SF State hunger strikers keep up fight for ethnic studies
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One group of San Francisco hunger strikers may have started eating again, but an equally determined group of hunger strikers at San Francisco State University went through its eighth day on Monday without solid food to protest budget cuts to a popular ethnic studies program.
The San Francisco State protest, which had been overshadowed by the hunger strike by activists who want San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr fired, was the subject of a noisy noon rally in the middle of campus that drew about 300 students, faculty and alumni — including actor Danny Glover.
Hunger striker Ahkeel Mestayer, 20, said the planned cuts to the College of Ethnic Studies threatened to gut the classes that mean the most to him.
“These classes teach us about the fight against racism, sexism, capitalism — all the isms,” said Mestayer, who has taken six ethnic studies classes.