Harvard protesters get organized, and continue to grow

As church bells tolled out 11 a.m., several dozen protestors draped in keffiyeh scarfs gathered for a meeting, calling it to order with chants of “Free, free Palestine!” Near the campsite, the John Harvard statue was draped in a Palestinian flag and a red keffiyeh scarf; the American flag flew above it. Although shock over student arrests at Emerson reverberated here, it was an otherwise peaceful morning Thursday in the “Harvard Liberated Zone,” which consists of about two dozen tents pitched on Harvard Yard’s central lawn between University Hall and...