The ideas that bodies and minds at Gitmo were intertwined or that, as former Gitmo detainee Mundah Habib stated, that hunger strikes could serve as a way to "send a message to the public outside to know what's going on," weren't on my radar.
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The measure was backed by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan who claimed that hunger strikes were tantamount to a "suicide attack", but so far doctors have refused to carry out the procedure which was branded "humiliating" and "bordering on torture" by the Israel Medical Association.
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Both the Organization of American States and the United Nations raised alarms this week about human rights in Central America's largest country, as protests, including two hunger strikes by mothers of detained activists, have recently ramped up and led to clashes with Ortega's government.
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As detailed in the report, the conditions in these detention facilities are deplorable and include: threats of force-feeding for participation in hunger strikes, sexual abuse, lack of clean drinking water, lack of adequate access to legal materials or attorneys, and labor for just $22019 per day.
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"These documents confirm what we've been hearing in terms of immediate and really brutal crackdowns by using solitary as a means of deterring the hunger strikes and almost as a punishment," Azadeh Shahshahani, an attorney with the Atlanta-based social justice group Project South, said of the Lumpkin facility.
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But Representative Michelle Lujan Grisham, Democrat of New Mexico and the chairwoman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said she refused to accept that lawmakers would choose to go home for the holidays while young undocumented immigrants were holding hunger strikes and being arrested at protests to keep families together.
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The gaunt Green, who has been waging hunger strikes behind bars, sat and listened as a woman — kidnapped from Uganda by Green in the 1990s as a child and subjected to physical and sexual torture for more than a decade — spoke about the lifelong toll the abuse took on her.
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The nonviolent protest of fasting has its roots in pre-Christian Ireland—there are legends of St. Patrick using hunger strikes—as well as ancient India, with reports documented between 400 to 750 BC. It's a form of protest that takes in the suffragettes, Irish Republicans, Gandhi, and Cuban dissidents.
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Similar hunger strikes occurred at male facilities across the US. When it comes to a range of issues that affect incarcerated women, including sexual abuse, access to reproductive health care, and the shackling of pregnant women, there is scant data on whether conditions are actually worse in privately run facilities.
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At ICE's Geo-run facility in Tacoma — where Díaz and most of Pacific County's other arrestees also ended up — there have been hunger strikes to protest the conditions, and at least one lawsuit is pending over underpayment: Detainees working the usual array of prison-style jobs earn $1 a day.
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DACA activists from Fight for Our Dream-- many of whom are undocumented themselves -- amped up their message of civil disobedience and hunger strikes demanding that Congress passes a clean DREAM Act, which would ensure a pathway to citizenship for undocumented youth with no strings attached like harmful enforcement amendments or border funding.
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Their demands: Jailhouse Lawyers Speak says the inmates have planned work stoppages, sit-ins, and hunger strikes, and demand: Higher wages and job rights on release Restoration of voting rights for felony convicts A better channel to hear grievances Abolishment of the death penalty "They're pretty mild and reformist demands," Peril said.
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When President Obama took office in 2009, he put in place an executive order designed to prevent the abuses that took place during the Bush administration, which used waterboarding, extended sleep deprivation, standing in painful "stress positions" on broken feet or legs, and the forced "rectal feeding" of detainees carrying out hunger strikes over their conditions.
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When President Obama took office in 2009, he put in place an executive order designed to prevent the abuses that took place during the Bush administration, which included beatings, waterboarding, extended sleep deprivation, standing in painful "stress positions" on broken feet or legs, and the forced "rectal feeding" of detainees carrying out hunger strikes over their conditions.
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When President Barack Obama took office in 2009, he put in place an executive order designed to prevent the abuses that took place during the Bush administration, which used waterboarding, extended sleep deprivation, standing in painful "stress positions" on broken feet or legs, and the forced "rectal feeding" of detainees carrying out hunger strikes over their conditions.
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But while someone like Emmeline Pankhurst, the activist and founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, was known for her militant tactics like arson, smashing windows, and hunger strikes, she and her fellow sisters-in-arms presented themselves with immaculate consideration: conforming to the conventional Edwardian ideals of the era in long skirts, frilled blouses, tailored coats, and feathered hats.
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Jumbo cooked shrimp (2116) = 21175 calories, 1752g protein, 1.5g fat, 0g fiber, 0g sugarCocktail sauce (2 tablespoons) = 40 calories, 0.5g protein, 1463g fat, 0.5g fiber, 8g sugarTotal: 140 calories, 19.5g protein, 1.5g fat, 0.5g fiber, 8g sugar Edamame A simple, fun-to-eat snack that is rich in soy protein, edamame can be bought frozen and quickly defrosted whenever hunger strikes.
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"You cannot change this situation through a grievance process that doesn't work... or through courts that are clearly against you... or through petitions to lawmakers who don't care about you because you don't vote... or through hunger strikes against prison officials who want you to starve... or through letters to newspapers who have ignored this situation for decades," the group's site says.
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Hunger strikes are being undertaken by the mothers of several prisoners; solidarity tents have sprung up throughout cities as hubs of information, organizing, and mutual aid; boycotts, strikes, rallies, and marches are happening constantly, intensifying on "days of rage" that have seen clashes with settlers and the IDF (during which 20-year old Saba Nidal Obaid was killed by soldiers last week).
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"Everything Moath has done for the 17 years that he has languished without charge at Guantanamo - from this petition, to his earlier hunger strikes, to the virtuosic art he has produced in the face of government censorship - has been with the single aim of reaffirming his dignity in the face of injustice," said his lawyer, Ramzi Kassem, a law professor at the City University of New York.
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In my two and a half years researching the books, ideas, plot lines, literary themes, and syllables the U.S. government fed the brains of detainees and called "intellectual stimulation," I barely probed what it fed their bodies or the long history of hunger strikes that has plagued the facility; instead, I bemoaned that I couldn't speak to detainees directly, to discuss, for example, their language proficiencies, their literacy levels, if they could speak to others in their same cell block.
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Two photographers document the lives of incarcerated men at Angola, a former slave plantation that is now the largest maximum-security prison farm in the US. Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — On August 21, 2018, a series of work stoppages, hunger strikes, and boycotts began to take place in prisons across the US. Among the 53 demands of the national prison strike were improvements to living conditions, an end to prison slavery, and the restoration of voting rights to prisoners and formerly incarcerated people.
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