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Want to know how to make the PSLM stop yelling? Ask them what they’re really fighting for. They don’t know...
Before going further, let me start by saying: I was wrong. PSLM, I’ve listened to your arguments, I’ve read your papers, I’ve seen your protests and, most importantly, I’ve stopped being stubborn. You are right, I was wrong. The living wage is a fair and decent thing, especially considering outsourcing, and I believe that Harvard should pay its workers fairly...
...most important arguments for the living wage. If the protesters simply knew more about the issue before taken such strong action, it would help them since, ultimately, they are correct. After researching on the National Low Income Housing Coalition (a website I was directed to by the PSLM), I found information that confirmed that, not only is $10.25 reasonable as a living wage (even for a single person living in a cheap area), but it may even...
...movement and the Columbia University riots of 1968, I feel I must respond to the opinion piece by Joshua E. Gewolb ’01 (“Why I’m Sitting Out,” April 20). Gewolb claims that the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) “cheapens the legacy” of the anti-war movement by employing its methods in the service of the living wage issue, an issue that lacks both “the gravity and urgency” necessary to justify...
...members of PSLM apparently constitute a minority of students who believe that the economic privation of the people whose work allows their University to function is an issue of immense gravity. These students have, at some sacrifice to themselves, taken this issue to its source, a University with a $19 billion endowment that cannot pay its workers the same salary as the city of Cambridge. Gewolb criticizes PSLM’s tactics and says only reason, not pressure, can be used to effect change. I wonder if he believes this is the lesson of the civil rights movement...