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When he returned to campus that fall, Hennefeld teamed up with Shuldiner and a handful of others to found PSLM. "I was disillusioned with politics after the '94 Republican revolution and I was looking for something active and progressive to do," Hennefeld says. "We started small and moved slow, at first...
Within a year, the group had several dozen active members and an e-mail list of several hundred students. Through the PSLM Hennefeld helped organize several protests, including a visit by two sweatshop workers from the Dominican Republic. In March, he helped organize a "Rally for Justice" which featured hundreds of students chanting slogans outside University Hall. "The strategy here is two-pronged, involving both education and action," Hennefeld says. "We also felt we would be most effective on campus by getting students involved with issues relating to their own university...
Organizers said they will stage a "highly visible but non- disruptive" protest during the morning graduation exercises. They plan to walk out on Ferderal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan's afternoon speech and hold a "counter-Commencement" at Holyoke Center, sponsored by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and the Coalition Against Sexual Violence...
Morgan, a PSLM member, met with Riley to discuss security issues surrounding the protest...
...Progressive Student labor Movement (PSLM), a group associated with Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), kicked off a year of activism by protesting human rights abuses by the popular Guess? clothing company in the first Science Center protest of many to follow. Further rallies followed as a PSLM offshoot, Students Against Sweatshops, brought to Harvard the national movement to make universities accountable for the conditions of workers who manufacture their apparel...