Hennepin County commissioners give HERC hunger strikers the silent treatment

Hennepin County commissioners give HERC hunger strikers the silent treatment

Going on more than four days without food, three activists on a hunger strike sat in the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners’ waiting room Monday trying to get a meeting with a board member.  Noticeably weakened and moving slowly, the strikers told Sahan Journal they feel strengthened by the outpouring of support from community members. But so far, the strike aimed at closing the county-owned trash incinerator in Minneapolis hasn’t generated …