By Victoria Brittain, TomDispatchJun 12, 2013
A four-month hunger strike, mass force-feedings, and widespread media coverage have brought Guantanamo back into American consciousness. Still unnoticed and out of the news, however, is a comparable situation in the U.S. itself, involving a pattern of controversial terrorism trials that result in devastating prison sentences involving the harshest forms of solitary confinement. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
By Timothy MurphyMay 23, 2013
Last Friday marked the 100th day of the detainees' hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. I am not a Guantanamo detainee, but I too began a water-only hunger fast. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigMay 1, 2013
The president failed the first time he promised to close America's island gulag, but heading into the fourth month of a hunger strike by prisoners there, Obama renewed his commitment Tuesday to shuttering the facility. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 22, 2013
More than 60 people have been injured in violent confrontations between Palestinians and the Israeli army in the West Bank, a Palestinian humanitarian group said. Demonstrators were calling for the release of four Palestinian prisoners who are on hunger strikes. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 16, 2012
After a year of fruitless protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, some former GM employees have sewn their mouths shut in a hunger strike against the company’s treatment of workers at its Colombian plant, pledging death if their grievances are not addressed. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 14, 2012
Dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky sat down with "Democracy Now!" for an hourlong conversation about the Palestinian prisoner hunger strike, the relationships forged by Occupy Wall Street, Obama’s targeted assassinations, WikiLeaks’ whistle-blowing and Latin America’s gradual slip from U.S. dominance. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 21, 2011
In Chile, where the average monthly minimum wage income falls $100 short of college tuition costs, students are continuing their winter of kiss-ins, marches and hunger strikes against private, for-profit education and demanding affordable state-run schools. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 16, 2011
Prisoners all over California continue a hunger strike despite nearing death; "Sister Wives" reality TV show stars fight the anti-polygamy law; and economists have resorted to capital bribery to resuscitate the American job market. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 22, 2010
Remember that coup in Honduras last year? Well, a group of judges who were fired after making legal decisions against the widely-accepted-as-illegal coup have launched a hunger strike against their dismissal. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 9, 2009
After nearly two weeks of subsisting only on liquids, actress Mia Farrow has ended her hunger strike for Darfur, passing the proverbial torch to another member of the Celebrity Darfur Fasting Network, British mega-mogul Richard Branson. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 3, 2008
An Egyptian blogger, Karim el-Beheiri, who was arrested with two former co-workers from Mahalla's Misr Spinning and Weaving company (all three were fired after their arrest) on April 6 and released Sunday, said he and his colleagues were shocked, beaten and denied sustenance during their ordeal behind bars. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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