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Louisville Neighborhoods
Welcome to Louisville Neighborhoods. This web site follows neighborhoods stories, analyzes issues, and provides a forum and resources for the more than 250
neighborhoods and small cities of the Louisville Metropolitan area and the Central Ohio Valley. How can we create a participatory democracy in the face of the new Metro Government merger, the first
major urban government in the U.S. in the past thirty years?
Louisville Neighborhoods is committed to neighborhood action and alliance building through inclusion of all neighborhood voices of the region, consensus
process, open uncensored communications, and non-hierarchical organization. Resources: Consensus Process Freedom
of speech Democracy
PLEASE NOTE: LOUISVILLE NEIGHBORHOODS NETWORK IS UNDERGOING RE- DESIGN. We are currently (Fall 2003) re-organizing the
site and expanding the mission of the Louisville Neighborhoods network. With many neighborhood groups re-organizing after struggles with government merger and neighborhood
differences, we appreciate the continued show of support for Louisville Neighborhoods Network and many other "unofficial" efforts neighborhood folks are taking to make sure that
neighborhoods stay organized and active. CHECK BACK SOON AS WE RE-DESIGN THE SITE TO SUPPORT NEIGHBORHOOD DEMOCRACY AND ORGANIZING. Check
back regularly and watch us grow! THANKS!
Announcements and Meetings Column:
In this Column:
Community and Neighborhood Power Structure Research Tools
Know Your Rights - You Can Vote Flyer
and Neighborhoods Political Resources Access.
[Neighborhoods Calendars - Please note: the
Calendar is currently suspended and being redesigned - to find out about meetings, contact the appropriate folks below) ) ]
[Imagine America]
[Let Them Eat Cake! What Government
Should Do for Small Business and Neighborhoods]
[Courier-Journal Neighborhoods Office
Article ]
[Legislative Alerts]
[New Community Land Use and Sustainable Planning Working Group]
[ Public Meetings on Land Use
Code ]
[Louisville's Neighborhoods Welcome Conversation
Cafes!]
[Neighborhoods Advocacy Group]
[Neighborhoods Speakers Needed for
Transportation Hearing]
[LCON Meeting Info ]
[LCON Finance Committee ?]
[Next Steps for Louisville Neighborhoods?]
[Neighborhoods on the Air]
[Neighborhood Dialogues and Cafes]
[Neighborhood Relations Group]
[How to Contact Media and Lawmakers]
[Search]
Access to Tools:
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Community Research, Action and Bio-Informatics Toolset, from the www.adenainstitute.org web site.
Power Structure Research Tools for Community, Neighborhood, Labor and other organizers.
"Knowledge is Power" goes the old saying. Power Structure Research methods are the tools used for analysis of political, corporate ecosystems and community control -
and change.
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Who needs power structure analysis tools?
- Neighborhood groups fighting to challenge developers;
- Sustainable communities groups trying to create alternative development partnerships;
- Labor organizers seeking to understand corporate power.
All these groups and many others share a need for common tools and sources for power structure research. The Adena Institute Community Power Structure and Bio-Informatics Research
Toolset provides a variety of research tools:
The Research 101 Manual. Real Estate. Open Records. Interviewing Technique. Political Money. Freedom of Information. Court records. Community Epidemiology. Participatory
Research-Action Methods. Environmental Justice. Sustainable Development. Community Ecology and Genetics. Workplace Analysis. Publicly Traded Companies. Futures Networks. Local Idea Banks.
Globalization Databases. Much more...
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Community Based Research and Action Networks
Selected Resources from the Adena Institute Research and Action Webs Site:
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[Research and Action Networks - Overview]
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[General Participatory Research and Action Resources]
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[Power Structure Research 101 SEIU Manual]
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[Community BioInformatics Resources and Research Agenda]
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[Community Futures Network]
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[Louisville and Ohio
Valley Ideas Bank]
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[Use and Abuse of Community
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SEIU Research Manual Chapter Links:
- [Research 101
Chapter 1]
- [Key Research
Questions]
- [An Interviewing
How To]
- [Online
and Print Information]
- [Freedom of
Information]
- [Political Money]
- [Financial Statements]
- [Publicly
Traded Companies]
- [Court Records]
- [Real Estate Records]
- [Pay & Benefits]
[Worksites]
- [Worker lists] [Bibliography]
- [Glosario Key Labor Terms in
Spanish]
Adena Institute is hosting the The SEIU Research Manual, Research 101, a project of the Service
Employees International Union, copyright 2003 SEIU.
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 Know Your Rights: You Can
Vote 
Click
below to get a complete downloadable "Know Your Rights" Voter Guide
to print out for neighborhoods canvassing, distribution at work or community centers, and to take to the
polls.
Know Your Rights: black & white Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file.
Know Your Rights color Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file.
NOTE: The Calendar is suspended as we re-design the site. In the meantime, click here for other
community calendars neighborhoods events and access Check back soon!:
Neighborhoods Calendars:
SUSPENDED: Take a look at the Louisville
Neighborhoods Calendar for upcoming events.
For other neighborhoods and community calendars, take a look at Louisville Calendars (under construction)
Check it out: A national dialogue, started in Louisville's neighborhoods:
Imagine America:
Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Author Marianne Williamson, and Earthsave Founder John Robbins
lead a unique gathering devoted to re-visioning our neighborhoods, communities, and country.
Want to put Imagine
America Buttons and Banners on your websites and browsers? Click here now!
New! The SMRC continues to make waves:
The Southern Metropolitan Regional Corporation
Let Them Eat Cake!
What Government Should Do for
Small Business and Neighborhoods
Come learn how to evaluate quality of life in Metro Louisville and ask the right questions to build a strong viable community and to know if we are succeeding in achieving our collective goals as a
community.
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For reservations or directions call 380-0441
or email Barbara Nichols at iaai@bellsouth.net
or call Doug Lowry at 500-3482 or email at wiredlow@hotmail.com
WE ARE SOUTH METRO
The Southern Metropolitan Regional Corporation
PO BOX 21057
Louisville, KY 40214
Take a look: Courier Journal Neighborhoods Office Article
Legislative Alerts
The Kentucky 2003 Legislative session considered a variety of bills which may affect neighborhoods and community planning efforts.
Please take a look at the Kentucky Resources Council (KRC) Legislative Summaries and Update.
Below the Update are the majority of Action Alerts which were posted by KRC this session.
KRC is the premier lobbying and litigation organization in Kentucky concerned with environment, land use, sustainable development, planning and democratic governance
issues. Their analyses and alerts are used by organizations concerned with these issues in KY and often nationwide. KRC also serves as an ally with several of the organizations
participating in these lists. Neighborhoods, local governments, multi-issue coalitions and others concerned with these issues should find them of interest.
This information is being posted to this site by request of several participants. The full text of these alerts and additional information can be found on the KRC
website, http://www.kyrc.org
By special arrangement, we cross-posted these contents to Louisville Neighborhoods, http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org
and to Louisville open network at http://louky.com. The attachment is in MS Word (.doc) format.
CFA Legislative Action Alert/News on H.B. 391
CFA Legislative Action Alert
Please note that this legislation is important for the development of
neighborhood and community based sustainable agriculture and economic development initiatives in urban areas as well.
Legislative Alert:
Predatory Lending and Housing Bills Alerts
Predatory lending: strong, weak bills head for vote
Showdown!
A model consumer bill on predatory lending headed for a show-down Wednesday with a weaker "industry
bill." Your calls helped make the difference.
Click here to see the full Alert on the Predatory Lending Bills
A New Community Working Group on Land Use, Sustainable
Planning, Zoning and Design
New! Take a look!
Summary Notes from the first meeting of the Community Working Group on Land use, Sustainable planning, Zoning and
Design
Over 100 Brainstormed Metro Area Reforms : Personal Notes from
First Meeting of Citizens Planning and Land Use Working Group v.1.2..doc
Under development: Integrated Neighborhoods Policy Advocacy Matrix. In the meantime, take a look and give your
suggestions for how best to integrate policy proposals with sustainability indicators, performance, outcomes and quality measures, at our table of brainstormed issues: Issues and feedback. (under
construction)
Public Meetings on Land Use CodeLearn more about
metro Louisville's new land use code. Click here for details
This is intended to be an open working group for individuals, neighborhoods and community groups to develop policy proposals and learn from each other. (This is
not intended to be simply a group or sub-committee "under" any particular organization or coalition, and based on that understanding, this notice is being put forward for community members).
This first meeting was organizational and idea-generating - a chance to compile, clarify, resolve and whatever else the attendees deemed important to
neighborhoods.
Some items and comments suggested for the agenda:
"Planning Commission and BOZA need to seriously review and take into consideration neighborhood plans when they make decisions."
"The neighborhood plans, are supposed to hold some weight, in developing neighborhoods. They need to do be used for what they were
intended."
"Ways to develop truly sustainable neighborhood plans which local government and business will be accountable to; that are not only based in the visions of
the neighborhoods for the present and long term future, but also are economical, ecological and equitable for neighborhood residents, the region, and the planet."
"Metro and regional government and business accountability to neighborhoods plans, zoning and other land use guidelines"
"Neighborhood education and planning for sustainable development"
For more information or to put an item or two on the agenda, contact:
Theresa Stanley, 412-9055 or email at bradneighbor@cs.comor Rachel Grimes, rachel@fishin.com
Click here to see these working group pages
Louisville Neighborhoods Welcome Local Conversation Cafes!!
With over a dozen conversation cafes operating in the Louisville area, we are happy to report that the hard
work of volunteers this year has begun to pay off as Louisville neighborhoods begin to develop many sorts of grassroots dialogues.
In the coming week we will be highlighting Neighborhood links to Conversation Cafes and other forms of neighborly chat, by helping to connect neighborhoods folks
to Cafes in their area, and introducing Cafe participants to their neighbors and neighborhoods, where the "conversations and politics of place" make democracy possible.
Below is a partial listing and general contact information for neighborhoods near the Cafes (suggestions for other contacts welcome!). If you or your
neighborhood association would like to participate in these Neighborhood Conversation Cafes, please look at:
http://adenainstitute.org/conversations
for more information, and contact us about setting up a neighborhood cafe. We will be posting more neighborhoods and cafe contact information here in the
next few days. Please check back!!
Conversation Cafe Neighborhoods Venues:
(If you know of neighborhoods that should be listed, please contact us at louisville_neighborhoods@yahoo.com Thanks!)
To find out the schedule for the Cafes, go to: http://adenainstitute.org/conversations
Amazing Grace Whole Foods & Nutrition Center– 1133 Bardstown
Road (near Grinstead Drive)- ( Butchertown Neighborhood Association, Cherokee Triangle Association, East Louisville Community Ministry, German-Paristown Neighborhood Association, Glenmary
Neighborhood Association, Highland Commerce Guild, Highlands Community Ministries, Highlands Green Neighborhood Network, Irish Hill Neighborhood Association, Original Highlands Neighborhood
Association, Phoenix Hill Association, Tyler Park Neighborhood Association)
Main Library- Studio A- 301 York Street (downtown)- (4th Street
Neighborhood Association, Alpha Gardens Block Watch Association, Butchertown Business Association, Clarksdale Resident Corporation, Downtown Neighborhood Association, East Broadway Business
Association, East Downtown Business Association, East Louisville Community Ministry, J. O. Blanton House Tenants Assoc. Inc., Limerick Neighborhood Association, Main Street Association, Old
Louisville Neighborhood Association, Phoenix Hill Association, Portland Business Association, Smoketown Neighborhood Association)
City Café– 1250 Bardstown Road (next to Baxter
Theaters at the Mid City Mall)– *Topic: To Be Announced.( Butchertown Neighborhood Association, Cherokee Triangle Association, East Louisville Community Ministry, German-Paristown
Neighborhood Association, Glenmary Neighborhood Association, Highland Commerce Guild, Highlands Community Ministries, Highlands Green Neighborhood Network, Irish Hill Neighborhood Association,
Original Highlands Neighborhood Association, Phoenix Hill Association, Tyler Park Neighborhood Association)
Babylon (restaurant)- 6700 Strawberry Lane- (Airport
Neighbors' Alliance, Americana Community Center, Beechmont Neighborhood Association, Iroquois Business Association, Iroquois Civic Club & Neighborhood Association, J. O. Blanton House Tenants
Assoc. Inc., South Central Business Association, South West Community Alliance (SCAN), Southeast Metro Regional Council, South Louisville Community Ministries), Wilder Park Neighborhood Association)
Highland Coffee Company– 1140 Bardstown Road (by
Blockbuster Video)- ( Butchertown Neighborhood Association, Cherokee Triangle Association, East Louisville Community Ministry, German-Paristown Neighborhood Association, Glenmary Neighborhood
Association, Highland Commerce Guild, Highlands Community Ministries, Highlands Green Neighborhood Network, Irish Hill Neighborhood Association, Original Highlands Neighborhood Association, Phoenix
Hill Association, Tyler Park Neighborhood Association)
CANCELLED: Third Avenue Café- 1164 S. 3rd Street (corner of S. 3rd Street and Oak Street in Old Louisville)- Please come to another Cafe
convenient to you!.
Heine Brothers’ Coffee- 119 Chenoweth Lane (in St.
Matthews)- (St. Mathews, Breckinridge Lane Neighbors, Crescent Hill Neighborhood Association)
Dooley’s Bagels & Deli- 216 N. Hurstbourne Lane
(in the Forum shopping center near The Cherry House)- Brownsboro Road Area Defense, Glenview Manor, Jeffersontown, Lyndon Area Neighbors, Middletown,
Windhurst Acres Neighborhood Association
Crescent Hill Library-meeting room- 2762 Frankfort Avenue- Crescent
Hill Neighborhood Association, St. Mathews, Seneca Gardens, Clifton Neighborhood Association, Brownsboro Heights
Kentucky Theater- 651 S. 4th Avenue (on Theater
Square)- (4th Street Neighborhood Association, Alpha Gardens Block Watch Association, Butchertown Business Association, 100 Block West Ormsby Association, 1300 South 3rd Street Association, 3rd
Street Association, 8th and 9th Street Block Watch, Airport Neighbors' Alliance, Belgravia Court Association, Central Park West Neighborhood Association, Clarksdale Resident Corporation,
Downtown Neighborhood Association, East Broadway Business Association, East Downtown Business Association, East Louisville Community Ministry, Highlands Green Neighborhood Net, J. O. Blanton House
Tenants Assoc. Inc., Limerick Neighborhood Association, Main Street Association, Oak Street Business Association, Old Louisville Neighborhood Association, Ouerbacker Court Association, Phoenix
Hill Association, Portland Business Association, Second Street Neighborhood Association, Shelby Park Neighborhood Association, Smoketown Neighborhood Association, South Central Business Association,
South Fourth Street Association, South Louisville Community Ministries, South Louisville Neighborhood Association, South of Broadway Business Association, St. James Ct. Association, Toonerville
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Nimde Books- 2200 W. Chestnut Street- .(100
Block West Ormsby Association, 1300 South 3rd Street Association, 3rd Street Association, 8th and 9th Street Block Watch,32nd & Dumesnil Neighborhood Club, 43rd Street Block Watch, Beech St.
Neighborhood Club, Belgravia Court Association, Central Park West Neighborhood Association, Inc., Limerick Neighborhood Association, Oak Street Business Association, Old Louisville Neighborhood
Council, Ouerbacker Court Association, Second Street Neighborhood Association, Shelby Park Neighborhood Association, Brewster Avenue Block Watch Association, Brewster by the River Block Watch,
California Federation Neighborhood Association, Cecil Ave. Neighborhood Association, Chickasaw Federation, Inc., Del Park Terrace Block Watch, Exley-Kaiser Court Neighborhood Club, Garvin Gate
Association, Hale St. Neighborhood Association, J. O. Blanton House Tenants Assoc. Inc, Martin Luther King, Jr. Block Watch Assoc., Miles Park Block Watch, New Zion Community Development Foundation,
Inc., Park DuValle Village Home-Owners Neighborhood Association, Parkland Business Association, Parkland Neighborhood Association, River Park Neighborhood Club, Shawnee Development Org., Inc.,
Smoketown Pride and Heritage, South of Broadway Business Association, South Central Neighborhood Association, St. James Ct. Association, Toonerville Trolley, Triangle Block Watch, West Broadway
Business Association, West Louisville Community Ministries, West Market/Shawnee Area Business Association, Westover Neighborhood Association
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Western Branch Library--- 604 South Tenth Street.Western Branch
Library---(100 Block West Ormsby Association, 1300 South 3rd Street Association, 3rd Street Association, 8th and 9th Street Block Watch,32nd & Dumesnil Neighborhood
Club, 43rd Street Block Watch, Beech St. Neighborhood Club, Belgravia Court Association, Central Park West Neighborhood Association, Inc., Limerick Neighborhood Association, Oak Street Business
Association, Old Louisville Neighborhood Council, Ouerbacker Court Association, Second Street Neighborhood Association, Shelby Park Neighborhood Association, Brewster Avenue Block Watch Association,
Brewster by the River Block Watch, California Federation Neighborhood Association, Cecil Ave. Neighborhood Association, Chickasaw Federation, Inc., Del Park Terrace Block Watch, Exley-Kaiser Court
Neighborhood Club, Garvin Gate Association, Hale St. Neighborhood Association, J. O. Blanton House Tenants Assoc. Inc, Martin Luther King, Jr. Block Watch Assoc., Miles Park Block Watch, New Zion
Community Development Foundation, Inc., Park DuValle Village Home-Owners Neighborhood Association, Parkland Business Association, Parkland Neighborhood Association, River Park Neighborhood Club,
Shawnee Development Org., Inc., Smoketown Pride and Heritage, South of Broadway Business Association, South Central Neighborhood Association, St. James Ct. Association, Toonerville Trolley,
Triangle Block Watch, West Broadway Business Association, West Louisville Community Ministries, West Market/Shawnee Area Business Association, Westover Neighborhood Association)
Check back here for more information in the coming week about neighborly conversations and Louisville neighborhoods.
In the meantime, please take a look at some of the community conversation and communication work already
underway through the Louisville Neighborhoods network.
For more information on Conversation Cafes in Louisville and the Ohio Valley, go to http://adenainstitute.org/conversations
Continuing Meetings:
The Louisville Neighborhoods Advocacy Working Group
Contact John Baker for meeting times and locations.
Please send me your agenda items.
Please note the Neighborhoods, section 12, in the Brookings Report (Beyond Merger) available at
www.crndata.org
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John Baker, Co-chair
Contact: John Baker, johnbaker@bellsouth.net 01502 893 0477
Documents:
Neighborhoods Advocacy and Issues Documents
More recent Advocacy minutes and documents can be found on the Louisville Neighborhoods Network list serve, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/louisville_neighborhoods or contact the committee chair, above.
1-15-03 Advocacy Minutes
1-15-03 Advocacy Agenda
12-03-02 Advocacy Minutes
11-7-03 Advocacy Minutes
10-16-02 Advocacy Minutes
AdvocacyAgenda92602.doc
Additional Advocacy Information will be posted here shortly.
We will review the issues gathered at previous meetings and review new issues for consideration by the coalition. Neighborhood leaders or anyone in
the community with neighborhoods related issues who wants to educate or get support from neighborhood organizations is invited to attend and present issues and ideas. These meetings will
continue to rotate through different parts of the community to encourage involvement. Please attend if you can. Please read the guidelines and links below for background.
Advocacy Issues
Neighborhood groups, individuals and organizations concerned with neighborhoods issues are urged to write short proposals of neighborhoods issues they want
brought to the attention of citizens and neighborhoods groups for community organization or government action .
Please send email copies of these proposals to the louisville_neighborhoods listserve at louneigh@louisvilleneighborhoods.org
If you are not registered for the listserve, please go through the sign up process and then post your email proposal. Please put "Advocacy Issue: (and the
title of your issue)" in the header of the email and the top of the proposal. Please also bring a written copy of your proposal to the Advocacy Committee meeting if you attend, with several
copies so members can read it there.
You can see an example of an issue proposal you can use as a model by clicking here.
If you wish to learn more about the Advocacy Committee process or wish to propose presenting issues in other ways, please contact John Baker at Johnbaker@bellsouth.net.
If you have difficulties posting your email proposal to the louneigh@louisvilleneighborhoods.com
listserve, please send a copy instead as well to David Silverman at communicas@communicas.com along with a description of the problem you are having. We
will post it for you if need be and try to address any posting problems you have.
Click here to go to Calendar for Details
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The public hearing described below was very well attended and the reverberations are still being felt!
Take a look at some of the testimony and ongoing updates at CART ( http://cartkyin.org
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TheSierra
Club and CART ( Coalition for the Advancement of Regional Transportation, http://cartkyin.org ) Speak Out at A
Public Hearing on KIPDA --the Kentuckiana Regional Planning and Development Agency
At the TARC
Boardroom at 1000 W. Broadway
From Doug Lowry, regarding the announcements below:
Ask yourself: As a neighborhood, are you getting any communication from KIPDA regarding this planning and if spending on car-owners only transportation planning
is meeting the needs and interests of your neighborhood's residents. Car owner's transportation is the primary focus of KIPDA's current funding. KIPDA's public transportation meetings (which should be
open and accessible to the public) are typically held ONLY at their east end location on Blakenbaker Lane, making it difficult at best for the
non-car-owning public to attend meetings.
As an advocate for older adults, I would like to point out the increasing threat to functional independence of older adults in our community. Most of us will
live to be older adults so reflect carefully on how germane this topic might be for you in the future. Planning for the future of our neighborhoods means planning to meet the needs of those will
likely live there. Older adults need the ability to get around the community to meet their own needs. Although some older adults give up driving because of vision or physical decline, many others can
no longer afford to own or drive a car. The affordability issue is also a significant one for the working poor who spend a disproportionate share of household income simply getting to and from work.
Our community is growing proportionately older, and we need to become a
community that is attractive for older adults to live in successfully. We
need to help the shrinking numbers of worker supporting them build wealth
and grow our local economy.
How livable is your neighborhood for an older adult or other citizen who can't drive?
The Sierra Club and CART Want You to Speak Out at A
Public Hearing (Feb 5th) on KIPDA --the Kentuckiana
Regional Planning and Development Agency
( http://www.kipda.org)
Local Transportation Spending
by L. Barras
Please feel free to forward this and we apologize in
advance for any cross postings.
Speakers needed for a public hearing on local
transportation spending. This hearing will take place
at at the TARC Boardroom at 1000 W. Broadway, before the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit
Administration on how KIPDA is doing as a
transportation planning and decision making agency for
our region.
Do I have to be an "expert" to speak? No, and you
don't even need to talk about a specific project.
The federal agencies need to hear about how well
citizens feel they get adequate information about
transportation planning and spending; whether they
agree with the priorities reflected
in our regional spending history; and the like.
Do the Sierra Club and CART have specific concerns?
Yes, one concern is the lack of voting power on a key
KIPDA committee proportional to population. The
Transportation Policy Committee consists of
about 19 city and county governments in the 5-county
region
For more info, contact:
Joan Lindop, Chair
Greater Louisville Group of the Sierra Club
esp@iglou.com; 228-0016
Click here to go to Calendar for Details
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Follow the Money?
There has NEVER been an official meeting of the Finance Committee, despite the ad hoc meeting described below. A summary note of the ad hoc finance meeting is available in the Finance section of the louisvilleneighborhoods.org website
Anyone with any information regarding what is actually happening with this is urged to contact us.
A first ad hoc meeting of the LCON Finance Committee
has been requested to follow the Advocacy meeting, to begin approximately 7:00 PM at 9/9/02 at the Clifton Center, 2117 Payne Streets, corner of Clifton
and Payne.
Click here to go to Calendar for Details
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Next Steps for Louisville Neighborhoods
If you were going to organize a democratic, regional coalition of neighborhoods, how would you go about it?
Here's how one approach began:
The Coalition of Neighborhoods was organized as a committee of the whole with four working groups:
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Governance
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Advocacy
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Outreach
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Communications
Click here to go to Next Steps for a brief description of the work performed in each area when the committee of the
whole was functioning, as of the Summer and early Fall of 2002.
Click here to join the discussion. on Next Steps for Louisville
Neighborhoods in the current period of issues development and organizing new alternative structures.
Click below to visit individual Working Group pages:
Governance and Democracy Pages
Advocacy and Issues Pages
Outreach Pages
Community Communications Pages
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Community Conversations on the Air:
Revitalizing Louisville Neighborhoods
Bi-Monthly Forum and Radio Show taping
This Community Forum was the locus of a broad participatory community dialogue process in Louisville for several years, bringing together sustainable
neighborhoods and communities leaders for thoughtful conversation wedded to broadcast and internet technology to spark many larger circles of dialogue here. Click here to learn more about neighborly conversations, world cafes, discussion circles and the Renew Louisville process.
Please Note: The Renew Radio Series was on hiatus for the summer of 2002 and had hoped to return in the fall. Unfortunately, the decline of the
neighborhoods coalition effort in the Fall of 2002 here curtailed this and many other activities. The good news is that the project is being revived as part of the Community Communications
Project. Your input and suggestions welcome. Thanks.
This Forum is part of the Renew Louisville Series. Click here for more detailed information on the series and it's sponsors.
These events were re-broadcast on
WFPL FM 89.3 as part of the
Louisville Forums Series (1PM and 9PM Mondays).
Click here for broadcast schedule information.
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Conversation Cafes and Neighborhoods Dialogue Forums
The current big news about Louisville Community Dialogues is the growing success of Conversation Cafes, capped off with the
nightly Conversation Week effort for January, 2003.
Interested in a cafe or pot luck where you can listen and talk with your neighbors in a friendly atmosphere about what matters to you? Where you can dream
up solutions, collaborate or ask better questions together - and have fun while you do it? So are we! Click here to
find out more about Louisville World Cafes and Neighborhood Circles.
What large scale Forums, dialogues or public speakers opportunities matter to you? Neighborhood led Metro government reorganization? Candidate
forums? Growing healthy kids who feel loved and safe in their neighborhoods? Families with sustainable, healthy livelihoods, eating local food in a healthy environment? Neighborhood based
economic development planning? What would you suggest?
Well, planning for the Neighborhoods Forums is underway: Click here to find out more.
Already, one community group has started a Conversation Cafe in Louisville:
Regular Conversation Cafes meet at Heine Brothers' Coffee at 119 Chenoweth Lane in St. Matthews every
Wednesday, from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Recent forum topics included "Who's Running Louisville?" and "Sustainable Development, Neighborhoods, and The Local
Louisville Economy".
"Example of a Louisville Conversation Cafe :(From John Hartmann) The Conversation Cafe met on Wednesday, and had good conversations on
the subject: "The Environmental Crisis and What We Can Do About It!" We had 14 people present, our largest turnout so far! Several folks stayed on after the discussion to chat and
continue the discussion. Action was discussed on setting up a bulletin board for folks to continue the discussion on line. Luckily we have Dannie Gregoire in the Cafe to help with that. Dannie
works for Iglou. Cynthia Cooke was the host of one table and John Hartmann was the host at the other."
"The Conversation Cafe is community growth concept. A better informed community is essential for a better democracy. Being aware of a diversity of
viewpoints expands our knowledge of our community and world. Activism is not the goal of the CCs but if folks want to take action on issues, that is a natural outgrowth from the Cafe.
The people who come to the Cafe decide upon the topic for the next gathering. One hope we have for the Cafe aside from enriching conversation is that
folks will start Cafes all over the city, at their religious/spiritual organization, civic clubs, neighborhood organizations, campuses... and they can meet at restaurants, coffee shops,
libraries, homes, parks, etc. Be sure you have a shelter to continue the discussion in case of inclement weather. If you would like to host a Cafe please call/email John Hartmann and/or
refer to the website http://adenainstitute.org/conversations
To learn about Conversation Cafes check out the web site at http://adenainstitute.org/conversations."
The Community Communications Working Group is in direct dialogue with the founders of the Conversation Cafes work in Seattle and in Europe, who are also deeply
involved in a range of community and organizational sustainable development processes well suited to Neighborhoods Conversations and Community Visionwork. We urge members to consider
participating in the Conversation Cafes to gain experience and in organizing the Neighborhood Dialogues. For more information, Contact David Silverman at 336 9440 or
louisville_neighborhoods@yahoo.com.
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