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Today marks the fifth day of a sit-in at Washington University held by Student Worker Alliance (SWA), a labor rights group, in protest of the low wages paid to the university’s workers. Student protestors have occupied Brookings Hall since Monday—the college admissions office—and they have pledged not to leave until the University creates a living wage program...
...living wage was set in place at Harvard in the spring of 2001, following a sit-in held by the Progressive Student Labor Movement that culminated in the storming of Mass. Hall...
...over new zealand, people are fighting the power. At Marsden Point, near Whangarei, Greenpeace activists held a sit-in atop a disused power station last month to protest plans to restart the plant and run it on coal. On the Gowan river, near Marlborough, kayakers turned a March 5 whitewater festival into a demonstration against a hydroelectricity project. In the Waikato, south of Auckland, furious farmers last week burned in effigy the boss of a company that wants to run a power line through their green acres on pylons 70 m high. Bring electricity infrastructure too close to a Kiwi...
Yale’s student body was right to pursue this worthy cause, and their pressure was at least partially responsible for Yale’s generous new aid package. While it’s unfortunate that the UOC had to resort to sit-in tactics, it was forced to do all it could to attract the attention of Yale administrators. To that end, the UOC’s sit-in was an effective and peaceful way to show its commitment to the issue at hand while simultaneously gathering needed attention...
Through a petition, multiple proposals, and a sit-in, Yale students publicized an issue they cared about. We applaud their tactics and their triumph in making a difference in the lives of thousands of future Elis...