From The Chicago Tribune-
For years, the Rev. Jose Landaverde has been a tireless advocate for immigration reform, his insatiable appetite for attention to the cause once leading him to camp overnight outside a detention center in Broadview to show that activists like him won't go away until Congress acts on the issue.
His latest campaign is leaving Landaverde, 42, weak and breathless.
Since June 17, Landaverde has been on a diet of water and fruit juice as part of a planned chain of "hunger strikes" meant to draw more urgency to calls for federal legislators to overhaul the nation's immigration system. Landaverde, who has diabetes, took over from another minister, Rev. Martin Santellano, who, supporters say, went 32 days without solid foods.
For years, the Rev. Jose Landaverde has been a tireless advocate for immigration reform, his insatiable appetite for attention to the cause once leading him to camp overnight outside a detention center in Broadview to show that activists like him won't go away until Congress acts on the issue.
His latest campaign is leaving Landaverde, 42, weak and breathless.
Since June 17, Landaverde has been on a diet of water and fruit juice as part of a planned chain of "hunger strikes" meant to draw more urgency to calls for federal legislators to overhaul the nation's immigration system. Landaverde, who has diabetes, took over from another minister, Rev. Martin Santellano, who, supporters say, went 32 days without solid foods.
More here-
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-immigration-hunger-strike-20100627,0,4971660.story
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