Three Clemson University professors are committed to fasting through Sunday in a plea for the administration to take a stand against President Trump’s recent immigrant ban.
Although the executive order is suspended (and will likely go to supreme court), they say the hunger strike against the order is more important now than before.
The move is not only a way of bringing attention to their cause said Chenjerai Kumanyika, an associate professor in the communication studies. It’s also largely symbolic.
“Recent estimates have said something like 6.6 million people are internally displaced in Syria, and many of them are trying to go to Turkey to come here and because of this ban, they can’t. They’re suffering, they’re in war-torn conditions – so they’re actually hungry.”
