Support Builds For G'Town Hunger Strike

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Support is building for the 8-day-old hunger strike by 26 Georgetown University students who began fasting last Monday as part of their three-year campaign to win a living wage for campus workers. In addition to the AFL-CIO, the Metro Washington Council and area religious leaders, support has been flooding in from around the country as the story has spread about the students’ campaign for a living wage, equal pay for women, job security and a fair process by which workers can freely form unions. A delegation of religious leaders met with the students and Georgetown President John J. DeGioia Friday; while students working within the Advisory Committee on Business Ethics say they’re are making progress towards a compromise, the University's top officials are still not committed to a living wage and a major labor rally is planned for noon tomorrow (see On The Line, above). "I'm willing to go as long as it takes," hunger striker Liz O'Callahan told reporter David Swanson last week. Catch a discussion of the Georgetown Hunger Strike on the Thom Hartmann Show at 2P today. Click here to see Swanson’s photos of the hunger strikers. Click here to learn about and support the Georgetown Living Wage Campaign.