Author Topic: Students stage DREAM Act hunger strike. (Read 10619 times)

B E C K · « **on:** Nov 11, 2010, 12:04:21 PM »

To show my support, I solemnly vow to only eat one delicious thing an hour.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/education/students_stage_hunger_strike_for_dream_act_107070103.html

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A dozen students at the University of Texas at San Antonio, some of them in the country illegally, declared a hunger strike Wednesday to urge passage of a federal law that would give students a path to citizenship.
Called the DREAM Act, the law addresses immigrants who were brought to the country as children and go on to earn a college degree or serve in the military. The law suffered a recent defeat in Congress, but Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada has vowed to bring it to a vote during the lame-duck session.

Organized by a UTSA student group called DREAM Act NOW!, the strikers gathered Wednesday at the university's Sombrilla Plaza and vowed to fast until Republican U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison throws her support behind the bill. Other events planned for the week include a Veterans Day rally and a visit to Hutchison's San Antonio office on Monday.

“She's our last hope,” said Pamela Resendiz, a 22-year-old political science major at UTSA. “We know she has a good head on her shoulders, and we need her to stand up for us.”

Hutchison has backed the DREAM Act in the past but voted against a more recent version attached to a defense bill. She does not support the current version, according to a statement that urged UTSA students to “find safer ways to voice their opinions.”

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Reportedly, students were so hungry from the strike that they started to eat audio equipement for sustenance.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #1 on:** Nov 11, 2010, 05:52:25 PM »

lol this law won't pass

Fiero · « **Reply #2 on:** Nov 11, 2010, 05:57:00 PM »

It might, but it seems less likely now that the House is run by the maniac right.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #3 on:** Nov 11, 2010, 11:28:01 PM »

You must have missed this part: "...Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada has vowed to bring it to a vote during the lame-duck session," i.e., before the adults put the children in their proper place in the House come January. Though it not passing last time doesn't bode well for this time, and it certainly won't in the new year.

When they say fast, they're not talking starvation. If someone was going to fast until I changed my mind, they'd learn to like bread and water before that happened.

Fiero · « **Reply #4 on:** Nov 12, 2010, 01:46:07 AM »

/facepalm Yep, I did miss that.

B E C K · « **Reply #5 on:** Nov 12, 2010, 11:21:08 PM »

Quote from: Rodent of Unusual Size on Nov 11, 2010, 11:28:01 PM

When they say fast, they're not talking starvation.

Meh, it's funnier to think they are though.

Rama · « **Reply #6 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 12:15:12 AM »

Yeah starvation is funnier, stop ruining it.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #7 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 12:25:27 AM »

They're not serious about it. It's not a hunger strike.

What they really ought to do is set themselves on fire in protest.

B E C K · « **Reply #8 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 01:34:56 AM »

All the girls should set their t-shirts on fire and all the boys their pants. This is a good idea and I fully endorse it.

Fiero · « **Reply #9 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 01:52:32 AM »

Why don't we set all of our clothes on fire, instead of sexually segregating what items we burn.

B E C K · « **Reply #10 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 02:01:48 AM »

But segregation of the clothing will emphasize our heteronormative norms and thus the importance of the dream to Kay Bailey Rabbit in a Hutchison! "Why have you burned your pants and why have you burned your shirts?" Because they crossed the border illegally and got a penis education!

Rama · « **Reply #11 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 02:27:21 AM »

Fuck you! These are nice pants. I'm so not burning them.

joe · « **Reply #12 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 02:42:33 AM »

These pants are always on fire when I'm wearing them.

...because of all the VDs.

B E C K · « **Reply #13 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 02:47:51 AM »

We should freeze you and use you against the aliens when they come, forcing you to breed with their women.

Rama · « **Reply #14 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 02:52:18 AM »

That sounds like a good plan. He could be Plan "Eh".

Get it...cause he's Canadian.

B E C K · « **Reply #15 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 02:53:46 AM »

Plan "Eh". T.

Rama · « **Reply #16 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 02:58:09 AM »

No...I like my joke better.

joe · « **Reply #17 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 03:08:25 AM »

Quote from: Rama on Nov 13, 2010, 02:52:18 AM

That sounds like a good plan. He could be Plan "Eh".

Get it...cause he's Canadian.

I'm glad you clarified it, because I read "eh" like it was "meh".

I don't mind the "eh" thing, because we actually say it.

The "aboot" thing that Matt Stone and Trey Parker started though is complete hogwash.

B E C K · « **Reply #18 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 03:14:49 AM »

I got a pair of black rain aboots with paws on them. Merla bought them for me. I love those aboots. I need a storm now.

https://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/store/item.do?siteId=310&itemId=42323

Rama · « **Reply #19 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 03:15:05 AM »

Oh...then I better not tell you aboot the aboot joke I made.

B E C K · « **Reply #20 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 03:15:50 AM »

What aboot it?

Rama · « **Reply #21 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 03:21:55 AM »

I was talking to Joe, before you and your boots came trampling in.

B E C K · « **Reply #22 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 03:23:12 AM »

Shit, I don't care aboot it then. Me and my aboots have better things to talk aboot, eh? *raised middle finger adorned with maple leaf*

joe · « **Reply #23 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 03:41:16 AM »

Aboobs are fun. I like aboobs.

Rama · « **Reply #24 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 03:43:17 AM »

Hey, I like the sound of that too.

B E C K · « **Reply #25 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 03:45:46 AM »

Aboobs have a maple-leaf shaped nipple.

...that tastes like syrup.

joe · « **Reply #26 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 04:08:05 AM »

God, you'd feel sick in no time sucking on those. Totally ruins the fun, man.

Infant mortality rate would be 100%.

That's just an awful idea.

Rama · « **Reply #27 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 04:10:02 AM »

But a total boom for the syrup industry.

B E C K · « **Reply #28 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 04:11:32 AM »

Quote from: joerammstein on Nov 13, 2010, 04:08:05 AM

God, you'd feel sick in no time sucking on those. Totally ruins the fun, man.

Infant mortality rate would be 100%.

That's just an awful idea.

Just trade them for some of those soy sauce ones from China.

joe · « **Reply #29 on:** Nov 13, 2010, 04:34:25 AM »

Guh. China is so gross.

There's this site I go to, every so often they have these horror stories from out of China.

Entire apartment complexes that tipped right over and completely retained their shape, because the supports didn't go anywhere near as deep as they should have.

How this new bridge collapsed, and when they looked inside, instead of concrete and rebar, there was trash. Straight up human refuse. They built the bridge with trash.

How they have these places with nothing but pens of yowling cats, then they take the cats and throw them into pots of boiling water and cook them alive like lobsters.

Pictures of puppy dog jerky drying on clotheslines.

How some restaurants were reclaiming cooking oil from raw sewage and then using it to prepare more food.

Fucking horrible.

I hate China.