Word: hunger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mohandas Gandhi used the hunger strike. Union organizer Cesar Chavez used the hunger strike. Last Friday, a few members of Harvard's Ethnic Studies Action Committee (ESAC) joined this moral crew, skipping the daily offerings of Harvard Dining Services in an effort to protest the absence of ethnic studies courses at Harvard...
...hunger strike is an overtly political weapon to be used against a moral adversary, or an adversary who depends upon a moral public. By practicing slow self-destruction, the protester displays his or her supreme devotion to a cause in an effort to undermine the moral defenses of the adversary...
...hard to imagine the Harvard Republican Club fasting to bring George Will to Harvard or history concentrators staging a sit-in to protest the new intellectual history track. By using a hunger strike, ESAC undermines its call for recognition by displaying its cause as essentially political and not academic...
...group of 17 students at North-western began conducting a hunger strike on April 11, according to a an e-mail sent out by the Ethnic Studies Action Committee. Since then, at least seven have dropped out due to fatigue...
...University of California at Irvine], where I used to work, 80 percent of the students did Hunger Awareness Day," Berry did. "I think with a little more effort, we can do the same at Harvard...