Harvard Law School's Special Status

Harvard Law School dormitory North Hall 1651 Mass Avenue in Cambridge, MA at Wendell Street displays campaign signs for Henrietta Davis a candidate for Cambridge City Council. As a tax exempt non profit corporation under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Harvard pays no property taxes. Harvard also has a tax exemption from the MA Department of Revenue and like US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner an exemption from the US Internal Revenue Service. Under relaxed rectitude of the Obama administration Harvard ignores state and US prohibitions of using tax exempt property for political purposes. Harvard enjoys special status as the degree granting institution for the President of the United States. These images were captured on Wednesday October 21, 2009 at about 6:00 PM. Sometime before 9:30 PM on Thursday October 22, 2009 the signs were removed.

Cambridge City Council Resolution 32

On June 18, 2007, Cambridge City Councilor Henrietta Davis sponsored Resolution # 32 "Welcoming Mr. Sun Shousan and the delegation from the People's Republic of China's General Administration of Press and Publication to Cambridge." Five members of the public spoke against this resolution reporting to the City Council some serious abuses of human rights killing prisoners, selling their organs to medical professionals in the US, placing persons into psychiatric hospitals for their expression in China. One of the speaker's mother is being held at present.
After Councilor Craig Kelley expressed concerns about this resolution, Davis withdrew it. She said she was unaware of any "controversy." China's human rights abuses are known to persons who read newspapers. It is curious that a city official who admires the biotech industry is clueless about such prominent human rights abuses.