In keeping with our ongoing discussion of health promotion and the
internet, and more specifically issues of grassroots empowerment and
community organizing, I thought I would share with you the following
posting from the COMM-ORG internet discussion group:

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Date:    Mon, 6 May 1996 11:15:07 CDT
From:    Wendy Plotkin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: WWW: TenantNet (On-Line Historical & Contemporary Information)

Posted by Wendy Plotkin <[log in to unmask]>

TenantNet is an on-line tenant information and advocacy service in New
York, offering a remarkable collection of historical and contemporary
information on housing reform, rent control and rent regulations.  Its
WWW site is "http://tenant.net" for Netscape users.  Non-Netscape users
should aim at "http://tenant.net/noscape.html".  Extremely valuable, to
my mind, is the classic historical literature TenantNet has made
available, including turn-of-the-century journalist Jacob Riis's 1890
HOW THE OTHER HALF LIVES (including photographs) and documents from the
course "An Urban Experience: New York City's Lower East Side,
1880-1920," from H-Urban Editorial Board member/Professor William
Crozier's "Lower Manhattan Project."

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I would also highly recommend Ed Schwartz's NET ACTIVISM: HOW CITIZENS USE
THE INTERNET (1996, O'Reilly Press, Sebastpol, CA).


blake poland
univ. of toronto
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