Occupy D.C. hunger strikers, frail but undaunted

The hunger strikers are no longer hungry. Soon, if they keep going, they will no longer be lucid. (Some say they never were.)

Cocooned in sleeping bags on the cold floor of St. Stephen's Church in Columbia Heights, the hunger strikers dozed under a painting of Jesus Christ bearing a loaf of bread. They woke now and then to flick through their Twitter feeds in search of solidarity, looking for the hashtag #OccupytheVoteDC, wondering whether anyone would join their bodily protest of the District's taxation without representation.

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Rosalind S. Helderman, Paul Kane 17 Dec, 2011


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