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...students have asked whether we are simply engaging in heroics??€”whether ego, not issue, drives our action. The administration’s paternalism answers this question. Students have freedoms and securities within the University that janitors and other low-wage workers do not. Thus, we have a power that we are called upon to exercise in solidarity with workers who are struggling as forcefully as they can. As many workers have told us, they fear abusive treatment, the loss of their livelihoods and even deportation if they participate in public acts of protest. Poverty also imposes limits...