Word: lisa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SUBVERSIVE," Lisa has quite a record. Back at public high school in Croton-Harmon, a small town outside of New York, Lisa's guidance counselor did her a favor of informing the colleges Lisa had applied to of her radical activities in and out of school. Activities like organizing school cafeteria fasts to raise money for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and antiwar agitation. Lots of students were agitators in their local high schools but few stepped beyond the bounds of practical wisdom and got themselves thrown out of high school. Agitating against...
...Lisa's mother, a bit more pragmatic, suggested she apply to MIT which was hungry for women at the time. Lisa tried and was accepted. She lasted for two weeks...
...first day of school Lisa searched for the Boston Draft Resistance group instead of course books. She spent her school days working for the resistance group and a publishing company in Brighton--beginning the first in a long series of union fights...
...When Lisa, on full scholarship, applied for the job with the company, she had only the single-minded intention of earning some money. She was hired as an editorial assistant, i.e. a switchboard operator and typist...
...women who worked with her each had different lunch shifts and were separated by divisions between their desks. They rarely spoke to each other, that is, until Lisa and several other secretaries noticed that what management was presenting to them as an incentive plan was really a work speedup. The senior editor of the company called the women together and explained to them the new plan he had in mind. According to the outline, the women would receive pay increases if the total cost per page went down and pay decreases if the cost per page went up. Good incentive...