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...Paul G. Nauert ’09: I can directly trace my political trajectory from this event, from the run-up to the war to the war actually happening...
...Nauert: I feel that many people at Harvard are engaged in some form of social action or political action...very broadly and diversely construed, whether it’s Phillips Brook House, House government, the UC, Dems, or whatever the case may be. What I think I have been surprised at is that with some very, very major exceptions—like the Stand for Security Campaign, the May Day rallies for immigration my freshman year—groups fail to connect on broadly shared interests and form lasting, coalitional outlooks...
...Nauert: You see the random kid in your section. You make that eye contact. We were wearing black hoods, specifically an action to draw attention to the torture and human rights abuses of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. You can see through the material, you can see your friends, peers, but they don’t really see you. You’re put in a position where they’re responding to you precisely as the extracted essence of activism at the moment...
...Paul G. Nauert ’09 rallied the crowd of black-clad college student protesters in Boston Common just before dusk on Friday afternoon with a simple cry: “I’ve got markers and tape, let’s get this started!” Wearing signs that read “Another ________ Against the War,” a group of 100 people—composed mostly of students from Boston-area colleges and universities, but also spectators who joined in along the way—marched in silence for four miles from Boston...
...lives. Lectures would feel more stimulating, our papers would be more refined, and our conversations with friends would better remembered. We would look, feel, and act better in every sense of the word. And all we have to do is to dream it, eight hours a night. Paul G. Nauert ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Dunster House...