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A fast involving 30 people accompanied the protest. The fasters included Tibetan monks, members of the Tibetan community in Boston and other supporters of the Tibetan cause. Three people fasted for 48 hours, nine people for 24 hours and 18 people for 12 hours, said Tsering Bhokro, a 48-hour...
Let me first disclose the rather biased source for this review: The Pixies were my musical gods for so many years. I built a shrine to them composed of a constant loop of all their albums. I wept, fasted, prayed--they were the new rock. They embodied this thing, this...
ESAC's day-long fast was supposed to show support for serious protesters at Northwestern University who fasted for several weeks to call for an Asian American Studies Program. But the incongruity of Gandhi fasting to shock Hindus and Muslims into ending ethnic slaughter and a dozen college students fasting...
Robinson is director of the African and Caribbean lobbying group, Trans Africa. He fasted for 27 days to protest president Clinton's refusal to allow Haitian refugees into the United States last year.
The Haitian refugees at Guantanamo Bay have been on a hunger strike since January 29, said Paul E. Butler, a second year student at the Law School and member of the Black Law Students Association. The strike has been picked up by Jesse Jackson, who fasted for ten days, and...