Word: movementã
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...first-year dorms; in a recent newsletter door-dropped by the campaign, however, the standard set by the Cambridge living wage ordinance (now $10.68 per hour) is mentioned hardly at all. The call for a wage that allows workers to live in Cambridge, present in some of the movement??s early op-ed pieces and public statements, has shifted to a discussion of “the annual cost of living in metropolitan Boston...
...Mass Hall sit-in gave the impression that Harvard’s wage policies are by far the worst in the business. However, the campaign for a living wage is a carefully coordinated national movement, embracing a diverse coalition of unions, workers, students, religious groups and local politicians. The movement??s nascent steps in raising awareness culminated last spring in dramatic protests across fifty university campuses. Harvard’s PSLM attracted the most national and international press outlets because the Harvard name gave the most sensational lead for any news broadcast...
Madeleine, age 18, received a phone call from YM this summer requesting an interview and photo shoot for being the youngest female participant in the Progressive Student Labor Movement??s (PSLM) occupation of Mass Hall from April 18 to May 1. “My first reaction was that it would be really great if news of the sit-in got into YM. It might reach a demographic that hadn’t heard about what had gone on here. So I agreed,” she says...
Iskovitz says Cambridge’s proportional representation system is ideal for a third-party movement??and an excellent way to grab a foothold in Massachusetts politics...
While avoiding directly mentioning the Progressive Student Labor Movement??s living wage campaign, he repeatedly emphasized his openness to different viewpoints and ideas. But he also said, “All ideas are worthy of consideration here—but not all perspectives are equally valid...