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Members of the Harvard AIDS Coalition (HAC) staged a protest yesterday outside Mass. Hall, demanding that Harvard put pressure on the Coca-Cola Corporation to provide AIDS treatment for its workers in Africa...
...Saturday demonstration was the first time that HAC had co-sponsored an event with ACT UP. While HAC and SGAC have previously used more traditional activist strategies, such as conventional rallies and letter-writing campaigns to members of Congress, ACT UP is known for its radical and unconventional direct action protest methods and its signature slogan, “Silence = Death...
Their partnership with ACT UP on the Coke issue may signal a more radical future for HAC and SGAC. One HAC member said a shift to a more radical grass roots campaign would be good for the organization...
...Some HAC members compared Coke’s African health care policy to recent revelations of big business corruption...
...While the world talks about corporate scandals taking place in the accounting books, it needs to take a look at the scandals taking place on the scales of life and death,” said Yi-An Huang ’05, a member of HAC...