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Smith said the group is not related to the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM...
...past two months, Neuhas-Follini and PSLM member Gabriel A. Katsh ’04 have been meeting regularly with Thrall and Smith to develop a cohesive set of goals for the Progressive Alliance...
Weisbard, a member of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) who was involved in last spring’s sit-in, subsequently e-mailed Throptalk a sarcastic message. In the e-mail, he mocked Mucha and the council’s current commitments to student services...
Although the film chronicles the actual sit-in with great detail, it is interspersed with testimony from workers, statistics about wages and stodgy images of Harvard from the past. It follows the PSLM protesters as they rush into Mass. Hall and are confronted by grim, heartless officials. The omnipresent camera tracks down then-Provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67 and captures him brusquely dismissing the protestors: “I have office hours every two weeks.” It sympathetically watches Frank, a custodian, perform his work as he tells the audience, “I call...
...storming of Mass. Hall, therefore, was a final attempt to break through this wall of indifference and create a humane and equitable working environment for Harvard workers. And of course, this is all documented on camera. We see the tired and weary yet determined PSLM-ers strategizing in their new, not so luxurious living environment. We look on as singing children, pizza-bearing janitors and marching demonstrators flag the waning spirits of the captive heroes. And we breathe a sigh of relief as our bedraggled band of crusaders victoriously exit the building. Their mission is far from finished, but they...