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Organizer Bill Cavellini called for tactics that would join rent strikes and picketing with more traditional political lobbying. "A legislative strategy is as effective as a group's ability to back it up--either with votes or with their ability to disrupt the system," he told the audience...
...universities are finally out of the closet and are admitting that they are in the development business," William Cavellini, a proponent of one of the bills, said at Monday's council meeting...
...city wants some say on how this area will look--and not only how it will look but what kind of businesses will locate there--they better speak now or forever hold their peace," said Bill Cavellini a member of the steering committee...
Even at meetings chaired by past rent board chairman. "The atmosphere was never cordial," Cavellini says. But there were other chairmen Callaghan and who had "less of a short face." With previous chairmen, Cavellini says that both tenant and landlords "got more respect." "There is a certain impatience," he says of Callaghan, pausing to explain that he "doesn't want to make any personal attacks." But he says. "The chairman sets a tone." "Previous boards have been more courteous and treated both adversial parties with move respect...
...Cavellini says that especially when the board decides a case by consensus, "a lot of times the tenants and landlords have to ask what happened." "When you do things by mumbling," he says, "a lot of people don't know what's happening." "It's an argument in almost any activity in our society that being more open and more accessible is being more equitable and tairer...