Activist Jillian Pim on Hunger Strike in Protest of Fort Lauderdale Homeless Laws

By Ryan Pfeffer Wed., Nov. 12 2014 at 10:30 AM

Categories: News

Jillian Pim hunger-striking in protest of Fort Lauderdale homeless feeding laws from Voice Media Group; video by Dylan Bouscher.

Jillian Pim hasn't eaten in over a week. She only drinks lemon water, twice a day adding salt for electrolytes.

Jillian and her husband, Nathan Pim, are activists with South Florida Food Not Bombs, a group that claims it has been feeding the homeless in Stranahan Park in downtown Fort Lauderdale for seven years. The two have been actively protesting Fort Lauderdale's new homeless feeding restrictions since Fort Lauderdale commissioners voted to approve the new ordinance on October 22.

Jillian's latest protest, a hunger strike, has left her weak but determined.

"If I starve and it actually changes something, it'll keep all these other people from potentially starving," Jillian tells New Times. Her last meal was a chocolate bar and raspberry lemonade. She misses coffee, beer, and chocolate the most.

She anticipates she'll be able to go 40 days before suffering serious bodily harm.

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frankd4 topcommenter

...............yeah those damn HOMELESS are always in the way:

A drunk 22-year-old girl crashed her Porsche Panamera into a parking lot in Fort Lauderdale, Florida last month, killing two homeless men sleeping there. She then reportedly planned to flee the country.Alyza Russell lost control of her 2012 Porsche on the night of June 12th, screeching through an intersection, crashing through tall shrubs, and running through a parking lot. She struck two homeless men sleeping there, killing them both. It is unclear if she deliberately tried to flee the scene of the crime, according to grisly accounts of the scene. One man described the events toLocal 10 News as "something out of a movie."I thought it was a clump of dirt under the car, but it was who we call Slim. She went over here and stopped and then she started peeling out, it looked like. She was smoking her tires but she couldn't go anywhere because one guy was locked in the wheel.A toxicology test later discovered the art student living with parents had a BAC of 0.17, just over double the legal limit in Florida. The police had let Russell go home while they ran the test, and she allegedly planned to flee the country. Local 10 News reports that she told a coworker she was going to flee to Ireland, and the prosecutor in the case stated she made a payment to the British consulate equal to what you need to renew a passport. She has dual citizenship and her family had been planning a vacation there since before the crash.