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McCarthy, director of the Carr Center’s Human Rights and Social Movements Program and a lecturer at HKS and the College, drew parallels between the movement to legalize same-sex marriage and the civil rights movement...

Author: By Bethina Liu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panelists Discuss Gay Marriage | 4/28/2010 | See Source »

...colonialism—will receive the Spring 2010 Harvard Arts Medal. Within a matter of days she will publish an article arguing that Valerie Solanas, better known as the woman who tried to assassinate Andy Warhol in 1968, should be taken more seriously as a voice in the feminist movement...

Author: By Abigail B. Lind, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spring 2010 Harvard Arts Medalist | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...protestors’ signs contend, President Obama is not King George III. The colonists that the current “Tea Party patriots” profess to follow were rankling under taxation without representation under the Townshend Acts and the 1773 Tea Act. By melodramatically associating their movement against a democratically elected government with the fight against British imperialism, modern tea parties only belittle themselves by comparison...

Author: By Nafees A. Syed | Title: Runaway Party | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...Party movement adds more disunity to the Republican Party and has the potential of alienating the party even more from mainstream voters. I alternate between “party” and “parties” when referring to the Tea Party movement because the organization is a confusion of several groups. I am sure Republicans would not want to add such incohesiveness to their already-scrambling coalition. The popularity of these Tea Parties suggests that the Republican Party should articulate coherent policies of their own to reach out to unsatisfied masses instead of simply blocking Democratic attempts...

Author: By Nafees A. Syed | Title: Runaway Party | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

...years after the chaos, an informal publishing house called “Eloisa Cartonera” opened to buy cardboard from cardboard-pickers called “cartoneros,” and to create “libros cartoneros,” books made with cardboard covers. This movement was born out of economic necessity and creativity, showing that literature can help build community...

Author: By Alina Voronov, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Group Teaches Active Use of Literature | 4/27/2010 | See Source »

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