Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Walzer's group, the "Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam," is presently undertaking the model's first phase: searching out local residents opposed to the war. The 40 committee members -- including Harvard faculty members and radical and moderate students -- will be out ringing doorbells in three Cambridge precincts this Sunday...
...VIDA's first moves was to organize a march on city hall to protest the lack of bus service in one of Laredo's outlying barrios. Local people from the neighborhood were enthusiastic about the project, but apparently poverty program officials feared it might disturb their delicate relationship with City Hall. VIDA members report that, when the march was about to begin, rumors were circulated that the mayor would not receive the marchers, that some of the VIDA's were planning to make the demonstration violent, and that the neighborhood might lose a planned government housing project if the march...
...march never came off, but Mayor Joe C. Martin later promised that the neighborhood would be given bus service anyway...
Hale came to Laredo in order to talk with some of the poverty program officials and participants with whom the pair had worked. Most apparently had nothing but praise for the two. Central neighborhood council chairman Delapass said that they were two of the most effective VISTAs in Laredo and should not be dismissed without a hearing. "I challenge anybody in Laredo to show that the VISTAs were not working for the poor people in Laredo, and with the poor people of Laredo," Delapass said...
Andres Sandoval, a member of one of the local neighborhood councils...