Word: hungering
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...while the line may fall short, organizers believe they will succeed in raising money and consciousness about hunger and homelessness...
Doctors have protested war, hunger, and social injustice before. In the late 1960s, physicians rallied against the Vietnam quagmire with the best of them. But now the issue is economics. Physicians are looking into their pockets and deciding that it's time to seize the hearts and minds of their legislators...
When the students met, they discussed their experiences, and talked to physicians from outside the University about issues of community medicine such as Medicare, Medicaid, alcoholism, and hunger...
...surgeon and neurocardiologist, is serving a three-year sentence in a labor camp under charges of "malicious hooliganism." His "crimes" include standing in front of the Academy of Sciences building with a sign that read, "No one will survive a nuclear winter." Once in prison, Brodsky began a hunger strike in protest of his imprisonment, and his health rapidly deteriorated. Officials offered to release him if he renounced the Trust Group; he refused...
Lichtman's second objection to the fast is that it is a conscience soother for pampered students who can go out for a meal and rejoice in their generosity. One counter to this point is that some of us actually do fast or even attend hunger banquets; the other being the pragmatic view that the approximately $4000 raised for Oxfam is $4000 more that is going to aid deprived people that would not be sent if Harvard did not hold the fast...