Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Election Day, 39 percent of Cambridge's voters chose to reject United States policy in Vietnam. They voted for the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam's anti-war petition, which called for "the prompt return home of the American soldiers from Vietnam...
...Governor faces strong opposition. Last summer Dorchester residents were able to block the use of another site for the transit facilities near Codman St. in Dorchester. They feared that the yards would lower property values and ruin the neighborhood. Milton town officials contend that the yards would fill in valuable and scenic wildlife refuge and, worse, connect Milton by land with Dorchester. Milton residents, mainly of middle and upper incomes, fear being closely tied to poorer areas in Boston. These objections will make the fight over the marshland an emotional one. But the Governor himself has said that...
...Office of Economic Opportunity's establishment of 40 neighborhood legal centers in eastern Massachusetts has also contributed to the Bureau's new focus, Miss Siemer said. Fourteen of the centers are in Boston...
...weeks ago, the PBH program working at the Cambridge Community Center delivered an ultimatum to the Center's Administrative Board. Robert A. Goodin '68, co-chairman of the cultural enrichment program, threatened to pull out of the Center unless its administration was taken over by the residents of the neighborhood in which it operates. He said there was no justification for a non-indigenous group to be there unless it was directly responsive to the needs and wants of the neighborhood. Residents had complained there was a need for radical change in the Center. He supported their action...
...projects are moving away from the self-perpetuating service ideal toward a goal of eventually phasing out the non-indigenous volunteer. The Cambridge Friends School program is trying to mobilize interested local individuals and institutions to replace the PBH community service project in North Cambridge. At present, ten neighborhood mothers have been recruited to work with PBH volunteers in an after-school program...