Harvard Says No to Summers

We, the undersigned, as Harvard alumni, students, workers, and faculty, stand opposed to the consideration of former Harvard president Lawrence Summers for the position of Treasury Secretary in the new Obama administration. We join thousands across the country who have signed petitions against the potential selection of Mr. Summers.

We call for an end to the politics of corruption, corporate power, institutional sexism, and neoliberal capitalism that Mr. Summers has represented throughout his public life, from the International Monetary Fund to the Department of the Treasury to the halls of Harvard University. The people of the United States have delivered a resounding NO to these politics.

Our message to the Obama transition team is clear: Summers time is over. Keep Wall Street out of the Treasury, the fox out of the henhouse, and kick the architects of the financial crisis out of the halls of power.