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...December meeting of the Agassiz Neighborhood Council (ANC), activist William Bloomstein acknowledged that the neighborhood was in a historic position...
Bloomstein told residents they could seek a building moratorium from the City Council, which would effectively halt development projects in the area—a tactic the Riverside neighbors had successfully used to block the building of the art museum. Last June, in an informal straw poll, ANC members voted 24-1, with two abstentions, in favor of seeking a moratorium...
University representatives, city officials and neighborhood activists formed a working group to hash out a compromise. And at the December ANC meeting, the residents voted unanimously, with Bloomstein’s encouragement, to support negotiations...
Died. Walter Sisulu, 90, South African political activist, chief strategist of the African National Congress (ANC) and longtime jail mate of Nelson Mandela; in Johannesburg. Sisulu, son of a black domestic worker and a white railwayman, was a founding member of the ANC's armed wing. In 1963 a group of antigovernment activists were tried for planning acts of sabotage and antiapartheid revolution, for which Sisulu and Mandela were sentenced to life imprisonment. Sisulu spent the next 25 years incarcerated on the infamous Robben Island. "He has not been honored the way some of us have been... nevertheless, he stood...
...last month’s ANC meeting, members voted to present Harvard with a “wish list” of concessions they want to receive in return for their support of development projects...