Dear Anne and Friends, all (I feel that the cc-s are worth-while in a
lets-net-the-solutions-spirit )
First of all, I apologise for my multitude of postings to this list - it
seems, by far, the most active of those I'm on, at present.
Secondly of all, your request for resources.
The one resource, upon a deal of reflection, that I'd whole-heartedly
recommend, to all community developers, is a book called 'The Bermondsey
Story' by Fenner Brockway (again, The Quaker Bookshop in London, UK has
copies £4.95 plus postage - and I'm not on any commission here !!! )
It tells the story of Alfred Salter and his wife Ada' s work in Bermondsey -
one of London's poorest, poorest areas in the 1920's to early 50's.
They did (with their Independent Labour Party chums and their co-operative
chums) truely wonderful work there.
That work was the best, truely I think, the best, that *any-one* could have
done.
But.
Came the war (and I could, almost, believe that the war was started to kill
off their work) the project ended and Bermondsey was pushed back, yet again,
into last
place in the race.
So ? What's the big message ?
Well, I'm not sure.
Perhaps . . .
The task is eternal ( The Second Law of Thermodynamics and all that), but,
also,
perhaps, we have to, both:
'Think globally and act locallly.'
And:
'Think locally *and* act globally.'
In other words, as a step on, find the balance between local do-ing and
global do-ing ?
[Good-ly book, tho' ]
hugs
j
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Oh, yes, and Dolores Hayden's 'Redesigning The American Dream' is, also, a
must-read.
More hugs
j
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>From: "Anne Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: request for resouces
>Date: Thu, Sep 23, 1999, 3:36 pm
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>
>Hello
>I'm an adult educator following a graduate program in Community Economic
>Development at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. I'm hoping to hear
>some thoughts on good literature to help me address a question I'm posing.
>My question is grounded in rural communities in transition. The economies
>of small rural communities are often based upon single industries, which of
>late, have been collapsing in record numbers. These communities, struggling
>for survival, are eager to change their traditional livelihoods to something
>that promises to be more viable. CED interventions demonstrate that this
>transition from one economy to another [or others] has had varied success.
>CED strategies and models in themselves are not enough to ensure that an
>intervention will be successful. My question then is:
>
>What critical issues, factors and questions must be considered at this time
>of transition to enable a small rural community to make a successful
>transition to a new economy?
>
>If anyone has any ideas about particular resources- books, journals,
>articles, and resource people - I would appreciate hearing about them.
>
>Anne Miller
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