hunger-strikes
How to Weigh a Hunger Striking Guantanamo Prisoner
Hamilton Nolan · 11/07/14 09:52AMKentucky Prison Watched as an Inmate Starved Himself to Death
Hamilton Nolan · 04/21/14 01:28PMPussy Riot Member Hunger Striking Over Brutal Prison Conditions
Cord Jefferson · 09/23/13 01:32PMNadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the two Pussy Riot members still in a Russian prison for the crime of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred," is on hunger strike starting today in order to protest her living conditions. In a lengthy open letter to the Guardian explaining her strike, Tolokonnikova claims that the first year in her two-year sentence has been hellish, beginning with the head administrator of her penal colony telling her upon arrival: "You should know that when it comes to politics, I am a Stalinist."
Hamilton Nolan · 08/06/13 10:08AM
NYer Story on Obsessive Stalker Sparks Obsessive, Stalker-y Protest
Hamilton Nolan · 05/26/11 08:30AMLast August, Tad Friend wrote an excellent article in the New Yorker about the spectacularly bizarre life of downtown New York scenester John Lurie, focusing on his weird on-again, off-again friendship with an artist named John Perry, portrayed as a moody and dangerous figure who ended up stalking Lurie and making threats against his life.
Congressional Candidates on Day Six of Hunger Strike
Jim Newell · 08/18/10 10:40AMColumbia Students To Starve Selves Until Vague Demands Are Met
Pareene · 11/07/07 06:00PMFour Columbia students have announced an immediate hunger strike, posting a list of impossible-to-measure benchmarks that must be met by the university before these anonymous people will once again begin making their brave trips to the dining hall. At issue is, uh, everything about the school, more or less, but especially the recent business with nooses and Nazis.