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...results fraudulent and had been holding peaceful protests all week, had planned to hold the March 25 rally in Oktyabrskaya Square, in the center of the capital city, Minsk. The square had been the site of a tented camp that police destroyed on March 24, when they arrested 328 activists, bringing the number detained since the election to more than 1,000. Opposition leaders insist that the Liberty Day protest was intended to be peaceful. "We're not planning any violence, any taking of the Bastille," said Alexander Milinkevich, a presidential candidate and opposition leader, before the march. "I hope...
...Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has received a $1.5 million gift to endow a specialized initiative tailored for women with aspirations of holding public office. The endowment was a personal gift from Barbara Lee, a leading activist for women’s political leadership, and will directly fund the Barbara Lee Women in U.S. Politics Training Program and Lecture Series. This initiative is part of a larger program, titled “From Harvard Square to the Oval Office,” focused on training women to succeed in politics despite gender imbalances, according to Victoria Budson, executive director...
...transition until they’re out of Harvard, because they feel that they’re going to experience discrimination,” he says.Eric still isn’t sure if he wants to transition. But he knows his undergraduate experience could have been better.Eric, and transgender activists across the University, hope to change the environment at Harvard. The first step, they say, is changing just one sentence in the University’s non-discrimination policy to include protection for “gender identity and expression.” Most advocates know that Harvard?...
...clearly: American, British and other allied soldiers are a sign of hope and liberation.” The AIC director has continued to celebrate the American misadventure in Iraq, even as the occupation there grows more gruesome every day.Furthermore, the main guest featured at the Iran Freedom Concert, activist Akbar Atri, strongly endorsed the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq at the event. He had already discredited himself among Iranian reformists earlier this month when he appeared before Congress as a self-appointed representative of the student movement to ask for American support for regime change in Iran.If the organizers...
Last Saturday, musical performers from around campus and speakers from the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club, as well as Iranian student activist leader Akbar Atri, took the Leverett House stage for the Iran Freedom Concert. The event brought together student groups from all over campus—ranging from the Harvard Middle East Review to the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance to the Harvard Salient, the College’s conservative monthly. “When student bodies speak as one, that’s really where we make our difference,” said...