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Tuesday’s event can hardly be called civil disobedience. The former mayor of Cambridge, Anthony D. Gallucio, and Cambridge Democratic State Rep. Jarrett T. Barrios ’90 were on hand to encourage the protesters. The police briefed the protesters before their arrest on the procedures they...
In the past civil disobedience has been used to protest government policies that tread on the most basic civil and political rights. In this case, the protesters used a coercive method to get wage negotiators to make concessions during a collective bargaining process. As with the sit-in last spring?...
For years, Snyder had seen HSPH prosper and expand but by the end of his term, he came into conflict with many of his students. Around the time of the 1969 undergraduate sit-in of University Hall, the School of Public Health saw increasingly frequent disagreements between its students and...
No students involved in last spring’s sit-in received such punishments. College students involved in the occupation received three weeks of disciplinary probation. Law Students were officially reprimanded. Kennedy School of Government students involved received no disciplinary action.
It is easy for us, as Harvard students, to dismiss the need for public protests as a supplement to intellectual discussion. When we pass by a “Justice for Janitors” protest, we sometimes wonder, “Don’t these people have good enough...