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Addressing a meeting of members from over 20 student groups, leaders of Harvard’s Fuerza Latina and Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) called for a campus-wide walkout on May 1 to protest federal legislation they say is anti-immigration. [See correction...
CORRECTION: The print and web versions of this article incorrectly state that the student group Fuerza Latina has called for a campus-wide student walkout for May 1. Although some members of Fuerza are independently helping to plan the protest, the group's leadership is currently discussing whether to officially sponsor the event...
...organizers are considering an economic boycott and walkout on May 1- International Workers' Day -during which Latinos wouldn't work, go to school or buy anything, to show off the pro-immigrant force's economic power. Though the idea's already catching fire, Cardinal Roger Mahony, head of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, remains cool: "We now have a debate focused on passing humane legislation. Let's stay that course." Having seized the momentum, the big challenge facing immigration activists now may not be holding it, but, rather, harnessing...
Commuter rage gave way to relief this morning after labor mediators convinced striking New York City transit workers to return their jobs without a contract. That deal was reached on Thursday afternoon. Cursing the walkout had become a bloodsport for New Yorkers in the last three days, but at the 116th Street station in uptown Manhattan, the strike end brought a quick return to normalcy. Commuters streamed past the single station agent with barely a glance, while a couple of French tourists hovered nervously nearby before asking the agent for change for a $20. They were denied...
Students hustling to noon classes yesterday were greeted outside the Science Center with nearly 100 chanting participants in a national walkout to protest the war in Iraq and military recruitment in schools. Local high schoolers—who said they were risking suspension by cutting classes—joined workers and Harvard students in front of the Science Center. A graduate student in molecular and cellular biology, Kaveri Rajaraman, shouted over a loudspeaker, “If the United States government does not pull out of Iraq, there will be trouble.” After the Science Center rally, nearly...