Political Groups
Occupy Harvard's First Night: An Eyewitness Account
Roberto F. Velez '03, a teaching fellow in the Visual and Environmental Studies Department, shot this video of last Wednesday's Occupy Harvard protest depicting the night as it unfolded.
Egyptian Arab Spring Organizers Address Occupy Harvard
Speaking through the bars of the locked Johnston Gate, Egyptian activists Ahmed Maher and Esraa Abdel Fattah sought to link the Occupy movement to the Arab Spring.
University Maintains Heightened Security for Occupy Harvard
Harvard will retain heightened security measures in the Yard for the time being, according to a statement that the University sent out to members of the community on Thursday.
Occupy Harvard Takes Mass Ave
Members of the Occupy Harvard demonstration fill two lanes of Mass Ave as they marched from Harvard Yard to the Harvard Law School campus Wednesday night.
Occupy Protest Shuts Down Harvard Yard
Hundreds of protesters sympathetic to the Occupy movement descended on Harvard Yard Wednesday night with a message of disapproval for the University’s perceived complicity in growing income inequality across the country.
Campus Political Leaders React to Polling Showing Government Distrust
In the wake of a New York Times/CBS poll that indicates that distrust in the federal government is at its highest recorded level, Harvard’s student political leaders say they share the public’s concerns. The national poll found that 89 percent of Americans do not think that they can “trust the government in Washington to do what is right,” and 74 percent think that the country is on the wrong track.
Jose Vargas
Jose Antonio Vargas, a former Washington Post correspondent who "came out" four months ago as an undocumented immigrant, answers students' questions in Kirkland JCR last Saturday at an event sponsored by Act on a DREAM and Kirkland Conversations.
Harvard College Act on a Dream Hosts Conference on Immigration Reform
In search of effective strategies for advocating immigration reform, nearly 50 students attended the Ivy League Immigrants’ Rights Coalition Summit ...
Voting Made Easy with TurboVote
It's not entirely unusual to hear Harvard students complaining that they don't have enough free time. While most will find the time to fill out a voter registration form, doing so has been made significantly more convenient. A new service, TurboVote, developed by two Kennedy School alums, claims to make voting by mail "as easy as renting a DVD from Netflix," according to the website.
Rendell Promotes Public Service Careers
Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, an Institute of Politics visiting fellow, is on campus this week to urge students to consider careers in public service.
Students Protest Before Axelrod Talk
Harvard Environmental Action Committee Chair Serena Y. Zhao ’12 said the group targeted Axelrod because the pipeline requires the President’s stamp of approval to move forward.
Harvard Student Group Hosts Vigil for Troy Davis
Forty Harvard students gathered at 12:03 p.m. and again at 1:03 p.m. to join together in a moment of silence for Davis.
Students Protest Oil Pipeline
Hoping to highlight opposition to a proposed oil pipeline running from Canada to the Gulf Coast, protesters gathered outside of Kirkland House Tuesday afternoon before the arrival of Jim Messina, President Obama’s campaign manager.
The Evolution of Activism
This generation of Harvard protesters often puts dialogue before destruction, classes before causes, and private conversation before public confrontation.
