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Activists in City Hall : the progressive response to the Reagan era in Boston and Chicago
In 1983, Boston and Chicago elected progressive mayors with deep roots among community activists. Taking office as the Reagan administration was withdrawing federal aid from local governments, Boston's Raymond Flynn and Chicago's Harold Washington implemented major policies that would outlast them. More than reforming governments, they changed the substance of what the government was trying to do: above all, to effect a measure of redistribution of resources to the cities' poor and working classes and away from hollow goals of growth as measured by the accumulation of skyscrapers. In Boston, Flynn moderated an office development boom while securing millions of dollars for affordable housing. In Chicago, Washington implemented concrete measures to save manufacturing jobs, against the tide of national policy and trends.
Activists in City Hall examines how both mayors achieved their objectives by incorporating neighborhood activists as a new organizational force in devising, debating, implementing, and shaping policy. Based in extensive archival research enriched by details and insights gleaned from hours of interviews with key figures in each administration and each city's activist community, Pierre Clavel argues that key to the success of each mayor were numerous factors: productive contacts between city hall and neighborhood activists, strong social bases for their agendas, administrative innovations, and alternative visions of the city. Comparing the experiences of Boston and Chicago with those of other contemporary progressive cities-Hartford, Berkeley, Madison, Santa Cruz, Santa Monica, Burlington, and San Francisco- Activists in City Hall provides a new account of progressive urban politics during the Reagan era and offers many valuable lessons for policymakers, city planners, and progressive political activists.
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Activists in City Hall
In 1983, Boston and Chicago elected progressive mayors with deep roots among community activists. Taking office as the Reagan administration was withdrawing federal aid from local governments, Boston's Raymond Flynn and Chicago's Harold Washington implemented major policies that would outlast them. More than reforming governments, they changed the substance of what the government was trying to do: above all, to effect a measure of redistribution of resources to the cities' poor and working classes and away from hollow goals of \"growth\" as measured by the accumulation of skyscrapers. In Boston, Flynn moderated an office development boom while securing millions of dollars for affordable housing. In Chicago, Washington implemented concrete measures to save manufacturing jobs, against the tide of national policy and trends.
Activists in City Hallexamines how both mayors achieved their objectives by incorporating neighborhood activists as a new organizational force in devising, debating, implementing, and shaping policy. Based in extensive archival research enriched by details and insights gleaned from hours of interviews with key figures in each administration and each city's activist community, Pierre Clavel argues that key to the success of each mayor were numerous factors: productive contacts between city hall and neighborhood activists, strong social bases for their agendas, administrative innovations, and alternative visions of the city. Comparing the experiences of Boston and Chicago with those of other contemporary progressive cities-Hartford, Berkeley, Madison, Santa Cruz, Santa Monica, Burlington, and San Francisco-Activists in City Hallprovides a new account of progressive urban politics during the Reagan era and offers many valuable lessons for policymakers, city planners, and progressive political activists.
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Gay Community News (Boston, Ma) 1973-1999
Quarterly, June 1994-1999 Vol. 1, no. 2 (June 28, 1973)-v. 24, no. 3/4 (1999). : \"The gay weekly for the Northeast\"; : \"The gay weekly.\" Published as a quarterly magazine, June 1994-1999. Publication suspended July 18, 1992-May 1994, except for two special issues for Apr. 1993 and fall 1993 (both lack numeric designation); v.17, no. 32 (Feb. 25-Mar. 3 1990) mismarked as no. 31; v.18, no. 8 (Sept. 2-8, 1990) mismarked as no. 7; v.18, no. 34 (Mar. 18-24, 1991) mismarked as no. 33; v.18, no. 47 (June 23-29, 1991) mismarked as no. 46; v.19, no. 27 (Jan. 26-Feb. 1, 1992) mismarked as no. 26. Issues of Feb. 18-24 and Feb. 25-Mar. 3, 1990 are both labeled v.17, no. 31. Some issues also available online. Issued by: Bromfield Street Educational Foundation, Oct. 23, 1982-1999.
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Boston battles surge in gun violence ; As the murder rate hits a 10-year high, community leaders combat illegal guns and gang culture
Community leaders say increasing numbers of teens without job opportunities, including a growing number of high school dropouts, are turning to illegal firearms, which activists say are too easily accessible. Fewer police officers on the streets have also caused alarm. And, many say, the coalitions of community activists, clergy, police, and academics that united in the 1990s to cut back on youth homicide - giving rise to the so-called \"Boston Miracle\" - have fragmented, leaving them ineffective today. Today gun violence is often due to small gangs of high-rate offenders, driven by turf, respect, and personal vendettas, says David Kennedy, a criminologist at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and a leader in Operation Ceasefire when it launched in Boston. \"This kind of thing feeds on itself,\" he says. Dr. [James Fox] says the murder rate today is not as alarming as it was 15 years ago. \"But it is an early warning of worse things that may come,\" he says. \"It's time to wake up.\" Kathy Kihanya, who directs the GED Plus program in Roxbury, says there is a sense of hopelessness among many of today's youths, who sometimes turn to gangs and guns when they have no work opportunities. That has bolstered the market for guns in the area: even those uninvolved in crime have armed themselves for self- protection. \"It is a multiplying effect,\" she says. \"Every time someone has a gun, someone else has to have one.\"
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