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...Harvard-Allston Partnership Fund has been a high note in an often tenuous inter-community relationship. The program provides small grants to local non-profit organizations to support community development projects in the Allston area. The first grants were distributed in June, and the project will begin accepting its second set of proposals this month. The plan is in line with Harvard’s commitment to support the Allston community, and we are encouraged by its progress...
...Members of the group say they have been followed, photographed, stopped and searched in the run-up to their protests of the Group of 20 meeting of the world's leading economic powers on Sept. 24 and 25. The 40 people in the room were urged to write local lawyers' phone numbers on their bodies in case of arrest...
...kept its numbers and the makeup of its alliance a secret; it has also kept mum about the specific actions that are planned for Friday's big protest. Unlike the 11 other organizations (led by the Thomas Merton Center?s Anti-War Committee, Three Rivers Climate Convergence and the local chapter of Codepink) hitting the streets, the Resistance Project has actively avoided applying for a city permit to protest and is likely to meet, in turn, resistance from law enforcement. (Read "Why Is the G-20 Being Held in Pittsburgh...
...thing they probably won't encounter are citizens. Fear of protesters is the talk of grocery and bank lines. At one point, local media were filled with reports of surreptitious foreigners training in a vacant building (they turned out to be a Swedish punk band on tour). For the duration of the summit, most locals are clearing out. School districts 10 miles away from downtown have canceled classes. Even before the Secret Service announced its security perimeters, businesses blocks away decided to shut down or arrange for workers to telecommute. Several storefronts have already been boarded up. And one downtown...
...political leaders and alienating most of the city's remaining white residents with a posture that could have been summed up in the phrase Now it's our turn. But by his third term, Young was governing more by rhetoric than by action. These were the years of a local phenomenon known as Devil's Night, a nihilistic orgy of arson that in one especially explosive year saw 800 houses burn to the ground in 72 hours. Violent crime soared under Young. The school system began to cave in on itself. When jobs disappeared with the small businesses boarding...