Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chin also does more with her students than teach them English. "I don't serve just as an English teacher, but as a social worker and interpreter as well," she says. "They bring mail for me to translate. Even if they just go to a doctor, for example, they need an interpreter...
That hope arrived for Marglin while he was still in India, in the form of newspaper reports of the 1968 French student-worker revolt, or "the French Almost-Revolution," as Marglin calls it. "One of the central pillars of my system in terms of the lack of relationship between my economics and politics was that the capitalist system was perfect," he says. "There was going to be no change other than making it better at the margins. The crucial change was the belief that things can change, will change. Of course, you can say the French revolution didn't come...
...Guam. The reports may or may not prove out, but they tended to obscure the fact that the majority of refugees represented the middle class or the privileged elite of South Vietnamese society, the ones with foreign educations and foreign employers. A few were even rich. A volunteer worker at Camp Fourtuitous told Correspondent Aikman of seeing several Vietnamese with suitcases crammed with jewelry and money. According to gossip, one suitcase contained $1 million in cash. "Out of envy or boredom," wrote Aikman, "many Vietnamese in the camp chose to believe this...
...police action by joining the radicals in a coalition calling for President Kirk's resignation." On the eve of the Harvard occupation, SDS itself defeated a motion calling for immediate seizure of a building each of the three times it was proposed. But the next day, the Maoist Worker. Student Alliance caucus of SDS moved in. It was only President Pusey's order for outside police to evacuate the building that "radicalized" other students, and made a strike possible. Surveys show that 82 per cent of Harvard students opposed the sit-in but 78 per cent rejected the calling...
Turning my head, I noticed that I was surrounded by students, faculty, and grounds workers. It occurred to me that, within this context, donating blood took on the dimension of a socially leveling process. In such a socially stratified place as Harvard, where each element conforms to its designated position in the hierarchy, it is easy to forget that we are all made of flesh and, of course, blood. Donating blood linked us in a way that no other Harvard function possibly could; the blood of a kitchen worker was worth just as much as that of the most world...