Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said students should instead send letters to government officials and grape growers to protest conditions...
Almost immediately after beginning distribution, the PSLM protest was thwarted by a security firm on the HBS campus. The Harvard University Police Department showed up soon after, and Officer Laureen Donahue informed the students that "Harvard has a policy of no solicitation and no protesting." With regard to a policy of free speech, one Business School official who would not identify himself said, "We don't have a policy like that here...
...National Peoples' Campaign, an advocacy group, contacted students by e-mail to invite them to the protest. Representatives of the Boston Committee on the Middle East, the Workers World Party and the Spartacus Youth Club also attended...
...here to protest the U.S. sanctions against Iraq," said Matt J. Hine, a junior at Northeastern University. "They're not fair, and they're just another example of U.S. imperialism...
Finally, the Coalition argues that this isn't a question of whether or not to boycott; this, they claim, is about individual freedom! Let students decide in the dining halls, they urge, so that those of us who want to protest worker conditions can munch on raisins instead. Besides threatening to ruin many a friendly lunchtime conversation ("Wait--are those grapes I see on your plate?"), this approach really only serves one party: those who want to eat grapes. Several students acting individually will always be incomparably less powerful than Harvard College acting as a whole...