Word: labors
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During the open portion of the Faculty meeting,Benjamin O. Shuldiner '99 read a statement onbehalf of the Progressive Student Labor Movement(PSLM) about sweatshop labor...
Shuldiner reviewed negotiations between theUniversity and PSLM over the past year regardingsweatshop labor. He ended his statement by askingfor a direct response from Rudenstine about theUniversity's position on disclosure of thelocations of factories producing college apparel...
Yesterday afternoon's nebulous "Rally for Justice" lacked that sense of purpose. The rally brought together under the umbrella of "justice" three legitimate but unrelated issues--a living wage for Harvard employees, fair labor practices in manufacturing Harvard clothing and more awareness of sexual assault on campus. By linking the issues, organizers had hoped to show solidarity against the Harvard administration and generate student interest that would spill over into all three issues. Instead, each individual message was diluted under the vague rallying cry of "Justice," and a true sense of purpose was never apparent...
...most important of the demands were those of the Coalition against Sexual Violence, which were at times buried under the more vocal labor causes. Indeed, the consideration of the dismissal of D. Drew Douglas, Class of 2000, was the only item on the agenda of yesterday's Faculty meeting that even related to the protests. The Students Against Sweatshops and the Living Wage Campaign seemed like opportunists, jumping on the wave of rage against Harvard's seeming indifference to campus sexual assault to gain support for their causes. There have been a number of small sweatshop rallies in the past...
...rally, organized by the Progressive Students Labor Movement (PSLM), the Coalition against Sexual Violence (CASV) and the Living Wage Campaign, was planned to coincide with the full Faculty meeting that began at 4 p.m. in University Hall...