4/22/2005

A fitting close to the strike today, with a roving band of musicians on the pickets and poetry in several languages on the Languages picket (I was even compelled to write up a quick sonnet during the picketing), followed by a sprawling march around campus to Helen Hadley Hall, where Chinese graduate employees are fighting discrimination from their landlord, and from there to Betts House, home of Yale's Globalization Center. Today we called for global leadership from Yale in the form of a new commitment to human rights and global justice. And LWB-favorite Barbara Ehrenreich was there to share moving words on issues and the fight ahead. This week we ratcheted up the pressure on Yale, brought the message to new audiences, mobilized and organized new people, and broke down Yale's decade-long policy of non-engagement with the union representing the teachers who makes this university function. Now on to that meeting with Roland Betts...

3 Comments:

Blogger Phoebe said...

...or not (what a jerk, that man...)

4/22/2005 05:18:00 PM  
Blogger Matt & Mary Catherine's Wedding said...

now, now. i'm sure roland can be very nice when he wants to be...

4/22/2005 07:48:00 PM  
Blogger Zach said...

yeah, just ask Georgie!

4/24/2005 01:41:00 PM  

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