- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
It comes after 13 students were arrested for trespassing late last month during a protest.
Twelve students committed to not eating in response to university administrators who barred a group of students from the university for participating in a sit-in that occurred in late April.
I’ve never really heard of a hunger strike being used outside of captivity. Their demands are disclosure, divestment, and dropping the charges against students who were non-violently protesting.
They’re gonna die.
They are willing to die for a cause they believe in.
We are all going to die. Some of us will take a stand for something that matters to us.
This world needs people willing to live for causes they believe in. 12 people not in captivity inching themselves closer to death is just going to create 12 less people who care.
Some hunger strikes have been effective. Others not.
They don’t necessarily end in death.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14540696
In general, I think threatening death upon yourself to people who probably already want you dead isn’t an effective tactic outside of certain circumstances like incarceration.
The assumption is that people care that they are voluntarily starving themselves.
Ok, but, in this case, that’s not likely to accomplish much… which makes it a wasted effort— and wasted life.
In other words: this is a poor choice as a form of protest, as it’s unlikely to accomplish its goals while also potentially being fatal to the participants.
Not you though.