Fasting

[norral]

hi rie
heres a link to a fellows blog where he describes his participation in a fast for social justice.

http://changefromwithin.org/2011/04/22/f...l-justice/

historically fasting has been used by all social movements. gandhi when he was resisting the british would fast all the time. cesar chavez, who helped to unionize farm workers, used to fast. i believe dr king used fasting in his work for civil rights for african americans. bobby sands , who was part of the irish republican army, actually died from fasting in a british jail. here is a link about that. he had fasted for 66 days unbelievably .
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Bobby_Sands?o=2800&qsrc=999
so fasting has been a tool for social justice and change for a long time and will continue to be so.
this fast i just did i dedicated to the long term unemployed. those who have been unemployed for over a year. i ask the creator that any virtue i might accumulate should be given to the cause of the long term unemployed. and that is what i am going to be doing in the forseeable future with my fast dedicating them to the cause of the long term unemployed.
i like it because its is not confrontational, there is nothing that anyone can really do to stop it, i mean bobby sands was in jail and fasted for 66 days and they couldnt stop it, so i consider it effective. i am in the process of looking here for groups around nyc who are fasting right now for different social causes as i will join in if i like their cause

norral