LilMikeSF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> in 1943 five <a href="https://c.im/tags/ConscientiousObjectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConscientiousObjectors</span></a> began a hunger strike at the United States Northeastern Penitentiary in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lewisburg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lewisburg</span></a> Pennsylvania, they were soon joined by a sixth. </p><p>Forced feeding of the religious and political <a href="https://c.im/tags/pacifists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pacifists</span></a> refusing to fight <a href="https://c.im/tags/WWII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WWII</span></a> began October 22nd as they persisted to oppose what they felt was unjust and unconstitutional "Totalitarian" control of their lives. The hunger strike ended in December 1943 when the head of the Federal Bureau of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Prisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prisons</span></a>, ended the <a href="https://c.im/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> of their mail but retained the right to read <a href="https://c.im/tags/PrisonerMail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrisonerMail</span></a>. The men were released after the conclusion of World War II.</p><p>One of those <a href="https://c.im/tags/LewisburgPrison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LewisburgPrison</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HungerStrikers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HungerStrikers</span></a> was a theological seminary student named <a href="https://c.im/tags/DaveDellinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DaveDellinger</span></a> who had been educated at Yale and Oxford before joining the Divinity School of NYC Theological Seminary. Dellinger had already learned as an ambulance driver in the <a href="https://c.im/tags/SpanishCivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpanishCivilWar</span></a> that "whoever won the armed struggle, it would not be the people". Dellinger later worked with the Berrigan brothers, Daniel Ellsberg and helped organize the 1967 protest march that encircled the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pentagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pentagon</span></a>. Dellinger would later end up as the oldest member of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chicago7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chicago7</span></a> protesters, who was acquitted in a show trial alongside Abbie Hoffman in the late 60's. He made trips to Japan to protest <a href="https://c.im/tags/AtomicWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicWeapons</span></a>, and went to China and North Vietnam, securing the release of captured American servicemen, acting as a go-between with North Vietnamese leader <a href="https://c.im/tags/HoChiMinh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HoChiMinh</span></a>.</p>