A prominent San Francisco nonprofit leader is starting a hunger strike in June, in protest of a proposed budget cut that threatens to strangle civil legal services in the city .

Adrian Tirtanadi is the founder of Open Door Legal, which provides law services for San Francisco’s low income residents. Access to these services, Tirtanadi said, can help build a bridge out of poverty in America.

“Since people don’t have access to legal services in the U.S., hundreds of billions of dollars in assets and lost income are stolen from poor and working class Americans every year. If we could just change that one thing about our country, it would be so much more equitable,” said Tirtanadi.

Following news of Mayor Daniel Lurie’s new proposed budget, announced late May, general civil legal services

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