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SANCTUARY, summer 1970: a storefront drop in center at 9 Mt. Auburn Street; a hostel in the Iroquois Club further down the street at No. 74; administration, education, research offices at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church and the Episcopal Theological School...
...hostel. Kids sitting around, rapping, with each other and the staff. Sleeping. At night, late dinners of leftovers from El Diablo. Further into the summer, breakfast too; four days of welfare food, three of macrobiotic every week. Whenever running, the Free Wheel bus from Ecology Action getting kids to free dinners at Boston churches...
FALL, 1970. Hostel closed, but storefront still operating. Administration offices entirely located at Old Cambridge Baptist Church. Research moved to Catholic Student Center on Arrow Street. Storefront crashing about 20 people nightly, late dinners from restaurant at the Orson Welles as well as El Diablo. Fruit and vegetables from the Walden Street Organic Market...
...collectively if not individually, wealthy. We have no student government to pay for, and if just half the University's students contributed ten dollars each (or maybe Coop rebates), we could rent and equip a building for use as an anti-war center, a day-care center, a hostel for street people, a free kitchen for the poor of all ages. What we need is a frankly political organization, a kind of Cambridge Liberation Front, to organize this community non-violently and to make life better, here and now, for those who live here...
...with the problems of street people themselves. This would mean funding more projects like Project Place, Sanctuary, and the Cambrideport Free Medical Center. If merchants don't want kids sleeping on the Common, they have to be prepared to offer an alternative. This would mean setting up an independent hostel, much like a European hostel, where poor transients could sleep. Or it might mean giving money to Sanctuary so that it could expand its already existing sleeping facilities...