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...higher educational institution, discourse and weight of argument should be relied on to advocate and cajole. Desperation tactics such as the hunger strike should only be resorted to in the direst of circumstances. And even then, protesters risk sensationalism overshadowing their intended message. The multifarious nature of the strike??s inciting incidents seems to belie another essential problem with the strike and its ambitions: the vagary and breadth of the problems it was attempting to confront. The virulent brand of racism that incites someone to threaten or dehumanize another is an endemic societal disaster; Columbia?...
...targeting Harvard’s treatment of its security guards did not neglect to prepare. Drawing upon consultations with University Health Services doctors and fellow student activists from around the nation, the dissenters began a regimen of denial even before their chosen mode of protest—a hunger strike??kicked...
...complaints include the security guards’ “low morale” and “stress” resulting from the company’s “aggressive” negotiating tactics. SfS’s response? Bringing protesters to meetings and staging a hunger strike??some might consider these “aggressive” negotiating tactics. At the start of the strike, activists claimed that problem was the unequal wages paid to Harvard’s in-house guards and AlliedBarton employees, which would violate the 2001 Katz report on wage parity...
...Students, who have led their own protests in an effort to raise security guards’ wages, say they will support the guards’ decision to strike??if it comes to that...
...Stand For Security coalition—it was 11 until one withdrew—who are currently refusing all sustenance (except two daily cups of Gatorade) until Harvard complies with their demands. Or until they get really, really hungry and have to stop. The coalition’s hunger strike??which, according to participants, is distinct from a “death strike?? in that none of them are prepared to die for their cause—is a response to some questionable labor practices by Harvard University that may have violated the Wage and Benefits...