Dec. 12, 2018
(I'm writing this in real time. Exiting things are going on around me. Michel Coen has been sentenced to 3 years in jail. I'm so happy Happy I've been going around singing "hey hey, wad Dada. say, the bad gays to jail." But I can only sing wit in my side of the room. If I went out and sang, a little too loud, a Nurse might come and say I'm being distributive, and I'll be shoved back into my room mumbling "This is not a prison, I have rights, I won't stay in my seclusion room." I often feel this is a "fancy prison." Noone here is allowed to disturbed people. It's a Nursing home, and everyone is ill, including me. Another thing happening is workmen out there putting in a new floor. All of them are black. When I helped one of them in the elevator, he said "thank you brother." It reminded me of my life in Lynn, so many years ago. Now, I go to dinner, anxious to tell people everything I feel good about today, but the're demented or apathetic, or just too rapped up in their own concerns to listen to me.
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Dec. 12, 2018
LEO had a hieracrchy, like all anti-porverty programs around the country. Each program is unique, of course, depending on the nature of the community. Anti-Povertery Programs in large citys are very huge, buereacatic, and hieracract in charactar, as well as very rigid. Lynn was a small city. LEO allowed citizsenes to act freely within it's stucture. Each week, the Food Coop went down to the Chelsea Market, picket up crates and boxes of fruites and vegetables and brings them back to the huge huge room in LEO bldg.
LEO had a hieracrchy, like all anti-porverty programs around the country. Each program is unique, of course, depending on the nature of the community. Anti-Povertery Programs in large citys are very huge, buereacatic, and hieracract in charactar, as well as very rigid. Lynn was a small city. LEO allowed citizsenes to act freely within it's stucture. Each week, the Food Coop went down to the Chelsea Market, picket up crates and boxes of fruites and vegetables and brings them back to the huge huge room in LEO bldg.
Dec. 12,, 2018
Lynn was a City of many ethnic and racial groups: Itanian, English, Greek, Mexician, and more. All of them had "halls" where they met for social and polital engagent. People in Lynn enjoyed heated discusscuions. I myself loved to go hear sister Edideth Beauchamp talk about the resarch she had been doing into the "power struchtetr" of Lynn - the interconeiton between GE, the large landords, and public officials like members of the LHA.
Lynn was a City of many ethnic and racial groups: Itanian, English, Greek, Mexician, and more. All of them had "halls" where they met for social and polital engagent. People in Lynn enjoyed heated discusscuions. I myself loved to go hear sister Edideth Beauchamp talk about the resarch she had been doing into the "power struchtetr" of Lynn - the interconeiton between GE, the large landords, and public officials like members of the LHA.
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Dec. 11, 2018
Looking back, after 17 years, it's hard to remember just how the LYNN TENANTS ACTION COMMITTEE was formed just after I got to Lynn. Someting miraculas the very week I arrived. A City County Council meeting was held, and Rent Control was on the agenda. Shortly before, an elction for Mayor was held and by surprise a man named Cannegiano, a furnaral direrector who had lost ten times was elected by an overweming majorinity. At the meeting, he addressed the Council from the floor. Rent Control won by a majority! In our next isse, the headline was, "People's Mayor on the Job."
Looking back, after 17 years, it's hard to remember just how the LYNN TENANTS ACTION COMMITTEE was formed just after I got to Lynn. Someting miraculas the very week I arrived. A City County Council meeting was held, and Rent Control was on the agenda. Shortly before, an elction for Mayor was held and by surprise a man named Cannegiano, a furnaral direrector who had lost ten times was elected by an overweming majorinity. At the meeting, he addressed the Council from the floor. Rent Control won by a majority! In our next isse, the headline was, "People's Mayor on the Job."
Dec. 11. 2018
Those of us in CAG being Left Wing, wanted to support the most militant tendencies among poor people we had come to know. When I first got got there, I found people from Memorial Park, an old Federeralay Sububsidized Housing Prouject where conditions are abibismal, sitting in the street to protest lack of curb cuts. All these parents are poor, all are members of the FOOD COOP.
Those of us in CAG being Left Wing, wanted to support the most militant tendencies among poor people we had come to know. When I first got got there, I found people from Memorial Park, an old Federeralay Sububsidized Housing Prouject where conditions are abibismal, sitting in the street to protest lack of curb cuts. All these parents are poor, all are members of the FOOD COOP.
Dec. 11, 2018
The CAG wanted Rent Control for seeral important reaons: a campaign for Rent Contronl could solidify the community. There were several majar forces operating for change. One was Citizens For a Beter Lynn, a group of peogressive/conservitive homeowers. They had beaten back Urban Renewal by a 2-1 vote.
The CAG wanted Rent Control for seeral important reaons: a campaign for Rent Contronl could solidify the community. There were several majar forces operating for change. One was Citizens For a Beter Lynn, a group of peogressive/conservitive homeowers. They had beaten back Urban Renewal by a 2-1 vote.
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