Archive for September 19th, 2005
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Camp Alex, Cambridge Common, Saturday September 17, 2005. Cambridge United for Justice with Peace and the Cambridge Peace Commission rolled out the welcome mat for the Bring Them Home Now Tour arriving from Camp Casey in Crawford Texas. Violet [center] holds a picture of Lance Corporal Alex Arredondo USMC - killed in action May 2005, Najaf, Iraq. Behind her is the camp dedicated to him. More distant and to the right is the RV that brought the tour. More distant still is the steeple of Harvard’s Memorial Hall dedicated to the 50 Harvard graduates who died in the Civil War.
It was a full program. Carlos Arredondo described his anguish when the Marines arrived to tell him Alex was dead. It led him to set their van and himself on fire. But on this day he was reflective and eloquent. The rally was totally peaceful on all sides.
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High on the list of negotiating points is that Harvard recognize the right of all workers to organize. There are 750 custodial workers in the bargaining unit at Harvard - 350 “direct employees” [Harvard jargon] and 400 working for contractors. People working at Harvard through contractors, often suffer their rights being abridged if not abrogated. This is, of course, administration’s point in the practice.
Would you like to learn some labor related Spanish with me? Unidos sindicales United Union.
More later.
