The cards--large pieces of oak tag to be delivered to administrators--read "The Holidays Are a Time for Compassion: Show Some Compassion, Join the Workers Rights Consortium."
Approximately 40 students signed each of the three cards throughout the course of the morning.
After about three hours of urging students to sign the cards--interrupted by gusting winds--10 HSAS members set off for Mass Hall, carrying plates of cookies and singing anti-sweatshop renditions of Christmas carols.
Despite increased security over recent months, the student demonstrators were allowed inside Mass. Hall. Once inside, they left their cookies with secretary Janice Braxton and proceeded to sing "Workers' Wonderland," a carol to the tune of "Winter Wonderland."
The carol included lines like "Hey, Neil, are you listening?/There are things that need fixing," and "Clear the Harvard name/Of exploitation and shame/We can build a workers' wonderland."
Braxton did not allow the students beyond the foyer.
When one student moved to walk down the hall toward the administrative offices, Braxton said, "I'm trying to be polite with you, I'd like you to return in kind."
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