f{"id":41397,"date":"2025-05-23T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=41397"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:15:09","slug":"u-s-military-vets-and-allies-begin-40-day-hunger-strike-for-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/u-s-military-vets-and-allies-begin-40-day-hunger-strike-for-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Military Vets and Allies Begin 40-Day Hunger Strike for Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May 23, 2025 (democracynow.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/headlines\/50\/77350\/quarter_hd\/H7-Vets.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image Credit: Veterans &amp; Allies Fast for Gaza<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2025\/5\/23\/headlines\/us_military_vets_and_allies_begin_40_day_hunger_strike_for_gaza\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2025\/5\/23\/headlines\/us_military_vets_and_allies_begin_40_day_hunger_strike_for_gaza&amp;text=U.S.+Military+Vets+and+Allies+Begin+40-Day+Hunger+Strike+for+Gaza&amp;via=democracynow&amp;lang=en\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2025\/5\/23\/headlines\/us_military_vets_and_allies_begin_40_day_hunger_strike_for_gaza\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wa.me\/?text=https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2025\/5\/23\/headlines\/us_military_vets_and_allies_begin_40_day_hunger_strike_for_gaza\"><\/a><a href=\"mailto:?body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.democracynow.org%2F2025%2F5%2F23%2Fheadlines%2Fus_military_vets_and_allies_begin_40_day_hunger_strike_for_gaza&amp;subject=U.S.%20Military%20Vets%20and%20Allies%20Begin%2040-Day%20Hunger%20Strike%20for%20Gaza\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In New York, a coalition of military veterans and other rights activists have begun a 40-day \u201cFast for Gaza.\u201d The hunger strikers are gathering at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. for their action. They spoke in front of the U.N. Thursday as they launched their fast. This is 74-year-old Mike Ferner, former national director of Veterans for Peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mike Ferner<\/strong>: \u201cOur demands are full humanitarian aid under the authority of the United Nations, no more weapons to Israel, to stop the genocide, stop the killing and start treating this Earth as though it were sacred.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 23, 2025 (democracynow.org) Image Credit: Veterans &amp; Allies Fast for Gaza In New York, a coalition of military veterans and other rights activists have begun a 40-day \u201cFast for Gaza.\u201d The hunger strikers are gathering at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. for their action. They spoke in front&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/u-s-military-vets-and-allies-begin-40-day-hunger-strike-for-gaza\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}