Word: hungered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Fretilin's pledges of concern were undermined last month when Deputy Prime Minister Estanislau da Silva denied reports of famine in the countryside, insisting that not a single person in East Timor had died of hunger since independence. "Every day I have people coming to my door who are slowly starving," says Bishop of Baucau Basílio do Nascimento. "Are you saying these people do not exist?" Even if the April presidential election is supposed to give these citizens a voice, many are so disenfranchised that they see little point in participating in the democratic process. Back...
...Sherley, who is African-American, informed the administration last week that he would end his hunger strike, despite neither of his demands having been...
...professor who had begun a hunger strike after the university denied him tenure officially ended that strike last Friday, saying his protest had garnered sufficient attention...
Despite the end of his hunger strike, Sherley wrote that his “demands are still on the table...
...recognize this is a very complicated story, but I do know that that kind of hunger strike is in the tradition of American protest, so he has hopefully found some kind of resolution since he is no longer striking...