Day 3 Reflections from Jared Sacks: Umphokoqo made me feel sick – but I ate it anyways.

Last night I came back home starving. I had been fasting eating only mealie-meal based pap for 6 full meals and despite having eaten pap for dinner, I was again starving for a pre-midnight snack. I thought I was having a treat. Thinking about adding amasi (a sour milk drink that to me resembles Bulgarian…

Day 1 of Fast – Jared Sacks

Here is a photo of what Jared Sacks ate for lunch on his first day of CHOSA’s Pap n Porridge Fast. He found it edible – though he was hungry again only one hour later.

CHOSA book launch and fundraiser at Diesel Bookstore in Los Angeles

CHOSA will be hosting a second book launch and fundraiser on July 6th, 2011 at 7pm at Diesel Bookstore in Santa Monica. The book is called “No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way” and it is written and edited by the Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers featuring a forward by best-selling author and…