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How Long Can You Go Without Food? Hunger Strikes 101

This article describes the health aspects of participating in a hunger strike. "Fasting becomes dangerous after just three to five days, at which point the body begins breaking down fat in order to produce energy" and ketoacidosis might beg ...

http://www.slate.com/id/2102228/

Hunger Strike History

"Hunger strikes have been used to change policy and social wrongs for hundreds of years. In early Ireland, where the tradition originated, hunger strikes were actually encoded in civic law." This site provides a brief overview of "some ...

http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=1025

Key Events: The Hunger Strike of 1981

Resources related to the Northern Ireland hunger strike of 1981. Includes a reading list, a summary of key events, a chronology of events, and names of the people who died during the hunger strike. From CAIN, a University of Ulster website that ...

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/events/hstrike/

Teaching With Historic Places Lesson Plans: Paterson, New Jersey: America's Silk City

This lesson focuses on Paterson, New Jersey, which was known as "Silk City" in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when the town produced large quantities of silk fabric. "In 1913, however, the mills stood silent for five months as ...

http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/102paterson/102paterson.htm

The Bisbee Deportation of 1917

A brief history of this significant event in labor history. Included are full-text documents of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or Wobblies, including their song book. Site also contains documents supporting the copper mining companies and ...

http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/bisbee/

Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937

This interactive exhibit explores the 1936-37 strike at General Motors in Flint, Mich., through numerous oral histories, an audio timeline, a map of the strike location, and a narrated slideshow. Searchable. From Michigan State University, "crea ...

http://www.historicalvoices.org/flint/

1981 Hunger Strikes: America Reacts

This exhibit traces public opinion in the United States before and after the 1981 Northern Ireland hunger strikes. It features nearly 200 excerpts from media coverage about the events, a timeline using news headlines related to the strikes, brief bio ...

http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/aia/exhibits/0501_hunger/

New York State Taylor Law: Negotiating to Avoid Strikes in the Public Sector

Article from 1998 describing the history and operation of New York state's 1967 Taylor Law (Public Employees Fair Employment Act). "The Taylor Law, permits union organizing [by public sector employees], and provides a system within which to reso ...

http://government.cce.cornell.edu/doc/reports/labor-management/ny_civil_service_law.asp

The May Events Archive

This online archive "documents this exciting historical moment with original leaflets, magazines, and newspapers" from 1968, "the climactic year of New Left protest all over the Western world, and especially in [Paris] France where in ...

http://edocs.lib.sfu.ca/projects/mai68/

Kids' Lightning Information and Safety

A girl struck by lightning made this website. It gives excellent information and resources on lightning and lightning safety.

http://www.kidslightning.info/zaphome.htm

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