<font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="4"><b><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span></b></font><b><font size="4">Harvard Janitors Prepared to Strike as Midnight Deadline Looms</font></b><br>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">Boston, MA--- Janitors, students and allies
plan a series of marches and protests Tuesday as the union contract
expiration deadline for hundreds of janitors at Harvard approaches. The
contract expires at Midnight on Tuesday. <font color="#000000">In advance of
the deadline, two actions have been planned for the 15<sup>th</sup>, one at
President Drew Faust’s speech at the Loeb Drama Center, and the other
in protest of the Harvard Management Company at the Federal Reserve Bank in
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<span style="font-size:12pt">The president's speech is being
protested during this 375th anniversary event because there is disjunction
in the idea of Harvard as an institution for all. <br><br></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">At $32 billion,
Harvard’s endowment makes them not only the wealthiest university in
the country, but in the world. Despite their reputation as the preeminent
educational institution, Harvard is unwilling to make sure that the workers
who clean their campuses have full time work, affordable healthcare, and equality between direct and contracted out workers.<br><br></font></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">Harvard’s
highest paid employee and lowest paid employee ratio stands at 180:1. While wages
have increased over the past ten years, many workers remain at a part-time
status, often making as little as $19,000 a year. Meanwhile, excessive
compensation by the university has top officials making $32,000 a day.<br><br></font></span></div>
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<u><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Protest Outside Faust Speech</span></b></u></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">WHEN: 4PM, Tuesday, November 15, 2011</span>
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<span style="font-size:12pt">WHERE: <font color="#000000"> Loeb Drama
Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge<br></font></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000"><u><b>Protest Harvard
Management Company at Federal Reserve Bank</b></u></font></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">WHEN: 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011</font></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000">WHERE: </font>600
Atlantic Ave.<font color="#000000"> (across from Occupy Boston & next to
South Station)<br><br></font></span></div>
<span style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="es-ES"><b>VISUALS:</b> Sandwich Boards
stating, “The Harvard Corporation stands with the 1% while the 99%
struggle to pay their bills” and “The Harvard Corporation stands
with the 1% while the 99% struggle to see their families.” <br></span></span>
<br><b style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="4">Interviews available</font>: </b><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Custodians, Occupy Harvard solidarity activists, union officials, alumni<br>
<br>contact:</span><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="es-ES"> S</span></b><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#666666"><font size="2"><b style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span lang="es-ES">arah Betancourt – Office <a href="tel:617-878-7492" value="+16178787492" target="_blank">617-878-7492</a> | Cell: <a href="tel:802-999-2400" value="+18029992400" target="_blank">802-999-2400</a></span></b>
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