bigtree
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Mon Jul-10-06 09:28 AM
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Three thousand people around the world are fasting |
The2ndWheel
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Mon Jul-10-06 09:35 AM
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how depriving yourself of food is going to do anything to people who don't give a damn about people. Want to make the elected leaders listen? Take their food away. Then maybe you've got something. Until that happens, what exactly is being accomplished? They're sitting there with no food, the troops aren't coming back(today or tomorrow), and what else?
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Mon Jul-10-06 09:39 AM
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I don't understand how a hunger strike has any potential to affect change.
Then again, I don't know the history of hunger strikes, so perhaps they have been effective in the past.
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Mon Jul-10-06 10:40 AM
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Mon Jul-10-06 12:39 PM
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Mon Jul-10-06 10:58 AM
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5. Public figures and organized, publicised fasts have changed |
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things. Gandhi's fasts come to mind, although even he stopped at 18 days for the longest one. Bobby Sands fasted until it killed him, and things did chage, but only after the media shamed the government over it.
If fasters assembled in parks and media got notified, perhaps it might do some good.
Fasting at home and donating the food budget for the period to Oxfam might do some good.
Otherwise, it only helps the person who is fasting.
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Mon Jul-10-06 11:13 AM
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6. Bobby Sands' fast/death didn't change anything |
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The effect of Sands' (and others') fasting and deaths was a more polarized Ireland, but in the end the IRA gave up the one demand Sands wanted... getting the British out of Ireland. Northern Ireland was incorporated into Great Britain (creating the UK) in the early 70's, and it's still there.
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Mon Jul-10-06 12:45 PM
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it did get a few things changed along the lines of recognizing imprisoned IRA members as political prisoners/prisoners of war, meaning they got to wear their own clothing and receive a slightly better level of treatment than common criminals did.
This may not seem like much to you, but it did to them, the recognition that the war in Ireland had always been an anticolonial war and not just organized crime.
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Tue Jul-11-06 12:15 PM
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It does not seem much to me.
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Mon Jul-10-06 09:42 AM
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3. I bet that number is low! This action has some real juice behind it |
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I got the notice from four different organizations that I remember -- suddenly, everyone was talking about it.
Thanks for posting this, bigtree. :hi:
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