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William Devlin, founder of Urban Family Council, a local faith-based organization that provides educational services to children, young adults and their families, is on a 40-day fast to protest the violence problem in the city.
As founder of the UFC, a community organization, Devlin has had much experience with fasting. Most notably, he fasted in March 2005 to protest the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
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"We have a city that is filled with violence and I think that when you do something like this the one goal is change," Devlin said.
One such brush with violence that Devlin experienced himself in the city occurred in March 1987.
"We had just bought our first house [in the Logan section] and I was getting out of my car and a man approached me, demanding that I give him my money," he said.
Devlin didn't oblige and the man pulled out a large butcher knife. In the midst of a scuffle with the knife-wielding man, Devlin was stabbed in the arm.
"He knocked me out at one point, I was out for a good 10 seconds," Devlin, who now lives in Montgomery County, recalled.
"I got up and saw the man running down the street and I began to run after him," Devlin said.
"I wanted to help him."
He continued running, wondering why his arms suddenly felt so heavy.
"I reached up and felt the back of my head and the big butcher knife was in the back of my head," Devlin said recounting the horrifying detail that he thankfully survived.
"I just thought to myself, 'What can I do to be an example?' " he said. "It's very practical if you think about it.
"It's just one man's quest for change."
Activist fasts to protest city violence
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Sounds more like a form of trench mouth. Who is this Craig Shirley guy anyway?
Craig Shirley, a Reagan biographer who has spent years in the conservative trenches, said the GOP has veered badly off course, running up record deficits, pursuing a Wilsonian foreign policy — "making the world safe for democracy" — and becoming overly intrusive in people's private lives, whether intervening in the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case or seeking to ban gambling on the Internet.
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Talk about sure-fire diets, if you fast to send a message to evil-doers, you'll never eat again.