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...notches on a budget, these are people’s lives and families,” she said.After the workers had attempted to clock in, they retreated to a basement hallway. There, protestors held hands and presented the laid off workers with bread and roses which they said represented livelihood and dignity, respectively. “We are one community,” said Daniel B. Becker, an organizer for Service Employees International Union Local 615, which represents custodial workers at Harvard. “We are with you, and you are with us.”After the ceremony...
...even smaller manifestations of independent thinking are bringing a swift response. In mid-March, the mainland's Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch reported that Zhang Shijun, a former People's Liberation Army solider who wrote an open letter expressing his regret about the crackdown on protest in Tiananmen Square in 1989, was taken away from his home in the middle of the night by armed policemen. There has been no news since then of Zhang, who had served in one of the military units that put down the protests and contributed to the loss of hundreds of lives...
...suffering too much from the financial crisis, a move could affect it drastically, he added. “Right now, with the financial times not too good, you don’t want to go into the hole.” “It [the shop] is my livelihood,” he said. “It’s my business. I brought up a family doing this.” William W. Bloomstein, an Agassiz resident since 1994, said that there had been an implicit agreement between Harvard and the community that...
...dwindling ranks of the still employed, you know you're among a fortunate bunch. In this market, a job is about the only asset that continues to have value. So, if your livelihood were threatened, how far would you go to hang on to it? Would you lie to your colleagues? Would you flirt with your boss...
...holidays, but they put very little planning into their own career, which is a family's greatest investment. So they are not prepared financially and emotionally for the loss of steady income." And under that threat, she says, people are more likely to resort to dishonesty to save their livelihood. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...