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That said, neither the PSLM nor any of its supporters have gotten it right. Their goal is to have Harvard University pay a living wage. Why should Harvard have to pay a living wage? Because it has $19 billion, the PSLM says. Some add to this argument by saying that because Harvard raises the property values and the standard of living in Cambridge, it therefore owes its workers a living wage. Both arguments, however, are meritless...
...tactic is a “targeting-wealth” strategy—that is really what the PSLM is about. Targeting those with money is a throwback to the ’60s—a comparison that will give student activists glee—and is an attack on the very principles that maintain America as a democracy. Citizens must be free to be entrepreneurs, to create wealth, and to enjoy it. This is obvious. But the PSLM insists that because Harvard has a $19 billion endowment, that it owes workers more money. Really? Sit in at McDonald?...
...real progressives? Working families deserve a living wage through tax breaks, social welfare and, most of all, the best public education system in the world. They deserve a better social infrastructure. We do not have all of these things now, and that is the real tragedy. However, the PSLM, in demanding a living wage at Harvard, diverts attention from the real problem to itself...
However today's move is not CPD's first introduction to the PSLM protest. Plainclothes CPD officers were present in the Yard yesterday in an observer role, and more than 20 officers responded to Wednesday night's rally when it spilled out in Mass...
Nearly 700 peaceful protesters armed with posters and noisemakers crowded outside Mass. Hall yesterday afternoon in the largest rally in the Yard in six years, while inside the occupied building members of the Progressive Student Leader Movement (PSLM) continued their second day of talks with administrators...