Word: labors
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Among speakers at the event were Rev. William Mathis, a Harvard Divinity School student and member of the corporate watchdog organization INFACT and Benjamin L. McKean '02, a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM...
Members of the protest's organizing groups, including the labor union AFL-CIO and several activist organizations such as Jobs with Justice, United for a Fair Economy and the Rainforest Action Network, specifically asked Harvard students to attend the event...
...president of the council, Hyman "wanted to redirect the council's agenda to a bold, progressive, activism focus," and did so with successful efforts that included free HIV testing and support of labor unions. "We were standing up for students in areas that before couldn't have been talked about," Hyman remembers. There were also several smaller initiatives that ensured that all students, regardless of their financial situation could enjoy the full college experience. One was the making available of free formal tickets to underprivileged students. Hyman recalls, "We got the financial aid office to set aside so many tickets...
President Clinton must be in agony; he seems to be feeling pretty much everybody's pain at the riot-riven World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle. Everybody, from labor activists to environmentalists to gung-ho advocates of free trade, got an empathetic nod from Clinton in a speech he delivered Wednesday. "The general consensus is that he gave a very deft speech," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "He skillfully assuaged all sides, on most of the hot issues." Notably, the President is pushing the WTO to open its doors to public scrutiny and accept peaceful protests as integral aspects...
Since this is Clinton - whose public passions notoriously tend toward the convenient - and since he is on the record as a vociferous promoter of free trade, the hand-wringing over labor and environmental raises the question: Are the President's concerns genuine or merely politically expedient? "A lot of Clinton's concern is genuine," says Dowell. "As the mayor of Seattle noted, many Clinton administration officials were protesters themselves not so long ago." And, says Dowell, he is wise to acknowledge the misgivings harbored by many of the protesters. "Clinton accomplished something critical in his speech," says Dowell. "He made...