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Together with a few colleagues-including her TV boss (Arvydas Dapšys) and a compassionate local dweller (Paulius Pinigis), Daiva starts a hunger strike in a small trailer facing the TV station.
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Annika Pham, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
Burgos mentioned the hundreds of millions of dollars in debt relief that Mamdani helped taxi-medallion owners win from City Hall in 2021, in part by going on a fifteen-day hunger strike, and a pilot program that made one bus route in every borough free.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Kieran Doherty, an Irish Republican Army prisoner, reportedly lasted 73 days on a hunger strike in 1981 before dying.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 25 Sep. 2025
His pardon came after years of pressure on Egypt’s government from his family, that included long hunger strikes by Abd El-Fattah and his mother, Laila Soueif, who is a professor of math at Cairo University.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
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Annika Pham, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025
Burgos mentioned the hundreds of millions of dollars in debt relief that Mamdani helped taxi-medallion owners win from City Hall in 2021, in part by going on a fifteen-day hunger strike, and a pilot program that made one bus route in every borough free.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
Kieran Doherty, an Irish Republican Army prisoner, reportedly lasted 73 days on a hunger strike in 1981 before dying.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 25 Sep. 2025
His pardon came after years of pressure on Egypt’s government from his family, that included long hunger strikes by Abd El-Fattah and his mother, Laila Soueif, who is a professor of math at Cairo University.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Hunger strike.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hunger%20strike. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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