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Occupy D.C. Faction Says No Meals Without Representation, Will Stage Public Hunger Strike

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Women march in an August rally that advocated for representation in Washington D.C. in Congress. (credit: TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Women march in an August rally that advocated for representation in Washington D.C. in Congress. (credit: TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three members of a protest group calling itself “Occupy the Vote D.C.” say they are embarking on a hunger strike to publicize long-standing demands for full voting rights for residents of the nation’s capital.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that the three protesters will cease eating in support of aims they called “D.C. democracy.” Many District residents and elected leaders have sought full representation and voting rights in Congress over recent decades.

It was unclear whether the three protesters would accept liquid nourishment. The report said the three chose McPherson Square Park as the scene of their fast. That square and other sites in the capital have been frequent rallying points for Occupy movement protesters who have largely demonstrated peacefully despite sporadic confrontations with police.

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  • RTC

    Why can’t more “occupiers” take the same kind of action … it would go a long way to solving the problem.

  • charlie

    no one cares if they eat or dont eat the occupiers mean nothing to us

  • Troy Young

    Oh man! I’d love to set up a mobile taco, pizza, or hot pretzel stand right in front of ‘em!

  • gram

    Not even free food?

  • charlie

    they have not taken a bath and there stench would overpower the great smell of your truck

  • pitter43

    Maybe they should just hold their breath LOL.

  • UpChuck.Liberals

    Oh please, don’t do us any favors. These clowns rank right up there with Barry for as much as the real 99% care about them.

  • Joe Nelson

    No one cares if they eat or not!

    Why is this even “news”?

  • Sarge

    Now if we can only get them to stop defecating.

  • Interested

    Hey, will that mean they will quit sharting on everything.

  • charlie

    its news cause if they starve obummer can blame it on bush

  • Interested

    Only if they were as interested in hard work, self responsibility and fiscal responsibility as making arses of themselves.

    Oh well, not everyone can be a member of civilized society.

  • brewitstrong

    Please, oh please stop eating. The world would smell better and besides, I hear human ash makes fertilizer.

  • Truly perplexed

    When will they actually protest those in government that took all the money from the banks and then bailed them all out?

  • Scottiedont

    I’d say their not eating will handle that.

    Police cars and street lamps everywhere will feel safe once again.

  • Roger

    SHOW ME what Starvation death looks like.. THIS IS what starvation death looks like

  • Jack Tripodous

    Great! They should set up a web cam because I would pay good money to watch a few of those lowlife tramps attempt to starve themselves to death. I’m betting they last up to 36, maybe even 48 hours!!!

  • Jack Tripodous

    LMAO!

  • Carl Curmudgeon

    This should cut down on public defecation and excrement on police cars…

  • lastmanonthewall

    If they stop eating , they WILL stop defecating! Problem solved!

  • J

    Maybe they think it will help keep their living areas clean because then they won’t have to poop.

  • still don’t care

    When are these “occupiers” going to realize that nobody gives a sh!t?

  • Chas

    Fasting huh? Have the advanced diretive ready! Three less in the Square, more room for taxpaying citizens.

  • Jon

    So don’t eat no one cares. This movement was dead over 2 months ago.

  • Chris

    I don’t think that they could resist any free handout. It’s just not in their DNA.

  • Chris

    If D.C. were majority Republican voters, or even if they were a swing district, I guarantee you that they would not lift a finger to get D.C. full representation, let alone go on a hunger strike.

  • Jay

    Great idea! then they will stop defecating in public! Win-win!

  • Nick

    I would prefer they protest by self-immolation like buddhist monks, or mistreated Tunisian shopkeepers.

  • Josh Biggs

    So if they start eating before the crisis is solved that makes them hypocrites…. If they really had a core belief they would die before taking another bite of food.

  • john chrislip

    No one really cares what these spoiled children do. Think of them no more.

  • David Huser

    According to the Daily Rash, Occupy Wall Street organizers are using prostitutes to deter rapists at demonstration sites. At least they’re trying to clean things up a bit. http://www.thedailyrash.com/occupy-wall-street-hires-prostitutes-to-combat-rising-rape-allegations

  • Josh Biggs

    Representation is for the independent states of the union not a gov’t run city state. Maybe you should simply keep your residency in your state of origin.

  • gfy2734.com

    Shut up.

  • So Cal Jim

    Wounded D…Your post reads like you’ve been starving your brain for way too long. Put down the bong and pick up a bottle of cod liver oil. You’ll be glad you did.

  • TimX

    With a little luck, soon they’ll be starving for more than just attention.

  • HaHaHa

    All white liberals should follow their example and stop eating,maybe we should put them in concentration camps and make them keep their words.I would pay thousands of dollars to watch them die from starvation.The only good commie is a dead commie.

  • BigBoa

    They’re trying to “bring attention” to their cause? Wow, did ANYONE know these protests were going on? They really need to get the word out…… Apparently there are problems going on in the nation……

    Morons….. They get media coverage when they have 10 or 15 people show up in some towns…. When they have crowds of 100, the media act like it is some massive assembly. Now, if they would protest at capitol hill and the whitehouse, they might actually get some support. But that isn’t their aim. They are part of O’Bozo’s “people’s army”…..

    The public should arm up, show up and disband their sorry butts….

  • arine72

    Well at least we will not have to look at one of them defecating on an auto or the street or the park.

  • Yashreka

    What do you expect to be paid with? IOU’s?

  • RC

    Three less idiots that need feeding!

  • sj

    Hahahah these cows are going to do a hunger strike? Yeah right! the first time they feel the twinge of a real hunger pain they will go running for the nearest Mc D’s Why dont they just save everyone the time and just light themselves on fire like the Buddhist monks do.

  • rw72

    I love it, “largely demonstrated peacefully despite sporadic confrontations with police.” Meanwhile the actually peaceful and law-abiding tea partiers are violent/hateful/etc. Maybe the writer of this article will join the hunger strike.

  • Mahakala

    Now if we can just get them to stop breathing.

  • Pas De Deux

    I Heartily Concur… This Group Would Have Us Believe That They Are The Sole Proprietor Of Governmental Discontent And That They Alone Possess The Singular Answer To Changing A Dysfunctional Government. To The Exclusion Of All Else They Demand That Not Only The Government, But That The De Jure Citizens Acquiesce To Their Authoritarian Occupancy. While Most Individuals Find Agreement In Ending The Influence Money Has Over Our Representatives In Government, That Commonality Of Thought Ceases There. This Horde Specifically Denies “Individual Rights”. They Espouse: Banning Private Ownership Of Land; Banning Individual Wealth; Banning Individual Gun Ownership; Banning Individual Workplace Choice; Banning Individual Jurisprudence And An Ad Nauseam Abnegation Of The “Individual”… It Is Time To Severely Discipline These Wayward Children And The Dysfunctional Government that Tolerates Them. Keep In Mind They Both Believe You Should Give Them All You Presently Own. They Feel No Great Compunction To Earn Their Keep…

  • Ben Dover

    Let them eat cake.

  • Out2Sea

    They are going to stop eating, oh no, oh no……….I wanted them to stop breathing.

  • ZMEEKER

    Was there ever one hunger strike that had netted the desired outcome?

  • Out2Sea

    Darn, you were 7 mins quicker than me. LOL

  • You_stink

    Go! Heros! Yes do not eat and you should not drink water either. Die for the cause brethren…
    I got your back!…
    I will proudly carry your smelly corpses to the undertaker…with gloves and a gas mask of course.
    I think that all the occupiers should follow suit and start hunger strikes for the cause.

  • Databyter

    It’s unfortunate that we will witness this self flaggelation and they will suffer and nobody gives a damn, becausethey do NOT represent the 99% but are in fact the 1% of fidiots.

  • Whitecloud

    Well, it would be a grand Christmas wish come true if these “useful idiots” did stop eating. They upside is that they would be less full of fecal matter and they would wither & wilt. The downside is that history is on the verge of repeating itself. These “uselul idiots” are the brown shirts in the modern National Socialists Party (acting in place of the Democratic Party). Do they know who Adolf was ? Do they really know math since they are no where near being 99% rather than0.099%. It would be nice to have a real leader in the White House instead of this userper and sabatour.

  • walter12

    If they want to die for communism, let them.

  • Mr. Truth

    That’d be great!

  • Jerry

    Oh Boy! When do they stop breathing! I want to see THAT protest! Occupiers: The vast majority of Americans think you are fools. Please feel free to catch the next one way flight out..if you have any money (doubtful).

  • miked

    YEA BUT IT MIGHT TAKE A WEEK OR TWO FOR THEM TO DIE,AND THAT IS JUST NOT EXCEPTABLE

  • Mike

    more food for me!

  • Sunshine Connie

    Will they turn in their food stamps? I hear there are starving children in America.

  • Drake

    They should protest as Camp Crystal Lake.

  • radicaltruth

    oh… they still want liquid nourishment… what brave souls. meal replacement shakes are easy to come by these days. pathetic sensationalism.

  • nolie

    Nobocy should get excited about this. These folks are liberals and the ones who are sober on election day will vote democrat. As democrats, their motto is lie, cheat and steal. Saying they are going on a hunger strike means nothing. They could have had a bite of tofu in their mouths as they were announcing their hunger strike.

  • constantvigil

    Excellent: natural selection at work…

  • Jeff Cooper

    Excellent idea and very capitalistic of you.

  • constantvigil

    Simple quiz for the occupy movement: which is worse, a corrupt government – which we have under Obama – or a corrupt wall street – clue: which “ironically” we also have under Obama?

  • galute

    reptiles do not eat very often anyway

  • meadowlands

    Who cares??? They will self destruct and save taxpayers the money they are costing with this nonsense.

  • Tom

    sj,
    I started laughing so hard at this comment I almost split my gut.

  • michaelp

    The communist party, along with communist Van Jones, ACLU, Seiu, and the rest of thee Anti American organizations are behind the movement. While everyone is looking at the OWS ! Obama and crew are destroying America ! Banking scam still going on ! Fannie and Freddy want more billions ! Holder getting away with murder ! Socialism running wild. Ell Obama ran on full government control and the race card.

  • mekongdelta69

    I was trying to see a problem with this…

    but I can’t.

    : )

  • jaydub

    Starving for attention (see what I did there)…this may take weeks before the final solution bears out…perhaps they try Russian (oooh how very commie) Roulette but with only one empty chamber…hate to see this drag out through the Holidays…cheers!

  • Mannie

    I’ll contribute the gasoline and marshmallows.

  • Andy Pandy

    Everyone has the right to die for their cause. Extortion, however, is not acceptable, so I hope they accomplish nothing but dying (if that is their desire).

  • dthall

    The Occupy groups “claim that the 1%ers are the problem, they have all the money, they are holding us back” They also tell us that the 1% and businesses have over $2 to 3 trillion dollars in cash that’s not being put into the economy. Occupy groups don’t realize that by saying this, that they are admitting that Reagan Trickle Down economics is what they are wishing for to save the economy.
    I agree with you on that point, the Producers are the ones to start the

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  • JohnRalph

    Meanwhile, Mein Führer and Her Royal Highness Queen Moochelle, will dine on Italian White Alba truffles, Kobe steak, blue lobsters and they’ll wash it down with a bottle of Rothschild’s Chateau Lafite 1869, out of a brown paper bag, Chicago style. While we must eat our peas… and learn to appreciate it.

  • billybeer

    Occupy D.C. Faction Says No Meals Without Representation, Will Stage Public Hunger Strike

    HOORAY!!!!!

  • sb36695

    That should get rid of the cr@p on the sidewalks.

  • Pedro Cuervo

    It’s still a free country. Let them do their hunger strike in peace, for as long as they wish.

  • Dave

    All WHITE liberals? How about ALL liberals?

  • Clearhead

    Ya ‘member ‘em ducks up yonder in Lynn MA? When ‘at lil’ ole lady quits a-feedin’ ‘em, they’ll stop all that poopin’ in the park. Well, ‘em OWS’ers’ll do the same, an’ yur parks an’ pleece cars’ll be a lot cleaner and less stinky. Good idee !!

  • Al Tango

    Dear occupyholes:

    Why not stage an air strike. Vow to not breathe for just one hour. It isn’t a very long time and it could make a convincing statement about your seriousness.

    Do it underwater to prove you are not cheating.

  • Justin Tyme

    I’m guessing they will sneak out for snacks…..they have the cowardice of their convictions, poor babies…

  • Justin Tyme

    Never could figure out the point of a hunger strike. Seems like a pretty darn foolish action, all in all.

    I mean, who frackin’ cares? Oh wait…there will be medical costs, won’t there…yep…another burden on our health care system by those expecting freebies…

  • Richard

    they dont have a job…..everything they eat is free……

  • Justin Tyme

    Undertaker? Why just not take ‘em out about 12 miles to sea…save a bunch of money….

  • Spanky

    Surely they’d prefer corn-based ethanol over fossil fuels!

  • Spanky Spankster

    Does this mean that their mommy’s staff no longer has to bring gourmet meals?

  • rho1953

    This is a problem? It sounds like a solution to me.

  • Libs Hate Facts

    The heroin these lib lunatics are using helps with killing their appetite. Hopefully they will OD instead. 3 less disease infested, drugged out Obama supporters.

  • tomSERVO

    Why don’t the “Occupiers” give up rape first, then if they want to move on to food, then great.

  • Controse

    Now we are getting someplace.

  • abbey

    Are we supposed to care?

  • nocturnesthesia

    Maybe if more people followed the example, we can get the obesity level under 30%.

  • wounded_defecators (project)

    Liberal, Neo-conservative useful idiots and critics of Assembly, and frankly haters of truth and freedom, exist by feeding on the entrepreneurial, middle class.
    Which explains why the nation’s respect and admiration are with Occupy and with the Anonymous, Wikileaks and Ruckus brigades. Thank you heroes for all of your service.
    For they know, proletariat’s bad children and parasites, sic Zionist apparachiks of the Fed, IMF and World Bank, will never admonish the Crony Capitalism feeding their addictions and narcissism. A special interest needful and earnest of all the hearty, steamy excrement patriots can provide. Sh!t and p!ss on, noble flea-baggers, lest the streets flow with blood.

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