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...ability as a nation to wage war, to fund social programs, to do anything we want to do ultimately depends on the size of the economy,” Hubbard said...
...until I saw a worker’s paycheck with higher numbers on it.” How much of an effect does he think the media attention had on the sit-in’s resolution, which ended with an administrative commitment to investigate employees’ wages. “It wasn’t simply Harvard looking bad, it was they were losing control of the campus. We were building an enormous amount of power. For me, the greatest effect of the media has been in the larger world, which now knows a lot more about Living...
...Living Wage campaign’s tactics are a model for a new generation of activists who see media finesse as integral to effecting change...
...CASV faced challenges that the Living Wage campaign did not. For one thing, its cause was reacting to a surprise action by the administration, as opposed to creating an event. Some say there was always the fear of antagonizing the administration to the extent that they would no longer listen. For another, unlike Living Wage, CASV lacks the backing of a nationally organized movement...
...Harvard thought it could get away with the corroboration rule. It hedged its bets, raised its finger to the political wind and said, ‘We can get away with this, because women aren’t noisy enough to do what the Living Wage campaign protesters did,’” says Wendy Murphy, a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School who is handling the Office of Civil Rights complaint filed against the University earlier this year. “Harvard’s not stupid. I don’t want to make them sound...