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#fastfortheclimate: Gimmick or powerful climate change campaign?
2014-05-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: When we think of hunger strikes historical figures tend to come to mind: Gandhi, the suffragettes, Irish republican Bobby Sands. But what would it look like if we transplanted this established form of protest into the digital age? The recent fast for the climate campaign may give us a starting point. The campaign has drawn its inspiration from Philippines climate change commissioner Yeb Sano's 13-day hunger strike at the post-Typhoon Haiyan's COP19. This individual protest has grown into an active...
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