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When the students of the 1960s staged sit-ins to protest the Vietnam War, they employed one of the strongest weapons that powerless groups have against authority, to monumentally important effect. The Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) has misappropriated their legacy. PSLM’s campaign against the harsh realities...
"We've tried a whole variety of tactics-from teach-ins to rallies to meetings with administrators," PSLM member Amy C. Offner '01 said outside Mass. Hall yesterday.
Although the students risk arrest with the ongoing occupation of the administrative building, HUPD officials appeared relaxed last night as they stood outside Mass. Hall-a far cry from the tear gas and violence of the legendary sit-ins of 1969.
And so it was back to protest politics for Zackie Achmat and thousands like him, who realized that their survival depended on access to the anti-retrovirals and other drugs that had kept alive tens of thousands of AIDS patients in the industrialized world. Achmat soon found himself heading up...
“We’ve done a whole variety of tactics—teach-ins, rallies, and [the administration] refuses to respond,” Offner said.