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New York City Home Care Workers Announce Hunger Strike On Mamdani’s Watch

April 13, 2026 Joe Maniscalco, Work-Bites. , , , ,
New York City home care workers announced Wednesday they will start a hunger strike on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s watch beginning next week if promised City Council legislation ending mandatory round-the-clock shifts in the industry isn’t brought to the floor for a vote. “We have been here for more than a month and we have’t seen the mayor,” home care workers rallying outside City Hall said through an interpreter on Apr. 8. “They all made the promise. We will not wait again. We call on everyone, come back April 13, we continue the sit-in—and April 16 we go on hunger strike!” City Council Speaker Julie Menin [D-5th District] pledged to bring Intro. 303—the No More 24 bill—to the floor for a vote when she met with home care workers on Mar. 19—the second day of their latest sit-in outside the gates of City Hall.

Palestine Action Strikers Shame The UK

January 18, 2026 Michael Leonardi, Counter Punch. , , ,
In a defiant stand that has shaken the corridors of British power, the imprisoned activists of Palestine Action have suspended their grueling hunger strike after forcing a major concession from the UK government. As of January 14, 2026 the last holdouts, including Heba Muraisi after 73 days without food, Kamran Ahmed at 66 days, and Lewie Chiaramello (who alternated days due to Type 1 diabetes), declared victory. They ended the protest upon news that Elbit Systems UK — Israel’s largest arms manufacturer — was denied a £2 billion Ministry of Defence contract for training British troops.

Britain’s Palestine Solidarity Hunger Strike Ends

January 16, 2026 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. , , ,
Three Palestine solidarity hunger strikers in Britain – Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed, and Lewie Chiaramello – ended their action late on January 14, announcing significant progress on the strike’s demands. At the time the action ended, medical professionals had warned that the activists were at risk of “imminent death,” with Muraisi having refused food for 73 days. The hunger strike began in early November and focused on demands related to prisoners’ civil rights, as well as calls to cease Britain’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Palestine. One of the key demands was an end to the operations of Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems in the United Kingdom.

Hunger Striker Loses Ability To Stand As Strike Hits Day 55

December 28, 2025 Willem Moore, The Canary. , , , ,
Prisoners for Palestine have announced that hunger striker T Hoxha has lost the ability to stand. Hunger striker Heba Muraisi, meanwhile, is losing the ability to speak. The hunger strikers have endured 18 months in prison without trial. As a consequence of this and other instances of alleged mistreatment, they recently launched legal action against justice secretary David Lammy. Notably, these activists were imprisoned before the government proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.

Police Arrest And Assault Doctors Supporting Hunger Striker

December 22, 2025 Katherine Hearst, Middle East Eye. , , , ,
An NHS doctor says she was “strangled” by police officers at a protest outside a British prison demanding an ambulance for a critically ill Palestine Action-linked prisoner on hunger strike. Olivia Brandon, an Accident and Emergency doctor at a London hospital, told Middle East Eye that she was dragged by the hood of her coat by police, causing arterial compression and resulting in her losing consciousness. She also reported that another doctor, Ayo Moiett, who had been repeatedly demanding that Bronzefield prison call an ambulance for prisoner Qesser Zuhrah, was arrested by two police officers after he declined to attend a “voluntary interview” following allegations that he had assaulted a prison officer.

Demo Outside BBC As Hunger Strikers’ Lives Hang In The Balance

December 14, 2025 Barold, The Canary. , , , , ,
The lives of eight political prisoners in the UK are on a knife-edge and no one is talking about it. What the actual fuck is going on. Qesser Zuhrah, Amu Gib, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, Teuta Hoxha, Kamran Ahmed, Lewie Chiaramello, Muhammed Umer Khalid. Eight human beings, held without trial for over a year, are on hunger strike across the UK, some of them for 39 days now. This week there have been protests across the country demanding that the government finally listen to their demands. On Wednesday 10th December I was outside the BBC at the Leeds demo.

Courts Force Release Of Detained Students; Campus Activism Reignites

May 15, 2025 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. , , , , , , , , ,
Since the last installment of this newsletter, two students detained by the Trump administration have been released on bail. Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia University student who was kidnapped by agents during a citizenship interview, was released from a Vermont correctional facility on April 30. “The two weeks of detention so far demonstrate great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime,” said U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford. Mahdawi addressed a crowd of supporters and reporters upon his release. “For anybody who is doubting justice, this is a light of hope and faith in the justice system in America,” Mahdawi told a crowd outside the courthouse after his release.

Stanford Students And Faculty Launch Hunger Strike For Gaza

May 14, 2025 Stanford Hunger Strikers For Justice In Palestine, Mondoweiss. , , , , , , ,
Yesterday we began our hunger strike. In every slowed minute we remember the children of Gaza, now surviving on boiled weeds and muddy water. It is now day 584 of the genocide in Gaza, and more than 60,000 Palestinians have been murdered by the Zionist entity. Just last week, at least four separate massacres have occurred in Gaza, leaving hundreds murdered and wounded. Two months have passed since Israel’s total siege of the strip on March 2nd, completely blocking all food and aid from entering Gaza. Israel has completely weaponized food; aid convoys remain blocked, grain silos stand empty and parents barter wedding rings for flour that never arrives.

Nigerian President Enforced Violent Crackdown On Hunger Protests

December 3, 2024 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. , , , , , , , ,
Extrajudicial executions, mass arrests, custodial torture and charges of treason were among the methods used by the Nigerian government to crack down on protests this August against rising hunger and economic hardships. Nigerian civil society, demanding a reversal of President Bola Tinubu’s aggressive implementation of IMF policies that brought about this cost of living crisis on Africa’s largest population, led these protests for 10 days at the beginning of August. In a report released on November 28, titled “Bloody August,” Amnesty International (AI) documented 24 killings, while “scores of additional cases reported by activists and journalists” are yet to be verified.

Revealed: Far-Right Links Of Polish Farmer Hunger Strikers

May 28, 2024 Marta Kasztelan, Claire Carlile and Phoebe Cooke, DeSmog. , , , , , , ,
An obscure far-right linked farmers group has risen to prominence in Poland after it was championed by populist politicians ahead of the EU elections, DeSmog can reveal. Orka, a new farmers’ movement that materialised earlier this month, entered Warsaw’s parliament building on May 9 to protest against EU climate plans and Ukrainian food imports. Protesters suspended a 10-day hunger strike last week after winning the attention of Polish President Andrzej Duda, who invited them to talks, and reportedly offered one member a role on his council for agriculture. The protest group was accompanied by the far-right Confederation Party’s Marta Chech, who is running as a candidate in the June 6-9 EU ballot.

Khader Adnan’s Martyrdom

May 2, 2023 Mariam Barghouti, Mondoweiss. , , ,
On Tuesday morning, the Palestinian hunger striker and political activist, Sheikh Khader Adnan, died inside the Ramleh prison clinic. Since February 5 of this year, Adnan, 44, has been on hunger strike protesting his imprisonment by Israel, which has been targeting and harassing the Palestinian political figure and advocate for resistance over the past decade. Adnan was the veteran of two previous hunger strikes before his most recent one and was unlawfully imprisoned by the Israeli authorities without charge or trial several times in the past decade. Adnan’s latest arrest was due to his affiliation with the militant Palestinian resistance group, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), whose armed wing, Saraya al-Quds, is part of the umbrella faction of the Jenin Brigade — the armed resistance group operating out of Jenin refugee camp.

Auto Honking Protest Against ICE, Supports Hunger Strike Inside

March 23, 2020 Never Again Action, Threadreaderapp.com , , , ,
Almost 100 cars here on multiple blocks, surrounding the Hudson County Detention Center in New Jersey! The detention centers must be emptied before they turn into death camps. ICE won’t do it; only Governors have the emergency powers to save these lives.

Hunger Strike In La Tolva Prison In Honduras

August 7, 2019 Staff, Afgj.salsalabs.org , ,
On Monday August 5, Honduran Political Prisoners Edwin Espinal, Raúl Álvarez and Rommel Herrera started a hunger strike inside of La Tolva maximum-security military run prison in order to protest the unjust, inhumane and dangerous conditions they have been subjected and that have put their lives at risk. The Honduran Political Prisoners have been joined by a broad section of the Honduran social movement led by the Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners, who organized a rolling fast outside Honduran Public Prosecutor’s Office from August 5-9.

Chiapas: What Is The Cost Of Justice? Update On The Prisoners In Struggle

June 10, 2019 Staff, Itsgoingdown.org , , ,
It has been more than eighty days since the beginning of this process of struggle for justice and freedom. Hours, days, weeks and months; a succession of events that have ranged from resistance to exhaustion; from dignity to ignominy; of the commitment to life and freedom, even at the cost of a willingness to surrender life itself in order to achieve it. What is the cost of justice?—What does it cost? Can you imagine being imprisoned for 15 years, 14 of which you serve without a sentence, having lost your family, not counting on a single peso of income during this time, because the prison has you kidnapped.

95-Year-Old Woman Veteran On A Hunger Strike For Children Of Yemen, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela As Victims

June 5, 2019 By Ann Wright, Opednews.com , , , ,
Sally Alice Thompson is 95 years old and she is on a hunger strike for the children, children who are victims of the U.S. government's sanctions and war mongering on the countries where they live -- Yemen, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela. She is a World War II Navy veteran, an anti-war activist and member of Veterans for Peace in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Ms. Thompson has been involved in peace, and anti-nuclear issues for decades. In 1986, she walked across the United States in the Great American Peace Walk and a year later joined 200 other Americans who walked for peace from Moscow to St. Petersburg in the US-Soviet International Peace Walk.
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