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Hunger fast to protest budget cuts
Topic Started: Apr 7 2011, 06:14 PM (108 Views)
Copper
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=86575

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Reps. Barbara Lee, Mike Honda, Sam Farr join hunger fast to protest budget cuts


With tension mounting as America waits to see if there's a federal government shutdown, so do the symbolic acts.

The latest: A couple dozen members of Congress --- including a few from the California delegation -- are participating in a fast sponsored by the Rev. Jim Wallis and a host of others to protest cuts to programs that benefit poor and hungry people. For details -- or if you'd like to join the fast -- check this out.

Democratic Reps. Barbara Lee (Oakland), Mike Honda (San Jose) and Sam Farr (Monterey) are joining Reps. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Rosa DeLauro (D-OH), Keith Ellison (D-MN), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL).

They're each fasting for at least a day. Or, as Farr spokesman David Beltran told us, "it's a passing the baton concept and Congressman Farr's day is Monday." He's scheduled to be in Monterey that day, but with the budget situation, he may remain in DC.

And Lee is fasting as we speak. "It's a 24-hour, water-only fast," Lee aide Ricci Graham tells us. "She will past the baton tomorrow morning."

The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Copper
Apr 7 2011, 06:14 PM

And Lee is fasting as we speak. "It's a 24-hour, water-only fast," Lee aide Ricci Graham tells us. "She will past the baton tomorrow morning."

"past" the baton?

If she's really fasting that's all she'll pass...
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heh..

one way to go on a post winter diet
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Luke's Dad
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24 hours? That's a pretty fast fast. Nice symbolism. Ghandi should have been a pacifist some of the time. Cause, you know, it's really hard.
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Actually, Ghandi killed close to a million people...
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Jolly
Apr 7 2011, 07:46 PM
Actually, Ghandi killed close to a million people...
Yep. I recently read a biography about him, and was a little shocked and saddened.
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