Word: presention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This last Monday evening, there was a Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) Membership meeting to discuss the proposed two-year extension on our present contract with Harvard. This was our first and only provided opportunity to come together as a Union to deal effectively with the momentous issues put on the table so suddenly in January. We have over 2,500 members, yet only about 45 of us attended last evening. For a whole contingent of our members who work in the Medical School area, as well as those members who work at off-campus sites...
...that most of us will have to live paycheck-to-paycheck for the foreseeable future. There is no question of Harvard's ability to pay. Harvard has over $12 billion! The Massachusetts economy is reportedly running even stronger than the U.S. economy, which is also reportedly very strong at present. We should be negotiating for at least 8% raises...
...transition point in the history of information technology. Our rhetorical environment is fast changing to one in which secrets are much harder to keep. This means that credibility will depend increasingly on true character. Individuals and Institutions will be less able than they have been in the past to present the world with a two-faced smile while using manipulative media power to achieve audience acceptance...
More the questions will become: Where is your Evidence? Where does the Burden of Proof lie? In our present environment the burden rests upon an assumption of propriety unless displaced by a plausible accusation of wrongdoing. What is a plausible accusation? What is an accusation but an initially plausible damaging story? What are the ethics of starting one? What is our institutional and professional responsibility for seeing that they don't get started? What is our responsibility for starting them when they're true? How can we know...
...never heard of "our" white heroes, people like Elijah Lovejoy and John Brown, who gave up their lives in the struggle against "the Man," until I got to college. The idea that we can separate our pasts by color only perpetuates the problems we are grappling with in the present...