"elect rat romney 2008"

i participated in my first union rally. gov. romney won't sign our contracts (it wouldn't look so hot for him as a member of the republican party - which leads me to question how in the world MA got a conservative governor...) and this leaves us with few options. we've already agreed with the administration at umass that the contracts are fair therefore renegotiation is not an option (contrary romney's suggestion).

so what are we to do? dress a humble grad student as a rat (impersonating romney fairly well...) to give a mock speech and then march to the mullins center to deliver our petition to president wilson. it ended with cake.

props to the sociology dept. we made up the majority of individuals at the rally. even people who i'd never met before were there. it's because we study depressing things like employment and wage inquality.

so yeah. collectively bargaining is good times.