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Nap Time!!!

Monday, May 21, 2007
So...

Can a hunger strike be described as a "bold act of civil resistance"? Resistance, to me, would be something more along the lines of taking contrary action to something. For example, let's say someone ties to mug you:

Resistance: Punch mugger in face.

Not Resistance: Punch self in face.
If the regents fail to withdraw their weapons lab management, many of those participating (including the author) have pledged to sustain their hunger fasts indefinitely.
Sounds like fun.

By the way, for those of you on hunger strike, is it really appropriate to be drinking fluids and such for your health? I mean, if the point is that you're going to be suffering or some such, shouldn't you not be taking those anti-death measures?

posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 5/21/2007 08:14:00 PM #
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lol. Awhile ago a guy went on a hunger strike to demand that "Sutter Street" be renamed, becaues John Sutter was allegedly mean to indians. The situation was complicated however, because Sutter Davis Hospital is located on that street and did not want to change its name, and happened to like being on a street of the same name. Anyway, so the city didn't budge. On the second or third day our newpaper headline was "hunger striker seen eating!" He then came to the ASUCD Senate meeting to plead his case, explaining "if I didn't eat, I would have died!" Yeah, thats the point genius.

Seriously though, there have been some bold hunger strikes in history to protest worthy things like severe civil rights problems, etc, but doing so to protest nuclear research or say street names is extremely melodramatic to say the least. There might be some argument if they were preventing nuclear weapons from being invented, but the fact is they already do exist and ongoing research probably just makes them safer - it certainly does not effect whether or not they will kill people -- thus, its a really marginal thing to be staking one's life on via hunger strikes...
 
yea, the point is that you only do it if you are actually willing to die for your cause.

Who really believes that a bunch of bored middle-class white kids are gonna die over this?
 
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