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Without warning, and without informing other groups of their plans, seven students announced on April 18 that they were beginning a water and vitamins-only hunger strike to force the University to divest...
...organization the fundamentalist Christian Seymour Society announced that they were beginning a one week symbolic fast (by eating only fruit), and invited the original fasters to join them. They stressed that the purpose of their protest was not to strong arm the University, but to redirect attention from the hunger strike itself to the moral issues involved in divestiture...
...brief tour of the world, then, does little to inspire optimism. And these broad problems overshadow equally pernicious dilemmas such as human rights, hunger and poverty. Yet two underlying facts, if properly understood and acted upon, could constitute, the hope for tomorrow. The world is increasingly interdependent, a bad thing if there is little cooperation among nations, a good thing if allies--and adversaries--can manage to get along. The key to cooperation lies in the rejection of the old sectarian world and the acceptance of the idea that our common problems have superseded ideology. Espousal of these new facts...
Shaw points to a hunger strike this spring in support of Harvard divestiture from companies that do business in South Africa as a forceful, yet non-confrontational form of protest. By modifying the organization's political tactics. Shaw believes he can draw more widespread student support for the group, which he says has been perceived as a small clique of Black students. This can be done without sacrificing its commitment to Black issues on campus, he adds...
Senator Dodd was on target when he said that "if Central America were not racked with poverty, hunger and injustice, there would be no revolution." The long-term solution to the problems of those nations is agrarian reform, redistribution of wealth, and economic assistance. If Central America were economically stable, the Soviets would have nothing to exploit...