I saw this task when I first joined SF0 and loved it. I used to be involved in Amnesty; the idea of inalienable rights as belonging to all persons regardless of country, race, religion, gender, etc is near and dear. One problem: I am currently a grad student. We don't have a lunch room. We have a chronic shortage of space and the strong tendency to clump together by labs; my lab has a microwave and a minifridge and a dishrack. Oh well--I would watch for and applaud good praxis and look for another Humanitarian Crisis task.

The other day, though, I left lab by my normal route--downstairs past the chronically broken vending machine and complete lack of water fountain--and noticed something I had seen but not really registered before. Newly placed within the last semester or so there is a bulletin board in the basement/first floor of our building, on which are posted a few notices. Best of all, I noticed that it was not locked, in fact standing open with no locking mechanism to be found.



That evening I signed up for this task and broached the topic with Kari; he mentioned that (in clear violation of his right to rest and reasonable leisure time) he would be spending all of Saturday working and thus could easily post it while no one was around. On Friday I printed the rather lovely two-page PDF version in full color on the lab printer and handed it off. We determined that our workplace is actually pretty decent about upholding our universal human rights, but that such a declaration is still a neat thing to have posted.





We will be monitoring the board daily to see when it is taken down. As of Monday afternoon, still present.

Sometime during the day Thursday, a week and a half after the initial posting, the Declaration was taken down and replaced with a Cal-OSHA notice describing workplace injuries over the last year. No evidence was obtained of the perpetrator(s).