Word: zirin
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Protestors didn't seem to have a problem with capital improvement, but with their contribution to it. So it should come as no surprise to know that the International Socialist Organization (ISO) endorsed and took part in the rally. ISO member Annie Zirin, a secretary at the Office of Career Services, was selling Socialist Worker there. "Working class people deserve to have a decent standard of living," she told me, as if PROLETARIAN had been branded on the protestors genes...
...Zirin had an active week of recruitment. On Thursday, she was distributing "Build the Fight!" fliers at the rally to protest the administration's takeover of Phillips Brooks House (PBH). So it must have been an act of reciprocity, if not solidarity, that PBH showed up to support the divestment movement. Shoshans L.H. Weiner '98, chair of PBH's Committee on Housing Rights, lent her organization's support and promised that of "the most important part of Harvard, the students...
Panel speakers included Northeastern Regional Director of Amnesty International USA Joshua Rubenstein, Annie Zirin, a member of the International Socialist Organization, and Bobby Jo Leaster, a former death row inmate...
...Zirin said that the death penalty is inextricably linked with racial politics...
...African Americans make up 12 percent of the United States population but 40 percent of those on death row," said Zirin. "The death penalty can never be neutral in this sense...