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...which conservative Felipe Calderon of Fox's National Action Party (PAN) defeated the PRD's Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador by less than 1% of the vote. Lopez Obrador cried fraud, and tens of thousands of his backers occupied Mexico City's main plaza and thoroughfare for months in protest. But in recent weeks the Mexico City demonstrations had died down, and last week even the Oaxaca teachers seemed ready to go back to work...
Derrick A. Bell Jr.—HLS’s first black tenured professor who left the faculty in 1990 to protest its lack of diversity—said that Harvard should follow Brown’s lead in appointing a panel to investigate the University’s ties to slavery...
Some argue that these methods are completely valid, claiming that they “draw attention” to an argument. Yet in doing so they draw more attention to themselves than to the actual issues. Students at Harvard who are passionate enough about an issue to stage a protest would be more effective if they focused their efforts on the intellectual merit of their arguments. Though inducing others to join a cause through rallies and protests may seem the revolutionary, “cool” thing to do—a throwback to the ’60s?...
...spread of information. They organize letter writing campaigns, speak with representatives and leaders, and generally try to spread information and encourage healthy debate. This is the face that activism should take and often does take in this pragmatic world. People often ask why this generation does not protest, and the answer is that they have found more effective ways to induce change...
...knows that we are unlikely to change Harvard students’ minds about such a polarizing issue with one simple poster. Nonetheless, the flurry of campus discussions and debates following each new poster or protest proves just how successful such tactics can be in disseminating a group’s message. I often joke that I measure HRL’s success in terms of how many of and how quickly our posters have been torn down. If I see our posters still hanging, then most likely they have not made the impact we had hoped for. That being said...