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...their first major protest of the year, the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) living wage campaign stages a mock Christmas pageant entitled Neil Rudenstine‘s Christmas in Jail in front of the Science Center to protest Harvard’s lack of a living wage...
Nearly 50 from Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) begin a sit-in at Massachusetts Hall students to protest Harvard’s lack of a living wage. They want the university to adopt a living wage of $10.25. The protesters declare that they will remain there indefinitely until the university will agree to their demands. The sit-in follows a two-year effort by PSLM to implement a living wage...
...three hours of impassioned rhetoric, sideways watch-glancing and frustrated castings aside of Roberts' Rules of order for the cabinet of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) to decide in the early days of the Mass. Hall living wage sit-in to support the Progressive Student Labor Movement's (PSLM) drastic action...
...PSLM is a member of PBHA, but the cabinet, the organization's governing body made up of individual program directors, still called an emergency meeting to issue a public statement of support for the PSLM cause...
...PBHA, in addition to usual service-orientated programs, has taken on a slew of new activities this year that reflect a crucial shift in the organization. While PSLM's activities are reminiscent of 1960s era activists' techniques, PBHA too is consciously returning to its roots--the advocacy work that characterized the organization in its early days and throughout the 1960s and 1970s...