Page 31 RAIN Dec. 821Jan. 83 Pacific Northwest Bioregion Report Oregon High Desert Museum revenue sources. Last summer, a After five years of planning and surfboard and umbrella rental development the Oregon High program paid for the city lifeguard Desert Museum opened its doors program. Under consideration are to the public in May. The a city-owned hotel complex, a museum, which features walk public takeover of a privately through exhibits of native desert owned cable system, and fonnawildlife and plant life will also be tion of a city fire insurance plan. offering a continuous run of The latter two could yield up to special exhibits and education $20 million annually for the city. programs. In October the Contact the Alliance at 519 SW Museum featured an exhibit of 3rd, Rm. 810, Portland, OR 97204, Edward S. Curtis historic photos · 503/222-4479. Report on the Portland of Northwest Indians. (High - Pat Mazza Community Congress Desert Museum, 59800 S. Highway 97, Bend, OR 97702, About 300 activists gathered 503/382-4754) October 9 for the Portland Com Guardian Angels munity Congress, designed to Through the sponsorship of the build links between a wide range Burnside Community Council of community organizations. and persistence of Michael Small Woodlot Economics The gathering was organized Stoops, Portland now has a A $2 million investment in 1980 by into issue groups ranging from chapter of the Guardian Angels, the Federal government in food systems to families and the well-known voluntary citizen programs to help small woodland neighborhood self-detennination. safety and security patrol started owners in Oregon grow timber Prior to the Congress, members of in New York City. In the first two will produce 5400 jobs and $645 the groups had met to develop days the project received over 60 million worth of value when that two-year action plans which were volunteers. In total, 200 people of timber is harvested, according to discussed and refined in meetings both sexes and a variety of ethnic an Oregon State Department of at the Congress. As a result, a groups applied to become part of Forestry report. number of groups wiII continue the new group. Of that 200 about working on their issues as city 90 wiII be accepted for training wide coalitions. and about one out of eight of Sponsored by the Alliance for those will be ready to patrol the Consumer Cooperatives Social Change, the theme of the streets sometime in February. For Managers Association Congress was "When things get more infonnation contact Michael Conference, (CCMA) Seattle bad, people need to reach for new Stoops, Burnside Community CCMA held their annual meeting levels of cooperation." Council, 313 East Burnside, in Seattle in June 1982. The A highlight of the Congress Portland, OR 97214 general report on the state of was a speech by Mike Rotkin, the consumer cooperatives was socialist-feminist mayor of Santa somewhat gloomy with the Cruz, California, where a pro Mien Agriculture Project market showing little growth in gressive socialist majority nearly Update 1981. Some of the large issues runs the city. Rotkin emphasized brought out at the conference the basic importance of organiz The Mien, a Southeast Asian were the problem of an inadequate ing neighborhoods around the ethnic group from Laos, have pool of co-op managerial issues that concern the people grown so many vegetables on expertise, undercapitalization there, and then translating that their community garden plots in and high operating costs. This organized strength into electoral Portland that all they have to buy conference was also the first victories. is "salt and meat." Presently, they where representatives from Rotkin also noted that in Santa are learning how to grow crops all smaller "new wave" co-ops were Cruz the local government is year round - a new concept to represented in substantial beginning to create municipal them. Contact RAIN for more numbers. enterprises such as alternative information.
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