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...writers assert, “The sit-in was a strategy in line with the rich and long tradition of principled, non-violent protest actions that have forced the powerful to listen to the dispossessed.” The last time I checked, a group of students forcibly entering the confines of the administrative offices at a private university, demanding that it give up its right to decide how its endowment will be spent, was not “non-violence” but, rather, criminal theft...

Author: By Shannon F. Ringvelski, | Title: Hoxby's Critics Should Check Their Logic | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...sit-in was a strategy in line with the rich and long tradition of principled, non-violent protest actions that have forced the powerful to listen to the dispossessed. The great successes of the civil rights and feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s have prompted even conservatives to acknowledge that these social protests have helped to move the nation closer to its founding promises of freedom and equality. These movements were not an affront to democracy; they were an embodiment of it. On the local level, last spring’s sit-in played an equally important role...

Author: By Brad S. Epps, Tom Jehn, and Timothy PATRICK Mccarthy, S | Title: Why Hoxby is Wrong | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

...much-publicized committee was born last spring out of the three-week-long occupation of Mass. Hall, home of the president’s office. The Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) organized the sit-in as part of their push for a “living wage”—a mandatory wage floor of $10.25 per hour for all Harvard employees...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hoxby Resigns From Living Wage Panel | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

Like all of the current city councillors, King approved of the living wage sit-in at Massachusetts Hall last spring...

Author: By Lauren R. Dorgan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: King Seeks To Bring New Voice to Council | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

Summers’ perception of PSLM, however, seems to be based primarily on impressions formed during the sit-in last spring...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Living Wage 'Welcome' | 10/14/2001 | See Source »

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