Introduction Movements Eras Organizations Index Contributions
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Whistleblowers Conscientious Objectors & Military Resisters Civil Disobedience & Plowshares Political Prisoners in Exile Death-Row Political Prisoners Hunger Strikers Wrongfully Convicted / COINTELPRO Frame-Ups Recently Released Political Prisoners Elder Political Prisoners
HUNGER STRIKERS
Political prisoners who used hunger strikes as a tool of resistance from inside. Includes the Pelican Bay strikes (2011, 2013), the 1981 Irish hunger strikes' U.S. solidarity strikes by Plowshares prisoners, Joe-Joe Bowen's solitary-confinement strikes, the August 21 / Free Alabama Movement strikes (2018), and the 2025 strikes by Stop Cop City and Palestine-solidarity defendants.
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Rose Winslow
1910s · District of Columbia