Chris Hedges to Occupy Harvard

Chris Hedges to Occupy Harvard

Tonight, Chris Hedges will leave unoccupied the room booked for him at the faculty club by Harvard University.

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Tonight, Monday, November 28, Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent and Nation magazine writer Chris Hedges will embed with Occupy Harvard, spending the night in a tent in Harvard Yard. Hedges will address Occupy Harvard and its supporters at a 5:00 pm rally at Thayer Gate outside of Harvard Yard.

Also on Monday, Harvard students will undertake a day of action, centered on a 3:30pm rally, to express support for University of California students’ strike in response to police violence and to galvanize yet broader support for the Occupy movement on campus and nationwide.

As both the 5:00 pm address and the 3:30 pm rally take place outside the confines of Harvard Yard—which remains unnecessarily on lockdown—they are therefore open and accessible to the media.

Hedges, a vocal supporter of the Occupy movement, is a senior fellow for the Nation Institute and writes regular columns in The Nation and Truthdig. Originally invited by the University to give a talk as part of the Harvard University Humanities Center series, Hedges has chosen instead to use his presence on campus to express solidarity with and support for the Occupy Harvard movement. In so doing, he will leave unoccupied the room booked for him by the University at the Harvard Faculty Club.

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