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Home Front: Politix

Congressman on hunger strike to show solidarity with Occupy

2011-12-17

[Washington Examiner] Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., embarked on a 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity with four Occupy DC protesters who have gone without food since Dec. 8 to advocate for D.C. voting rights.

Piker. Thirteen year old Jewish kids go 26 hours without food or water every year for Yom Kippur.

Ellison, the first Moslem to serve in the House, met with the hunger strikers Thursday and pledged to read their declaration -- which calls for full voting rights for District residents as well as legislative and budget autonomy -- on the floor of the House of Representatives to enter it into the congressional record.

The hunger strikers have been meeting with various politicians and their staffers on Capitol Hill this week. Success has been mixed. On Wednesday, strikers staged a sit-in outside House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner's
... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans...
office for hours, but didn't get a meeting with the Ohio Republican.

Posted by:Fred

#9 they include smoothies, too, Bobby!

Posted by: Frank G 2011-12-17 23:28

#8 So 24 hours is a hunger strike now? Damn, why wasn't I born twenty years later...

Posted by: Bobby Sands 2011-12-17 23:23

#7 ION DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [US] DOMESTIC DRONES, COMING SOON OVER AN [American] HOME NEAR YOU!

Iff these are what I've seen flying in late night oer GUAM-WESTPAC + Agana Bay, THIS STORY IS JUST SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 2009.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-12-17 23:00

#6 Thomas Jefferson owned that two volume Koran, the better to understand America's enemy of the time.

Posted by: Grunter 2011-12-17 18:25

#5 How's this for truth in advertizing?

"I did a 24 hour fast in solidarity with the Occupy Movement and colonoscopy patients."

Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-12-17 16:46

#4 Can you really call it a hunger strike when it's 24 hours? I think I'm going on a hunger strike right after I finish lunch. I'll continue until dinner time.

Posted by: AuburnTom 2011-12-17 13:51

#3 No - during dingdong season they fast only during the day - however during the night Allah is apparently too pathetic to see them so they 'pig out' and gorge themselves.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-12-17 10:05

#2 I think Rep. Ellison (Keith E. Hakim) got his Ramadamadingdong month mixed up.

Posted by: Ulose Munster2089 2011-12-17 07:49

#1 Oh my, 24 hours. There are a several cows out there that applaud your decision.

Here are a couple of them:

Posted by: gorb 2011-12-17 01:30

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