Junc: 1979 RAIN PagelS soul floating lightly. Theater. music alld illustrations are often more effective tban rational arguments in altering people 's perceptions. Obviously, both are needed. Ms. Appropriate, I know y ou are out tbere, too. - PC services, lowered housing costs by 30-40 percent, and integrated producer and consumer co-ops to eliminate intermediate profits. All this and more, on a shoestring, within a chaotic economy and with strong opposition from the national government. A lot of fresh, pragmatic and incisive thinking and actions. A valuable handbook on how to enact good programs within a structure based on different principles. Highly recommended. "What's Good for General Motors Is Good for General Motors," Glenn Yago,ln These Times, April 18-24, 1979, back issues $1 from: ITT 1509 N. Milwaukie Avenue Chicago, IL 60622 Here's the other side of the transportation picture-how our own transportation system and half of the land of our cities was transform('d to maximize the profit to GM rather than that of people. Details of GM's takeover and destruction of Los Angeles' exemplary electric railway system and those of many other cities (documented in Bradford C. Snell's landmark study on American Ground Transportation, prepared for the Senate Anti-Trust Subcommittee in 1974) through converting them to GM buses, whose high operating costs bankrupted 90 percent of the systems. Yago lays out the long history of attempted anti-trust actions against GM and how they were stopped or turned into a tool for controlling weaker competitors. Jury tampering in anti-trust suits, buying off Justice Department lawyers, quashing of anti-trust suits at high government levels, new monopolies in bus and locomotive construction-all the drama is present that you would expect in a well-documented history of this kind. In These Times, weekly, $19lyear from: In These Times 1509 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60622 Billing itself as an independent socialist newspaper, ITT avoids most of the rhetoric of "left" publications and presents excellent coverage and perspectives on significant news that is rarely found elsewhere. Well-researched, well-written and valuable. Currently my best source of leads. clippings and thought-starters. Well recommended balance to the muffled voice of most American newspapers. The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty, Collier and Horowitz, $2.75 from: New American Library 1301 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10019 A thorough arui balanced history of the most famous American economic dynasty; providing many insights into the accumulations, wielding and yielding of power. It gives a deep sense of the impact which opportunities and demands of wealth and power have on various individuals and generations, and it reveals much of the complex interweavings of government. industry, foundations and universities that have been used to create and manipulate public opinion and governmental action in the interests of the wealthy. We're left with an excellent feeling for the web and flows of power as we've practiced it - an essential base for any changes. ~tiE Nluffi' fRED GOT Fro lIP WITt( THE FKT H"t: B£CAM£ SO f)W"Al'tC THAT TV AND THl\£W IT OUT TKE WINDOW! ~S ERIE:NDS AND N't.IOH/30RS 9~ i<E 11IfS'lSreI>TIfl\T THt fAMI!JY 10M GOING HIM 'MR. APPRoPRlAl'E'" '1'0 LE;AIW TO E/II'!'WAIN TtlEMSE.I..'VeS.
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