Many people are fasting to protest the drastic cuts that are being proposed in Washington right now. You can read more about the fast and even join in at Move On. The premise of the fast: when Congress is debating forcing veterans into homelessness and cutting food aid to pregnant women and children, while giving tax breaks to billionaires, something is very, very wrong. Religious leaders have banded together to organize the fast.
Those who will go hungry because of these cuts are largely invisible to decision-makers in Congress. By fasting in solidarity, we have an opportunity to make their suffering visible, and expose the immorality of this policy.
Anyone can participate although please don't if you have health issues. You may choose to fast for a day, for a meal or a week. The choice is yours.
We have to find ways to make our legislators listen to us and this just may be the way to do that.
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