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...What we’re seeing here is an upsurge. We’re seeing the beginning of a new era,” says Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, a founder of the Student Labor Activist Movement (SLAM) and co-founder of Harvard Students for a Democratic Society. “I haven’t seen anything in my four years that was like this year...
...Indeed, after a quiet half-decade, student activism saw an upsurge this spring. Less than a week after they broke their fast, the Stand for Security strikers would be joined on the activist platform by leaders of many campus ethnic groups who came together in a campaign to confront racism at the University...
...Operating out of San Francisco, Mead, who served 18 years in Washington State for crimes committed in the '70s as a member of the revolutionary group George Jackson Brigade, is now a prison-reform activist. He says art gives prisoners a sense of themselves, raises their self-esteem and keeps them busy. Cornyn's bill, he adds, "is an attempt to pass another 'Son of Sam' law," referring to the 1971 New York state law aimed at blocking potential book profits for notorious criminals like "Son of Sam" killer David Berkowitz. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned...
...Stretching from this highly activist period of the campus’s history through two committee revisions and numerous iterations, right up to the present—when some of the key figures behind its development appear to be wondering if it might be time for a change—the evolution of the council represents an ongoing process in determining how students can best govern their own. That process may well continue for some time...
...tone of the racial conflict had reached a new peak the year before, when Steve Biko—the 30-year-old activist behind the “Black Consciousness” movement—was killed in police custody...