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Years: <\/strong>2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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why we organize<\/em><\/strong> started in 2019, members of the Harvard Graduate Student Union initiated a zine for and by student workers. They advocated for issues to be voted on, including information on a strike authorization vote, a roadmap to a contract with the power of a strike, and testimony of different students on why they organize. They also imagined their legacy in the lives of future student workers by proposing a narrative entitled, “After we Won: A Message from our Futures Secured by our Contract: A Harvard Student Worker Looks Back to the Year 2040.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if this print issue seems to have been discontinued, the union maintains an active Instagram account.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Curated by Ines Zalduendo, Special Collections Curator at the Frances Loeb Library, M.Arch \u201995<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Designed by Ashleigh Brady, Archival Collections Website Editor, M.Arch \u201926<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Opinion on Architecture <\/em>| Task: A Magazine for the Younger Generation in Architecture <\/em>| Synthesis<\/em> | Connection: Visual Arts at Harvard <\/em>| for’m <\/em>| The Harvard Architecture Review <\/em>| re\/alignment <\/em>| APPENDX: Culture\/Theory\/Praxis <\/em>| isthmus <\/em>| Gamut<\/em> | Trays: A Student Journal of the GSD<\/em> | New Geographies <\/em>| Platform <\/em>| Harvard Real Estate Review <\/em>| Open Letters <\/em>| Very Vary Veri <\/em>| MASKS, the Journal: Journal of the Dissimulation in Art <\/em>| Process: Journal of the GSD Design Research Forum<\/em> | OBL\/QUE<\/em> <\/em>| WID Bibliography<\/em> | Pairs <\/em>| Translations<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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