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...things a lot of activists are doing now are much less flamboyant," says Ruddick, a student organizer for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) campaign this spring. "They don't always make the news because they're concrete things that affect people's lives...
...Ruddick herself, though, was once a part of the visible-protest side of activism. She was one of two undergraduates arrested in the fall of 1986 at a divestment protest outside the Fogg Art Museum...
Working in a traditional labor activist role, Ruddick represents a second generation of activist. Her mother and father protested the Vietnam War in the 1960s before returning to academia in New York, where Ruddick grew...
...Ruddick says she sometimes feels torn between her obligations as a student and her dedication to social causes. During the last stages of the HUCTW campaign, Ruddick says she was forced to choose between spending 40 hours a week working for the union and studying for exams...
...Ruddick, who chose the former and upon graduation next January may begin a career as a full-time labor organizer, sees a difference between the activism of 20 years ago and that in which she participates...