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The 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 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...
The 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?...
Like all of the current city councillors, King approved of the living wage sit-in at Massachusetts Hall last spring.
Summers’ perception of PSLM, however, seems to be based primarily on impressions formed during the sit-in last spring.