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...Impoverished and Afraid Alex Perry's excellent article "Land of Chains and Hunger" highlighted the tragedy of Zimbabwe under the rule of President Robert Mugabe [April 23]. Another loser is South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki and his ineffective policy of "quiet diplomacy" (what South Africans call "silent diplomacy"). Mbeki's supposedly close ties with Mugabe have not helped him develop a plan to rescue Zimbabwe from its dire situation, and his government needs to shoulder responsibility for its indecisiveness. While it may be difficult to imagine the situation in Zimbabwe worsening, it will, and South Africa will surely feel...
Coalition members, including those participating in a hunger strike to pressure the University to intervene in the negotiations between AlliedBarton and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 615, have repeatedly criticized both Harvard and AlliedBarton for being unresponsive to their demands...
...students, five who are participating in the hunger strike, met Wednesday with Murphy...
...MORE INFO: Students Launch Fast for Guards (May 4, 2007): Around 20 people—including students and other members of the Harvard community—protest in front of Mass. Hall, marking the kickoff of a widely publicized hunger strike aimed at convincing the University to support better working conditions for security guards...
SLAM To Fast for Security Guards (April 24, 2007): SLAM announces that its members will begin a fast—which could escalate into a hunger strike of “indefinite lengths and proportions”—in an attempt to influence the negotiations of Harvard’s security guards with their employer AlliedBarton...