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The group then proceeded to Holyoke Center, where a five-person delegation of janitors delivered a petition of grievances to James Labua, the acting director of the Office of Employee and Labor Relations.
This time, neighbors intervened—drafting a petition and posting “Save The Chapel’’ signs around Cambridge. They succeeded in getting the city to grant the property a downzoning order—which requires any building on the property to be no...
It came to David Fox in a rush one day last summer. The University of Minnesota paleontologist had become so irritated with all the White House talk about a pre-emptive war that he decided to type a manifesto decrying it. He figured the campus paper would publish his four...
Because of his prominence and academic position, Chomsky was irresponsible and inadvertently deceptive in his signing of the petition. More importantly, Chomsky completely discredited the petition. If the most famous signer of the petition is actually a leading opponent of divestment, the petition is worthless.
Yet Chomsky made that same mistake by giving his opponents a flawed petition with his influential name attached. In the spirit of giving, the Harvard and MIT communities should give Chomsky a gift in return. We should officially end the divestment campaign and focus on the real issues of the...