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Union representatives and members of the Harvard community petitioned the City Council yesterday in response to the University’s low-wage worker cuts. The resolution that came before the Council proposed an economic stimulus package in which the City of Cambridge would exempt Harvard from its payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT). The resolution’s sponsor, Counsellor Marjorie C. Decker, said that the resolution is a symbolic method to highlight the absurdity of the layoffs. At the last Council meeting, Decker said she thought this type of gesture would shame Harvard into halting layoffs...
...yesterday morning, nine subcontracted custodians tried to clock in for work at Harvard Medical School. Although their layoffs were effective last Friday, the custodians showed up for their normal shifts, ready to work, as part of staged protest.More than 25 Harvard undergraduates, law students, medical students, and union members escorted the workers through the back entrance to Gordon Hall where they were met by security and administrators who told the protestors that they had three to four minutes to exit the building.“We’re from American Cleaning, and we want to work...
...contrast, Hunter S. Gaylor ’12, an audience member who identified himself as a conservative, said that he did not agree with much of Barney’s speech. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...words "civil war" have been thrown around by many Thais this week as government members, supporters and others are concerned that red shirt leaders will attempt to provoke a violent response from security forces - or even stage an attack on their own members and make it appear the work of security forces to turn the public against the government. Thaksin has promised this demonstration will be larger than those pivotal years. Red shirt leaders have said they will marshal at least 300,000 protesters, but few analysts expect they will be able to raise more than a third of that...
...safeguard rights guaranteed by the country's secular constitution? Hours after the Chief Justice's calls for an inquiry, federal investigators were reported to have taken testimony from the alleged victim. However, she once again denied being the woman in the video. Sherry Rehman, a former Information Minister and member of the ruling Pakistan People's Party believes in Chaudhry's commitment to pursuing the case. "If anything like this surfaces again," she says, "it will not be tolerated." But Rehman notes that the government will proceed with caution for fear of disrupting the fragile cease-fire...