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- Bombing Hospitals: 22 People Killed by US Airstrike on Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2015 A group of activists living in Baghdad would regularly go to city sites and string large vinyl banners between the trees outside these buildings which read: "To Bomb This Site Would Be A War Crime." We encouraged people in U.S. cities to do the same.
- Bringing Books and Seeking Peace in Colombia
Bringing Peace to a Beleaguered Country Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2014 A teacher, two donkeys, and a big pile of books are working to enrich the lives of the children in a small community in Colombia.
- Building the Ark - small scale farming in Poland for a green future
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2015 Poland is the front line for Europe's small scale family farming, under assault from the EU regulations, corporate agribusiness, and a hostile government. A popular campaign is fighting back from its base deep in the Polish countryside, a small organic farm that's developing new green technologies to enhance the sustainability of small farms everywhere.
- The Cat Lovers Against the Bomb 1989 Wall Calendar
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 1989 Courageous cats, cuddly kitties, and far-sighted felines cajole and console their war-resisting humans through another year of peace activism. Cat "faces of the moon" help you track the lunar cycles. Annotations remind you of important dates in the illustrious history of cats -- as well as notable events in human anti-nuclear, feminist, and human rights struggles. And outrageous quotations from "friends of felines" keep you chuckling. Cat Lovers Against the Bomb will help you frisk through your year, with peacemaking on your daily agenda.
- Class Struggle
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 1978 A board game created by Bertell Ollman.
- Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2014 Book examining efforts to achieve economic development by African Americans.
- Combined Universities Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: Student Union for Peace Action: New Left Committee fonds
Resource Type: Unclassified Ahrceion descriptions of Fonds located in William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections, McMaster University Library.
- Community Profit
Community-Based Economic Development in Canada Resource Type: Unclassified Pell and Wismer look at seven community owned and controlled businesses that reinvest their profits back into their local communities. Resource for community groups, co-ops, credit unions, social organizations, and individuals interested in new approaches to economic development.
- Confession to Tsar Nicholas I
Resource Type: Unclassified An excerpt from the 'confession' Mikhail Bakunin wrote in prison to explain his revolutionary goals and his ideas about how to organize a revolution. He writes: "I wanted to transform all Bohemia into a revolutionary camp, to create a force there capable not only of defending the revolution within the country, but also of taking the offensive outside Bohemia....
All clubs, newspapers, and all manifestations of an anarchy of mere talk were to be abolished, all submitted to one dictatorial power; the young people and all able-bodied men divided into categories according to their character, ability, and inclination were to be sent throughout the country to provide a provisional revolutionary and military organization. The secret society directing the revolution was to consist of three groups, independent of and unknown to each other: one for the townspeople, another for the youth, and a third for the peasants.
Each of these societies was to adapt its action to the social character of the locality to which it was assigned. Each was to be organized on strict hierarchical lines, and under absolute discipline, These three societies were to be directed by a secret central committee composed of three or, at the most, five persons. In case the revolution was successful, the secret societies were not to be liquidated; on the contrary, they were to be strengthened and expanded, to take their place in the ranks of the revolutionary hierarchy."
- Connexions Calendar Expired Events 2013
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2013
- CUT - Social Action Training - Atlantic Provinces
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 1981
- The Death of a Reporter
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2014 Serena Shim, who leaves behind a family that includes her two young children, found herself chasing the truth in a highly charged situation.
- Disability and History
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2010 Joan Hume became active in disability organisations in the late 1970s and in the burgeoning disability rights movement, edited and wrote for the magazine Quad Wrangle for several years.
- Ecological Agriculture in Manitoba: A Turning Point?
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 1983
- Exhausted Noam Chomsky Just Going To Try And Enjoy The Day For Once
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2010 Noam Chomsky takes a day off.
- Fatal Extraction
Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2015 Australian-listed mining companies are linked to hundreds of deaths and alleged injustices which wouldnt be tolerated in better-regulated nations. The stories are from people across Africa, and are rarely heard outside their communities.
- Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2015 A pattern of links between mining activities and deaths, disfigurement, environmental destruction and displacement suggests a troubling track record for Australian companies seeking wealth from Africa's minerals.
- For Conscience Sake
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 1988
- Former Drone Operators Say They Were "Horrified" By Cruelty of Assassination Program
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2015 U.S. drone operators are inflicting heavy civilian casualties and have developed an institutional culture callous to the death of children and other innocents, four former operators said at a press briefing in New York.
- Gig Economy or Odd Jobs: What May Seem Trendy to Privileged City Dwellers and Suburbanites is as Old as Poverty
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2017 The rise of precarious employment is not a stimulus to "creativity" but a long-established way of explloiting the poor.
- Martin and Jessie Glaberman Collection
Papers, 1939-2001 Resource Type: Unclassified The papers of the Marxist radicals Martin Glaberman and Jessie Glaberman, now housed at Wayne State University.
- Globalizing Gaza
 How Israel Undermines International Law Through "Lawfare" Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2014 At the same time as it engages in repeated massive military assaults on a primarily civilian popuation in Gaza, Israel is also engaged in an ongoing assault on international humanitarian law by a highly coordinated team of Israeli lawyers, military officers, PR people and politicians. It is an effort not only to get Israel off the hook for massive violations of human rights and international law, but to help other governments overcome similar constraints when they embark as well on asymmetrical warfare, counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism against peoples resisting domination. It is a campaign that Israel calls lawfare and had better be taken seriously by us all. ...
Israels strategy of lawfare rests on repeating illegal acts while continuing to justify them with new military ethics. If you do something for long enough, says Colonel (res.) Daniel Reisner, former head of the IDFs Legal Department, the world will accept it. The whole of international law is now based on the notion that an act that is forbidden today becomes permissible if executed by enough countries
. International law progresses through violations. We invented the targeted assassinations thesis [that extra-judicial killings are permitted when it is necessary to stop a certain operation against the citizens of Israel and when the role played by the target is crucial to the operation] and we had to push it. Eight years later it is in the center of the bounds of legality. The more often Western states apply principles that originated in Israel to their own non-traditional conflicts in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, says Kasher, then the greater the chance these principles have of becoming a valuable part of international law.
- GUANACO
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 1986
- The H-Block Struggle - Book Review
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2013 Book review of "Smashing H Block: The Rise and Fall of the Popular Campaign Against Criminalization, 1976-1982" by F. Stuart Ross.
- H.K. Yuen Social Movement Archive
Resource Type: Unclassified The H.K. Yuen collection is a unique archive of primary materials on social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The collection includes materials on a wide range of movements internationally, with a focus on Berkeley, Oakland, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The collection features multimedia primary documents from the Free Speech Movement, the Third World College mobilizations, the United Farm Workers, the student strike at San Francisco State University, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, the International Hotel Mobilizations, Stop the Draft Week, the Womens Movement, and many more. The collection contains a wide range of media including organization flyers, underground newspapers, photos, posters, and film. But the most extensive and unique aspect of the collection is more than 30,000 hours of audio content. Utilizing some of the earliest reel-to-reel recording technology publicly available, H.K. Yuen documented countless rallies, protests, debates, and meetings. In addition to personal recordings, he also recorded relevant shows off of the Pacifica network and community radio, including documentaries, interviews, and live broadcasts from events for 20 years without missing a single day. Most of this content is unique and not preserved elsewhere.
- Immigration and Racial Bias
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2013 The immigrant debate, once again at the center of U.S. politics, was accelerated by the success of president Obama winning more than 70% of the Latino and Asian vote in the 2012 elections. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romneys call for all 11 million undocumented immigrants to "self deport" was a significant reason for his defeat. Latinos are the largest ethnic minority in the country -- and growing rapidly -- and more and more of them vote.
- Inshore/Offshore - The Struggle for Survival in the Atlantic Fishery
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 1981 The question of whether the inshore fishermen or the offshore trawlers are going to benefit most from the riches of the Atlantic fishery is an old problem.
- An Introduction to Marxist Political Economy
Resource Type: Unclassified This is a response to what the author sees as a gap in modern Marxist literature, especially in the Third World. The nature of exploitation and profit, capitalist development and crises, the periphery's dependent monetary system, imperialism, multi-nationals, underdevelopment, the state, the need for socialist revolution, and the rise of the bourgeoisie in underdeveloped countries are all explained in detail.
- Karimlan
A Simulation Game on Sustainable Development Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 1990
- Labor's Bitter Defeat in Detroit, Book Review
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2013 Review of The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor by Chris Rhomberg.
- Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement (Part One)
Police Terror and Black Oppression Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2015 Police reform is a hoax and a hustle. Federal investigations go nowhere and the Democrats are simply the soft cops of the capitalist system. There is no road to black liberation and the liberation of all working people short of workers revolution.
- Luxembourg Puts Journalist and Whistleblowers On Trial for Ruining Its "Magical Fairyland" of Tax Avoidance
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2016 Luxembourg istrying to throw two French whistleblowers and a journalist in prison for their role in the "LuxLeaks" exposé that revealed the tiny countrys outsized role in enabling corporate tax avoidance.
- The Myth of Peaceful Protest
The Patronizing Intransigence of Power Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2015 Johnson discusses how peaceful protest is depicted as the way to speak out, and any kind of disorder or defiance of authority is presented not only unacceptable, but unnecessary.
- No Way To Live
Poor Women Speak Out Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 1988
- Obama: Human Rights Disaster
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2013 The presidency of Barack Obama has continued, consolidated and institutionalized the human rights catastrophe of its predecessor. It's frankly impossible to look at the string of atrocities without becoming enraged and it's also critical to understand why they're happening.
- Obama Launches an Illegal War in Syria
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2014 President Obamas decision to bomb Syria stands in stark violation of international law, the UN Charter, and the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.
- Pacifica Radio Archives
Resource Type: Unclassified Chronicling the political, cultural and artistic movements of the second half of the 20th century, Pacifica radio programs include documentaries, performances, discussions, debates, drama, poetry readings, commentaries and radio arts. The Pacifica Radio Archives appraise, collect, organize, describe, and preserve the creative work generated by or produced in association with Pacifica Radio, and we make it available for research and reference use.
- Proof of concept: An insurgent left can achieve electoral success - even in Canada
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2017 The article looks at Vancouver's current political climate on the municipal level. Jean Swanson's recent support placed her in second place in a civic election, and demonstrates the city's shift to the centre - left.
- Rebellion in India's Heartland - Book Review
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2013 Review of the "Days and Nights in the Heartland of Rebellion" by Gautam Navlakha.
- Rebranding Fascism: National-Anarchists
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2008 On the organizational and intellectual history of national anarchism.
- The Refugee Experience - Perspectives On Refugee Issues
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 1982 This multi-media kit deals with refugee issues in a manner comprehensible to 9-14 year olds.
- Remembering Rosalyn Baxandall
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2015 Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall was a pioneering figure of socialist feminism in the United States.
- Retired GM worker speaks on three years of the Flint water crisis
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2017 The poisoning of the city of Flint continues three long years after the decision was made by politicians and financial speculators to switch city residents to Flint River water. As the world now knows, the corrosive Flint River water leached lead from the antiquated piping system into the homes of residents. Lead is a deadly neurotoxin. Because next to nothing has yet been done to fix the citys infrastructure, even after the switch back to Detroit water, there is no safe water supply for thousands of residents.
- Ruthless Power and Deleterious Politics
From DDT to Roundup Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2015 The mix of power and politics in the proliferation of pesticides from DDT to Roundup.
- Six Media Companies Control 90% of What We Read, Watch and Listen to
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2012
- The Struggle for a Different World
The 1971 Gastown Riot in Vancouver Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2012 Published in Debating: Canada and Sixties, edited by Lara Cambell et al. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, 2012
- "Superman Is Not Coming": Erin Brockovich on the Future of Water
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2017 Come take a ride on America's toxic water slide: First stop: Flint, Michigan, where two years later, people are still contending with lead-laced water, which was finally detected by the EPA in February 2015 with the help of resident Lee Anne Walters. Next stop: California, where hundreds of wells have been contaminated with 1,2,3-TCP, a Big Oil-manufactured chemical present in pesticides.
- SYC Defends Marxism at Finkelstein Talk
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2015
- The Syrianisation of Turkey
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2015 On 10 October 2015 hundreds of thousands people marching in the streets of Ankara in solidarity with Kurdish people and to stop the civil war were struck with two bombs, which exploded and killed a hundred people and hundreds wounded. In this article the author questions Erdogan's policies over Syria such as finding an excuse to send the Turkish military into Syria, setting up home-grown Islamist militia forces to keep Erdogan in power, to help warring Sunni militia groups in Syria always bear a risk of Syrianisation of Turkey.
- Treating Mental Health Patients as Criminals
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2017 The criminalisation of the mentally ill is one of the cruellest and most easily avoidable tragedies of our era.
- Turning Perpetrators into Healers
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2017 Innocent people -- or "innocently guilty" people, like the junior senator from Minnesota -- often get unfairly hung out to dry. Should he have to resign? Who among us (Roy? Donald?) hasn't committed worse transgressions? And shouldn't a person's positive achievements be factored into the severity of his punishment, at least when no permanent damage has occurred?
- Un Canadien errant
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 1842 A Canadian folk song, lyrics written in 1842, about rebels who were deported, or forced to flee, after the rebellion of 1837-8 in Lower Canada. The song was also adopted by the descendants of Acadians who had been deported from Acadia in 1755-62, changed to 'Un Acadien errant.'
- Understand the Israeli Palestinian Apartheid In 11 Images
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2014 All the graphics are from the site Visualizing Palestine, a site dedicated to creating informative and impactful graphics about the troubled region.
- US: Offensive Cyber-Warfare is Illegal... Unless We Do It
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2013 The US government declares that cyberwarfare directed against the US would be an act of war -- and, oh, by the way, that it is agressively engaged in cyberwarfare against foreign countries.
- Venezuala in the Media: Double Standards and First Impressions
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2017 This article looks into the inconsistent ways that Venzuala has been portrayed in the media, and the effect of sensationalizing the recent crisis. It concludes that those who support the Venezuelan poor, workings classes must seek and spread honest information outside of the mainstream narrative.
- Vladimir Putin Is the Only Leader the West Has
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2016 A Reuters news report under the names of presstitutes Robin Emmott and Sabine Siebold shows how devoid the West is of honest, intelligent and responsible journalists and government officials.
- What We Don't Know Will Hurt Us: Ignorance In The Information Age
Canada Has Changed Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 2015 The war on knowledge is a war on the health of Canadians. We need a government that will embrace the information age and use evidence to improve our lives. We need a government that has the health of Canadians as its greatest priority. Ten years in, its clear that that government is not Stephen Harpers.
- The Whistleblower's Tale
How Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA and Lost Everything Resource Type: Unclassified A CIA officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for whistleblowing and filing lawsuits of racial discrimination against the CIA. This is a story of a man who was beaten down and stood back up just to be beaten down again.
- You Need Imagination in the Hole
Resource Type: Unclassified First Published: 1969 An edited transcript of Clay Borris's interview with 18-year-old Charlie Macdougal on his experiences growing up in prison.
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