In recent months the Socialists have boycotted parliament, held demonstrations and mounted hunger strikes.
Singer PJ Harvey wrote a song called "Shaker Aamer," and other celebrities mounted hunger strikes in solidarity with Aamer, himself a frequent hunger striker.
Since the trial began in October, the former dictator and his co-defendant half-brother have been having a high old time denouncing the American-backed tribunal as "the daughter of a whore", hurling abuse at the judges, staging walk-outs, railing against Iraq's occupation by "foreign invaders", demanding repeated adjournments and, now, mounting a hunger strike.
Not content with a planned march into one of Pakistan's most dangerous regions, a group of middle-aged American women are considering mounting a hunger strike outside the US embassy in Islamabad as part a campaign against CIA drone attacks in the country.
Since the announcement of the planned evictions, two Afghan asylum seekers who were refused refugee status have mounted a hunger strike outside the Home Office base in Glasgow.
In the past detainees on Nauru mounted multiple hunger strikes to protest against both conditions and the length of their detention.
Despite a hastily arranged release warrant, Hazare is refusing to leave the high-security Tihar prison in Delhi until the government allows him to mount a public hunger strike.
Camped out in the St Lourde's Church in Idinthakarai village, a 20-minute walk from Kudankulam power station, fishermen's wives mounted a relay hunger strike for five years calling for the power station's closure.
For the second year running, the biggest display has been mounted by a "Hunger Games" film, in this case "Mockingjay — Part 1," which has taken over the entire driveway of the Hotel Majestic with signs for its "Fire Burns Brighter in the Darkness" tagline in a boggling variety of tongues, including Russian, Hebrew, Italian and a language that resisted ready identification.
Obama was prepared to deliver the speech earlier this month, but it was put off amid mounting concerns over a prisoner hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay and more recently the Justice Department leaks investigation — both of which the revised speech may address.
If You're Hungry For A Snack Fill up with this good news: thanks to Maryland's Hunger Free Schools Act of 2015, Baltimore children attending public schools can get both breakfast and lunch for free at a time when childhood hunger is a mounting issue.
