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The great genius of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), which staged a massive takeover of Massachusetts Hall during the spring of 2001 to protest the low wages received by Harvard workers, was that it acknowledged real class differences. The PSLM members were not ashamed to say that the janitors...
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.
In 1912, 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?...
Short of a sit-in, Shelby J. Braxton-Brooks ’03 says dancers have not organized a response.
Last Tuesday’s speech on anti-Semitism and Sunday night’s showing of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off may seem to have nothing to do with one another, but both contrast favorably with the distant and aloof tenure of Summers’ predecessor, Neil...