hunger strikes
Refusing food politically
Hunger strikes are acts of protest in which participants refuse to eat, using their own bodies as leverage against authorities.
The tactic relies on public sympathy and the threat of death to pressure governments, prisons, or institutions into concessions.
The suffragettes staged hunger strikes in British prisons.
A single instance is a hunger strike: He announced a hunger strike until his demands were met.
- boycottsOrganized refusals to purchase
- civil disobediencePeaceful refusal to obey
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- empty stomachDigestive tract without food
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
Mahatma Gandhi · political statement · suffragettes · political prisoners · detention centers · prison conditions · prison reform · Irish nationalism · Sinn Féin · political · Guantanamo Bay · human rights · satyagraha · moral authority · pacifism · sit-ins · Martin Luther King · activism
- Gitmodetention camp, military prison, detainees, enemy combatants, interrogation
- activismboycotts, activists, activist, advocate, demonstrating
- hungerhungry, starving, famished, ravenous, appetite
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- Irish HistoryGreat Famine, Easter Rising, Irish nationalism, Irish War of Independence, Irish Civil War
- 1981 EventsIBM PC, DeLorean, Sandra Day O'Connor, hostage release, Hill Street Blues
hunger strikesarmed resistance
Organized violent opposition
riots · terrorism · guerrilla warfare · bombings · armed rebellion
hunger strikesforce-feeding
Compulsory food administration
feasting · gorging · gluttony · binge eating · overeating
hunger strikescollaboration
Joint intellectual work
compliance · acquiescence · capitulation · submission · appeasement
strike, hunger, starvation, hungrily, hungering, hungered, hunger strike