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• An alternative media list
  A selective list of English-language alternative media.
• Blocking Progress
  Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
  
• Common Organizing Mistakes
  Organizing is difficult and every organizer makes mistakes. Here are some of the most common ones, and how to avoid them.
• Consensus decision-making
  Article about the group decision making process known as consensus decision-making.
• Grassroots media relations
  A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
• New Tactics in Human Rights
  Featuring innovative tactics that may more effectively advance human rights and end persistent human rights problems. Many innovations have been valuable, yet are not well known outside their regions. The New Tactics in Human Rights project promotes the use and sharing of as wide a range of tactics as possible.
• Nothing Is Ever Won Without Organizing
  All organizing begins with the telling of a story. When we listen carefully to somebody’s story, we learn what motivates him, what she is passionate about. Listening is the first skill and duty of a community organizer. Before we can get somebody to do something, we have to learn what he and she want, which is usually different than what we presumed they wanted.
• Reimagining Society
  An online collection of visions, proposals and strategies for social transformation.
• Socialism.ca
  A gateway to resources about socialism, socialist history, and socialist ideas, compiled by Connexions.
• The Two Souls of Socialism
  It was Marx who finally brought the two ideas of socialism and democracy together, because he developed a theory which made the synthesis possible for the first time. The heart of the theory is this proposition: that there is a social majority which has the interest and motivation to change the system, and that the aim of socialism can be the education and mobilization of this mass-majority. This is the exploited class, the working class, from which comes the eventual motive-force of revolution. Hence, a socialism-from-below is possible, on the basis of a theory that sees the revolutionary potentialities in the broad masses, even if they seem backward at a given time and place. Marxism came into being in self-conscious struggle against the advocates of the Educational Dictatorship, the Savior-Dictators, the revolutionary elitists, the communist authoritarians, as well as the philanthropic dogooders and bourgeois liberals.
• The Tyranny of Structurelessness
  Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a "structureless" group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved.

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• Marxism.ca
  A gateway to resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions.
• Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
  The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
• Outrageous Campaigners Show Size Isn't Everything
  OutRage! therefore consciously tries to make its protests informative and amusing. It projects it's political message with wit, style, humour and theatricality. Indeed, a typical OutRage! action could be described as "radical theatre of the streets".
• Postering Revolution
  On the role of postering in the activist agenda.
• Putting Technology to Work for Palestine Activism
  
• Quote Banners - Ulli Diemer
  
• Toward a New Beginning - On Another Road
  To Marx, any organization was a sect if it set up any special set of view (including Marx's views) as its organizational boundary; if it made this special set of views the determinant of its organizational form.
  Neither Marx nor Engels ever formed or wanted to form a Marxist group of any kind - that is, a membership group based on an exclusively Marxist program. All of their organizational activity was pointed along a different road.
  
• Trying to change the world?
  Getting your story across is an uphill battle when you’re challenging the status quo.
  SOURCES can help you get your message out.
• World Comics
  Almost any issue, idea or fact can be expressed in a comic. This kind of visual storytelling is flexible, attention-grabbing and relatively inexpensive. World Comics promotes the use of local comics as a means for social change.
  On our pages you can check out Grassroot comics - a remarkable new NGO communication tool. You can also download or print out detailed instructions on how to make these comics. New! A book, "GRASSROOTS COMICS - a development communication tool", has been published. If you plan to make a larger information campaign with comics you can look at samples and solutions from a great variety of campaign comics. You can also find out what kind of workshops and exhibitions World Comics has arranged. Have a look at our videos, picture galleries and presentations (including Powerpoints).
• Would Saul Alinsky Break His Own Rules?
  In the wake of Occupy, some community organizers are interested in questioning the old divide between "movements" and "organizations" — and in harnessing the power of both. On the life and evolving legacy of the late Saul Alinsky, founding father of modern community organizing in the United States.

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Connexions Library	Catalogue of more than 13,000 books, articles, films, periodicals, websites and other resources. Indexed by Author, Title, Format, Subject, Dewey number, Library of Congress classification, Year of Publication.
Connexions Directory	Associations and NGOs dealing with social and environmental issues — A-Z Index or Subject Index. For experts and media spokespersons also see the Sources directory and the comprehensive Sources Subject Index.
Links	Selected Internet resources featuring information about alternatives.
Calendar	Events from across Canada. Also see: Sources Calendar and news releases.
Publicity and Media	Resources, publications and articles to help you get publicity and raise awareness. Plus Media Names & Numbers Canadian media directory, the Parliamentary Names & Numbers Canadian government directory, and mailing lists.
Donations	Connexions welcomes your support. Your donations make our work possible. Volunteers always welcome.
Mission	Connexions exists to support individuals and groups working for freedom and social justice. We work to maintain and make available a record of the theory and practice of people struggling against oppression and for social change. We believe that the more we know about the struggles, victories, and defeats of the past, and about those who took part in them, the better equipped we will be to bring a new world into being. Connexions maintains a physical archive of books and documents, and is engaged in an ongoing project to build and expand an indexed digital archive of documents. We try to feature a wide variety of resources reflecting a diversity of viewpoints and approaches to social change within our overall mandate of support for democracy, civil liberties, freedom of expression, universal human rights, secularism, equality, economic justice, environmental responsibility, and the creation and preservation of community. We are internationalist in our orientation, but as a Canadian-based project we feature an especially extensive collection of Canadian documents and profiles of Canadian activist organizations.

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