prison. And lastly they demanded a reduction of sentence. The first hunger strike ended when the hunger strikers thought that the British government had met their demands. After finding out that the government hadn't met their demands, they organised a second hunger strike in March 1981. This time the strike was lead by the leader of the Provisional IRA prisoners, Bobby Sands. Every week a new prisoner would join the hunger strike. In the first few weeks four prisoners had died. The British government
According to Dorothy Day and many other pacifists, the way to avoid war is by use non-violence and by getting rid of all the social ills that bring suffering and discontent to people. Dorothy Day was a committed pacifist born in New York who gave up most of her adult life helping the poor and fighting for their rights. She led many protests against wars. Early life Dorothy was an American journalist, a social activist, a religious figure, a women rights activist and a dedicated catholic convert,
"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community." (Day) These words, from Dorothy Day’s autobiography The Long Loneliness, represent the message that Day spent her life spreading to the world. Day founded the Catholic Worker Movement which strived for social justice and to help those less fortunate. She was also a supporter of women's rights and pacifism (Britannica). Dorothy Day’s conversion to Catholicism caused her to
In the history of the United States, there has been many attempts in fighting for women’s rights. One of the fights being the Equal Rights Amendment, the same as the ERA. The ERA was approached in the 1970s, attempting to give women of the United States equal rights and opportunities the same as men do. The ERA was a closer step to success for women in the United States, even though it was a failure in the end, it eventually helped "maintain" the goal women wanted in the Women’s Movement. The ERA