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...which points the public and the news media will view as salient in any given speech. One such case was President Bush’s famed branding of North Korea, Iraq, and Iran as the “axis of evil” in his 2002 State of the Union Address, which sparked fierce political debate and cascades of criticism from Bush opponents, Gerson said. “I did not believe that that was going to be the news from the speech,” he said. “That speech...was the first time an American president...
...They don’t understand themselves as actors on this campus and certainly not as community members," says Martin, whose mother and father are union and community organizers, respectively, in Boston. Harvard drives up property prices, drives down wages, and gets out of paying certain taxes, Martin says. "Harvard is not a progressive institution in its actions...
...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’s going on here...
...social construct. But if you are going to take up a cause, at least be consistent. Last month one of our friends was protesting the genocide in Sudan. We saw the same guy yesterday, but this time he was supporting the genocide. Or take the janitor issue; all these union-lovers want Harvard to rehire the janitor who faints on the job, but we don’t see anyone sticking up for the janitor who committed all those gropings in Cambridge Common. If anything, that guy was doing better than most, really reaching out to get in touch with...
...Starbucks has said the union doesn’t exist, harassed and intimidated baristas who try to organize, and refused to listen to our demands,” he said...