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Members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) added a new method to their repertoire of protest techniques yesterday. During prime time outside the Science Center--at high noon and again at 1 p.m.--they staged a street theater performance to protest the University's sweatshop policy...
...People get tired of doing just protests," said Daniel M. Hennefeld '99, a PSLM member who played an administrator in the production...
...Although PSLM members said the event has been in the works for several weeks, it came on the heels of the University's decision to join a group of universities employing a monitoring firm to oversee apparel factories making products with their trademark...
...those universities, the University of Notre Dame, already employs the firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers--a company that PSLM members have said has a conflict of interest since apparel manufacturers also employ it. PSLM used yesterday's event to express their displeasure with the impending agreement...
...month ago, the council adopted an order urging Harvard to comply voluntarily to provide its employees with a living wage of at least $10 per hour. Despite the efforts of the Living Wage Campaign at Harvard, formed in January as an outgrowth of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), University officials have yet to reach a compromise with student activists or the council. PSLM members said the city's latest move should prompt Harvard to follow suit...