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	Hunger strike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt or to achieve a goal such as a policy change.
		Ganji was on a hunger strike between May 19, 2005 [2] and early August, 2005, except for a 12-day period of leave he was granted on May 30, 2005 ahead of the ninth presidential elections on June 17, 2005.
		One of the hunger strikers, eighteen year old Omar Khadr, has told his lawyer that other triggers for the hunger strike include the detainees ongoing concerns that the guards are showing disrespect for their religion, including turning on loud fans, playing loud music, and whistling, to disrupt the detainees' prayer meetings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hunger_strike (2610 words)

	Strike action - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Such strikes may in some cases be a form of "partial strike" or "slowdown", which is "unprotected" in some circumstances under United States labor law, meaning that while the tactic itself is not unlawful, the employer may fire the employees who engage in it.
		Strikes that involve all workers, or a number of large and important groups of workers, in a particular community or region are known as general strikes.
		A sympathy strike is, in a way, a small scale version of a general strike in which one group of workers refuses to cross a picket line established by another as a means of supporting the striking workers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strike_action (2325 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Hunger strike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest or to achieve a goal such as a policy change.
		In India, the practice of dharna, a form of hunger strike, was abolished by the government in 1861; this indicates the prevalence of the practice prior to that date, or at least a public awareness of it.
		An IRA mural in Belfast depicting the hunger strikes of 1981.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hunger-strike (394 words)

	1981 Irish hunger strike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The deaths of Frank Stagg and Michael Gaughan on hunger strike in the 1970's are often remembered alongside those of 1981.
		A number of Loyalist prisoners also started their own hunger strike after a few weeks, but they were accused of opportunism, attempting to win concessions on the backs of republicans without risking death or serious damage to their health.
		The Hunger Strike heralded an upsurge of violence after the comparatively quiet years of the late 1970s, with widespread civil disorder in Northern Ireland and serious unrest in the Republic, including rioting outside the British Embassy in Dublin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1981_Irish_Hunger_Strike (2109 words)

	CAIN: Events: Hunger Strike 1981 - Summary
		It later became clear that the IRA leadership outside the prison was not in favour of a new hunger strike following the outcome of the 1980 strike.
		The strike was to last until 3 October 1981 and was to see 10 Republican prisoners starve themselves to death in support of their demands.
		The hunger strike of 1981 had very important and far-reaching consequences for Northern Ireland and proved to be one of the key turning points of 'the Troubles'.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /events/hstrike/summary.htm (617 words)

	The 1981 Irish Hunger Strike
		Hunger striking as means of obtaining social or economic redress or as a method of political confrontation has a plotted, yet discernible, history in Ireland.
		For instance, a story might contain details of a hunger striker’s health, a mention of the demand for political status, an account of a march or demonstration in support of the hunger strike, and an account of violence or law enforcement which was related to the hunger strike.
		In this work I have suggested that the hunger strike was an effort on the part of Republican prisoners to establish the legitimacy of their use of violence for the achievement of political goals.
	www.ict.org.il /articles/1981_ira_hungerstrike.htm (12125 words)

	Hunger Strike
		Before the hunger strike was over, ten men died on the doorstep of the British government in one of the most turbulent periods in the tragic history of Anglo-Irish relations.
		The slow burn of a hunger strike can have enormously greater impact than self-immolation because the time allowed to draw a crowd is increased from a short few minutes during which the body is burning to literally weeks during which the hunger strike unfolds.
		Since a hunger striker will die without food in a little over two months, a hunger strike not only raises the volume of the crying much higher than ever before but it also puts a time factor into the equation that was not there before.
	www.christiangallery.com /hungerstrike.html (9282 words)

	HUNGER STRIKE COMMEMORATION
		It is also the intention of the committee through this website and other channels to promote the work being undertaken by the committee to commemorate the Hunger Strikes of 1980 and 1981.
		Although it has been 25 years since the the hunger strikes we feel that it is important to remember the hunger strikers and all that they lived and died for.
		During the 25th anniversary year we aim to hold a commemoration march in Glasgow and again would like to invite all republicans who wish to remember the hunger strikers, and the hunger strikers only, to join with us in remembering the hunger strikes.
	www.hungerstrikecommittee.org (278 words)

	HUNGER STRIKE COMMEMORATIVE WEB PROJECT
		The second hunger strike began on 1 March, the fifth anniversary of the ending of political status.
		Bobby Sands, the OC for his wing, was the first to refuse food in the second hunger strike, and he became the first one to die.
		True to their word, during the 1981 hunger strike the British never conceded the prisoners' demands, and as a result the end to the second hunger strike was even more disappointing than the end of the first.
	larkspirit.com /hungerstrikes/1981.html (2777 words)

	Hunger Strike 1981
		H-Block, the legacy of 1981 Hunger Strike CD This album was first produced in 1980 in suport of political prisoners' rights in Long Kesh and Armagh Women's Jail.
		It has been relaunched in order to commemorate the 10 men who died on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh in 1981 and the Legacy that flows from that struggle.
		Lists the names of the ten volunteers who died on hunger strike in Long Kesh in 1981 for the right to political status as prisoners of war.
	www.sinnfeinbookshop.com /en-us/dept_24.html (944 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Attorney Gao, I Cannot Eat When You Are on Hunger Strike
		Those who have never been on a hunger strike do not understand that the most painful part about a hunger strike is neither the hunger nor the nausea.
		Although a hunger strike is physically painful, it is one of the most peaceful ways to fight for the freedom of the soul.
		After I started a hunger protest in the prison at the age of 19, my ability to endure cold was drastically weakened, and I often shivered even during the daytime.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-2-6/37850.html (1647 words)

	CAIN: Events: Hunger Strike 1981 - Details of Source Material
		Graham, Paul M. The effects of the fatal hunger strike in the H-blocks, Long Kesh in 1981.
		Wilson, Andrew J. The use of the hunger strike as a Republican tactic 1969-1981.
		Hunger strike: H-Blocks, Long Kesh, Northern Ireland, Dungannon: A group of Lawyers and Priests for a humanitarian alternative, 1980.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /events/hstrike/source.htm (835 words)

	CNN.com - Hunger strike continues at Camp X-Ray - March 2, 2002
		The hunger strike, which has involved a varying number of detainees over the past few days, began as a protest over the treatment of one prisoner whose turban was taken.
		The hunger strike was provoked by an incident Tuesday in which guards ordered an inmate to remove a turban he had fashioned from a sheet in violation of a camp rule to prevent detainees from concealing contraband.
		Lehnert said Saturday other motivations for the hunger strike were media coverage and the detainees' situation.
	www.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/americas/03/02/detainees.hungerstrike/index.html (495 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Guantanamo hunger strike spreads
		Navy Cmdr Robert Durand said the new hunger strike was aimed at attracting media attention and may also be connected to a disturbance on 18 May.
		Cmdr Durand said the hunger strike was not a new tactic at the detention centre and that most returned to full normal diets after media attention had passed.
		"This new hunger strike is likely a co-ordinated, but short-term, effort designed to coincide with the military commission hearings scheduled for the next several weeks as defence attorneys and media normally travel to Guantanamo to observe this process," Cmdr Durand said in a statement.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/5027860.stm (469 words)

	Hunger Strike Force - Driving Away America's Hunger
		The Hunger Strike Force (HSF) is a national benevolent outreach of Operation Blessing, a humanitarian relief organization based in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
		The Hunger Strike Force's fleet of trucks picks up donated items from growers, food processing companies and manufacturers, in turn delivering these resources to both disadvantaged families and disaster victims.
		The Hunger Strike Force has its own fleet of refrigerated tractor-trailer trucks that are utilized in picking up product directly from donors and expeditiously delivering it to hunger relief organizations.
	www.hungerstrikeforce.com /about.asp (306 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Hunger strike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Thousands of Palestinians began a mass hunger strike on Sunday in four Israeli prisons and detention centres, including the notorious Ofer and Hadarim prisons where inmates have been subject to a variety of degrading and criminal treatment at the hands of prison guards.
		The prisoners are demanding that Israeli prison authorities desist from practising sinister methods of humiliation and torture, including the recurrent beating of inmates, forced stripping, surprise midnight searches, extended solitary confinements which often last for months, as well as protracted handcuffing and leg-fettering.
		The hunger strike already counts on widespread popular support from all over the occupied territories, as well as from Syria and Lebanon, where nearly three quarters of a million Palestinian refugees reside, having been expelled from their homes when Israel was created in 1948.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/704/re2.htm (903 words)

	Coalition of Immokalee Workers - Boycott the Bell!
		The action -- a hunger strike outside one of the world’s largest fast-food corporations -- is a powerful contradiction that will dramatically highlight the injustice of fast-food profits derived, in significant part, from farmworker poverty.
		On Wednesday, March 5, hunger strikers break bread with religious leaders from across the country to end their fast and begin the next phase in the boycott campaign...
		While the hunger strikers stand vigil at Taco Bell headquarters, a caravan of workers and allies will head south from Sacramento, California, stopping at college campuses and communities along the way and spreading word of the hunger strike through teach-ins and protests at local Taco Bell restaurants.
	www.ciw-online.org /CIW%20hunger_strike_site/hunger%20strike%20home%203.html (1664 words)

	75 on hunger strike at Gitmo - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com
		Hunger strikes have flared periodically since the first suspected al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners were taken to the U.S. base in southeast Cuba in 2002.
		Durand said the current hunger strike may be timed to a series of hearings scheduled in June by the U.S. war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo, which are formally called commissions.
		“This new hunger strike is likely a coordinated, but short-term, effort designed to coincide with the military commissions hearings scheduled for the next several weeks, as defense attorneys and media normally travel to Guantanamo to observe this process,” Durand said by e-mail.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/13036611 (644 words)

	More Join Guantanamo Hunger Strike
		A month-old hunger strike at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has grown to include at least 128 detainees, 18 of whom are forcibly receiving intravenous fluids or nutrition in the prison hospital, military officials and detainee lawyers said yesterday.
		The hunger strike began in the first week of August, and, according to newly declassified accounts of detainees provided by their lawyers, has gradually spread across several camps at the prison.
		An earlier hunger strike in June and July ended after military authorities met with a small group of detainees and promised improvements in their living conditions.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/12/AR2005091201690.html (576 words)

	USATODAY.com - Military, lawyers at odds over Gitmo hunger strike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Of the hunger strikers, 21 are at the infirmary and are receiving nutrition through feeding tubes in their noses or mouths.
		Kristine Huskey, a Washington lawyer who represents 11 Kuwaiti detainees, visited the prison last week and says that "90% of the camp is on strike in varying degrees." She says hunger strikers include detainees who miss a meal or two a day or refuse to take liquids.
		Since January 2002, detainees have held several hunger strikes to protest the length of their detentions and treatment.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-09-18-hunger-strike-dispute_x.htm (510 words)

	Worldwide Relay Hunger Strike
		She announced that she was taking up the hunger strike to support the demands of the Bhopal survivors.
		The hunger strikes around the world, involving increasing numbers of people, aim to bring pressure on the Indian government to withdraw its application, and to put pressure on Dow Chemicals (of which Union Carbide is now a wholly-owned subsidiary) to accept Carbide's liabilities in India as it has in the USA.
		The hunger strikers allege that the Indian government’s decisions are a direct result of behind-the-scenes pressure by Dow Chemical, who made Union Carbide a wholly owned subsidiary in February 2001.
	www.bhopal.net /oldsite/worldwide-action (1236 words)

	ei: Palestinian Prisoners' Hunger Strike (15 - 31 August 2004)
		On 15 August 2004, Palestinian political prisoners began an open-ended hunger strike supported by all political factions inside and outside the prisons.
		The strike promises to be one of the most significant act of resistance from inside the prisons in decades.
		Zionist leaders have promised harsh repression and have publicly stated that the prisoners can "starve to death." The hunger strike was suspended at the morning of 31 August 2004.
	electronicintifada.net /bytopic/297.shtml (484 words)

	USATODAY.com - Guantanamo hunger strikers now number 75 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The number of Guantanamo Bay detainees staging a hunger strike has grown from three to 75, the U.S. military said Monday, reflecting increasing defiance among men who have been held for up to 4 1/2 years, most without charges and with little contact with the outside world.
		Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand said the ballooning number of hunger strikers was an "attention-getting" move that may be related to a May 18 clash between 10 detainees and 10 U.S. military guards in which six detainees were injured.
		"The hunger strike technique is consistent with al-Qaeda practice and reflects detainee attempts to elicit media attention to bring international pressure on the United States to release them back to the battlefield," Durand said from the base.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-05-29-guantanamo_x.htm (421 words)

	Hunger Strike for Darfur
		On June 30, 2005, Nathan Kleinman began a hunger strike to raise awareness of the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.
		This blog will now be dedicated to what has become Jay's strike, and we both hope that many others will decide to join the fast as well, in DC and in towns and cities around the world.
		At sundown on June 30th, 2005, I began a hunger strike in solidarity with the 3.5 million civilians on the brink of starvation in Darfur, western Sudan.
	www.hungerstrikefordarfur.blogspot.com (4320 words)

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		However, the students believe a hunger strike would sweep public opinion in favor of the settlers.
		"During the hunger strike we'll only be drinking water and juices, without soups, and certainly no food," he said.
		The hunger strike aims to "wake up the public," Zaidin said.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3081047,00.html (258 words)

	The Badger Herald - Protestors wrap up hunger strike
		Students protesting tuition increases ended a three-day hunger strike with a rally at the Capitol Rotunda Thursday morning.
		Eric Mata, who works for the Diversity Education Program and participated in the hunger strike, said he felt the strike was a success.
		While Werthmann said the strike in Eau Claire was a joint effort among several student groups, including the UW-Eau Claire College Republicans, a partisan division marked Madison’s strike.
	badgerherald.com /news/2005/03/11/protestors_wrap_up_h.php (925 words)

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