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This isn't the last takeover that Harvard has seen, though. In 2001, several dozen students took over Massachusetts Hall to protest low wages for janitors and dining hall and maintenance workers. Faced with a tense budget situation again this time around, the Student Labor Action Movement appears to be gearing up—handing President Faust a letter at a recent lunch meeting in Eliot. But there's a long way to go between envelopes and building takeovers...
...that America should only respond once violence has actually spread and that we should avoid inciting or contributing to conflict in any way. Deploying the National Guard to the border, however, is a preventive measure aimed at limiting violence before it is able to extend to the border. Delaying action will leave Americans unprotected when conflict does inevitably spread, and the risk of providing more targets is outweighed by the prospect of endangering Texas civilians’ lives...
...their jurisdiction. While protecting American citizens represents a valid national interest, engaging in the Mexican conflict or entering Mexican territory would involve endangering troops’ lives for the sake of a national battle that does not immediately threaten America’s safety. It is this type of action that would anger the Mexican populace and represent unnecessary involvement in an external conflict not concerned with American interests or ideals...
...tragedy of migrants ... dying is a horrible regret of any action which has that outcome." - on the criticism that Operation Gatekeeper pushed migrants deeper into the desert, where they were more easily susceptible to dehydration and death, (San Diego Union-Tribune, June...
...attendance but did not speak. Hammonds is currently scheduled to attend a UC meeting on May 3, according to Kia J. McLeod ’10, UC vice-president. Smith has also been invited to that meeting. A contingent of students representing Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement were also in attendance at the meeting, accompanied by a large sign that read, “Greed is the new Crimson.org. No layoffs,” to which Smith commented, “Nice banner.” After the event Flores praised Smith for his willingness to answer...