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    SOMERVILLE DROPS OUT OF "NO PLACE FOR HATE" PROGRAM

    Somerville Journal
    April 24 2008

    Somerville - Following a number of cities in the area disgusted the ADL
    won't honor the Armenian Genocide, Somerville has shed its moniker of
    "No Place for Hate."

    It is now part of the "Partnership for Working Toward Inclusive
    Communities."

    Somerville joined communities like Lexington, Bedford and Watertown
    after the Anti-Defamation League waffled on calling the mass killings
    of up to 1.5 million ethnic Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman
    Empire during and after World War I a genocide.

    No Place for Hate is an ADL program.

    "We think it is an important message to send," Somerville spokesman
    Lesley Hawkins said. The announcement was timed today to coincide
    with the day the genocide is commemorated.

    Somerville is dropping the ADL but picking up a National League
    of Cities program - "Partnership for Working Toward Inclusive
    Communities."
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