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...University will meet today with student protesters to discuss their demand that Harvard intervene for higher wages in a dispute between outside security contractor AlliedBarton and guards hired by the firm for Harvard’s campuses. The meeting comes a week into a hunger strike involving 11 undergraduates, one of whom was hospitalized yesterday for dangerously low sodium and electrolyte levels...
...strike has been accompanied by daily demonstrations in Harvard Yard, where for the past two days over 150 protesters have gathered to surround Mass. Hall and University Hall and call for higher wages from AlliedBarton...
...According to Lucy S. Mackinnon ’09, a spokeswoman for the strike, Castro intends to continue the fast and rejoin his comrades...
...MORE INFO: Students Launch Fast for Guards (May 4, 2007): Around 20 people—including students and other members of the Harvard community—protest in front of Mass. Hall, marking the kickoff of a widely publicized hunger strike aimed at convincing the University to support better working conditions for security guards...
SLAM To Fast for Security Guards (April 24, 2007): SLAM announces that its members will begin a fast—which could escalate into a hunger strike of “indefinite lengths and proportions”—in an attempt to influence the negotiations of Harvard’s security guards with their employer AlliedBarton...