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From the anti-war invasion of University Hall in 1969 to the 1979 Apartheid divestment rallies to the living wage sit-in at Mass. Hall a few years ago, Harvard students over the last few decades have rarely refused to cause a stir. This year, too, efforts to vocally carry on the tradition of ardent student activism at the College have been many and, for the most part, welcome. From four arrests in Miami to nudity in the name of animal rights, the College community has witnessed a respectable maintenance of its obligation to objection—if, at times...
PSLM made national headlines in 2001 when it spearheaded a three-week sit-in of Mass. Hall that prompted a review of the University’s labor policies. But since PSLM’s Living Wage Campaign—a three-year movement begun in 1998 which culminated with 50 PSLM members occupying Mass. Hall—came to an informal end, the organization has nearly vanished from the labor frontlines...
...were very active in the Living Wage Campaign,” he adds...
Fenstermacher, who left the No Layoffs Campaign after losing the HUCTW executive board elections in December, says the group fell short because members refused to launch a truly comprehensive initiative like PSLM’s Living Wage Campaign, which worked for years prior to the Mass. Hall sit-in to garner support from students, faculty and city leadership...
...union negotiations and worked to expand employee education and skill training. Price helped guide changes to the University’s labor policies, working with the recommendations of the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies, which former University president Neil L. Rudenstine assembled in response to the Living Wage Campaign’s 2001 occupation of Mass. Hall...