
Over the weekend, 32 African-American members of the University of Missouri-Columbia football team joined a group of students staging a hunger strike to protest purported acts of racism on campus.
by Warner Todd Huston8 Nov 2015, 9:08 PM PST0

New Zealander Jason Patterson wants a weight loss surgery, and he is going on a hunger strike until his government pays for it.
by Michael Lucchese8 Jul 2015, 5:35 PM PST0

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, facing a tidal wave of international criticism over human rights violations and hunger strikes by his nation’s most famous prisoners of conscience, canceled a visit to the Vatican to meet with Pope Francis. Both dissidents and Vatican sources have told multiple Spanish newspapers that the cancelation, ostensibly due to a “cold,” actually occurred out of fear of being embarrassed on a public stage.
by Frances Martel9 Jun 2015, 8:22 AM PST0