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Yesterday, two food blogs encouraged other bloggers to support a hunger strike or wage a virtual "fast from blogging" for one day or more, in a campaign designed to build pressure for withdrawing U.S. troops from the Iraq war.
Troops Home Fast is the name of a hunger strike campaign organized by Code Pink scheduled to begin July 4, in protest against the Iraq war. The campaign has also been endorsed by Progressive Democrats of America.
Now Cooking with Ideas has proposed that food blogs, or other bloggers, join the protest with a "virtual" or literal fast. Cooking with Ideas suggest several ways bloggers can lend support:
Just as those who are organizing the Hunger Strike offer various ways to be involved, there are many ways to support the "virtual fast." You might do so by:
1) Joining the strike by refraining from blogging for the period that long term hunger strikers do so.
2) "Fasting" on July 4th (the starting date) with those who do so.
3) "Fasting" on a different day or other time period and announcing your intention to do so and why.
4) Organizing a "rolling fast" with bloggers you know-- so that some or all of us refrain from blogging on different dates.
5) Doing what we can to ensure that we publicize the literal -- and our virtual --fast. The Code Pink site has useful information --including directions on how to fast safely.
Of course, for those of us who choose to fast literally, posting on that topic (on a day when you are not figuratively fasting!) would be great as well. Be sure to include a tag in your post -- we suggest "virtual hunger strike." And let us know that you're joining us.
Another food blogger, Laura Rebecca's Kitchen has already joined, designing the logo for bloggers you see above and posting Blog Fast for Peace encouraging other bloggers to participate.
Contributing editor Kalyn Denny also blogs at Kalyn's Kitchen
