Occupy Harvard // Weds 11/9 // 7pm

[Fenna Krienen]

Occupy Harvard Rally and General Assembly

 

Rally, Wednesday, 7pm, Harvard Yard

On Wednesday at 7pm, students, professors, and workers from the greater Boston community will descend on Harvard Yard to ask that Harvard start acting as a university for the 99%.  The ensuing rally, held in front of the John Harvard statue, will highlight ways that Harvard has contributed to yawning inequality both on and off campus.  Professors will critique Harvard-propagated economic models that brought us the great recession.  Students will expose Harvard-fueled land grabs in Tanzania.  Custodians will ask why Harvard pays them a mere $1 for every $180 paid to the execs of the Harvard Management Company.  We are standing in solidarity with the Occupy movement to take back our universities, our economy, and our democracy. 

[Ben Beachy]

A small but important edit to the blurb that Fenna sent out last night: the Harvard-fueled land grab didn't happen in Tanzania, but several other sub-Saharan countries (see here for background).  Here's the updated blurb:

Occupy Harvard

Rally and General Assembly, Nov. 9, 7pm, Harvard Yard

On Wednesday at 7pm, students, professors, and workers from the greater Boston community will descend on Harvard Yard to ask that Harvard start acting as a university for the 99%.  The ensuing rally, held in front of the John Harvard statue, will highlight ways that Harvard has contributed to yawning inequality both on and off campus.  Professors will critique Harvard-propagated economic models that brought us the great recession.  Students will expose Harvard-fueled land grabs in sub-Saharan Africa.  Custodians will ask why Harvard pays them a mere $1 for every $180 paid to the execs of the Harvard Management Company.  We are standing in solidarity with the Occupy movement to take back our universities, our economy, and our democracy.