Category - No 2

About This Issue

In this issue we present two articles on the history of the struggle of an urban working-class community, the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, against expansion by Harvard Medical School and related institutions. We feel the articles are important for several reasons. First, they deal with the effectiveness of...

Community Organizing and Institutional Expansion: Two Views

In Boston, resistance to medical expansion dates back to student-community coalitions that emerged during the political activism of the late 1960s and is an example where student protest led to sustained community organizing. Successes in controlling the expansion of medical centers or other large urban institutions...

Come to the Eastern Regional Conference!

It's a place to share your own experiences over the year in SftP, and to explore new ways of working in progressive struggles. It's a time to meet other people involved in common work all over the region, in genetic engineering issues, nuclear power resistance, alternative energy, anti-racism, China work, national...

The Chemical Industry’s Travelling Circus

The American Chemical Society, the professional body of the USA's corporate and academic chemists, is celebrating its centennial this year. As a public relations effort, the Society has commissioned an exhibit, which will be travelling the country informing an increasingly skeptical public of the benefits of the...

Human Experimentation: Who are the Guinea Pigs?

Nobody, least of all medicine's liberals, favors putting patients at risk by subjecting them to wanton experimentation, whatever the potential benefits. When left at the level of abstraction there is little controversy in this proposition, and it is easy to be on the side of the angels. But when concrete instances are...

A Declaration of Nuclear Resistance

In the current opinion column of the Nov .-Dec. 1976 issue of SftP Magazine, we presented a description of the Clamshell Alliance, which is struggling against nuclear power plant construction in Seabrook, N.H. as well as the rest of New England. Clam is an umbrella organization of 15 anti-nuke groups in New England...

Birth Control and the Eugenists (Part 2 of 2)

As the birth control clinic movement mushroomed around the country, conflict raged about how and by whom the clinics should be controlled. Margaret Sanger still resisted relinquishing personal control of her New York clinic to the medical profession. No doubt part of her resistance came from a desire to control things...