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\nRosario Lopez and Viridiana Martinez ended their two-week hunger strike Monday with a ceremony at their encampment in downtown Raleigh.<\/center><\/p>\n
Loida Silva, 23, fell ill with what friends called a combination of dehydration and heat stroke. She went to the hospital Sunday, but by last night Silva was home, eating and watching the ceremony in downtown Raleigh via an internet video connection.<\/p>\n
Dominick Powell, who has been working with the three hunger strikers, said that the three had been threatened over email by a known sexual predator who has targeted immigrant women. Powell wouldn\u2019t give much detail except to say that \u201cthe appropriate authorities have been notified.\u201d<\/p>\n
The three women, Silva, Rosario Lopez, 25, and Viridiana Martinez, 23, have all lived in central North Carolina since they were children. They are members of the NC Dream Team<\/a>, an organization established to help pass the bill that would create a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants that came here as children.<\/p>\n Martinez, speaking to a crowd of more than 70 who had gathered to mark the end of the strike, said, \u201cWe\u2019re not asking for a free ride.\u201d<\/p>\n She continued, \u201cThe system is broken. There is no pathway. There is no \u2018go back to your country and get in line.\u2019 There is no line.\u201d<\/p>\n Lopez said they relied on their friends and supporters, not just to watch the downtown Raleigh encampment over night, but by the end they needed help walking. \u201cEven to talk became very hard,\u201d Lopez said.<\/p>\n Lopez and Martinez said they ended the strike with vegetables and soup for breakfast Monday morning.<\/p>\n