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...hunger strike was organized by Stand For Security, a coalition of more than 20 campus organizations, to protest the wages of Harvard security guards hired by subcontractor AlliedBarton. Students who participated in the strike said the experience was physically taxing...
...nine remaining students staging a hunger strike in protest of the wages and benefits offered to Harvard's outsourced security guards ended their nine-day fast on Friday afternoon...
Students Fast for Guards (April 27, 2007): Around 75 student activists begin a day-long fast in an attempt to sway the contract negotiations. The day was marked with a protest in front of Massachusetts Hall in which students attempted to hand deliver a letter to Interim President Derek...
...Gould-Wartofsky ’07, one of the arrested students, said he was pleased with the outcome. “This is a good day for civil liberties and student rights because if Harvard had allowed its own students to be prosecuted for exercising their right to protest it would have really chilled free speech on our campus,” he said. Gould-Wartofsky, Kelly L. Lee ’07, Maura A. Roosevelt ’07, and J. Claire Provost ’07 were facing charges of disturbing a public assembly. The arrest came under...
...Need inspiration? Look no further than 1969. When students took over University Hall that year to protest the Vietnam War, they were motivated by the May ’68 unrest in France, where university students took over Parisian streets. Though clubbed by the police, Harvard’s revolutionaries held on; professors aided them with food; fellow undergraduates boycotted classes in support. Eventually, the single cry of a united campus, brought together under a political message...