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...says PSLM??s two-pronged strategy of working with administrators and mobilizing student support is one available to ethnic studies supporters as well...
Many students who were previously active in the living wage campaign have decreased or even ended their involvement—saying that PSLM??s structure only allowed input by a select...
...tactics are coercive and therefore unethical. The Harvard community’s labor activists have remained silent on the issue, claiming they were fighting for “justice” but offering few tangible arguments in defense of their principles. At long last, however, some of the PSLM??s defenders have taken up the issue of “coercion.” They contend that the distinction between a coercive and a non-coercive action is ambiguous and ultimately meaningless. While it is encouraging to see that they haven’t forgotten the issue altogether...
...Some of PSLM??s supporters claim a labor contract is inherently coercive. They argue that a worker’s need to survive “coerces” them into accepting the terms of an unfair agreement. But while it is true that individuals must work in order to live, and that the structure of society limits an individual’s access to employment, it does not follow that employers are somehow coercing individuals into working. These limitations are part of the natural world we inhabit, and employers offer a viable and strictly voluntary means...
...left, as well as the right, suffers if as a community we only tolerate or encourage political discussions that address three topics. Any evidence of the extreme—at Harvard that includes Republicans, libertarians, socialists and those to the far left, including the PSLM??is marginalized because they fall outside of Harvard’s accepted “center...