Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Monique E. Dixon '86, PBH's treasurer, says ideological debate still takes up time at meetings: "'Are we going to be a social service or social action [organization]?' was a big question for PBH earlier this year...
While the final decision was to plan programs along the lines of social service, Dixon sees the two as intertwined. As director of an all-day program for children at three Cambridge housing projects last summer, Dixon says she tried to combine service and politics...
...kids aware of how they are caught up in the system," she explains. For example, activities in summer 1984 included games and tutoring in reading and math as well as visits with Cambridge City Councilors Saundra Graham and Alfred E. Vellucci and traveling south for the March on Washington, Dixon says...
...sympathize with [the pro-divestment activities], but I don't know how effective they are...I guess I see working in Cambridge as being a little more productive," Dixon says with some hesitation, because she says protest sometimes can be the most effective way to promote change...
...Dixon, it comes down to choosing where she will spend her limited time and energy. Dixon says she finds it ironic that campus liberals focus on international civil rights issues like apartheid in South Africa while ignoring civil rights issues in the United States. "People have been lulled into believing that things have changed a lot [in the U.S.]. On the surface it is that way, but I don't think that's necessarily true. Here are people fighting about a cause 50,000 miles away when there are problems next door...