From: Benjamin L McKean (mckean@fas.harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 03 2002 - 15:04:18 EST
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a film about the Harvard Living Wage Campaign sit-in
directed by Maple Razsa and Pacho Velez, narrated by Ben Affleck
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Join the filmmaker, Maple Razsa at the following events in NYC
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FRIDAY April 5 1:30pm
History of Activism, History as Activism Conference
Columbia University
East Gallery, Buell Hall
North of 116th, between Broadway and Amsterdam
SUNDAY April 7 7:30pm
Walker Space
56 Walker Street
(two blocks south of Canal Street off Broadway)
MONDAY April 8 8pm
NYU Student Activities Center
Washington Place 1st Floor
Mercer Street and Washington Place
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A B O U T T H E F I L M :
Last April, 48 members of the Harvard Living Wage Campaign stormed
the university's main administration building to protest Harvard's labor
policies and demand wage increases and benefits for the schools lowest
paid workers. After 21 days of rallies, civil disobedience, and community
organizing by workers, unions, students, and faculty, the University
agreed to substantive improvements in working conditions. Making use of
student footage shot before and during the sit-in as well as news
coverage, archival footage, and worker portraits, _Occupation_ follows the
story of the Living Wage Campaign and the longest sit-in in Harvard
history. The documentary links the schools labor policies to those of the
corporate executives that run it and gives special attention to the
effects of low wages on workers and their families.
W H A T T H E C R I T I C S A R E S A Y I N G :
"The inspiring story of the Living Wage campaign at Harvard should be told
to the whole country, so it is a wonderful gift to have it on film, in a
way that brings alive the remarkable solidarity of students, workers, and
the community." Howard Zinn
"Those who are earning Harvard degrees took a moral stand against growing
inequality and in doing so created what will become an important milestone
in the 21st century fight for economic justice." John Sweeney, President
AFL-CIO, The Guardian (London), May 29, 2001
"Unabashed agit-prop." Gerald Peary, Boston Pheonix
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