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...Dunster resolution came as a result of efforts by the Philips Brooks House Committee for Economic Change (CEC) which has approached five house committees in an effort to increase student support for the union...
...good that students recognize the way workers are treated is relevant to them," said CEC Co-Chair Elizabeth E. Ruddick '87. "The [Dunster] resolution shows Lowell House isn't just a fluke...
Kennedy and CEC are currently expanding. Earlier this month, CEC launched the Home Oil Transfer (HOT) program, which will allow consumers who have converted from oil to natural gas to donate whatever oil remains in their tanks to the Robert F. Kennedy memorial fund. The consumers will have their oil removed free of charge and will be able to deduct the donation from their income taxes, and the oil will be resold. CEC estimates the funds arising from the resale of the oil from HOT's pilot program in Newton alone will bring in more than half a million dollars...
Eventually, Kennedy says he would like to see CEC operating nationwide. However, although there has been sufficient demand for CEC oil to warrant expanding to other states, CEC has been unable to find an oil producing country willing to sell them the additional oil. And the shortages caused by the Iran-Iraq war has strained currently available supplies, making CEC--already completely dependent on Venezuela--vulnerable to interference from a major oil company...
...could get a billion dollars worth of crude oil, of course I'd set up CEC nationwide. That's where we could use the federal help," he continues. "If the federal government can send Schlesinger to Saudi Arabia to negotiate on behalf of the four American members of ARAMCO, you would think they could step in and help us increase our oil supply. But here we are providing heating oil at 40 per cent below market prices and not one person in the federal government has ever asked me about this program," he says. "We have something that can work...