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John D. Hanify '71, president of HUC, and Ellen Messer '69, president of RUS, will join the heads of student government at nine local colleges--including B.U., B.C. and M.I.T.--in a show of support for the tenants, who are withholding rent payments to force concessions from their landlord about maintenance of the building...
...value-free research, In fact, Harvard is intimately linked with U.S. imperialism and the oppression of people at home and abroad. Harvard is a corporation; it has business interests, for instance, in the power companies of the American South (companies which follow racist hiring policies) it is a landlord in Cambridge and its effect on the community had been to drive up rents and dispossess working people (at an enormous profit). Harvard allows military recruiters free run of the campus, and specifically, the three ROTC programs, dating back to 1916, are among the oldest in the country. Harvard also gets...
...strongly is the Jew identified with the merchant image that Negroes frequently use anti-Semitic epithets in referring to ghetto businessmen who are unmistakably not Jewish. A Negro will frequently refer to his "Jew landlord" even though the man's name may be O'Reilly, Karwolski or Santangelo. In black areas of Detroit, white storekeepers are often called "Goldberg," even though many shops are owned by Iraqis and Syrians. And a Cadillac, even if it is owned by a wealthy Negro, is still known as a "Jew canoe...
...plans for "black capitalism," it is not the only solution. The Jew has ample resources within his religious tradition to eliminate inequities that cause interracial tension. Last year, for example, at the suggestion of some Boston Jews, a group of Negro tenement dwellers presented their grievances against their Jewish landlord to a beth din, or religious court. "This was a bunch of very old guys who haven't read James Baldwin or Rap Brown," says Boston's Leonard Fein, "and they wouldn't know a social-action council if they fell over it. But they know the Talmud...
...left it and turned it over to me, what do you think happened to it? Do the blacks own the buildings now? No, they don't, and when they do and they overutilize them the Department of Buildings moves in and cuts their throat while the landlord next door is an absentee landlord and they can't find him and his building deteriorates." I said to him: "You've exploited, that's what you've done, you've exploited the people for a long time. Give them a chance to remodel and renovate...