{"id":394,"date":"2011-11-21T14:23:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T19:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/spaceoccupants\/?p=394"},"modified":"2012-01-13T19:25:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T00:25:02","slug":"unapproved-statements-on-occupy-harvard-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/spaceoccupants\/2011\/11\/21\/unapproved-statements-on-occupy-harvard-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Unapproved statements on “Occupy Harvard” website"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday whoever controls the “Occupy Harvard” website — occupyharvard.net<\/a> — made three potentially controversial posts purporting to represent the position of “Occupy Harvard,” none of which has been approved by a meeting of the “General Assembly,” the sole body authorized to approve such statements (which I know because I attended the last two meetings).<\/p>\n

The first (here<\/a>) expressed solidarity with the U.C. Davis protesters.\u00a0 To date the General Assembly has only approved expressions of solidarity on labor issues related to Harvard.<\/p>\n

The second (here<\/a>) spoke positively of Mario Savio and the U.C. Berkeley so-called “Free Speech Movement.”\u00a0 Both Savio and his movement are controversial in at least some circles (more on that, perhaps, later), and as best I have been able to determine this subject has never been put before the General Assembly for consideration.<\/p>\n

The third (here<\/a>) depicts a cartoon of a Harvard i.d. on which an image of someone in a Guy Fawkes mask from the movie “V for Vendetta” appears — the person in the Fawkes mask being identified as one of the 99% that Harvard seems to be afraid of.\u00a0 Both the real Fawkes, and the character depicted in the movie, were terrorists (see here<\/a> and here<\/a>), and thus by this image “Occupy Harvard” seems to be associating itself with, if not terrorists themselves, at minimum a glamorization of terrorism.\u00a0 As best I have been able to determine the General Assembly has never voted to approve anything alone these lines, so it’s pretty clear that on a routine basis the website is being updated with content, sometimes controversial, which is represented to be the position of “Occupy Harvard” but in fact is nothing of the sort.<\/p>\n

Update:\u00a0 today there’s another use of the Guy Fawkes image on a Harvard i.d. card, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

–“Major Tom”<\/p>\n

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