Word: localize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with the police: each of the four statutes served as a kind of elastic clause in the absence of specific criminal charges. Each could also be used, theoretically, in organized dragnets launched against whole classes of people. The Cambridge City Administration actually threatened to use the vagrancy laws against local hippies, and might even have gone ahead with this threat except for a loud, well-stated protest from the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts...
...past the Peace Corps simply advised volunteers and trainees of Selective Service laws and procedures, and confirmed to local boards the fact of a volunteer's service...
...City's application as having "substandard housing, pockets of blight, overcrowding and mixed land use, and inadequate facilities." Using the facilities of Harvard and M.I.T., and relying heavily on the judgments of residents in the affected area, the program will attempt to achieve long range stability for the neighborhood. Local residents will elect a majority of the members of the agency which will supervise planning under the grant, and they will be able to vote on any final proposals in a referendum...
City Halls have long been indifferent to the problems of the poor. Garbage collection, road repairs, and health services are traditionally less efficient in ghetto areas. By placing authority over the Community Action Programs in the hands of local governments, the House has run the risk that this part of the anti-poverty war will simply become a vehicle for handing out patronage. The ability of poor people to participate in the very programs designed to help them, which has been one of the most creative, innovations of the Community Action Programs, is also jeopardized by this provision...
...each element, but conceives of such a coalition as the only real basis around which a movement can be built. Again, it is unfortunate that the reporter finds this "conventional." The question is, as Bayard Rustin (who will speak tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall) emphasizes, what is the alternative? Local ferment and community organization, in the style of SDS or black power militants, are an important and invigorating force for change. But they are only a complement, not a substitute, for a political coalition that can act on a Federal level to bring the massive economic program required for significant...