At 20:34 27/02/97 -0500, you wrote:

Hi Theresa,

Glad to see you're out/in there. I haven't seen you for a while.  Good luck
with the struggles you so aptly describe.  Bureaucrats with community
experience (there are several, but the hierarchical structure of the system
keeps separating experience from fiscal and bureaucratic "reality"),
academics with their hearts in community and community activists need to
network as much as we can to create the realities that work as the big
social structures begin to crumble.

Let's keep in touch.

David Burman

>This posting is intended to speak to some of the comments Sam made in a
>posting of Feb 15.  In my paid work, I'm one of the senior management people
>in the establishment who "don't get it" thats referred to in that posting.
>Actually, I would more accurately describe myself as "really trying to get
>it - amid chaos, confusion and crisis".
>
>In my earlier days (before I was a faceless and empty hearted bureaucrat) I
>was intimately involved in an array of community empowering projects - some
>from my paid work and some as a volunteer.

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