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NYC Activists End Hunger Strike Because Funding To Keep Them From Eating Ran Out

Alan Bounville, a 34-year-old activist in New York, called off his hunger strike nine days after swearing off food on Nov. 1 because Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wasn’t filing legislation to add gays to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Something about a lack of funding for the effort? Ms. Gillibrand has yet to file such a bill.

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