Ethel Kennedy, the 90-year-old widow ofRobert F. Kennedy, has joinedAlec Baldwin,Evan Rachel Wood, Sen.Elizabeth Warren and more big names in a hunger strike protesting President Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
The Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy has resulted in more than 2,300 children being separated from their parents at the border since April. Last week, after intense public pressure, the president signed an executive order reversing his own administration’s policy.
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But Kennedy said in a statementthat Trump’s order was “not a time to declare victory and go home.”
“Generations of Americans did not toil and sacrifice to build a country where children and their parents are placed in cages to advance a cynical political agenda,” the statement said, according to theBoston Globe.
The fast, which started Saturday, will last for 24 days, in honor of the estimated 2,400 children who have been separated from their parents due to Trump’s policy. Each participant is asked to fast for 24 hours and make a donation in place of the meals they would have eaten.
Other famous participantsinclude LeVar Burton, Martin Sheen, Alfre Woodard, Gina Belafonte, and Keegan-Michael Key, according toWmagazine.
Kennedy has not yet begun her fast, but her daughter Kerry, head of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, tells theGlobethat her mother is “very joyful about it.”
source: people.com
