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Bloomberg has already started meeting with the city unions most likely to suffer direct hits from the fiscal crisis. He has even reached out to black activist Al Sharpton, something Giuliani never did. The meetings are evidence that part of the story Bloomberg sold voters is true: Being a CEO is not unlike being a politician. Bloomberg has long nurtured relationships. He tried to have lunch with everyone in his 7,600-person company. He's used to listening to people with a polite smile on his face...
Conservative Undergraduate Council presidential candidate Ernani J. DeAraujo ’03 announced Fred O. Smith ’04, a campus activist with liberal credentials, as his running mate Wednesday...
Yesterday’s panel focused on the need for women to be included in a new Afghan government. The panelists also included Ambassador Swanee Hunt, the chair of Women Waging Peace, Rita Manchanda, a human rights activist from India; and Owais Aslam Ali, the chairman of Pakistan Press International...
...that PSLM members themselves feel toward the multitude of class issues which complicate their actions. PSLM members continually speak of the importance of inclusiveness in their campaign, both of the workers they protest on behalf of, and the majority of students at Harvard who are not part of the activist movement. Bartley admits that while most students were familiar with direct action strategies through the anti-globalization protests, “this direct action movement has not been ingrained in workers today because of a more passive brand of business unionism. It was difficult to convince workers that direct action...
Professor David Hall, who teaches a class at the Divinity School in Radical Social History, points out that this has become a contentious issue for student activists in part because the prosperity of the 1990s has been unequally distributed. “What makes the Living Wage campaign interesting is that whereas in the 1960s there was very little major union activity in relation to civil rights and the Vietnam War, the issues concerning the student activist today revolve around class and thus implicitly involve labor power plays,” he said...