After Victory Over Disney, Group Loses Its Lease

For a few days last fall, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood celebrated a big victory: the tiny advocacy group had successfully pushed the Walt Disney Company to offer full refunds to everyone who had bought the company's popular Baby Einstein videos from June 2004 to September 2009. But it did not take long for trouble to follow.

The group has been evicted from the Harvard-affiliated children's mental-health center in Boston that had housed and sponsored it for more than a decade. Campaign officials say they were forced out after Disney made contact with health center officials. Neither Disney nor officials of the center, the Judge Baker Children's Center, would comment about the eviction. Just days after the Disney refunds were described on the front page of The New York Times on Oct. 23, campaign officials said they were contacted by Judge Baker officials expressing unhappiness with the group's activities.