Hunger Strike 2008
In February through March 2008, he conducted a hunger strike in San Jose, California, protesting efforts by city councilwoman Madison Nguyen to name a district of the city "Vietnam Business District" instead of "Little Saigon".
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Famous quotes containing the words hunger and/or strike:
“All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.”
—Carson McCullers (1917–1967)
“Could beauty be beaten out,
O youth the cities have sent
to strike at each other’s strength,
it is you who have kept her alight.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)