: refusal (as by a prisoner) to eat enough to sustain life
hunger strikernoun
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Following a series of hunger strikes within the prison for more educational opportunities and better conditions, college education began at Pelican Bay in 2015 with an associate degree program with another college.—Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Feb. 2025 Eight of the protesters went on a hunger strike to raise the stakes and illustrate the urgency of this cause.—Rebekah Taussig, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025 This documentary captures the fight In 2013, thousands of California inmates in long-term solitary confinement orchestrated a months-long hunger strike as a protest against the conditions that they were being subjected to by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025 The film tells the story of how the 2013 hunger strike helped make that happen.—Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hunger strike
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