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In recent weeks, the Living Wage Campaign’s use of public protest and civil disobedience has been repeatedly denounced as “coercive.” This criticism is familiar to student-labor activists at Harvard. Although it did not involve any physical force, many called the...
If Harvard wants to end coercion as a means to address deeply entrenched injustices on campus, it must radically change the way it functions. It must provide alternative means for effectively addressing glaring problems when they arise. In response to the sit-in of last spring, there were signs that...
In part, PSLM is a victim of its own success; soon almost all Harvard workers will be making well above the sit-in standard of $10.25 an hour, even accounting for inflation. Yet the group can’t simply declare victory. Throughout its campaign, the group steadily avoided any...
The letter warned students that they could be suspended if they took part in similar actions in the future, since they had already been placed on probation following last spring’s Mass. Hall sit-in. ...
Weisbard noted that PSLM members who did participate in both the teach-in and last spring’s sit-in now have letters of warning in their files.