The Coalition to Save Chinatown
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The Coalition successfully reversed city approval allowing New England Medical Center to build a 455-car, 8-story parking garage on parcel C, near Oak St in the heart of Chinatown. The organizing impetus of the anti-garage fight is now directed at Boston's Central Artery Tunnel Project.
Publication Name: Environmental Action Magazine
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0013-922X
Year: 1996
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Money trains and broke buses
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The Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, organized by the Labor/Community Strategy Center, protests the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) budgeting of 71% of its budget on 6% of the transit ridership (the new rail system), while neglecting the remaining ridership - bus riders.
Publication Name: Environmental Action Magazine
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0013-922X
Year: 1996
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Building n urban village: the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
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DSNI stopped illegal dumping in the vacant lots of the 24,000-person ethnic neighborhood, becoming the first such group to win eminent domain rights. It built a community center and a charter school, and 240 housing units.
Publication Name: Environmental Action Magazine
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0013-922X
Year: 1996
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