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...leaders who have replaced Saddam that anger over Haditha has been directed as much toward the Iraqi government as toward U.S. troops. Like many Iraqis across the country, the survivors accuse their elected leaders of cocooning themselves in a highly fortified Baghdad enclave, with little thought for the plight of their countrymen. "The concrete walls of the Green Zone are too high, so they can't see what's happening to us," says Khaled Raseef, the spokesman for the Haditha victims' kin. Whatever they think of the Marines, Raseef says he was impressed with the thoroughness with which...
...While blogging has put some young activists in danger, it also has provided a venue for friends and family to agitate for their release and advertise their plight. When 23-year-old Ahmed El Droubi was beaten and arrested at a peaceful sit-in a month ago, his friends and fellow bloggers leapt into action. "They created a Web site called "Free Droubi" that posted information about protests and updates on El Droubi's condition in jail, including posts featuring messages from the prisoner himself. A month later, El Droubi was released, but he and his friends continue...
...considering the plight of these oft-ignored members of the Harvard community, students and administration alike tend to forget that HUDS workers are indeed just that—members of a network of people that makes Harvard run. Students see dining hall workers far more frequently than even our professors, and they’re certainly easier to snag for a quick chat or a cup of coffee. The 1,200 comment cards collected by SLAM over the past week is a testament to the vital role that dining hall workers play in the lives of students...
...editors: Re: “Sophomore Takes on the Border,” magazine, May 3: Something is truly upsetting about Kyle De Beausset and his story. I’m not upset about the plight of migrant workers; I’m simply upset about the twisted truth of the entire story. I have relatives that hire migrant workers to work on their farms. Each worker legally entered the United States and has the required documentation to work here. If you ask any one of them how bad their trip to the U.S. was, you would get the same...
...American immigrant workers, De Beausset decided to take action.“I always wanted to try to migrate to get closer to what it’s like to be an average Guatemalan, an average person in this world,” he says. Hoping to publicize the plight of ordinary Guatemalans, De Beausset hatched a plan to document the journey immigrants face from Guatemala into the United States. Getting to the U.S. would mean hiring a pricey smuggler, and weeks of jumping on moving trains, dodging the Mexican police, and avoiding the stream of muggers who prey...