Hey, isn’t Harvard University a distinguished academic center of learning? This unabashedly agit-prop video directed by Harvard collegiates Maple Rasza and Pacho Velez describes our Ivy League bastion more cynically as "the oldest corporation in the Western hemisphere, a real-estate empire, and the second-wealthiest corporation in the world, after the Vatican." It’s also a place where workers have been paid miserably, and that situation propelled 48 students to take over part of an administration building last April and demand living wages for Harvard’s downtrodden: janitors, cafeteria workers, etc.

Video cameras are right there in Massachusetts Hall with the occupying students, and the film doesn’t exclude those embarrassing moments (fodder for conservatives) when the worker issues get diverted into negotiations over whether these rich-kid Harvard undergrads can use the bathroom, eat a pizza, or open a window to talk to their friends outside. But just when Occupation begins to feel hopelessly naive and indulgent, the world outside Massachusetts Hall wakes up. The demands reach The CBS Evening News, Senator Ted Kennedy, the AFL-CIO, and progressive Harvard alumni; finally, Harvard workers begin to speak out and march for themselves. Right on! Victory! Celebration! And definitely congratulations to those Harvard students whose occupation lasted a sterling 21 days. But what did the workers actually win? Unfortunately, the wrap-up conclusion to Occupation is as feel-good fuzzy as a missive from Hollywood.