SHORT TAKES : Gregory Begins Fast to Protest U.S. Military Presence in Gulf
Peace activist Dick Gregory has begun a fast to protest military action in the Persian Gulf and said he’d maintain it until all U.S. troops are returned home.
Gregory began the fast Thanksgiving morning with a prayer vigil at Plymouth Rock.
“Thanksgiving is the day that we in America set aside to be thankful for the abundance of our land,” Gregory said. “It is hard to be completely thankful with war in the Persian Gulf casting a shadow across our country.”
Gregory was a civil rights activist in the 1960s and marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X. The one-time stand-up comic is now considered a diet guru for a liquid diet plan he created.
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