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D.C. Voting Rights Hunger Strikers Down to One
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DCist.com |
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Monday, December 19, 2011 |
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Martin Austermuhle |
Via WJLA, the AP reports that of the four protesters that were engaged in a hunger strike for D.C. voting rights, only one remains.
The hunger strike was started Dec. 8 by three protesters associated with the Occupy D.C. encampment at McPherson Square; a fourth joined the effort a few days later. During their hunger strike, the four visited Capitol Hill to press the case that no riders should be placed on the District's budget. After word emerged that a prohibition on the use of local funds for abortions would in fact make it into a House budget deal, one of the hunger strikers was arrested at a protest on the Hill on Friday.
That protester, Adrian Parsons, is the only remaining faster. Joe Gray quit Sunday due to medical reasons, while the AP reports that Sam Jeweler was advised by his family and a physician to resume eating. The remaining protester, Kelly Mears, broke his own fast last Thursday.
Parsons has said that he won't eat until the District has full budgetary and legislative autonomy and full representation in Congress, though according to the Post, he's hoping to make it to Christmas.
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