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Show me what Democracy Looks Like!

0 Comments 13 December 2011

By Rachel Sandalow-Ash About a week after Occupy Harvard first set up camp in the Yard, I put on layer upon layer of clothing so that I would be relatively comfortable sleeping in a tent. On went the leggings and the sweatpants, followed by the long-underwear top that I for some strange reason had brought to [...]

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Behind the Curtain: What Public Records Can Tell Us About Final Clubs

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Behind the Curtain: What Public Records Can Tell Us About Final Clubs

0 Comments 30 October 2011

Harvard’s eight all-male final clubs are notoriously secretive about their operations. But thankfully, the city of Cambridge, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the federal tax code pose a limit on just how much the clubs can hide from public view. Cambridge makes publicly available the assessed value of all properties within the city, meaning that [...]

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Not Your Average Pool Party

1 Comment 23 October 2011

By Rachel Sandalow-Ash On Friday, October 21, around 60 students from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School gathered outside the Boston headquarters of Merck & Co., one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Dressed in swimsuits, flip-flops, and sunglasses—and, in the case of the medical students, white coats—they set up camp on the sidewalk. [...]

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Cartoon: Occupied

0 Comments 23 October 2011

“Manhattan, October 2011.”

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Editorial: Occupy

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Editorial: Occupy

0 Comments 23 October 2011

There are currently several hundred people camped out in Boston’s Dewey Square, in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. There have been demonstrations involving thousands of protesters marching through the streets of downtown Boston, stopping traffic and bringing the city to a standstill. Scores have been arrested for acts [...]

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Occupy All the Streets

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Occupy All the Streets

0 Comments 23 October 2011

By Mark Warren Beginning last December and continuing throughout the following, eponymous spring of this year, the disgruntled citizenry of Arab world took to the streets in protest of their oppressive governments. These protests—largely acts of civil disobedience such as marches, strikes, and other non-violent demonstrations, though violence was in some instances used in reaction to [...]

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Redistribution of Wealth in the Mainstream

0 Comments 23 October 2011

By Ian Kumekawa This past week, Democratic leaders took increasingly supportive stances on the protests going on in New York, Boston, and in dozens of cities around the nation. Obama administration senior advisor David Plouffe suggested that the frustrations that animate the movements are the same frustrations that are being vented “in living rooms and kitchens [...]

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The Government Must Act Regarding Cyber Security

0 Comments 23 October 2011

By Alex McLeese During the last two years, cyber attacks have come to dominate the headlines. The Stuxnet worm targeted Iranian nuclear reactors. Bradley Manning passed thousands of diplomatic cables to Wikileaks. Members of the Anonymous group hacked numerous websites. A young man suspected of having ties to the Iranian government issued hundreds of fake security [...]

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Obama versus the Environment: the Keystone XL Pipeline

0 Comments 23 October 2011

By Alli Welton Over twelve hundred people have been arrested. Nine Nobel Peace Prize laureates, The New York Times, state governors, members of Congress from both parties, and hundreds of his own grassroots organizers are urging Obama to say no. What issue could spark unrest so strong and widespread? A pipeline that, in essence, signals our admission of [...]

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Editorial: The Fight Continues

1 Comment 06 October 2011

This past Labor Day saw a moving display of support for Harvard’s workers, many of whom are currently in the process of renegotiating their contracts. The demonstrations were successful in raising awareness of the contract negotiations of various groups of workers, which are at different stages in this process. The security guards employed not directly [...]

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