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Alexandra McNitt, a project manager at HDS, said the "Limited Yes" voting options were added after students pointed out that not all table grapes are produced in California, and that foreign grape producers would not be subject to the United Farm Workers (UFW) boycott on California grapes that has been in effect since...
With the grape situation thus veering toward the surreal, and as the debate is stained by allegations of deceit, you may be tempted to give in to a craving for the juicy, sweet, smooth-skinned fruit we know and love and end our involvement in the boycott here and now. But at least take a close look at the facts before casting your vote...
...fact that the UFW has largely abandoned the grape boycott in favor of other crusades--and the fact that many farmworkers have decided they are better off without membership in it--may well be another red herring. What matters here is not labor politics, but the health and safety of the workers and of consumers. If these remain at risk, the boycott remains justified...
Finally, the Coalition argues that this isn't a question of whether or not to boycott; this, they claim, is about individual freedom! Let students decide in the dining halls, they urge, so that those of us who want to protest worker conditions can munch on raisins instead. Besides threatening to ruin many a friendly lunchtime conversation ("Wait--are those grapes I see on your plate?"), this approach really only serves one party: those who want to eat grapes. Several students acting individually will always be incomparably less powerful than Harvard College acting as a whole...
...Boycott Guess?!" yelled Benjamin O. Shuldiner '99, who wielded a sign. "You look at how clean cut Guess? is, but their clothes are made in sweatshops...