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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 of the capitalist economy is certainly noble. But the living wage issue lacks both the gravity and urgency necessary to justify the sit-in that is now taking place. PSLM has done a disservice to its cause and to today’s generation of students by using our weapon...
After more than five hours indoors, the stress began to wear on the protestors. During team meetings, students expressed frustration and said they felt powerless-the University was not negotiating, and merely seemed to be ignoring the protestors...
...current small claims collections system is time-consuming, costly and powerless up to a point," SCAS Executive Director Michael A. Blaustein `02 told the Mass. Joint Senate-House Committee on the Judiciary...
...heads make ludicrous comparisons to the Iran hostage crisis. The Bush administration may need the active support of congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle in the coming days to head off domestic political pressure for a stronger stand. Because one thing Americans don't like is feeling powerless...
While Democrats were powerless to stop the tax bill in the House, Bush's unbending tactics there generated plenty of ill will. His tax cut got only 10 House Democratic votes, compared with 48 for Reagan's, and some of the loudest opposition came from the most conservative Democrats--the "Blue Dogs" whom Bush aides had once considered potential allies. By forcing the most fiscally conservative members of the party to accept a tax cut they consider too large and by doing it before he produced the details of his budget and spending cuts, Bush galvanized the Democrats...