Tag: activism
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Nation & World
‘Funny … frivolous … serious’
Music and comedy meet queer and Jewish radicalism in Morgan Bassichis exhibit at the Carpenter Center.
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Harvard students head for Supreme Court rally
They will join groups from other schools, activists, lawyers in support of campus diversity as justices hear admissions challenge.
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Link between Ukraine fighting, fossil fuels
German activists say shifting to renewable energy sources could produce environmental, peace dividends.
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Building a more just society
“The Architecture of Democracy” examined how buildings, and their designers, contribute to the shape of our society.
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Battle for LGBTQ rights amid the pandemic
As part of Worldwide Week at Harvard, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs hosted “Rethinking Resistance Politics in Troubling Times: Transnational Queer Solidarity During COVID-19,” an online panel discussing recent work examining the international situation.
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Striking lessons from the 1960s
The occupation of University Hall in April 1969 and the strike that followed it left its mark on Harvard’s psyche. A daylong event Friday commemorates the 50th anniversary and brings today’s student activists into the conversation.
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Climate made scary
Journalist David Wallace-Wells and others debated the most effective way to communicate climate urgency in a Harvard discussion.
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A bleak, troubling history
Laurence Ralph, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Departments of Anthropology and African and African American Studies, will give a talk on the history of police violence in the United States.
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Freedom in motion
Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi delivered the Godkin Lecture and took questions from students last night at Harvard Kennedy School.
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A Nobel cause in the Arab world
The West must do more to support the ongoing, peaceful democratic revolutions in long-suppressed Arab nations, Yemeni activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman said during an address at the Harvard Kennedy School