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...many of the films screened at the Brattle, including those in the “Recent Raves” series of popular second-run indie films, are only shown once. “It is the most costly way to program because you’re not dividing that minimum over a number of days,” says Moylan, meaning that attendance at every single show is important to the return on that film. With a house capacity of 240, anywhere from 150-200 tickets a show is an attendance to get excited about, says Hinkle, but many don?...
...meeting is one of four SLAM events this week, including a Thursday roundtable on workers’ rights. After a three year campaign and nine-day hunger strike, Georgetown students won a living wage for workers last spring—successfully demanding full-time contract workers be paid a minimum of $13 an hour by fiscal year 2006. Diane Foglizzo, a recent Georgetown graduate and participant in the hunger strike, said she hoped the Georgetown struggle would inspire similar activism on Harvard’s campus. “So much of the campaign was inspired by the Harvard...
Well, truth be told, Harvard—or at the absolute minimum a significant part of its student body—remains a bigoted and close-minded place. The targets of abuse are all that are different, not the mindset that some are too unworthy, too unintelligent, or simply too annoying to grace our campus on even the briefest of visits...
...reasonable studies of life in the Boston area now call for a living wage of $20 or more plus benefits. The Massachusetts Family Self-Sufficiency Standard is $20.85 for a parent with one child. The National Low-Income Housing Commission estimates $24.35 as the bare minimum. And the Economic Policy Institute says $28.03 is needed for a parent with two kids...
...ballot in two states, Florida and Nevada. In 2006, activists expect to target an additional four states. At the same time, unions and community groups around the country have persuaded cities to pay more to their employees. As I write, activists in our own Cambridge are working on a minimum wage increase. (Technically, a “living wage” law only raises the pay of city employees and the employees of private firms who do business with the city. A pay raise for a whole city or a whole state is simply a “minimum wage...