Word: hungering
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Around 20 people—including students and other members of the Harvard community—protested yesterday afternoon in front of Mass. Hall, marking the kickoff of a widely publicized hunger strike aimed at convincing the University to support better working conditions for security guards. Eleven members of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) said they would fast in order to garner support for recently unionized security guards employed by subcontractor AlliedBarton, who are currently undergoing contract negotiations with the company. SLAM member and strike participant Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09 said...
Alex Perry's excellent article"Land of Chains and Hunger" highlighted the tragedy of Zimbabwe under the rule of President Robert Mugabe [April 23]. Another loser is South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki and his ineffective policy of "quiet diplomacy" (what South Africans call "silent diplomacy"). Mbeki's supposedly close ties with Mugabe have not helped him develop a plan to rescue Zimbabwe from its dire situation. It is only a matter of time before the African leaders who so often criticize Western governments start calling on them to aid Zimbabwe...
...Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) announced yesterday that its members will begin a fast—which could escalate into a hunger strike of “indefinite lengths and proportions”—in an attempt to influence the negotiations of Harvard’s security guards with their employer AlliedBarton...
SLAM’s letter warns of the hunger strike plans, and gives the University until Friday to agree to SLAM’s terms...
...first day of fasting is scheduled for Thursday. If the University does not respond by the Friday deadline, members of SLAM have pledged to hold a two-day fast at the beginning of next week and eventually go on a hunger strike of “indefinite lengths and proportions...