Sentences with phrase «hunger strikers»

It depicts the awakening of a reluctant recruit who becomes a militant, and graphically depicts the violence meted out to the protestors and hunger strikers in the critical years of 1912 - 13, potently drawing parallels with the 1984 - 85 Miners» Strike and the 1981 Irish Republican hunger strikes.

The Dyett Hunger Strikers with Karen Lewis, President of the Chicago Teachers Union.

His first feature, Hunger, was an extraordinary portrait of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.

Hunger, the film he wrote and directed about IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, is out now.

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«HUNGER» (Steve McQueen) Another staggering British debut, albeit one of a very different hue, this sensual, richly textured impression (biopic is hardly the word) of Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands's demise inspired an overuse of the word «harrowing» among critics, but that was largely because its profoundly upsetting emotional impact was so hard to articulate.

The film, about hunger striker Bobby Sands, launched the career of both McQueen and star Michael Fassbender, but Bobbitt's work was hugely impressive, not least because the director let the shots play over minutes, with one already - legendary twenty - minute dialogue sequence.

The only structures left standing in this portion of the camp are «social» structures» like St. Michael's Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the camp's legal center, the «Jungle Books» library, child and adult language schools, and a cabin that houses Iranian hunger strikers who sewed their mouths shut earlier this month in protest of the demolitions.

The only ray of good news for supporters of the Nigerian hunger striker was that Lord Roberts of Llandudno managed to secure a question in the Lords on Wednesday.

And in fact one of the demands of the Yarl's Wood hunger strikers is for adequate healthcare provision in detention.

And to further burst your myth bubble the starvation studies conducted on hunger strikers showed that these fasting individuals lost fat disproportionately to muscle — sorry folks, yes the body holds onto muscle as long as it can.

The ensemble work — as when Maud, Edith, Alice, battered wife and baby - maker Violet, and the stoical, near silent hunger striker Emily Davison (Natalie Press) plan their next moves — is thrilling.

The morning started of with passionate and thought - provoking speeches and calls to action from Alliance to Reclaim Our School's Keron Blair (video), Dyett School hunger striker Jeanette Taylor (video below), and author and educator Isabel Nunez (video).

Earlier in the week on Wednesday, two Dyett Hunger Strikers traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and urged him to intervene in Chicago.

Today the Dyett Hunger Strikers took their fight to Washington, D.C., where they delivered a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and asked him to intervene in Chicago.

On Tuesday, Aug. 25, hundreds of advocates across the country fasted in solidarity with the Chicago hunger strikers.

While Bobby Sands remains the most famous of the Maze prison hunger strikers, nine other men also died, the last, Michael Devine, on August 20 1981.

Critics say the row is similar to that over Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands, whose death on hunger strike in 1981 caused worldwide protests against the British government.

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Join our national network of people taking action to win the very kind of schools that the Dyett Hunger Strikers are demanding.

Khader Asnan is entering his 61st day as a hunger striker in an Israeli prison, being held under an administrative detention order without trial, charges, or any indication of the evidence against him.

«On Monday, July 2nd, if the state has not met the very reasonable demands of these hunger strikers, it will be time for us to share their hunger for justice,» said incoming Georgia Green Party Chairman Bruce Dixon.

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Judith Browne Dianis (Advancement Project) joined the hunger strikers for a press conference in Washington, D.C. last week.

We applaud the hunger strikers and the people that have come out to support them and we are heartened by your decision to re-open Dyett as an open - enrollment school.

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«The hunger strikers in Aurora joined a total of 149 asylum seekers around the country at 10 different detention facilities, according to Piper.

Picture of H - Block Monument in the Free Derry area of the Bogside, Derry; in memory of the hunger strikers in the H - Block of Long Kesh prison in 1981.

They and others were held in special isolation; the hunger strikers, in addition, were force - fed twice a day.

Other political issues tackled include both Margaret Thatcher and the IRA hunger strikers.

Other inmates at the facility say that the hunger striker (Harley Guindon of Oshawa) is the last of approximately thirty prisoners who stopped eating last week to protest what they say are unsanitary conditions and poor medical treatment at the facility.