Thursday, May 24, 2007

HUNGER STRIKE: HARVARD UNIV.

Thank God SOMEONE is finding courage to pay the price for the wellbeing of others. Will we-the-people ever do this for Darfur? Thankyou Google

Striking ZealotryHarvard Crimson, MA - May 21, 2007On the heels of a student hunger strike, Harvard’s outsourced security guards have authorized a strike against their employer, AlliedBarton, ...
Harvard security guards authorize strikeBizjournals.com, NC - May 18, 2007The terms of their employment had spurred a nine-day hunger strike by undergraduates, and a protest in front of Holyoke Center in Harvard Square Thursday ...
Harvard students end successful hunger strikeNews-Leader.com, MO - May 12, 2007Opitz, a 2006 Central High School valedictorian, had been on a hunger strike for nine days in hopes of improving worker conditions for outsourced security ...
Harvard Students End Hunger Strike Over Guards' WagesChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - May 11, 2007Harvard students ended a nine-day hunger strike on behalf of campus guards this afternoon, The Harvard Crimson reported. The students had been seeking to ...
Students at Harvard on Hunger Strike For Security Guard WagesThe MIT Tech, MA - May 10, 2007A Harvard University sophomore was hospitalized early Tuesday after going on a hunger strike to lobby for fairer wages and working conditions for campus ...
Central High grad among Harvard hunger strikersNews-Leader.com, MO - May 5, 2007Opitz, who now attends Harvard University, is one of 11 students who launched a hunger strike Thursday to show their support for Harvard's newly unionized ...
After Nine Days, Protesters End Hunger StrikeHarvard Crimson, MA - May 14, 2007The hunger strike was organized by Stand For Security, a coalition of more than 20 campus organizations, to protest the wages of Harvard security guards ...
Fifth Day of Hunger Strike: Harvard President’s Administration ...Infoshop News - May 9, 2007On the fifth day of the students hunger strike at Harvard to pressure its administration to raise security guards pay, protesters found the President’s ...
Harvard Students Back Home After Hunger StrikeBoston Channel.com, MA - May 10, 2007BOSTON -- Two Harvard University students hospitalized during a hunger strike were back at home Thursday morning. Javier Castro was hospitalized on Tuesday ...
Harvard Students Hold Hunger StrikeBoston Channel.com, MA - May 9, 2007BOSTON -- Harvard University students took part in a hunger strike Wednesday to show their support for university security guards, who are negotiating a new ...
Hunger Strike Over Guards' Pay Sends Harvard Student to HospitalChronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - May 9, 2007A Harvard University student in the midst of a hunger strike was hospitalized on Tuesday, the fifth day of a protest on behalf of higher pay for campus ...
A Hunger Strike Epidemic?Inside Higher Ed, DC - May 11, 2007He notified students at Harvard when the hunger strike began at Stanford, and he heard about the Harvard strike as soon as it started. ...
Hunger Strike Ends as University Agrees To Meet 2 Key DemandsHarvard Crimson, MA - May 13, 2007The nine remaining students staging a hunger strike in protest of the wages and benefits offered to Harvard's outsourced security guards ended their ...
Hungry for Justice at HarvardZNet, MA - May 15, 2007and "We are unstoppable, another Harvard is possible!" Though the hunger strike is over, the students and guards recognize that the struggle itself is far ...
Central High grad on hunger strike urged to eatNews-Leader.com, MO - May 11, 2007A Springfield native and 2006 Central High School valedictorian, Opitz now attends Harvard University. Today marks the eighth day of a hunger strike that ...
Hunger Strike Is Definitely a Misguided TacticHarvard Crimson, MA - May 11, 2007While I admire the idealism of students who have embarked on a hunger strike to support the demands of Harvard’s security guards, I think the protest is ...
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Second Hunger Striker HospitalizedHarvard Crimson, MA - May 10, 2007Seven days into a hunger strike aimed at getting higher wages for Harvard's security guards, a second undergraduate participating in the strike was ...
Harvard may face graduation strikeBoston Herald, MA - May 17, 2007Last week, a group of Harvard students ended a nine-day hunger strike on behalf of the guards, at the guards’ request. The guards make $12.68 an hour, ...
Stick to Student IssuesHarvard Crimson, MA - May 13, 2007As controversial as the issue was, the tactic of a hunger strike was even more so among the student body, with e-mail lists abuzz in debate about Stand for ...
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Starving for Social JusticeCampus Progress, DC - May 9, 2007On Thursday, May 3, 11 Harvard University students began a hunger strike in protest of the university’s decision not to intervene in stalled contract ...
Guards May Strike If Demands Not MetHarvard Crimson, MA - May 17, 2007Jamila R. Martin ’07 , one of last week’s hunger strikers, said that Harvard security officers are “basically getting parity to crappy wages.”
Harvard strikers break fastBoston Herald, MA - May 11, 2007With tears streaming down some of their faces, the fasting students effectively ended their hunger strike after the guards met them in Harvard Yard, ...
F(ocus) Your ActivismHarvard Crimson, MA - May 11, 2007Like those red bandanas hand cut by the Dems, this hunger strike is just another form of earnest, but ultimately unwise, activism at Harvard. ...
Hunger striker hospitalizedBostonNOW, MA - May 9, 2007The hunger strike at Harvard is about wages, hours and full union recognition. Students want the university to involve itself with negotiations between ...
University Agrees to Meeting with ProtestersHarvard Crimson, MA - May 8, 2007Six days into a hunger strike aimed at pressuring Harvard to influence negotiations over security guards' contracts, the University has agreed to honor the ...
Hunger Striker Hospitalized; Labor Protests Gain Momentum as ...Harvard Crimson, MA - May 8, 2007As students prepared to gather in the Yard Tuesday for a sixth day of a hunger strike in support of higher wages for security guards, the protesters ...
Hungry For a CauseHarvard Crimson, MA - May 8, 2007The hunger strike is a classic protest ultimatum—the gastronomical equivalent of Patrick Henry’s famous cry, “Give me liberty or give me death! ...
Veritas et SecuritasHarvard Crimson, MA - May 6, 2007A hunger strike also obscures the facts rather than clarifies them, and sets a bad precedent for future student advocacy efforts at Harvard. ...
News, Views and Careers for All of Higher EducationInside Higher Ed, DC - May 14, 2007Students at Harvard University on Friday agreed to end a hunger strike they had been waging for more than a week on behalf of security workers engaged in ...
Walkout Threatens Harvard CommencementBoston Channel.com, MA - May 18, 2007Some students recently took part in a nine-day hunger strike for the security workers. NewsCenter 5's Steve Lacy reported that university officials do not ...
DISSENT: Striking a Blow Against InjusticeHarvard Crimson, MA - May 6, 2007That assumption was a mistake, and my dismissal of the student hunger strike as a form of protest was far more misguided than the movement I had jumped to ...
VPs Agree To Meet with StrikersHarvard Crimson, MA - May 11, 2007But coalition members, including those participating in the hunger strike to pressure the University to intervene in the negotiations between AlliedBarton, ...
Hunger-striking Harvard soph hospitalizedBoston Herald, MA - May 8, 2007A Harvard University sophomore was hospitalized yesterday after going six days without food as part of a student hunger strike in support of university ...
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University To Meet with SLAMHarvard Crimson, MA - May 8, 2007The meeting comes a week into a hunger strike involving 11 undergraduates, one of whom was hospitalized yesterday for dangerously low sodium and electrolyte ...
The Politics of DrudgeryHarvard Crimson, MA - May 17, 2007... the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) called a “hunger strike,” and organized daily rallies in Harvard Yard. After two participating students had ...
Student Groups Across Campus Enter DiscussionHarvard Crimson, MA - May 11, 2007“There is nothing wrong with members of the UC as individuals doing a hunger strike to show their solidarity with strikers,” Goldenberg said. ...

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