The campaign has mounted a massive publicity drive to draw support for today's rally, with a barrage of postering, phonebanking, leafleting, doordropping, and tabling. PSLM members also personally visited each Yard dorm to inform first-years about the Living Wage Campaign.
In addition, PSLM hosted a living wage panel last night in Emerson Hall. The group of local activists and attorneys described similar fights for a living wage in communities throughout the Boston area and urged Harvard students to keep on fighting.
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"There is no doubt that student and community opinion affect what the school does," said attorney Judy E. Somberg, who is active in the Cambridge Living Wage Campaign.