tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703913.post7517076132942708437..comments2023-10-02T04:41:34.722-04:00Comments on Marry in Massachusetts: Covert Despotsmassmarrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358207247771711952noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703913.post-46191706095651327542011-11-21T11:52:55.973-05:002011-11-21T11:52:55.973-05:00An excellent posting and comment! You are entirel...An excellent posting and comment! You are entirely correct. In fact, it is the Greenway Conservancy that has "occupied" our public space. The Conservancy is not an environmental or park-advocacy group but simply a corporate lobby for downtown real estate developers and other business interests. It did not create the park, nor does it own or control it. It has also wangled millions of public dollars while pretending to be a struggling "non-profit" (paying its Executive Director a quarter million dollars a year) steward of the park. I've been trying to oust the Conservancy ever since it formed, knowing that it is absorbing millions of taxpayer dollars while it privatizes this state land for the benefit of its corporate members. <br /><br />The Occupy movement, exercising its Constitutional rights of free speech and free assembly, is a rightful user of this space. Occupy, unlike the Conservancy, welcomes all, and keeps no one out. In fact, this manicured but largely deserted prairie, dependent on laborious event staging to attract people, is finally getting some use.<br /><br />This is truly an example of the unfair society Occupy is exposing: the 1% takes the assets of the rest of us – and then takes our right to protest.Shirley Kresselnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703913.post-78445381705728237512011-11-20T17:02:27.694-05:002011-11-20T17:02:27.694-05:00I worked for the Greenway for a short time as a pa...I worked for the Greenway for a short time as a part-time employee. The entire organization is a mess and they care more about the lawn looking nice than actually having people enjoy and use this supposedly public park the way any other public park would be used. <br /><br />Also, from working with the conservancy I know that drug dealing in Dewey Square has been a persistent problem, and not just at night. I brought it up multiple times to my supervisor and he rarely suggested any action taken, said there wasn't much they could do. <br /><br />Perhaps the market revenues are down as a result of dropping temps. That market was slow on a good day. <br /><br />After all of the bad publicity this non-profit gets, a lot of which I really don't understand (is the Greenway really worse than an elevated highway??), you'd think they would take the chance to actually allow their space to be used for something rather than waste time trying to get the protesters off their lawn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com