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10-10-2011, 10:24 AM
HANOVER, N.H.
Barely 48 hours before nine Republican presidential hopefuls are scheduled to debate at Dartmouth College, signs began appearing on campus Sunday evening announcing a demonstration in support of the Occupy Wall Street protests. A “Students Stand With Staff” organization with ties to the Service Employees International Union is organizing the event.
The group plans to hold its rally on the center of campus during the four hours immediately preceding Tuesday evening’s high-profile debate.
Sterling Beard, a senior at the college and editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Review, a conservative campus newspaper, told The Daily Caller that organized labor’s grievances with Dartmouth — and the Students Stand With Staff organization — go back several years….
...Karenina Rojas, a Dartmouth junior and a frequent organizer of protests for progressive causes, confirmed in an email that Students Stand with Staff is “a pro-union, pro-worker’s rights group on campus.”
“We are currently planning a ‘Support Occupy Wall Street’ event on the Green on Tuesday,” Rojas told TheDC, “and are planning on having a constant presence from 4PM to 8PM.”
Rojas also said that the SEIU may hold its own rally, distinct from the students’ activity. Her organization will be “protesting GOP economic policies, in addition to expressing solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement.”
The SEIU Local 560’s website includes a photograph of a sign advertising a Dartmouth Students Stand With Staff “candlelight vigil” dating from February 2010, shortly after Dartmouth began a limited program of staff layoffs to balance its budget.
SEIU vice president Chris Peck did not respond to The Daily Caller’s request for comment.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/10/occupy-wall-street-protest-stakes-out-spotlight-at-gop-economic-debate%E2%80%A8/
Anyone type of counter-protesting that day?
Barely 48 hours before nine Republican presidential hopefuls are scheduled to debate at Dartmouth College, signs began appearing on campus Sunday evening announcing a demonstration in support of the Occupy Wall Street protests. A “Students Stand With Staff” organization with ties to the Service Employees International Union is organizing the event.
The group plans to hold its rally on the center of campus during the four hours immediately preceding Tuesday evening’s high-profile debate.
Sterling Beard, a senior at the college and editor-in-chief of The Dartmouth Review, a conservative campus newspaper, told The Daily Caller that organized labor’s grievances with Dartmouth — and the Students Stand With Staff organization — go back several years….
...Karenina Rojas, a Dartmouth junior and a frequent organizer of protests for progressive causes, confirmed in an email that Students Stand with Staff is “a pro-union, pro-worker’s rights group on campus.”
“We are currently planning a ‘Support Occupy Wall Street’ event on the Green on Tuesday,” Rojas told TheDC, “and are planning on having a constant presence from 4PM to 8PM.”
Rojas also said that the SEIU may hold its own rally, distinct from the students’ activity. Her organization will be “protesting GOP economic policies, in addition to expressing solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement.”
The SEIU Local 560’s website includes a photograph of a sign advertising a Dartmouth Students Stand With Staff “candlelight vigil” dating from February 2010, shortly after Dartmouth began a limited program of staff layoffs to balance its budget.
SEIU vice president Chris Peck did not respond to The Daily Caller’s request for comment.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/10/occupy-wall-street-protest-stakes-out-spotlight-at-gop-economic-debate%E2%80%A8/
Anyone type of counter-protesting that day?