From Gandhi to Bobby Sands: Hunger strikers through history
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 16:01
in Psychology & Sociology
Few forms of civil disobedience attract the same level of public attention as a hunger strike. Visceral, agonizing, and striking at a person’s most simple needs, the method of protest has been used the world over to galvanize popular support, unite a cause, and draw attention to issues that otherwise might go ignored. Entirely reliant on how long the striker can hold out against his or her most ba...