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...PSLM] didn’t play the central role that they played in the sit-in, but I think they’re still playing a good role,” Booth says of the group’s restrained brand of activism this year. “They worked on a consensus model…and there was a consistent one or two people that put the breaks on a whole range of possible tactics. But they played a good role, and eventually came around to all the important issues...
Potter, who is also involved in the informal HUCTW reform group, points to the sit-in as an example of the union’s insufficient dedication...
Chaudhry says PSLM’s current lull is merely the calm before a storm, likening the general labor movement’s current atmosphere to the years which preceded 2001’s sit...
...There is a well of community and campus support for workers on campus that remains and that is deepened as organizing unfolds outside of the context of the large headline-grabbing events like the sit-in,” he says...
...have likely heard about his antics over the past four years. Bar Am has been identified as a liberal voice on campus, as one of the Progressive Student Labor Movement protestors who lodged himself in Massachusetts Halls during the Living Wage sit-in in 2001, as the founder of HIFT and recently, as one of the four Harvard students arrested at an international trade protest in Miami...