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...were not ashamed to say that the janitors were of a different class from them. Moreover, PSLM knew the only way to press for workers’ power was to use the brute instruments of mass protest, civil disobedience and humiliation. Many students reacted with amused disdain to the sit-in. What are these rich kids doing protesting for janitors, they asked? Aren’t they hypocrites? Such comments might be expected, because Harvard has convinced these less well-off students that they too are part of the elite establishment...
Last year, Lachelier spent two days occupying Mass. Hall as part of a Progressive Student Labor Movement sit-in asking for a living wage for Harvard employees...
...Harvard gave students academic credit for going to Lawrence, Mass. and helping to break a strike of immigrant textile workers. Those workers were fighting to establish a humane standard of living. Ninety years later, after many struggles including the Mass. Hall student sit-in during spring 2001, it’s time for Harvard to atone for its past mistakes and demonstrate that it is now truly committed to helping provide at least a minimum standard of dignity for working people. In this spirit, Harvard should pressure UNICCO to meet the striking janitors’ demands, or else sever...
Short of a sit-in, Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks ’03 says dancers have not organized a response...
...highlight his complete absence from campus life throughout the rest of that year. He merely made token appearances at home football games; whether he stayed past half-time—or even arrived before it— is anyone’s guess. Even during the Living Wage sit-in, at a time when his comments would have clarified and enriched the debate over Harvard’s labor policies, Rudenstine remained typically and irresponsibly silent...