Word: activists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Larry Weinstein, also CCA-endorsed, is running as a "parent activist," believing that parent involvement is crucial in improving the quality of education. He also stresses the need to increase teacher morale, saying, "teacher job satisfaction is at the heart of effective teaching...
Nevertheless, councilors are pledging to keep up the fight to preserve historic buildings and the character of neighborhoods like Riverside near Mather House. Residents there perceive "Harvard as a predatory animal," says one community activist...
...Making those units rent controlled would place in the hands of the Rent Control Board and the City of Cambridge real power over what happens on that site," said tenant activist Michael H. Turk, a city council candidate who says he is opposed to the University's expansion into the Riverside neighborhood...
...food goes to the Harvard shelter's 23 guests, a center for alcoholics in Somerville, a Cambridge service for the elderly, and a new program called HOPE (Help Other People Eat). Cambridge-based activist Carolyn Tribe founded HOPE last winter, but Harvard students will serve meals to the homeless from HOPE's vans for the first time this fall...
...food goes to the Harvard shelter's 23 guests, a center for alcoholics in Somerville, a Cambridge service for the elderly, and a new program called HOPE (Help Other People Eat). Cambridge-based activist Carolyn Tribe founded HOPE last winter, but Harvard students will serve meals to the homeless from HOPE's vans for the first time this fall...