Word: movement
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...Progressive Student labor Movement (PSLM), a group associated with Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), kicked off a year of activism by protesting human rights abuses by the popular Guess? clothing company in the first Science Center protest of many to follow. Further rallies followed as a PSLM offshoot, Students Against Sweatshops, brought to Harvard the national movement to make universities accountable for the conditions of workers who manufacture their apparel...
Members of PSLM, founded in 1997 by several students who had been active in the labor movement on an individual basis, would later join graduate students to fight for a living wage at Harvard. The Living Wage campaign has now enlisted the support of over 100 faculty members...
...cold of January, as most of Harvard hunkered down for exams, when a small group of students affiliated with the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) began holding meetings Tuesday nights at the Phillips Brooks House. From this core group of students, the Living Wage Campaign was born...
...progress the nation has made in the nearly 30 years since the birth of the American gay rights movement in 1969, there remains a large and growing homophobia from coast to coast. According to a recent Gallup poll, 59 percent of Americans believe homosexual behavior is morally wrong. And last summer, Senate Majority Trent Lott (R-Miss.) compared homosexuals to Kleptomaniacs and alcoholics...
Most anti-abortion activists do not condone these acts, however many of the major anti-abortion groups do not condemn them either. If opponents of abortion rights wish to give their movement any integrity, they must eliminate the violent elements which now conduct terrible acts under their banner. March...