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Members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) held a sit-in outside the Science Center yesterday afternoon to demand the implementation of a living wage for those who make Harvard clothing.
...Sit-ins protesting the use of sweatshop laborhave erupted on college campuses across the nationin the past few weeks. At Georgetown University,students occupied the president's office for fivedays. At the University of Wisconsin at Madison,protestors held a sit-in for 97 hours. Bothschools eventually acceded to the protestors'demands...
Students in the audience asked Okihiro for strategies to promote such departments on their campuses. Okihiro cited a strike at Columbia and a sit-in at Princeton, both of which resulted in Latino and Asian-American Studies departments or positions.
The 'Poonsters then held a sit-in protest for 10 minutes before being tossed from the building by former Crimson production supervisor Patrick R. Sorrento, a 62-year-old priest from Everett.
TREE HUGGER As of Dec. 10, environmental activist Julia Hill, also known as Butterfly, will have spent a full year perched in the branches of a Northern California redwood dubbed Luna. Butterfly's sit-in, a protest against logging by the Pacific Lumber Co., was reported in our May 11...