RCISH The non-profit Responsible Urban Neighborhood- Technology (RUNT), 3116 North Williams, Portland. OR 97227, works from an appropriate technology demonstration home, the Elliot Energy House. If you live in Portland, becoming a member ($25, $15 if you “live lightly”) gets you use of the community meeting space, gives you permission to borrow books from the RUNT library, and puts you on a mailing list to receive notices of projects & events. The Green City Working Group for the Columbia-Willamette region meets here bi-weekly. Contact (503) 284-7868 about RUNT activities. The Campaign to Oppose the Return ofthe Khmer Rouge (CORKR) is fighting against US foreign policy in Kampuchea. The US rebuilt the killing fields' armies and has now moved them into government, in order to make things difficult for Vietnam and move Indochina further towards export capitalism. Contact them (or contribute) at, 318 4th St., NE, Washington, DC 20002, phone; (202) 544- 8446, fax: (202) 675-1010. The Asia Resource Center (publishers of Indochina Newsletter, $12/year) distributes videos, slide shows, books, magazines and exhibits on Asian problems. They also maintain an excellent speakers' bureau. Among the magazines they distribute are AMPO, the progressive English- language journal from Japan ($28/year) and the opposition Taiwan Communique ($12/year). Their slide shows include an expos6 of a Dole pineapple plantation in Thailand, and of the regime in Burma. Videos on Kampuchea. Laos and Vietnam, as well as a video on Vietnamese missing after the war, are available from; Asia Resource Center, P.O. Box 15275, Washington, DC 20003, (202) 547-1114. Women Fight Back publishes the testimony of women discriminated against, harassed and ignored. It is sent to CEO's, the media and the government to put women's trials directly in front of the powerful people who continue to condone misogyny and objectification. Bundles of 100 are available for $50 a month. Subscription $36/12 issues. P.O. Box 161775, Cupertino CA, 95016. The New Settler Interview is a pleasant monthly of Interviews with activists, members of the alternative scene and others in the communities along California's north coast. Always inquisitive and surprising, this is newsprint breakfast reading that really touches people. $12.50 for 12 issues from: P.O. Box 730, Willits, CA 95490. The Tide is a political action newsletter for environmentalists who want to lobby Washington, D.C. from home. For $24/ year, you get a monthly newsletter stuffed with Page 52 Rain Winter/Spring 1992 Volume XIV, Number 2 congressional activity, fax numbers, and postcards on which your name is conveniently pre-printed. The Tide's publishers, Gaia Communications, want to reach people who feel that Washington is unmovable: enough letters can help stop some really horrendous legislation. 8205 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite #1-308, West Hollywood CA, 90046-5912, phone: (213) 654-3453, fax; (213) 937-0635. The Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center is guiding a tour this March to the Mlondragon Cooperatives. With sales of $1.5 Billion last year, including the largest appliance producer in Spain. Mondragon is the largest nexus of worker-owned firms in the developed world, emerging in spite of Franco. Find out how they did it, and see first hand some of the problems with co-op capitalism. UPC, 215 E.14th St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45210, phone: (513) 579-8547. Rural Southern Voice for Peace (RSVP) teaches outreach techniques to anti-war groups. Their biggest success is the Listening Project, a lengthy interview that activists hold directly with those in the opposite camp, waylaying them for the survey in shopping malls and the like. Depolarizing techniques like this are demonstrably more effective than protests in certain situations, such as when jobs are at stake. Subscribe to their bi-monthly magazine for $25/year to support their work, RSVP-FOR, 1898 Hannah Branch Road, Burnsville, NC 28714, phone: (704) 675-5933. The Iowa Idea comes to us from Iowa City, where an openly socialist radical sits on the city council. The councilor, Karen Kubby, also writes for this monthly newsletter, and it's energizing to hear from someone fighting hard on the inside. The Iowa Idea is free (but donate something) from: Iowa Socialist Party, Box 924, Iowa City, Iowa 52244. Small Town is a bi-monthly for anyone interested in small town health in the US. This important journal provides completely original research into local problem-solving, for $30/year. From the Small Towns Institute, P.O. Box 517, Ellensburg, WA 98926, phone: (509) 925-1830. Options Magazine is the progressive voice of Marin County, California. A quarterly steeped in regional politics and activism, it networks its readers to locals working on every ecological, peace and justice issue conceivable. Very lively. $10/year from P.O. Box 580, Forest Knolls, CA 94933. TRANET is the alternative movement's primary networking newsletter. The non-profit Transnational Network for Appropriate Technology produces a flood of succinct abstracts on events, opportunities, projects and literature, much like the few you see on these two pages. In fact, TRANET took on RAIN's subscription obligations during our 5-year break. The crucial bi-monthly is available for $30/year, from Box 567, Rangeley, ME, 04970, (207) 864-2252.
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