Show me what Democracy Looks Like!
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
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 [...]
Continue ReadingNot Your Average Pool Party
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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Editorial: Occupy
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
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 [...]
Continue ReadingRedistribution of Wealth in the Mainstream
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 [...]
Continue ReadingThe Government Must Act Regarding Cyber Security
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 [...]
Continue ReadingObama versus the Environment: the Keystone XL Pipeline
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 [...]
Continue ReadingEditorial: The Fight Continues
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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- Show me what Democracy Looks Like!
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Behind the Curtain: What Public Records Can Tell Us About Final Clubs
- Not Your Average Pool Party
- Cartoon: Occupied
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Editorial: Occupy
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Occupy All the Streets
- Redistribution of Wealth in the Mainstream
- The Government Must Act Regarding Cyber Security
- Obama versus the Environment: the Keystone XL Pipeline
- Editorial: The Fight Continues
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