# Air Horns, Immigration Demands And Colbert Chaos: Harvard Strike Goes Off The Rails

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/air-horns-immigration-demands-and-colbert-chaos-harvard-strike-goes-off-the-rails/
- Published: 2026-11-10T19:53:24+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-10T21:38:30+00:00
- Original publisher: The Daily Caller (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://dailycaller.com/2026/11/10/harvard-union-graduate-students-protests-testing-colbert-yo-yo-ma-paid-leave-wages
- Topics: Politics

## Key points

- A fire alarm interrupted a Harvard panel during a graduate workers’ strike.
- The union denied responsibility; Harvard is investigating.
- The strike follows 54 bargaining sessions without an agreement.

## Summary

A Harvard panel featuring Stephen Colbert and Yo-Yo Ma was halted after a fire alarm sounded, prompting the packed Sanders Theatre to be evacuated. The incident took place during a graduate student workers’ strike, whose members were picketing outside and had urged the guests to move or cancel the event; university police said there was no fire.

The union denied setting off the alarm and said its members were picketing peacefully, while Harvard is investigating. The approximately 2,600-member union began striking after more than two years and 54 bargaining sessions without an agreement on demands including higher wages and stipends, family benefits and protections for non-citizen workers. Earlier picketing disrupted an exam with megaphones and air horns, drawing criticism from Harvard deans.

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