The Hunger Strike: Weapon of Choice for the Oppressed | |
By: Kevin Gosztola Wednesday February 22, 2012 10:03 am |
The above comes from VisualizingPalestine.org. The site creators say it uses “creative visuals to describe a factual rights-based narrative of Palestine/Israel.” In this case, we have a brilliant graphic showing past heroes for social justice who have gone on hunger strike and what happens to the human body as they carry out a strike.
Khader Adnan, a Palestinian arbitrarily detained by Israel under an administrative detention order, ended his hunger strike yesterday. He had been on strike for sixty-six days. And, it appears he now holds a