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...During the '80s, Harvard divested in South Africa and apartheid. Now, there is a growing class divide at home," said Jean Alonso '59, a member of Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni for Affordable Housing (HARAAH). The vigil, which was sponsored by a coalition of student, alumni and community groups, was the first of two demonstrations planned for December. A second vigil will be held at Holyoke Center next week...
Organizers of the vigil say they hope to win support for an Oct. 24 resolution passed by the Cambridge City Council recommending that Harvard divest itself of all its formerly rent-controlled property...
...coalition supporting the vigil includes the Agassiz Tenants Union, the Eviction Free Zone, the Cambridge Tenants Senate as well as the Harvard student groups Harvard Community for Affordable Housing (HCAH), the Committee on Housing Rights (a Phillips Brooks House organization), the Progressive Action Network (PAN) and Education for Action...
Eviction Free Zone organizer Stephen Meacham, who attended the Phillips Brooks House rally in Harvard Yard yesterday, said he sees a parallel between the PBH rally and this evening's planned vigil. "The same rationale which leads Harvard to sit on its students leads them to respond to the city council in the way that they did," Meecham said...
...vigil is scheduled to begin...