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...could I not do something?” said City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, who authored the resolution with Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons and who has written other policy orders aimed at upholding human rights in the past. “To not say something feels very complicit...
Both of these policy orders were authored by Decker. —Staff writer Anita B. Hofschneider can be reached at hofschn@fas.harvard.edu...
...Homeland Security program calls for the installation of around 180 surveillance cameras in the Boston metropolitan area, including eight in Cambridge—a prospect that has sown confusion and concern on the Cambridge City Council. In response, the Cambridge Civic Unity Committee, chaired by City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, will be holding a meeting on Jan. 22 to discuss the surveillance program and to address community concerns. “The fact that [the cameras] were installed is news to me, and to most of my colleagues,” Decker said. “It?...
...Simmons proposed an order that would have withheld the CHA’s city funding and stopped health clinic closings for the next six months if the alliance failed to submit a plan to solicit community input. The order, which failed, was also supported by City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, who is demanding “line-item accountability” for the CHA’s expenditures.“When we’re cutting services, not only do we have a responsibility to know what we’re paying for, but we also should have some...
...many ways, planning the event was no easy matter. "While organizing the parade, we encountered many obstacles from the government, the police and a bus company," said Wai-Wai Yeo, a member of the Hong Kong Pride 2008 Organizing Committee. The local company Citybus refused to rent a double-decker to organizers of the city's parade because of concerns about its image. "This was a blatant act of discrimination, especially seeing the fact that this is a legal parade and the Hong Kong police have granted a permit," says Betty Grisoni, co-founder of a lesbian-rights organization called...