hunger striker
Defiant meal refuser
A hunger striker is someone who refuses to eat as a form of protest, typically to pressure authorities or draw attention to a cause.
The tactic has been used by political prisoners, activists, and others seeking to leverage their own suffering for change: The hunger strikers demanded improved prison conditions.
A prolonged hunger strike risks death, giving it moral weight as an act of desperation or conviction.
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- silent protestVoiceless act of resistance
- prisonerConfined criminal detainee
- GandhiIndian independence leader
suffragette · starvation · resistance · political · martyr · defiance · cause · emaciated · force-feeding · force fed · jail · prison cell · activism · human rights · conscience · solidarity · vigil · wasting
- resistersobjector, resister, refusenik, conscientious objector, holdout
- activistsactivist, Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activists, protester, campaigner
- advocatesadvocate, activist, campaigner, crusader, defender
- Climate ActivistsGreta Thunberg, eco-warrior, Al Gore, clean energy advocate, David Attenborough
- peacemakerspeacekeeper, peace activist, peace advocates, peacemaker, peacebuilders
- war resistersconscientious objector, pacifist, draft resister, draft dodger, draft evader
hunger strikerglutton
Excessive, voracious eater
competitive eater · binge eater · overeater · feaster · gorger
hunger strikeroppressor
One who dominates cruelly
collaborator · prison guard · jailer · authoritarian · warden
hunger strikerhedonist
Seeker of sensual satisfaction
glutton · sybarite · sensualist · pleasure-seeker · libertine
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