[Narz]

...what would it be & where would you stage it? (2nd one optional)

If you wouldn't really do one or think they're stupid or whatever just play along.

There is no guarentee it would work but it would certainly raise awareness about your issue.

[eastbay]

Maybe in the future I would do a hunger strike to protest that we've all completely run out of food.

I mean, instead of eating somebody... which would be the only other option.

[roccman]

Somewhat germane to this concept...

For the past 15 years I fast for a week.

I do it primarily to renew the food/energy relationship.

Humans were/are gorge animals - fasting for long periods of time use to be the norm.

3 squares a day is excessive.

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'S')omewhat germane to this concept...

For the past 15 years I fast for a week.

I do it primarily to renew the food/energy relationship.

Humans were/are gorge animals - fasting for long periods of time use to be the norm.

3 squares a day is excessive.

[BigTex]

Why would I go on a hunger strike? There's probably not anything, but if pressed I would pick something that nobody cares about but that no one could argue with either. Something like a national holiday to celebrate the moon landing. It would simply be called Moon Day.

Where would I do it? Definitely a 24 hour restaurant.

[FreakOil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'S')omewhat germane to this concept...

For the past 15 years I fast for a week.

I do it primarily to renew the food/energy relationship.

Humans were/are gorge animals - fasting for long periods of time use to be the norm.

3 squares a day is excessive.

[roccman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'S')omewhat germane to this concept...

For the past 15 years I fast for a week.

I do it primarily to renew the food/energy relationship.

Humans were/are gorge animals - fasting for long periods of time use to be the norm.

3 squares a day is excessive.

[roccman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FreakOil', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'S')omewhat germane to this concept...

For the past 15 years I fast for a week.

I do it primarily to renew the food/energy relationship.

Humans were/are gorge animals - fasting for long periods of time use to be the norm.

3 squares a day is excessive.

[I_Like_Plants]

Shanny - "reclaimed" lumber is likely to not have a bunch of weird chemicals in it. And as for pure linseed oil, some of the mail-order artists' supply places will have it in the quantities you'll need.

[jasonraymondson]

You should eat 7 meals a day in order to maintain a proper balance.

I eat at 6:00, 9:30, 12:00, 2:30, 5:00 7:30 and then I have a light healthy snack before bed. Usually Carrot sticks. of course those times are not always 100% accurate. I do leave room for flexibility.

It is usually best to have a protein shake at 6:00 and then run for a mile. Come back home and proceed to do pushups, situps, front, back, go's. After this take a shower and then devote 30 minutes to meditation. Then begin your normal morning routine.


--- BTW, I am so full of shit.

[gampy]

I think hunger strikes are dumb and useless, but like you said, I'll play along. Self-immolation, or some other dramatic form of suicide is probably better at getting attention. Hunger strikes are just not crazy enough or quick enough. A thirst strike is probably more effective. More dramatic, more painful, and quicker. Tough thing to do though. I can't imagine anyone having the will power to dehydrate themselves to death. Ugh.

Ok...trying to think of a good reason to starve myself. Thinking...thinking...ummmm....can't think of a good reason, really.

Seriously.

Only incarcerated people do this. If you are incarcerated, they can force feed you, so it kind of negates the effect. Has anyone ever been successful doing this? Like getting their way? It seems like another way of holding your breath like toddlers do when they want their way.

Like I said, if you are really serious (willing to die)...there are better ways to get some attention.

[I_Like_Plants]

Hunger strikes are for hippies who've never actually gone hungry before.

When I was little I was a picky eater. That shit stopped when we started going short on food and I experienced real hunger.

Middle-class crybabies. You wanna protest, dammit, blow something up!

[hubbertspeak7777777]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'Y')ou should eat 7 meals a day in order to maintain a proper balance.

I eat at 6:00, 9:30, 12:00, 2:30, 5:00 7:30 and then I have a light healthy snack before bed. Usually Carrot sticks. of course those times are not always 100% accurate. I do leave room for flexibility.

It is usually best to have a protein shake at 6:00 and then run for a mile. Come back home and proceed to do pushups, situps, front, back, go's. After this take a shower and then devote 30 minutes to meditation. Then begin your normal morning routine.


--- BTW, I am so full of shit.

[Narz]

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/30968

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '8')7-Year Old New Hampshire State Representative Says She Will Not Eat and Is Willing to Die for Impeachment
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2008-02-13 00:52. Impeachment

By Susan Serpa

I just got off the phone with Betty Hall. She is the 14-term State of N.H. representative who has introduced to the state house HR 24 to impeach Bush and Cheney. The public Hearing for the resolution is next Tuesday Feb. 19th (the day after President's day).

She is joining the Code Pink fast.

She is 87 years old and refuses to eat again until Conyers begins impeachment proceedings. She told me "I've had a good life. I can't think of any better way to end it."

Now, before you think I am heartless by "encouraging" this act by announcing it, I know Betty. When she decides to do something, there is no changing her mind - she's going to do it. She will not eat until impeachment proceedings begin in earnest. We owe it to her to make this worth her while. It's time to pull out ALL the stops and get Conyer's ass into gear! We cannot let this clear-headed, heroic woman sacrifice herself.

[BigTex]

She should pair up with David Blaine. She could starve herself and David could do one of his over the top stunts like burying himself for a month in a coffin or something.

That would probably get them both better media synergy.

[mekrob]

I'd do it for awareness of the environmental degradation that is caused by massive amounts of eating (as well as the things we eat). That way, even if I don't get any attention, I still accomplish my goal a little bit.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')or the past 15 years I fast for a week.

[billg]

Great thread idea!

I think the issue that is top on my mind right now is how to facilitate a radical reduction in world population necessary to adapt to the realities of peak oil and climate change without resorting to violence. I really think it is important to remove the taboo on assisted suicide not only for the terminally ill, but also for people who are starving, economically desperate or have essentially lost the will to live. Suicides rates are bound to increase anyway, so why should we force people to resort to less savory ways of dying like hanging, gunshots, jumping from heights, etc..

A lot of these methods are not full-proof and often end up disabling a person rather than killing him/her. The expense of taking care of these maimed people just adds insult to injury. Also, a sudden very violent suicide can have a incredibly destabilizing demoralizing effect on friends and relatives. It would be better to provide people with the information and the tools that will allow them to do it in a way that provides for a more pain-free peaceful outcome in a supportive environment.

I honestly don't think a hunger strike would make much of a difference, but I would welcome anything that would help to break down this taboo.

I see the problem as mainly being rooted in a lack of understanding of what it means to die and lack of acceptance for people who are making that choice. I have several ideas for how to promote this understanding but I feel that I'm just a minnow fighting upstream against a powerful river of deeply entrenched cultural conditioning.

We are the over-multiplied deer that needs to be culled and it is about time we deal with this reality intelligently and compassionately.

I would appreciate your comments. Please point me to past threads on this topic.

[billg]

Two other biggies for me are decriminilization of drugs and ending confinement systems for livestock.

[ANewHuman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mekrob', 'S')o you do an actual fast? I "fast" once a year for a month, but it's not nearly as hardcore as not eating at all (instead, only not during daylight hours).

[Dukkha]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'H')unger strikes are for hippies who've never actually gone hungry before.

When I was little I was a picky eater. That shit stopped when we started going short on food and I experienced real hunger.

Middle-class crybabies. You wanna protest, dammit, blow something up!