Last week, campus union organizers at Yale University gathered in a tent outside University President Peter Salovey’s home. The eight-member group was participating in a hunger strike in response to Yale’s unwillingness to negotiate a contract with its graduate teachers. The graduate students voted to unionize in February, after three years of
Yale College Republicans Hold BBQ Near Hunger Strike To Taunt Protesters
The tactic has drawn comparisons to another recent barbecue halfway across the world where Israeli youth held a barbecue outside a prison in which Palestinians were engaging in a hunger strike.