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:
“Women’s art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“Is this then a touch? quivering me to a new identity,
Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,
Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
My flesh and blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly
different from myself,
On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)