UC Berkeley students begin hunger strike

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(05-03) 20:04 PDT BERKELEY -- A group of UC Berkeley students started a hunger strike Monday to demand that the university oppose the new Arizona immigration law, drop disciplinary charges against protesters from the occupation of Wheeler Hall earlier this year, rehire laid-off janitors, and make the campus a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants.

Latino groups on the Cal campus called the hunger strike at noon Monday. The strikers have set up camp in front of California Hall.

Mayra Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for the Cal Latino community but not a hunger striker herself, said 20 protesters will not to eat until their demands are met. The hunger strikers were joined Monday afternoon and evening by as many as 75 supporters. Protesters and hunger strikers will camp outside the hall day and night, she said.

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What a great way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Kent State - the student revolution never ends! :-)

And not yet have there been any incendiary far-right comments in the most recommended section yet...as has usually happened with many SF Chronicle online articles.

all around the country.

Spring semester ends May 14. Most healthy students should be able to go 10 days without food, no problem. It will do some of them good.

It can also be a very pared down diet. I learned that from the 80's hunger strikes against apartheid.

Very few individuals have the willpower to starve themselves to death.

okay..down the line.

If the univerisity condemns Arizona, ok, we'll eat some hotdogs. Drop the charges against the last group of protesters and we'll mix up some smoothies.

That's a lot of demands to roll into one hunger strike.