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...going on in Iraq.” The name reading was a relatively quiet counterpart to a rally earlier yesterday afternoon in front of the Science Center. Students from the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) competed to out-chant students from the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ). The 10-minute contest ended when HRC stopped yelling slogans. HRC President Jeffrey Kwong ’09 said he wanted to show support for the troops. “We wanted to make sure that students and Harvard community know that the Republican Club is right behind the troops. [Anti...
Protestors will greet General John Abizaid when the top U.S. commander in the Middle East speaks at the Institute of Politics (IOP) tomorrow. The Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ), Socialist Alternative, and the Stop Torture Coalition are all planning rallies to offer a counterpoint to the speech by the officer credited with coining the term “The Long War” to describe the war on terror. Off-campus groups will also join the protest. The speech comes in the wake of a mid-term election in which voter dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq played...
...sale” and “you glorify feudalism” when he spoke at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum yesterday about the WTO and accountability. Demonstrators, including representatives from the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) and the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ), also protested outside the IOP using various percussive instruments, while displaying signs calling for the abolition of the WTO. One Boston-area demonstrator held up a sign that read “WTO loves Malthus,” referring to an 18th and 19th century economist, who said that resources could not keep...
...HIPJ and SLAM also received some high-profile help Friday. Joining them at their event was the Green-Rainbow Party’s gubernatorial candidate Grace C. Ross ’83 and her well-known supporter, Dan “The Bagel Man” Kontoff, an erstwhile candidate for the Boston City Council and State House...
...addition to the SLAM and HIPJ activists, three “informally affiliated” protestors entered the Gordon Track and Tennis Center—the site of the career forum—in plain clothes, but changed into superhero costumes once inside. Clad as superheroes, the students attempted to enlist in the armed forces to protest its ban on openly gay soldiers...