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...building shanties in the Yard to argue for divestment, today’s reformers operate within the system, usually organizing change subtly through established bureaucratic channels and calm, rational discussion. Even small demonstrations of “active protest,” such as the Student Labor Action Movement??s trick-or-treating trip to Summers’ house, are construed as too extreme by many students...
...You’ve garnered a lot of praise in the “Free Culture” movement??and scorn from its enemies—for your adoption of the Creative Commons license for all of your writing. Your latest book is even licensed for profitable use in developing nations. How is this a move towards empowering artists...
...argue that the UC having better information about its constituent’s desires would be a bad thing. Without such information the UC flails in the dark. To wit, the most frustrating part of last semester’s UC resolution to support the Student Labor Action Movement??s (SLAM) living-wage campaign, was that it presumed to speak for a student body that it had yet to consult. In that vein, we certainly support UC initiatives to better ascertain the pulse of the student body. But we do so with significant caveats. The UC should tread...
...have only unmitigated hatred for the queer movement??I fully believe that queer activists’ picture of an ideal world is a thousand-member man-animal BDSM orgy in the center of Copley Square on videotape, and I say that with all sincerity...
Terminology matters, and it matters to a lot of people. It helps us define ourselves at a time when minority groups—fags, dykes, queers—are often defined, whether we like it or not, by others. The proliferation of terms in the queer rights movement??especially “queer” itself—is due, in part, to a reclamation of the words that proceed or accompany fear and physical violence. Moving beyond these imposed terms, we invent new words like homophobia and heterosexism because these inventions prove more accurate, useful tools...