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...small public garden facing the prominent Mostapha Mahmoud mosque in Cairo?s upscale Mohandessin neighborhood had been occupied by more than 2,000 Sudanese refugees. The refugees chose the garden because it faces the regional office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The leaders of the sit-in had one important demand: to be processed for transfer to a Western country. They refused any half-measure, especially being returned to Darfur in southern Sudan; or to be resettled in Egypt, where they say they suffer from discrimination and random arrest. The trouble was, for months, the UNHCR...
...cannot judge what he did, because I did not have his information. If, in fact, there was a danger of similar outbursts in other cities, then I think he had to move. But I said later to [then Premier] Li Peng, "When I had trouble with my sit-in communist students, squatting in school premises and keeping their teachers captive, I cordoned off the whole area around the schools, shut off the water and electricity, and just waited. I told their parents that health conditions were deteriorating, dysentery was going to spread. And they broke it up without any difficulty...
...creation of such a “wage differential” but not to the level of 7 percent.University spokesman Joe Wrinn declined to comment on the specifics of proposals on the table.SEIU’s current contract arose in the aftermath of a 2001 Mass. Hall sit-in by students. A committee convened after the takeover called for substantial wage hikes for Harvard’s lowest-paid employees and reopened the University’s existing SEIU contract.If that contract expires tonight with no new agreement, all previously negotiated terms between the janitors and the University will...
Once you start allowing your students to debate the merits of a democratic university or the value of the living wage sit-in, your fate at Harvard is sealed...
...Harvard administration that workers and students united are a powerful force for change.” Although SLAM was only just recently formed, its members and students just like them have been actively engaged in Harvard labor negotiations since the Progressive Student Labor Movement led the now legendary sit-in of Mass Hall back in the spring...