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Fasting Against the Debt - Reverend David Duncombe - Brief Article

Progressive, The, August, 2000

Washington, D.C.

On June 12, the Reverend David Duncombe, a seventy-two-year-old retired minister, began his second water-only fast in less than a year. Duncombe has shunned food as a show of solidarity with those in impoverished countries. He is urging the passage of debt relief legislation for the Third World. His previous fast was forty-five days long and ended last October.

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