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February 24, 2014

Guggenheim Protest Highlights Plight of Migrant Workers in Abu Dhabi 
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In New York City, activists staged a protest inside the Guggenheim
Museum Saturday night to draw attention to the plight of migrant workers
building a new Guggenheim franchise in Abu Dhabi. The group Gulf Labor
says migrants from South Asia work in what is essentially indentured
servitude. During the museum's pay-what-you-wish hours on Saturday
night, the activists lined multiple stories of the museum's spiral
balconies, chanting and dropping banners with slogans including, "1%
Museum."

 

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