August/Seprember 1977 RAIN page 17 Oxfam-America has a good, put-it-upon-the-wall poster on food and world hunger acdon projects and resources including land, production, market and nutition. It's called the Cross-World Food Puzzle and can be had for $1 from Oxfam-America, 302 Columbus Ave., Boston, MA 02116. Hunger Notes (Xi6/year for I2 issues) and publications sucb as Bottle Babies (5O/), Fightins Hunger Here (50d), and Education for Action (50d) are auailable from the World Hunger Education Seroices, 2115 S Street, N.W., Wasbington, DC 2OOOB. Here's a nice model for the other groups in other stares to look at, I97Z Ligistathte Analysis, $1 from the Environl mental Information Center, P.O. Box 12, Helena, MT 59601. Holistic llealtb Organizing Committee (P.O. Box 688, Berketey, CA 94701) xs a neu group to promote and netuork information about holistic bealtb practices. Don't know mucb about tbim beyond a copy of tbeir newsletter. Write to them for more information. qwat INDIA Do you get lots of interesting stamps (especially foreign ones)? Send them to the Florida Audubon Society for their fundraising drive for the Bald Eagle Fund. But please write for their instruction sheet so you can be sure what you send is useful to rhem: Florida Audubon Sociery, P.O. Drawer 7, Maitland, FL 327 51. Savvy by Patty P;'belen and Annie Pbillips is a directory tr.t local Berkeley non, profit seroices like cbild care, counseling centers, ecologlt groups, legal aid, transp ortati0 n, par ks, empl 0yment programs and more. Cross indexed by kinds oJ'seraices and target groLtps. Aaailable lor $4 from Tbe Saaay Project, P.O. Box 245B, Berkeley, CA 947 02. Rush Tbe Scbool of Lioing (Box 3233, York, PA 17402) is doing a suraeJ/ of groups and indiaiduals inaoloed in land reform. Please contact them immediately if you wisb to be listed. This September in Sandpoinr, rhe North Idaho College will offer a night class in electrical systems for homes beyond the power lines. Cost is about $15/person for eight two-hour sessions, including possible visits to two windpowered homesteads. Contact S. Miller, Rt. 1, Box 36, Samuals, ID 83862. Training Workshops for communit.y deoelopment and social cbange workers will be beld tbis fall in Mt. Ida, Arkansas. Fund Raising and Proposal Writing (Sept. 1B-22), Trainer's Training (Oct. 16-2 1), and Managing Small Non-profit Organizations (Noa, 6-10). Cost is $125 per worksbop, Contact Jerry Cronin, Indep endent Community Consttltants, Inc., P.O. Box 141, Hampton, AR 71744. 501/798-4510. The Harvard Graduare School of Design and the faculry of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning will offer courses in Consumer Activism, Historic Preservation, Solar Design and Architecture for the Consumers of It, beginning the week of October 3, Registration deadline is September 12, Information is available from the Special Programs Office, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02t38, 617 /459-2578. Are you interested in working witb community drts progrdms? Tbe National Endowment for tbe Arts offers a I3week Work Experience Internsbip in their olfices. Application deadline for Spring 1978 is October 7, 1977; deadline for Silmmer 1978 is Febntary 3, 1978. Contact tbe National Endowment for tbe tbe Arts, Mail Stop 557, Wasbington, DC 20506. Dlrecto.ry from the Spring Gathering of Healers III, 52 fuom Antahkarani Circle, P.O. Box 308, Manson, WA 98831. A good collection of Pacific Northwest organizations and individuals along with their healing skills, services and interests. Massage, herbs, polarity therapy, acupuncture, midwifery, you name it. Also some good essays and how-to on first aid, holistic health care and accupressure-refl exology. Enjoyable reading. The Home Orchard Society, c/o Marion Dunlap, Secretary, 2511 S.W. Miles St., Portland, OR 97219, A newsletter and moral support for local fruit growers, The National Self-Help Resource Center (200 S Street, N.W., Wasbington, DC 20009) is doing some fine ndtiondl networking for community resource centers. Write tbem for info about tbeir most recent publications, including tbeir newsletters. A town-controlled trust account to hold rental-security deposits was voted up at the May Town Meeting in Amherst, MA. Under the new law, landlords can no longer hold security deposits, a measure which gives tenants equal rights in disputes over aparrmenr damages. T€nant deposits will also be protected against landlord bankruptcy. For more information contact James Starr, Task Force on Securiry Deposits, Town Hall, Amherst, MA. (from the Newsletter of the Conference on Alternative State and Local Public Policies) Ace of Spades is a nice little networking newsletter for drtist actiaists. $6/year for 12 issues from Daoid Jackson, 149 West 8Otb St., Apt. 38, New york, Ny 10024. For more information on what you can do in Oregon to help save the whales, Fr-iends jztst sent us a newspaper ctipping of N.Y. Representatirte Frederick tilin: moud watering bis roof garden outside bis office in the Longuortb Senate Olfice Building in D.C. IIe's planted tomatoes, peppers and beans. 'I'be times 25 I a 2q tbey are a cbangin' -LdeM write to Oregonians Cooperating to Protect Whales, Box 3386, Eugene, OR e74u3. a\
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