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...this election cycle. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton last month signed a pledge that commits the next President to investing $50 billion by 2013 to combat HIV. Her commitment came after the pledge's sponsor, the AIDS group ACT UP, and others threatened to target her campaign with protest action if she declined to sign on. The New Hampshire-based Nonprofit Primary Project hopes to expand its work on a national scale ahead of next November's election. Its goal will be to put collaboration with charities and foundations in each party's platform next summer, and maybe even advocating...
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...
Last spring, Harvard undergraduates staged a hunger strike to protest the wages of University security guards. One of their number, striker Kelly L. Lee ’07. told the Crimson she often wondered: “Am I doing the right thing? Is this the most effective strategy?” Good questions. Unfortunately, she evidently arrived at the wrong conclusion. The severity of the hunger strike as a tool of political protest cannot be overstated; It ought to only be employed in matters of proportional gravity. By this criterion, the 10-day strike initiated by Columbia undergraduates, which...
...ties to PetroChina, HDAG decided to reach people who may not be aware of UBS’s link to PetroChina by passing out flyers right outside the UBS recruiting event. Though the group had tossed around ideas that included stunts and more colorful protests, the group decided that simply passing out flyers would be the best way to be taken seriously, Bakker said. “To reach the sort of people who would apply to a job with UBS, it takes the dissemination of facts, not just protests and chants. Our purpose was not to protest...
Students at three universities went on strike this week to advocate for a variety of causes—including increasing curricular diversity, reducing student fees, and halting environmentally-unsound campus construction. Protests at Columbia University, the University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst echo events at Harvard last May, when members of Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) fasted to influence university security guards’ contract negotiations. But while students across the country lobby for different changes and interests, most are met with little or slow change. According to the Daily...