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HIPJ organized the rally??featuring eight speakers—to convey its message affirming the sanctity of human life, condemning racism, encouraging the protection of civil liberties, and promoting dialogue to find alternatives...
HIPJ organizer David Jenkins ’03 said he was “very pleased” with the rally??s turnout...
This timidity may have been a response to the trouble Harvard rallies often have in keeping their causes straight. But the variety of rallygoers’ agendas does not excuse the blurring of vital distinctions that marred the rally??s message. In discussing the Bush administration’s warning to countries suspected of harboring terrorists, one speaker raised the example of domestic militia groups and the Ku Klux Klan. “We harbor those people,” he announced, and we harbored Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh—who, coincidentally, was executed last June...
...that “whenever Big Business, the White House and the military get together,” workers will be victimized—and called on workers to join with others to defend themselves. The class-war rhetoric was manifestly inappropriate for this kind of memorial, and the rally??s confused blend of Marxism and spirituals only further detracted from its effect...
...takeover of Massachusetts Hall. Armed with labor demands—as well as bongo drums, tents and makeshift granola bars—these students have garnered enough attention to become a national news story. As the students’ protest escalates, the public figures who have attended the rally??either to support or to condemn the living wage campaign—have become more dramatic and impressive. This list includes the Reverend Peter Gomes, Robert E. Reich Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D, Mass.) and the acclaimed socialist historian Howard Zinn...