Jan./Feb. 1984 RAIN Page 23 ACCESS: Nuclear Free Zones As Don Skinner points out in "Building Nuclear Free Communities" (see above), the nuclear free zone movement is currently taking root throughout America. Here is a listing, compiled by Don, ofsome of the organizations that are helping to plant the seeds. local, national, and international NFZ campaigns and provides them with a variety of resources, including tactical, logistical, and legal support. Nuclear Free America also publishes The New Abolitionist, the newsletter of the nuclear free zone network. posters), community-organizing support literature, and information on the international NFZ network. Mobilization for Survival 853 Broadway, Suite 2109 New York, NY 10003 212/533-0008 Peace House P.O. Box 524 Ashland, OR 97520 503/488-8789 Nukewatch 315 W. Gorham Street Madison, WI53703 608/256-4146 Nuclear free zones were adopted as a major campaign of MFS in 1983. To order How to Make Your Community a Nuclear Free Zone, send $4.00 to Peace House. Bulk orders of five or more copies are available at a reduced price ($3.00 a copy). An educational arm of the Progressive Foundation, Nukewatch is serving as a regional clearinghouse for nuclear free zones in Wisconsin and the Midwest. U.S. Nuclear Free Pacific Network 942 Market Street, Room 711 San Francisco, CA 94102 415/434-2988 This organization serves as a liaison between the international Nuclear Free Nuclear Free Zone Registry P.O. Box 172 Riverside, CA 92502 714/674-6576 Nuclear Free America 2521 Guilford Avenue Baltimore, MD 21218 301/235-3575 Pacific movement and peace, environmental, and human rights groups in the United States. The Network also works on issues of Pacific colonialism, indigenous land rights, and the Pacific nuclear This organization encourages individuals to make personal NFZ declarations (home, garden, etc.). It provides fundraising materials (NFZ shirts, stickers. Nuclear Free America is the national clearinghouse and resource center for nuclear free zones. It works closely with fuel cycle. ACCESS: Community Economics A New Social Contract: The Economy and Government After Reagan, by Martin Carnoy, Derek Shearer, and Russel Rumberger, 1983, 243 pp., $14.95 from: Harper and Row, Publishers 10 East 53rd Street New York, NY 10022 Though a little heavy on analyzing why Reaganomics is unjust and destabilizing, A New Social Contract does propose ways to democratize the economic insritutions in our culture: banks, the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Reserve, megacorporations, state and local governments, and others. A point of controversey implicit to these proposals is the question of scale: at what levels of government are services and protections most appropriately delivered? In cases of civil and speech rights, the seat of authority best resides with federal jurisdiction. But what about publicly funded services, such as housing, education, and medical care? In the chapter “Local Control and Democratic Planning," the authors suggest how greater numbers of citizens could be more directly involved in local land use and economic planning. Nevertheless, a paradox seems to remain: federal income taxes continue to be more equitable for financing locally controlled services than state income, sales, or local property taxes. This is a book that provides some valuable discussion of the kind of tough questions community economists must confront sooner or later. —KN E. F. Schumacher Society Box 76, RD 3 Great Barrington, MA 01230 413/528-1737 Since we published an article describing the Society's new model of community- based banking (see "Investing in the Community," RAIN IX:3), Susan Witt, Robert Swann, and others have expanded its involvement in creating new economic models. In fact, the Society's exciting seasonal newsletter gets heftier with each issue. From the newest in community land trusts to assistance for bioregional groups in designing regional currencies, the hottest developments in appropriate economics seem to follow this organization around. Why? One reason is its seminars. The fourth one, called "Tools for Community Economic Self-Reliance," will be held in February in Chicago. For five stimulating days, 25 individuals active in worker ownership, small business, financing, and community economic development will share their problems, successes, and theories, as well as their ideas on self-financing, nonprofit/for- profit synthesis, land banks, creation of currencies, and global economic trends (whew!). If you're interested in attending, contact the Center for Neighborhood Technology, 570 W. Randolph Street, Chicago, IL 60606; 312/454-0126. If you can't attend, the Schumacher Society newsletter will fill you in. Membership, which includes the newsletter, is $25 per year. Cont.-
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