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Last Saturday, Occupation, the documentary about the Progressive Student Labor Movement’s (PSLM) infamous 21-day sit-in in Mass. Hall, premiered at the Harvard Film Archive. Throngs of people lined up to see how directors Pacho Velez ’02 and Maple Razsa chose to capture one of the most momentous events in recent Harvard history. Overwhelmed with viewers, the Archive auditorium soon proved to be too small to contain the large turnout, so video versions of the film had to be played simultaneously in two other locations. Velez and Razsa addressed the audience before...
...like Jarcho, is an alum of Manhattan’s Hunter College High School—is featured on the page opposite Jarcho as another “voice for the new world” for his involvement in last spring’s Progressive Student Labor Movement sit-in. While Perl-Rosenthal did not move inside Mass. Hall, he was integral in organizing the involvement of campus religious groups, bringing speakers to the Yard who Perl-Rosenthal said were able to attract a different demographic to the protest...
...professional activist. “I don’t have the psychology for being an activist,” he says. “[Activists have] a tendency to be bipolar and I am already of that persuasion. I don’t need it more. The sit-in was an incredible emotional roller coaster and I am fairly sure I wouldn’t be able to sustain that for a long time.” Instead, Perl-Rosenthal says he plans to enter the academic world, possibly in the field of history or biology...
...documentary combined student-shot footage of the sit-in with local television coverage, archival material and interviews with current Harvard workers...
...footage also showed PSLM members’ first formal interaction with University President Neil L. Rudenstine during the sit...