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Harvard Students Against Sweatshops (HSAS) protested Harvard’s labor-monitoring policies yesterday afternoon in front of The Coop, with eight students and one member’s brother raising a banner and passing out flyers...
...banner-dropping was originally scheduled for Monday, but was postponed both because only five HSAS members came and because there was no Crimson coverage...
Students attached the handmade banner, reading “Where’s the VERITAS in slave labor?” and depicting a crossed-out Nike swoosh, to a lantern and the Coop sign. One member held the sign in place while others gave 100 “Harvard-Nike: Just don’t do it” leaflets to passersby, urging them to call University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...stand: That is the mantra, the logo, the declaration of codependency for the new Fortress America. How, then, must someone feel who stands apart, in opposition to the nation's righteous war fever? Ask Catherine Herdlick, a graduate student at Parsons School of Design, who helped carry a banner reading PEACE NOT WAR last Thursday in Manhattan's Union Square. Ask the 500 or so demonstrators who convened there a day later before marching north to Times Square. They are the first peaceniks of the 21st century...
...relationship with Iran. "Finally, we realize not only that the U.S. isn't our worst enemy, but that a much more dangerous enemy exists," said student Jamileh Rezvani. Insights like this sometimes led to awkward yet poignant gestures. At the gym in suburban Tehran, for instance, the Star-Spangled Banner was played before the start of an aerobics class...