Page 18 RAIN Dec 1975 PUBLIC INTEREST continued from page 17 National Association of Accounts for the the Public Interest 233 Sansome Street, Room 400 San Francisco, CA 94104 415-956-4400 The accountants, like the architects and lawyers, have started to do free work for folks who are boggled by debits and credits, 501(C)(3)'s and Form 990's. The national organization publishes a newsletter ($5/yr, $15 membership), which can fill you in on what's happening. The centers each take different forms. The one in Detroit works-for small businesses (mostly minority), while others, like the one in San Francisc9, take on public interest research. The Oregon Accountants for the Public Interest, using vol- - unteer accountants, works for non-profit corporations, helping them do tax forms and annual reports and set up books. They are just beginning to get into public interest research and are also sponsoring·a morning workshop for campaign treasurers on the whys and wherefores of campaign financing- February i4 at the Lloyd Center in _Portland. Call them if you·need help! Oregon Accountants for the Public Interest 730 S.W. Third Ave., #l 12. Portland, OR 97204 503-225-1224 EJaine Cogan, Executive ~irector Accountants for the Public Interest 321 Woodland Ave; Winnetak, IL 60093 312-446-3252 Len Fagenholz, Acting Exe~utive Director Public Interest Accountants 11340 West Olympia Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90064. 213-477-1995 Sylvia Aroth, Executive Secretary Accountants for th'e Public Interest, Inc. Box 2620 Grand Central Station New York, NY 10017 Accountants for the Public Interest, Inc. •c/o Rutgers Graduate School of Business Administration ·92 New Street Newark,.NJ 07102 Bernhard Hect, Executive Director API, Inc. -of Rhode Island 41 Lorraine Aye. Providence, RI 02 906 ' Michael Aaronson, President I Accountants for the Public Interest ' 351 California Stre~t, 16th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 415-956-3222 Wallace Little, Acting Executive Director • Accountants for the Public Interest of Washington, DC 1714 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20036 202-872-0 318 William Wood, President Accounting Aid Society of Metropolitan Detroit 10 Peterboro, Rm. 617 Detroit, MI 48201 Project America 1976 c/o Ecology Center 13 Columbus • San Francisco, CA 94111 Contact: Norie Huddle Project America 1976 is a walking and bicycling trip across the United States designed to promote alternate sources -of energy, rational_use of resources, and simple living. It begins in Santa Barbara, -. California, in early February, and ends in Philadelphia around October. The core group will consist of perhaps a dozen people of various national and cultural backgrou'nds, and others are welcome to join for shorter periods of time. They need publications, plans, •and working models of alternate technology to carry on a resource bus named "Hope." Donations or information regarding grants is most welcome- and inquiries from possible participants or contacts with specific areas of expertise are invited. For further information, contact above address. U.S. Senate Bill 1 We ·have gotten 3 different warnings from our readers. Reading summaries of the bill, which is a major revision of our crim\nal codes, gives 01:ie the odd sense of eating'dinn_er while someone is telling you for the tenth time in three ' days that the train is scheduled to come through any minute now. The bill sounds nightmarish: pr?hibiting prosecution of wrongdoing py public servants,· legalized wiretapping, death penalty, stiffer laws against demonstrations. You should find out more. Write to the ACLU (22 E. 40th St., New York, NY 10016) for a free brochure. Or write to your representative or senator or: Committee Against Repressive Legislation, 1250 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 501, Los Angeles, CA 90017. Environmentalists for Full Employment 1785 Massachusetts Ave. Washington, DC 20036 More and more we hear about Environmentalists being one way or another, resp01;1sible for inflation, energy shortages, unemployment. This group has been formed to seek creative solutions to the _stated or real conflict. 1. Modern technologies that are excessively capital intensive and energy wasteful simultaneously destroy the environment, deplete , resources, and cause structural unemployment. These problems must be attacked concurrently, and such technologies must be .rejected. 2. U.S. economic history is a parade of innovations using more and more capital, energy, and resources. In a world of increasing population and diminishing resources, it is more efficient to fully employ human resources while conserving capital and natural resources. But most economic analysts have not yet grasped this new reality. 3. U.S. policy makers have consistently failed to internalize all the costs of our economic system- including pollution, unemployment, and other social costs-in their accounting procedures. We must follow the •principles of ecology that state that nothing is "free," nothing is "throwaway," and that everything must be accoµnted for on a closedloop basis. 4. National leaders have naively assumed that material satisfaction for everyone can be obtained through _a policy of undifferentiated growth. Since this policy lias clearly failed both the environmentalist and the worker, we must strive for a fairer redistribution of the nation's resources rather than a continued expansion of resource intensive pr.oduction, the fruits of which are inequitably shared. Sugar Tax West Virginia taxes soda pop and soft drink syrups and powqers. Other states have.similar taxes, but West Virginia is the only one to earmark soda _pop revenue for the state school of medicine, nursing and dentistry. It's one way to make sugar prime suspect in such national health disasters as tooth decay and diabetes. The tax was voted in 1951; it generates between $4.5 and $5.5 million annually, (From Food Day Newsletter, Washington, DC 20036)
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