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...acknowledge and we do think that people regard us as a marginal segment of the population," another member of SLAM, Adaner Usmani ’08, says. But while he thinks that SLAM is not foremost in people’s minds, he believes that many of the positions taken by activist groups on campus—such as opposition to the war in Iraq or worker rights—are issues that Harvard students would likely agree with. "We’re not taking positions that are very radical at all," he says. "Why do only 20 people come...
Usmani admits that SLAM is somewhat segregated from the rest of Harvard. "There’s a tendency to kind of demonize the rest of the community," he says, a problem which stems from SLAM’s frustration at what they consider campus-wide lethargy...
Jamila R. Martin ’07, SLAM member and coordinator of the activist center located at 45 Mt. Auburn St., describes SLAM as a welcoming organization. "We are open to all. We don’t insist on any specific doctrine. We strive for consensus in a non-coercive way," she says. Indeed, her perspective seems to support Usmani’s claim that the students should be coming to them, not the other way around...
...SLAM, he says, tries "to provide people with a community of people who care and who want to figure it out with...
Being a campus activist also carries a unique set of responsibilities. "The thing about activism is that it’s not like any other extracurricular that you’ve ever done...This is a job," Martin says. That, in particular, is why it is especially important to SLAM that all workers have a union they can belong to, she says, so no 20-year-old SLAM member will ever have to make a decision that could affect an adult with a family. Universities "are just really unregulated spaces," Martin says. "It really falls to students to challenge what?...