Our silence on both - as an institution, and as individuals within an institution - is deafening.
Many people on Campus are not even aware that there is a strike in the cleaning sector.
And, while we have a wall to remind us that the Middle East exists just off the radar screen, Iraq is something few people devote too much neural activity to these days.
And while our ability to act on the Iraqi issue might be limited to symbolic action, we can certainly act in more material ways to support the cleaning sector workers - both those who are not striking, and those who are.