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For more than three months a 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...
TIME: You mentioned 1989, the year of the Tiananmen crackdown. You've said that came as an incredible shock to you. Do you think Deng Xiaoping did the right thing? LEE: I cannot judge what he did, because I did not have his information. If, in fact, there was a...
With the contract between Harvard’s janitors and the University set to expire at midnight tonight, the two sides remain at odds over potential wage hikes.During yesterday’s negotiations, Harvard put forward a six-year agreement that would gradually increase janitors’ starting wage to...
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.
The Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) is a group of students whose mission is to “raise awareness of labor issues on campus, support workers and unions, and to show the Harvard administration that workers and students united are a powerful force for change.” Although...