Where the bird lovers live. Many of the calls to the Audubon Hotline are about wounded birds, but there are few sources of help for them in Chicago, according to the Chicago Audubon Society’s Compass (April). There’s the Forest Preserve District’s Trailside Nature Center and Sand Ridge Nature Center in Calumet City. And Doris Johanson, who answers the hot line, “also has a list of individuals trained to care for wounded birds, but they mostly live in the northwest suburbs.”
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“The Governor has consistently said welfare recipients should get a job,” notes Public Welfare Coalition director Douglas Dobmeyer in an April memo to state senator John Maitland. Yet “in FY93 the state turned down $32 million of federal funds for job training activities because they refused to appropriate the state match….In the Governor’s proposed FY94 budget the state is [again] turning down an estimated $30 million of federal funds by not appropriating enough state funds.” Illinois ranked 46th out of 50 states last year in drawing down federal job-training funds.
Buying only “clean” stocks and bonds does no real good, explains Mark Dowie in the Nation (April 26): “Social investing should not be defined, as it often is, as the process of ‘aligning one’s investments with one’s values.’ Nor should passive investing in the shares of an ice cream company that happens to be run by two really nice guys named Ben and Jerry ever be considered social investing.’ Social investment has real impact only when it involves the reallocation of primary capital from antisocial to social purposes: from guns to butter, from environmental degradation to environmental stewardship, from exploitation to fair treatment of labor, from Westchester County to Harlem.” And the only way to do that is to invest in “the forty or so community development loan funds, a handful of small credit unions, community land trusts and micro-enterprise lending institutions and the three community development banks: South Shore Bank in Chicago, Community Capital Bank in Brooklyn and Southern Development Bank Corporation in Arkansas.”
