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• Transformative Learning

Edmund O'Sullivan -- Thursday, 16 September 1999, at 11:56 p.m.
• Revised GCR conference program

A J Scott -- Tuesday, 14 September 1999, at 10:43 p.m.
• Philly 9/20 Town Mtg: Global Drug Access

Julie Davids -- Wednesday, 8 September 1999, at 10:36 p.m.
• Fwd: Natl Neighborhood Coalition--Sept Forum

Maryellen Lewis -- Monday, 6 September 1999, at 9:40 p.m.
• FEDERAL BUDGET UPDATE

JFurman835@aol.com -- Sunday, 22 August 1999, at 12:02 p.m.
• join Community Development Banking discussion group

William Myers -- Tuesday, 10 August 1999, at 3:04 p.m.
• Leadership Conference Announcement

Scott Webster -- Tuesday, 10 August 1999, at 3:03 p.m.
• Fwd: Act Now to Protect CRA

Maryellen Lewis -- Tuesday, 10 August 1999, at 3:01 p.m.
• HOT OFF THE PRESS FROM ANF

Assessing the New Federalism -- Wednesday, 4 August 1999, at 11:29 p.m.
• NOA Job Bank

National Organizers Alliance -- Wednesday, 4 August 1999, at 11:13 p.m.
• Measuring Urban Walkability in "Urban Quality Indicators" (UQI)

CYoakam -- Wednesday, 4 August 1999, at 11:10 p.m.
• listserve on Computer-Supported Community Work

Martha Kinsman -- Wednesday, 4 August 1999, at 11:07 p.m.
• Be a voice for change in higher education and the health of communities

Sarena Seifer -- Saturday, 24 July 1999, at 10:27 a.m.
• Conf announcement...please forward!!

larry stillman -- Monday, 12 July 1999, at 10:57 p.m.
• Ocosingo Immediate Action Alert

claudio gaete -- Thursday, 8 July 1999, at 11:32 a.m.
• Coverdell to Introduce Amendment to Ban Needle Exchange in District of

Julie Davids -- Monday, 5 July 1999, at 11:12 p.m.
• NCRC Alert: Act Now to Save CRA, Vote this Thursday!!

Maryellen Lewis -- Wednesday, 30 June 1999, at 2:00 p.m.
• call your Reps on CRA--vote is Thursday!!!

Maryellen Lewis -- Wednesday, 30 June 1999, at 1:58 p.m.
• Gramm Lobbies House Repubs to Roll Back CRA

Maryellen Lewis -- Friday, 4 June 1999, at 11:55 a.m.
• Updates National Survey of America's Family Survey Available

Joseph Clarke -- Friday, 4 June 1999, at 11:54 a.m.
• Stop the World Bank Resettlement Project!

evdebs -- Tuesday, 1 June 1999, at 10:54 p.m.
• G8 Summit Online--register free

Maryellen Lewis -- Tuesday, 1 June 1999, at 10:53 p.m.
• Community Action School National Training

Shelly Wilsey -- Monday, 26 April 1999, at 1:57 p.m.
• here are your Reps to Call/Email on CRA!!!

Maryellen Lewis -- Tuesday, 20 April 1999, at 1:15 p.m.
• Countdown on CRA & "Financial Modernization" in Congress

Maryellen Lewis -- Tuesday, 20 April 1999, at 1:14 p.m.
• Inside "Urban Quality Indicators" newslet

CYoakam578@aol.com -- Tuesday, 20 April 1999, at 1:12 p.m.
• Microenterprise Development Institute Bulleting # 2

Sharon hunt -- Tuesday, 20 April 1999, at 1:11 p.m.
• Things you can do now to protect CRA

lewisma9@pilot.msu.edu -- Thursday, 1 April 1999, at 3:34 p.m.
• Toward a global financial architecture: Call to Action (fwd)

Maryellen Lewis -- Wednesday, 24 March 1999, at 10:07 p.m.
• June conference on "Bridging the Gap Between Labor and

Chris Tilly -- Friday, 19 March 1999, at 3:24 p.m.
• Update on April SAWSJ Conference

Douglas R Hess -- Friday, 19 March 1999, at 3:22 p.m.
• Call to Action: Senate Banking Bill attacks CRA!!

Maryellen Lewis -- Tuesday, 16 March 1999, at 11:47 a.m.
• Inside "Urban Quality Indicators" newsletter: Winter ‘99 lineup

Cy Yoakam -- Monday, 11 January 1999, at 10:59 p.m.
• acclaimed documentary on poverty and homelessness: Taylor's Campaign

Richard B Cohen -- Tuesday, 22 December 1998, at 4:48 p.m.
• Faith-based Intern Scholarship

Ari S. Merretazon -- Wednesday, 25 November 1998, at 8:40 p.m.
• (fwd) New listserv on Social Capital--World Bank

Maryellen Lewis -- Wednesday, 25 November 1998, at 11:52 a.m.
• Noam Chomsky Birthday Celebration

CyberBrook -- Wednesday, 25 November 1998, at 11:39 a.m.
• Popular Education and Sustainable Development

loomis mayfield -- Wednesday, 25 November 1998, at 11:38 a.m.
• Fwd: Hate Crime Petition

CyberBrook -- Thursday, 19 November 1998, at 1:05 p.m.
• Call for Papers: "Christian Hegemony"

CyberBrook -- Wednesday, 18 November 1998, at 10:17 p.m.
• Public Life Forum on "Religion, Democracy and Organizing"

Tom Lenz -- Thursday, 12 November 1998, at 10:32 p.m.
• 1999 Planners Network Conference

Patricia A. Nolan -- Thursday, 12 November 1998, at 10:30 p.m.
• Budget Sign-On Letter (fwd)

Doug Hess -- Thursday, 12 November 1998, at 10:28 p.m.
• National Town Meeting for a Sustainable America

Noni Dog -- Wednesday, 11 November 1998, at 10:38 a.m.
• new international listserv on "Social Banking" (fwd)

Doug Hess -- Monday, 2 November 1998, at 10:14 a.m.
• Fw: American Airlines Challenged by the Extreme Right

Meredith Dean -- Monday, 2 November 1998, at 10:12 a.m.
• Inside "Urban Quality Indicators" newsletter: Fall 98 lineup

Cy Yoakam -- Monday, 2 November 1998, at 10:08 a.m.
• COOL's 1998 Northeast Regional Meeting

Lloyd Jacobson -- Monday, 26 October 1998, at 11:56 a.m.
• vote

cshapiro -- Monday, 26 October 1998, at 11:53 a.m.
• Community-Campus Partnerships for Health

Sarena Seifer -- Monday, 26 October 1998, at 11:50 a.m.
• CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:Technological Visions: Utopian and Dystopian

Blake Poland -- Wednesday, 7 October 1998, at 4:30 p.m.
• Inventors' Fair

Gary David -- Monday, 21 September 1998, at 11:39 a.m.
• Facilitator Training for Social Action

Melanie Buffel -- Wednesday, 2 September 1998, at 1:34 p.m.
• P O L I T I C S A N D I N T E R N E T

Doug Hess -- Tuesday, 1 September 1998, at 1:02 p.m.
• PROGRESSIVE L.A. CONFERENCE -- OCTOBER 3

Peter Dreier -- Thursday, 27 August 1998, at 11:23 a.m.
• doug.hess@jhu.edu

Doug Hess -- Thursday, 27 August 1998, at 11:21 a.m.
• Conference: Aspects of Color: Race and Racism in Appalachia

Michelle Ferrier -- Thursday, 27 August 1998, at 11:19 a.m.
• GLOBAL MEETINGS ON COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 1998

Yvon Poirier -- Thursday, 27 August 1998, at 11:16 a.m.
• NO RENT FESTIVAL AUGUST 30th

Eviction Defense Network -- Thursday, 27 August 1998, at 11:15 a.m.
• Info on CHICAGO CONFERENCE, RESEARCH&PUBLIC POLICY

loomis mayfield -- Thursday, 27 August 1998, at 11:13 a.m.
• Achieving Collaboration in Community Development Group 3rd Conference

Blake Poland -- Tuesday, 25 August 1998, at 11:26 a.m.
• Community Stewardship Academy

Sue Gullion -- Friday, 14 August 1998, at 10:16 a.m.
• Urban Quality Indicators Newsletter

Cy Yoakam -- Thursday, 13 August 1998, at 12:21 p.m.
• Ralph Nader to Bill Gates on inequality

Maryellen Lewis -- Friday, 31 July 1998, at 10:51 p.m.
• COMMUNITY RESEARCH: THE PEPSI CHALLENGE! (Loka Alert 5:4)

Ashwani Vasishth -- Friday, 31 July 1998, at 1:11 p.m.
• How does this work?

Randy Stoecker -- Thursday, 30 July 1998, at 3:24 p.m.

• June 12, 1998: Needmore Fund Welfare Reform Initiative
• June 4, 1998: Petition to maitain funding for the NEA, NPR & PBS.
• April 20, 1998: Living Wage Campaign Alert.
• April 14, 1998: Register now for the Threats to Democracy Conference, being held in Washington D.C. May 15 - 18.
• April 13, 1998: Creating a Fairness Agenda For America--Come to the Ad Hoc Congressional Hearing
• March 23, 1998: International Campaign for the poor and marginal people in Chile
• February 17, 1998: Call for Papers--Shelterforce special Issue on Community Organizing
• January 15, 1998: The Working Group on Organizing and the Academy will bring together community organizers, social movement activists, funders, and researchers to create an action plan
• January 11, 1998: CALL FOR PROPOSALS Bertha Capen Reynolds Society National Conference
• December 15, 1997: Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) to help the poor build assets
• December 13, 1997: 14th ANNUAL COOL NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STUDENT COMMUNITY SERVICE,March 12-15th, 1998, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
• December 13, 1997: The COMMACTIONLIST Correspondence List welcomes membership and active participation by all persons involved or interested in humanitarian civic action and community development efforts throughout the world.
• December 7, 1997: Our coffee grower cooperatives in Chiapas at this moment have very serious problems, they cannot even harvest the coffee. We need your support sending letters to the President of Mexico and others. Also see follow-up messages with more information: follow-up1, follow-up 2, follow-up 3, follow-up 4, follow-up 5, follow-up 6.
• November 13, 1997:You may be interested in subscribing to Poverty Issues...Dateline Illinois.
• October 28, 1997: Bill Clinton signs into law H.R. 2158, the "Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998."
• October 23, 1997: We request that you contact your Representatives and members of the House Commerce Committee. H.R. 10 (the Financial Services Competition Act of 1997) will be marked-up this Friday, October 24 by the finance subcommittee of the Commerce Committee. Also see the October 24 follow-up message, the November 3 follow-up message, the November 5 follow-up message. and the November 7 follow-up message.
• October 10, 1997: The 1997-98 Planners Network forum in New York City kicks off on October 17, with Youth and Crime: Beyond the Scapegoat Generation.
• September 28, 1997: You can vote in October to haveTIAA-CREF dispose of its tobacco investments.
• September 27, 1997: Community-campus Partnerships for Health: Principles and Best Practices for Healthier communities Call for Workshop, Poster, and Story proposals.
• September 3, 1997: Food Policy Forum
• August 23, 1997: In the current (Summer 1997) issue of Urban Quality Indicators, we asked the question: "Once basic urban quality & sustainability are on target, where do we go from there in measuring urban quality?"
• July 8, 1997: The Policy Research Action Group (PRAG) in Chicago is soliciting applications from graduate students and advanced undergraduates (junior or senior level) who are interested in working at a neighborhood level with a community-base organization.
• July 8, 1997: Over 200 people have registered for the online community networking event from all over the world.
• July 8, 1997: You're invited to subscribe and participate in the first trial run of a new Internet Correspondence List (COMMACTIONLIST).
• July 8, 1997: The Policy Research Action Group (PRAG) is seeking proposals for community-based research projects in Chicago and neighboring communities.
• July 7, 1997: current feature of Urban Quality Indicators Newsletter with measurement of indicators of Housing and Employment/Jobs balance.
• July 7, 1997:A beta (skeletal) version of the Loka Institute's Community Research Database is available for your viewing on the web.
• June 25, 1997:  CALL FOR PAPERS for the 18th annual meeting of the Indiana Association of Historians at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, on Friday and Saturday, February 27-28, 1998.
• June 7, 1997:  There are a few slots available for Fall, 1997 for the Illinois State University Applied Community and Economic Development Program.
• May 28, 1997: INFACT has just released their '1997 People's Annual Report: The Human Toll of Corporate-Influence Peddling' detailing abusive practices by five U.S.-based transnational corporations
• May 28, 1997: Announcing Virtual CivicNet: A Community Networking Conference entirely on the Web! May 22 - June 30, 1997.
• May 22, 1997: You're invited to subscribe and participate in the first trial run of a new Internet Correspondence List (COMMACTIONLIST) to facilitate communication and interchange among Community Action Agencies and other such organizations.
• May 14, 1997: The Policy Research Action Group (PRAG) is seeking proposals for community-based research projects in Chicago and neighboring communities.
• May 14, 1997: The Policy Research Action Group (PRAG) in Chicago is soliciting applications from graduate students and advanced undergraduates (junior or senior level) who are interested in working at a neighborhood level with a community-base organization.
• March 29, 1997: NORTH AMERICAN CASE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION Call for Papers
• February 28, 1997: NY tenants now have three web sites and a mailing list covering landlord/tenant issues and the continuing war against tenants.
• February 27, 1997: AFL-CIO unions will seek to organize about one million workfare participants who will be required to work for their welfare benefits at sub-minimum wages in temporary, dead-end jobs.
• February 10, 1997: Prevent per minute internet charges --send email to FCC at enclosed address
• January 23, 1997: Joseph Persky and Wim Wiewel from the University of Illinois at Chicago recently released a report entitled, "Central City and Suburban Development: Who Pays and WhoBenefits."
• January 23, 1997: A new report from the Woodstock Institute finds that liquor >stores are disproportionately concentrated in lower-income and minority zip codes in Cook County.
• January 20, 1997: 1997 COOL NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STUDENT COMMUNITY SERVICE WHAT'S NEXT? PUTTING VISIONS INTO ACTION
• January 8, 1997: RARE VOICE FOR PEACE FIRED BY WASHINTON POST
• December 26, 1996: Newspaper Strikers' Appeal for a National Labor March on Detroit
• December 23, 1996: A letter by CEO's from 11 important Internet and Telecommunications firms. It focuses on the sections in the WIPO treaties that would make Internet Service Providers liable for unauthorized transmissions of copyrighted works.