Axioms, Aphorisms, and Anecdotes for Activists
Jim Lotz
September 1, 2009
By Jim Lotz Published in September 2009 “He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.
The Republic of Eldonia
Jim Lotz
September 1, 2008
Liverpool, home town of the Beatles, became the cultural capital of Europe in 2008. The city’s history has been marked more by poverty, unemployment, industrial decay, religious tensions and racial discrimination in the past than by concern for the arts. In the 1970s and 1980s, the British economy went sour. Factories in Liverpool closed, thousands of workers lost their jobs, riots erupted and the city’s population dropped. The Vauxhall area, near the docks, housed large factories owned by Tate and Lyle and the British Tobacco Company. They have vanished, and in the place of a sugar factory stands the Republic of Eldonia, as it is known locally.
The Lichen Factor – The Prologue
Jim Lotz
September 1, 1999
The Lichen Factor attempts to summarize what I’ve learned about community development since 1960. The word “community” has become a mantra for our troubled times. Slapped on any and every initiative from the local to the national, the word, and the concept behind it, offers warmth, comfort, a sense of belonging to solitary souls adrift in an uncaring world.
