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Having started her Harvard career by participating in the 21-day Massachusetts Hall sit-in for the Progressive Students’ Labor Movement (PSLM) in the spring of 2001, Elfenbein has become the face of campus activism. Now, as she finds herself nearing the end of her Harvard career, Elfenbein, who is also a Crimson editor, will leave in much the same way she started. Less than a month ago, she and three other Harvard seniors spent a Friday night in a Miami jail cell after being arrested during protests outside the summit meeting of the Free Trade Area...

Author: By Adam P. Schneider, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Acting Up | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

...When I was first arrested, I thought I was the only one,” says Jordan A.A. Bar Am ’04, who also participated in both the PSLM sit-in and the Miami protest. “I was so relieved to see Maddy. [Even in prison] she is always so amazingly chill...

Author: By Adam P. Schneider, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Acting Up | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

University students staged a sit-in at Berlin's historic City Hall last week, blasting whistles and shouting slogans and holding out until they were dragged away by police. In London, students protested in Parliament Square. And for weeks now in Paris, thousands of striking students have filled the boulevards, marching with signs and banners and chanting "all together!" Europeans are used to seeing students on the streets pushing for radical change, but these young people want to preserve the status quo. They're protesting government plans to reform their higher-education system - plans that in some cases place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Price Education? | 12/7/2003 | See Source »

University membership in the WRC was initially included in the list of demands made by the Progressive Student Labor Movement during its 2001 sit-in of Massachusetts Hall, although it was later dropped...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Will Join Sweatshop Watchdog Group | 12/2/2003 | See Source »

PSLM member Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04, one of a handful of students who attended the event, spoke about her experiences at Harvard since the Living Wage Campaign’s sit-in and the changes to the University’s labor policies that followed...

Author: By Shayak Sarkar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Union Workers Protest Harvard’s Labor Policy | 11/26/2003 | See Source »

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