Protesters take over HarvardYard Metro/Boston Globe. First #OccupyHarvard General Assembly Draws 500+; Harvard Yard Locked Down to Public, Press and Some Students. Cambridge, Mass. - Harvard University's main quad - the famed Harvard Yard, bounded by Mass Ave., Peabody St., Cambridge St., Broadway and Quincy St. - was locked down in response to Harvard students, staff and faculty calling the first general assembly of Occupy Harvard this evening.
Occupy Protest Shuts Down Harvard Yard. GSAS student Marissa M.
Egertsrom teaches the basics of "General Assemblies" while facilitating a conversation Wednesday night on the Law School campus. UPDATED 4:34 a.m. 11/10/11 A tent city was hastily constructed in front of University Hall Wednesday night during a tense dialogue between “Occupy Harvard” protesters and Dean of Student Life Suzy M. Nelson. Why We Need Occupy Harvard. I didn’t expect to support Occupy Harvard.
While I agree wholeheartedly with the broader Occupy movement’s critique of the financial industry and think the current level of economic inequality in the United States is beyond defense, I had strategic reservations. I thought the occupiers should have targeted members of Congress with the power to pass legislation benefiting the 99 percent, rather that banks that aren’t going to be persuaded of their own evils anytime soon. Occupiers, I reasoned, should get up in the faces of the people actually holding the cards.
But Occupy Harvard is doing just that, by congregating in front of University and Massachusetts Halls, where the people with the power to change course are working. It is easy to dismiss the tent-dwellers on Harvard Yard as dumb hippies with inchoate demands, but as the group’s press release yesterday showed, they know exactly what they are doing. Their demands—our demands—are specific and Harvard-focused. Dylan R. Student Perspectives on Occupy Harvard. Christine Ann Hurd (@xinehurd) sur Twitter. Evan Ribot (@EvanRibot) sur Twitter. Marina bolotnikova (@mbolotnikova) sur Twitter. Occupying Harvard Online. The Disgrace of Occupy Harvard. It has taken almost two months for the Occupy movement to hit Harvard.
Since Wednesday night, protesters have occupied tents outside of University Hall, while Harvard University Police Department officers have occupied the gates of the Yard to limit the crowd to Harvard affiliates only. Occupy Harvard Security Measures Cause Tension. Tercentenary Theatre is usually a bustling and popular area for tourists, but with the increased security due to Occupy Harvard, the only people visiting Widener Library are students.
As the Harvard community continues to deal with heightened security measures surrounding the Yard—including checkpoints and restricted access to freshman dorms—Occupy Harvard protesters are fighting the sentiment that occupiers are to blame for the increased security, asserting that the administration is leveraging the security measures to cast the demonstration in a negative light. Protesters and non-participants sympathetic to the movement argue that the security measures are an overreaction and send an antithetical message to the occupation’s goals of creating an inclusive space for public dialogue at Harvard. “In the past, Harvard has not acted this way towards much larger security risks ... Last year there was an armed robbery in front of Thayer and the Yard wasn’t shut down then,” said Taras B.
Students Launch 'Occupy the Facts' About 20 students Sunday night launched “Occupy the Facts,” a nascent student organization hoping to combat charges that protestors in the Occupy movement are uninformed about public policy issues.
The organization seeks to conduct important policy research and make their findings accessible to Occupy protesters and the public. The group will spend the next three weeks developing information packages. “I want to see if we [can] create something that could research public policy surrounding the occupiers’ demands,” said Peter D. Davis ’12, one of the project facilitators. “We want to be able to create fact sheets.” One of the projects’ goals is to eventually transform their policy findings into various formats, including educational YouTube videos and info-graphics. Tourists and Affiliates Respond to Closing of Harvard Yard. Occupy Heckles Newt Gingrich. Former Speaker of the House and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich spoke of American exceptionalism and his views on the country's political and economic issues.
Republican Presidential Candidate and Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich hosted a movie screening and forum at the Harvard Kennedy School on Friday, prompting a group of Occupy protesters to disrupt the beginning of the event with a rehearsed chant. Shortly after Gingrich arrived, Occupy protesters began chanting, “Mic check. Mic check! We love you Newt. We love you Newt! Gingrich started to respond to the protesters, but they interrupted him mid-sentence to continue their chant.
Occupiers Share Thanksgiving Meal. Occupy Harvard sports a new sign on the first day of Thanksgiving break, soon followed by new tents and new restrictions on Yard access.
Even for those who remained in tents in Harvard Yard over Thanksgiving break, there was a holiday dinner provided. Faculty from the Romance Languages and Literatures Department and the director of the Harvard Foundation brought smoked turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie to the Yard dwellers in support for the Occupy movement. The event was promoted on Facebook with the tongue-in-cheek title “Occupie Harvard.” Organizers said about 40 people gathered around tables made of wooden boards and milk crates to celebrate the holiday and discuss the movement’s goals. Later that night, about 20 supporters camped out, according to Timothy S.
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(AP) – Dozens of people were arrested during Occupy demonstrations at the University of California , Berkeley campus, as authorities twice clashed with protesters trying to set up encampments. The bulk of the arrests came Wednesday night, as authorities in riot gear confronted demonstrators. Television news footage from outside the university's main administration building showed officers pulling people from the steps and nudging others with batons as the crowd chanted, "We are the 99 percent! " and "Stop Beating Students! " Thirty-two people were arrested on suspicion of resisting and delaying police officers and failing to disperse, UC Berkeley police Lt. University police didn't immediately return calls from The Associated Press. University Maintains Heightened Security for Occupy Harvard.
Harvard Joins the Occupy Movement. Share This release was issued this morning by Occupy Harvard.
At 10:30 pm on November 9, hundreds of Harvard students and affiliates put down tents to begin an occupation of Harvard Yard. Currently, thirty tents occupy the Yard in solidarity with the global Occupy movement. Earlier Wednesday, around 800 Harvard students, faculty, staff, and community members gathered in a rally, general assembly, and march to Occupy Harvard. Bostinnovation: Boston Start-ups, Innovation and News Blog. The Atlantic Wire: Harvard Keeps Occupy Harvard for Harvard Students Only. Occupy Harvard gets the old college jeer. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It’s the height of recruiting season at Harvard College, and the big draws are, as always, the banks, the hedge funds and the consultants.
A quick look at the Office of Career Services’ recruiting event schedule is revealing. This past week, there were internship open houses for the top-tier consulting firms McKinsey and Bain, the private equity powerhouse Blackstone, and banks from JPMorgan to Barclay’s to Citigroup. This week Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund, Morgan Stanley and Bain Capital — the private equity firm Mitt Romney founded — are coming to Cambridge. And sure enough, student reaction toward the protesters was swift and negative. I Saw You Harvard. <<Prev [Page 1] Next>> 1 to 10, of 23886 posts Posted at 2014-04-16 07:34:13, F spotting M. Caught Red Handed.
Over the past several decades, campaign expenditures have steadily increased, culminating with a shattering $5.3 billion price tag for the 2008 election. But perhaps more startling is the fact that independent expenditures, the money spent by non-party organizations often funded by wealthy donors and corporations, actually increased during the 2010 midterm election. Typically, without the star power of presidential politics, midterms draw less spending. Yet according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, total outside spending for the 2010 elections exceeded that of 2008 by about $3 million.
So what happened? Occupy someone else’s Yard. John C. Berg: Howie Carr seems to think... #OCCUPY Harvard. After 70 students staged a walk-out of Gregory Mankiw’s infamous Econ 10 last week, graduate and undergraduate students from all departments have now escalated the struggle. Harvard Restricts Access To Harvard Yard After Occupy Protestors Try To Set Up Camp. University authorities seek to block and isolate Occupy Harvard. By Kate Randall 11 November 2011. Richard D. Wolff: Harvard Students Join the Movement. Over the last ten days, Harvard students twice stopped business as usual at this richest of all US private universities.
Occupy Harvard's Big Solidarity Problem - National.