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...next summer. CHINA Falun Gong Protest Authorities detained and then deported 35 Western supporters of the banned Falun Gong movement after they staged one of the biggest demonstrations by foreigners on Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The protesters, on tourist visas from 10 European countries and the U.S., held a sit-in and unfurled banners before being carted away by police. The Foreign Ministry said they were deported for disrupting public order and breaking Chinese law. ARGENTINA Menem Free to Run Former President Carlos Menem celebrated his release from house arrest and gunrunning charges by announcing that he will seek...
Nearly 500 students attended the rally “Justice for Janitors,” the largest since the end of last spring’s sit...
Prior to the discussion, Mead informally discussed grade inflation, last spring’s Progressive Student Labor Movement sit-in and campus reactions to the war in Afghanistan...
When the Massachusetts Hall sit-in began, the living wage quickly became the dominant question of campus politics. But since the sit-in ended, the living wage campaign run by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) has in many ways moved beyond its central issue and its namesake. In April, “$10.25” was ubiquitous, found on banners, signs and the walls of first-year dorms; in a recent newsletter door-dropped by the campaign, however, the standard set by the Cambridge living wage ordinance (now $10.68 per hour) is mentioned hardly at all. The call...
This summer, the Administrative Board of the Law School hired Law School Senior Reference Librarian Janet C. Katz to be a fact-finder for the case against four law students involved in the Massachusetts Hall sit-in. In her role, Katz not only reported the statements of Mass. Hall staff but also made more general statements about their experience and described the students’ behavior as “egregious...