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Over the past year, PSLM has organized large rallies, staged a walkout during Commencement, hoisted a flag emblazoned with "$10"--the demanded hourly "living wage"--over University Hall and led an "anti-sweatshop tour" of the Square...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PSLM's Public Rallies Force University to Take Notice | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

Responsible for the living wage and anti-sweatshop campaigns, PSLM has transformed a campus once known for its apathy into one written up in Time magazine for its activism, where rallies and marches have become a standard sight in the Yard and at Holyoke Center...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PSLM's Public Rallies Force University to Take Notice | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

...operate on the assumption that the University is not going to change its policies until they become too embarrassing to sustain," Offner says. But this tactic has its limits. The anti-sweatshop campaign won easier victories because it did not run counter to any set University rule and it required little effort on Harvard's part to comply...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PSLM's Public Rallies Force University to Take Notice | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

...broader issues of women's rights around the nation and globe continues to be lacking. Many women's groups on campus also attempt to travel beyond issues of sexual assault and rape on campus to tackle the problems that women across the world confront, from reproductive rights to sweatshop labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...largest licensees, Champion Inc. and Gear for Sports, agreed to comply last month, in a major victory for PSLM's anti-sweatshop campaign...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: PSLM Chants, Marches Way Across the Square | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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