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- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 27, 2019
What Next?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2019
Millions of us, in many different countries, came out in late September to demand action on the climate crisis. Around the world, in diverse ways, we are working to keep up the pressure. Time is short, and the tasks are huge. In the midst of our activism and organizing, we need to keep asking ourselves some important questions: What are our goals? And what should we do to reach our goals?
- Factional provocation, middle-class hysteria, and the collapse of the International Socialist Organization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
The International Socialist Organization is collapsing just over a month after its national convention, amidst factionally instigated denunciations of sexual assault and cover-up.
- Black Liberation Struggle: The Key to American Socialist Revolution
Part Two
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2019
Everybody is familiar with Marx's famous saying, in Capital, Vol. 1 (1867), that "labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded." This was more than a moral appeal against slavery. It was a statement of fact: Marx recognized that so long as half the country was dominated by slavery, workers would never be able to fight for even basic trade-union rights. The Civil War paved the way for the growth of American capitalism and the labor movement.
- Holocaust to Resistance
My journey
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
A memoir by Suzanne Berliner Weiss, a holocaust survivor born in France, who came to North America and was active in radical causes in the United States and Canada.
- Permanent Record
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
- Radical Ambition
The New Left in Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
The story of Toronto's New Left from its initial stirrings in the late 1950s to its 'long, ambiguous goodbye in the early 1980s.
- Resistance Matters
The Radical Vision of an Antipsychiatry Activist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2019
Don Weitz writes "Antipsychiatry organizing saved my life once, and has always given it meaning. This book is an invitation to join me and other psychiatric survivors (and our allies) in exposing psychiatry’s coercive, life-destroying practices and utter lack of scientific validity; and creating and promoting life-affirming alternatives."
- Miriam Garfinkle 1954 - 2018
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.
- Labor's Last Stand
Unions must either demand a place at the table or be part of the meal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The slow degradation of workers' rights through the use of the courts has led to a weakening of negotiated power of unions and the retreat of organized labour.
- A Template for Hate
Polarized politics and mainstream intolerance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The rise of Hindu nationalist politics has led to communal violence, particularly around the status of cows, as they are considered sacred by Hindus. Inter-communal violence has increased with killings perpetuated by vigilantes and the mainstreaming of intolerance.
- Wellness Cures
Can hospitals learn to better treat Deaf patients?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The Deaf regularly move through the medical system without agency or dignity -- not because they cannot hear but because they are not given the opportunity to communicate. The onus for change is put on the Deaf themselves, often in terms of changing their own bodies to accommodate the hearing majority. What if, instead, the Deaf were consulted about what changes they would like, or how they would like for them to happen? What if they were invited to take part in shaping the next generation of doctors?
- Massacres and Morality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
What can one say about the morality of Israeli soldiers who shoot unarmed protestors, and then are caught on camera cheering their kills? And how do we judge the civilian population of Israel, many of whom openly support and cheer their soldiers as they go about their work of killing Palestinians? And what can we say about the political leaders of other countries, Canada say, who sit down and smile and make deals with officials of the Israeli government at the very moment that the killing is going on?
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018
Massacres and Morality
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad. The issue also questions the morality of those who either support, or keep silent about, the violence of the oppressor.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
Their Interent or Ours?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
- Government Mass Murder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
"This is not an assault." Twenty-five years ago, that was the lie blaring over government loudspeakers as the FBI and the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) carried out its plan to obliterate the Branch Davidians, an integrated group that formed as a breakaway from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Orchestrated and overseen at the highest levels of the Clinton administration, the 19 April 1993 assault outside Waco, Texas, engulfed the Branch Davidians’ Mount Carmel commune in an inferno that killed over 80 people, including some two dozen children.
- Liberation of Dalits: Key to Indian Workers Revolution
Review of Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Ants Among Elephants is both a family memoir and a political history.
- Misleading figures on greenhouse gas emissions
Letter to the editor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A letter to the editor from an oil industry apologist (April 12) tries to excuse the Alberta oilsands’ growing carbon emissions with the argument that Canada accounts for “just” 1.6 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Even if that figure were accurate, it would mean that Canada is producing emissions which are more than three times as large as its proportion of the world’s population.
- Guidelines for police in dealing with mentally ill people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
An investigative report report by the CBC shows that more than 460 people in Canada have "died in encounters with police" since the year 2000.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
- As the World Burns
Combustion Engines; There Will Always Be Fires
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A two essay report that examines the causes and costs of large wildfires. The first essay titled "Combustion Engines" takes a look at a 'mega-fire' that raged across Montana in 2017, placing blame on global warmimg, mismanagement by authorities, and the building of houses in high rish areas. The second essay, "There Will Always Be Fires", describes the conditions that led to huge blazes in Portugal which are largely attributed to the introduction of of the highly flammable eucalyptus.
- Before the Deluge
How Washington sealed Puerto Rico's fate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at the problems facing Puerto Rico prior to Hurricane Maria, which was already a plundered and mis-managed society with crumbling infrastructure long before the hurricane struck.
- The Bodies in The Forest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
An excerpt from Gessen's book "Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia", published by Columbia Global Reports. The book examines Stalin's extensive network of labour camps that held and killed millions of prisoners in 1930s to the 1950s.
- Bypassing Dystopia
Hope-Filled Challenges to Corporate Rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Joyce Nelson explores global examples of active and creative resistance to the iron grip of corporatism on our economies and imaginations.
- Capitalism: A Crime Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
Harry Glasbeek explains how liberal law strives to reconcile capitalism with liberalism, while giving corporate capitalism privileged treatment under the law.
- Cold as Ice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
An excerpt from a letter written in 1897 to the editor of the British newspaper the 'Daily Chronicle'. The letter is included in "The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde", published by Harvard University Press. The letter is an appeal and commentary on the harsh and cruel treatment of children being held in English prisons.
- Cursed Fields
What the tundra has in store for Russia's reindeer herders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Noah Sneider visits the Yamal Peninsula in Russia where an outbreak of anthrax is killing herds of reindeer and engdangering the lives of the local people. Rising temperatures and a particularly hot summer have led scientists to conclude that climate change is the most credible explanation for its deadly return.
- The Death of a Once Great City
The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Kevin Baker takes a close look at the changes to his home city of New York over the past forty years. He notes that while some of the more undesirable aspects of New York in the 1970's have improved, such as crime, dirt, garbage- the new and more gentrified city masks significant problems, the most notable being a growing housing crisis.
- Drinking Poblems
A Kansas town confronts a tap-water crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at the health crisis in Pretty Prairie, Kansas, where Nitrate from farms has polluted the water supply for three decades. Elizabeth Royte takes a look at the town's history and social climate in order to understand why the problem was left for so long.
- Empty Suits
Defamation law and the price of dissent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at lawsuits filed by companies that are intended to censor, intimidate, and silence dissenters by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense- known as SLAPP or strategic lawsuits against public participation.
- The End of Eden
Climate change comes to the end of civilization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at the devastating environmental outlook in Iraq, where climate change has led to rising temperatures and a dramatic drop in precipitation. Further exacerbating the environmental problems are decades of mismanagement, war, and regional politics.
- A Flag for Trump's America
The power of strength
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at the Blue Lives Matter slogan and flag, which became a symbol for the U.S. police counter-movement advocating that those who are prosecuted and convicted of killing law enforcement officers should be sentenced under hate crime statutes. It was started in response to Black Lives Matter.
- How to Start a Nuclear War
The increasingly direct road to ruin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A chilling look at the security measures and processes behind the U.S. nuclear weapons system. The article examines how safeguards and procedures have evolved, including more recent efforts to curb the President's absolute authority to push the button.
- If These Walls Could Talk
The strange history of our futile border fortifications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
From ancient times to the present day, the article takes a look at the reasoning behind physical barriers that society's construct to divide nations, and the historical fact that they usually fail.
- Illiberal Values
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Walter Kirn reflects on the Liberalism of his youth and how the principles that attracted him in the 1970's have changed, and are particularly eroded in the era of Trump.
- Indigenous Sovereignty & Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
- Looking for Calley
How a young journalist untangled the riddle of My Lai
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Seymour M. Hersh looks back at the 1969 My Lai Massacre where hundreds of unarmed civilians were massacred by U.S. Army soldiers. As a young freelance journalist in Vietnam Hersh gained recognition for exposing the atrocity and its cover-up, and ultimately helped turn public opinion against the war.
- The Minds of Others
The art of persuasion in the age of Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
In a divided America, seven writers explore the ways that persuasion operates in our lives- from the intimate to the far-reaching, and ultimately how we can pursuade others to see things the way we do.
- Mobbed Up
How America boosts the Afghan opium trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Touted by the US as fueling terrosism, the author takes a closer look at the opium trade in Afghanistan and reveals a situation far more complex; notably drug lords manipulating US commanders and Western involvement ironically creating explosive opium growth.
- No Exit
The ongoing abuses of Australia's refugee policy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A first person account of the refugee crisis in Australian detention centres. At great expense the Australian government holds detainees offshore in crowded camps, many of whom are stranded and living under deplorable conditions.
- Obstruction of Justice
Why the criminal justice system is ill-equipped to prosecute rape charges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Author Charlotte Shane examines why the U.S. justice sytem is incapable of effectively adjudicating rape, moreover the profound psychological and societal issues inborn in our culture that produces rapists. Shane takes a look at the film "I Am Evidence", directed by Trish Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir, as a starting point for discussion.
- The Other Whisper Network
How Twitter feminism is bad for women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Katie Roiphe takes a closer look at the #MeToo movement, particularly the use of Twitter and social media which can dangerously be used to rouse extremes in a similar way that Trump has energized his supporters.
- The Pictures
Securing Peter Hujar's place among the greats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
In his will American photographer Peter Hujar left his entire photographic archive to his friend Stephen Koch. In this article Koch explains why he embarked on a journey to usher Hujar's work into posthumous notoriety, and ultimately how the photographs changed his life.
- Punching the Clock
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
An excerpt from David Graeber's book "Bullshit Jobs" published by Simon and Schuster. Graeber, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, looks at the existence of meaningless work and the psychological and societal harm that results.
- Swap Meet
Wall Street's war on the Volcker Rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at the opposition to the Volcker Rule, originally proposed by former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, which restricts US banks from making certain speculative investments that do not benefit customers.
- Transgender Children and Young People
Born in Your Own Body
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2018
A collection of essays about the current theory and practice of transgendering children.
- Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Introduction to the December 17, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memories and the past. That's the nature of capitalism, especially the speeded-up hypercapitalism of today. The past is useless: profits are made by getting rid of the old and replacing it with something new.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
- Protecting individual privacy -- with a large dose of hypocrisy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In a prominent half-page article in Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, the Toronto Star, columnist Emma Teitel criticizes "the media" for invading the privacy of the daughter of a prominent politician.
- Left parties
Introduction to the November 11, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
"There is no alternative." That is capitalism's message in the neo-liberal era. The rich keep getting richer and richer, millions of people are unemployed, millions more are trying to survive on precarious, marginal, and part-time work, hundreds of millions are without health care, housing, education, or clean water. Environmental collapse is increasingly likely, masses of people are fleeing wars and economic disasters, nuclear war is a real danger. And all that the corporate elite, the corporate media, and the mainstream political parties have to offer is their insistence that there is nothing we can do about it: there is no alternative.
- Lissa Mary Donner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Peacefully, but not without a fight, Lissa Mary Donner died November 8, 2017, surrounded by the love of family and friends.
- Title IX Witchhunts, Anti-Sex Frenzy and Bourgeois Feminism
Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus - A Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Is the specter of sex haunting the campus? Under the pretense of targeting sexual harassment and assault, university administrations have been whipping up a climate of fear and imposing neo-Victorian values. As the recent book Unwanted Advances - Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus (HarperCollins Publishers, April 2017) argues, "The new campus codes aren't preventing nonconsensual sex; they're producing it.” Written by Northwestern University professor and self-described left-wing feminist Laura Kipnis, the book exposes the vastly expanded definitions of sexual assault, which criminalize anything from drunken hook-ups to student-professor romance and even allow for consent to be withdrawn retroactively.
- Meeting the Challenge of the Right
Introduction to the October 9, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
When we talk about the Right, it is well to keep in mind that "the Right" is by no means a unified political force or organization, but rather a label used to describe a disparate collection of ideologies, parties, groups, and individuals.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 9, 2017
Meeting the Challenge of the Right
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Challenging the Right requires not only anti-fascist actions in the street, but organizing to reach those who may be attracted the the appeal of the Right and offering an alternative social vision. This issue of Other Voices offers a number of articles, books, and films offering different perspectives on meeting the challenge of the right.
- People's History, Memory & Archives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A gateway to resources on people's history and grassroots archives.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
Official Enemies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
- 150 years of Karl Marx's Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
On the 150th anniversary of the publication of Marx's Capital, Tom O'Lincoln explains why "the Bible of the working class" is about much more than economics.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
Secrecy and Power
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
- Secrecy and Power
Introduction to the July 22, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
It is one of the essential attributes of power that it insists on secrecy. Or, more precisely, those who wield power over others routinely claim that the details of what they do, and why they do it, are far too sensitive to be revealed to the public.
- From Scotland to Canada: the origin of genocide and of a genocidaire (I) - Cornwallis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
- The Left needs to "find common ground" with Evangelical Christians
"There's no point arguing that it can't be done because the cultural differences are too great," says Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A discussion between Noam Chomsky and Charles Derber excerpted from the novel by Derber entitled, "Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Democracy for Social Justice in Perilous Times."
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
Public Safety
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
Resisting Injustice
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
- Learn from Malcolm X
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
It's time to re-learn lessons from Malcolm in the Black community - nationalism and pride, solidarity and militancy, and a worldview that African Americans are part of a global community in struggle against the injustices of capitalism.
- What Kind of Opposition?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
To address the millions of Trump supporters whose lives are devastated by his government... requires building an independent - and yes, socialist - left with uncompromising loyalty to the working class and oppressed people of the United States and the world, not to the liberal wing of capital or the Democratic Party.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
April 1 issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critically - and enjoy.
- Al Qaeda Is Attacking Major Syrian Cities with US Weapons -- but You Wouldn't Know That from the Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Norton analyzes media coverages of attacks linked to Al-Qaeda in the West to highlight how this emphasis on Muslim extremism is used to justify Islamophobia.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
Public Transit
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many of these struggles is the idea that transit should be free, that is, paid for not by fares, but out of general revenues. This is how roads are normally funded: their construction and maintenance are paid for by taxes, rarely by user fees. Free public transit by itself would not be enough, however. We also need good transit, transit that runs frequently and goes where people want to go.
- Joy Kogawa in conversation with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Ulli Diemer spoke with Joy Kogawa in Toronto on March 14, 2017. Joy Kogawa is the author of Obasan, Gently to Nagasaki, and a number other works of fiction and poetry.
- Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Vials reexamines Adorno's Authoritarian Personality, F-scale, and their implications for a Trump America.
- Arab Spring: Against Shallow Optimism and Pessimism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Gilbert Achcar's Morbid Symptoms: Relapse in the Arab Uprising, and Joel Beinin's Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
- Attica: The Revolt and Afterwards
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Heather Ann Thompson's Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.
- Erwin Baur (1915-2016)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Erwin Baur, radical trade unionist and founding member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), died on November 30, 2016, in Alameda, California at the age of 101. Unlike many veteran unionists of the 1930s generation, Baur made a youthful contract with revolutionary socialism that he never broke.
- Birth of a New Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
I came back from the Women's March in D.C. exhausted but thrilled, convinced that we are seeing the birth of a new women's movement. Hearing about all the other Women's Marches around the world only confirmed that impression.
- Demythifying Native Americans
"All the Real Indians Died Off" And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's and Dina Gilio-Whitaker's "All the Real Indians Died Off" And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans.
- Florynce Kennedy & Black Feminism
Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Sherie M. Randolph's Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical.
- A Global Matrix of Control
War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Jeff Halper's War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification.
- The Journeys of Julia de Burgos
Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Vanessa Perez Rosario's Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon.
- Lessons from New Orleans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Interview with author Kristen Buras.
- Making Trump's America Ungovernable
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The goal of opponents, including those of the far left, should be to make the Trump presidency ungovernable. In that struggle revolutionary change is possible.
- Marxist and Feminist Interventions
Marxism and Feminism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Shahrzad Mojab's edited volume Marxism and Feminism.
- The Ohio Vote in November
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Donald Trump won Ohio because the total Democratic vote declined more than the drop in the total two-party vote, and significantly more than the Republican increase.
- A Partial Peace in Colombia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Colombia's peace accord serves capitalist interests, but may also open new space for the grassroots left.
- The Politics of Some Bodies
The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Holly Lewis' The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection.
- Lillian Pollak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Activist, revolutionary socialist and writer Lillian Pollak died in New York City at the age of 101.
- Sanders' Campaign & the Democratic Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Despite his many flaws, the Sanders campaign had a working-class, implicitly anti-capitalist flavor that garnered considerable support among those who might otherwise have voted for Trump, as many perhaps did.
- Trump's Road to Ruin
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The editors address Trump's early assaults on democratic principles and institutions, from the snarling menace of his "America First" inaugural address, to his cabinet of multi-millionaire and billionaire reactionaries, to the pending removal of millions of people from health insurance, to assaulting women's reproductive rights and attempting to bar Muslim travelers, to attacking Black youth and every vulnerable population.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017
Race and Class
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class, in particular, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 22, 2017
Disobedience
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey. Disobedience is the theme of this issue.
- Ontario health-care reform and Community Health Centres
Re: Too Many Left Behind in Health Care Reforms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
We already have a working model of primary care that targets these populations and that is very good at dealing with complex needs and providing holistic care. Community Health Centres (CHCs) have been in existence for decades all over Canada, providing care to communities that are not well served by other models of primary care.
- Actually, I Am Anti-Police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The I'm not anti-police stance would work if, and only if, police brutality could be separated from the nature of policing. But it can't. That's because the major purpose of policing is to maintain the supremacy of the ruling class.
- A Better World in Birth
The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Michael A. Lebowitz' The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now.
- Birth of the Abolitionist Nation
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Manisha Sinha's The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition.
- The Black Lives Matter Response to Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Our mandate has not changed: organize and end all state-sanctioned violence until all Black Lives Matter.
- Bounty Hunters
A clandestine war on wolves
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The centuries old killing of wolves has extirpated the species throughout most of the United States, yet there remains a strong anti-wolf lobby which continues to threaten even a modest recovery.
- Bumpy ride
Why America's roads are in tatters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A look at America's negleced infrastructure of roads and bridges. Despite declining conditions, particularly on secondary roads, Republicans continued to press for less State funding- which they termed "devolution".
- Canada's State of Reconciliation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The brutal suppression of water protectors at Standing Rock, North Dakota and their ongoing resistance has also galvanized Canadian conversations about Indigenous land rights and environmental welfare.
- Chicago Teachers Settle Contract
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
While an almost 3-1 vote in favor is decisive, the vote against is significant in showing both dissatisfaction and anger among teachers. Who voted against the contract?
- Class Dismissed
When a state divests from public education
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A look at education in the state of Arizona where Empowerment Education Accounts (ESA's), money otherwise used to fund public education, are upheld by conservatives as a successful means of advancing private alternatives to traditional schooling.
- Creating a Socialism that Meets Needs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
There is widespread and growing understanding that the current social order cannot continue without catastrophe occurring - yet we lack a vision of what might replace it.
- Eyewitness at Standing Rock
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Interview with Rebecca Kemble.
- Fighting Back for Survival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The editors reflect on the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
- Forty Questions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An excerpt from Valeria Luiselli's book "Tell me How it Ends", a damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children in the United States.
- Framing The Shadows
The luminary vision of W. Eugene Smith
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A look at the life and work of American photojournalist W. Eugene Smith, who is particularly noted for his brilliant photo essays that chronicled suffering and injustice.
- Ghost Nation
An ethnic-cleansing campaign by the government threatens to empty South Sudan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Reporter Nick Turse provides a first hand acount of his time spent covering a refugee crisis in Southern Sudan, where the government's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) is committing atrocities that include mass rape, mutilation, torture, and the burning down of villages.
- The Green Party After the Election
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Until the Green Party has built a real power base of well-organized, dues-paying members and elected Green caucuses in city councils, state legislatures and the U.S. House, it will not be taken seriously in a presidential run by most media and most voters
- Hope in Dark Times
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The most dynamic and emergent forces in U.S. politics today are on our side, and possibilities for a radical transformation of the system have not yet been foreclosed. Whether we make good on them is up to us.
- House Hunters Transnational
Israel's economic settlers in the West Bank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Settlement developers in Israel are seizing upon the country's economic woes and high cost of living as an opportunity to expand housing on the disputed West Bank, putting further into question a two state solution.
- How "Race Neutral" Policy Failed
Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review ofKaren R. Miller's Managing Inequality: Northern Racial Liberalism in Interwar Detroit.
- "I am Here Only for Working"
Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A look at the petroleum industry in the United Arab Emirates through conversations with workers and foreign labourers. Many of the labourers come from abroad, work for very low wages, and live in crowded worker's camps designed to service the oil industry.
- Jane Does
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Conversations between journalist Madeleine Schwartz and members of the Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation, later known as Jane, an underground reproductive care service that was started in 1969.
- Jewish Currents goes to heaven, Jewish Currents goes to hell
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2017
A collection of writings, poems and images reflecting the traditions of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left.
- Killing Bill O'Reilly
The disgraced broadcaster's distortions of history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A look at the biased, idealized and error-riddled historical accounts espoused by American broadcaster Bill O'Reilly. Despite the former broadcaster's distortions of history and recent public disgrace his books still remain popular among Americans.
- Labor's Schoolhouse
Lessons from the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The author recounts the Paterson Silk Strike, a 1913 labour dispute organized by mill workers and noted for its large size, duration, and non-violence. Central to the dispute was the requirement by overworked weavers to start running four large looms instead of two, an appropriation of technolgy for the bottom line which has particular relevance for us today.
- MA Stops Charter School Expansion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Despite their $24 million, the charter forces - which in March had more than a 20-point lead in the polls - lost by an amazing 24 points, 62% to 38%.
- Macaroni & Cheese and Revolution
The Anarchist Cookbook
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Keith McHenry's and Chaz Bufe's The Anarchist Cookbook.
- The March on Everywhere
The ragged glory of female activism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Leslie Jamison recounts her experience as part of the Women's March on Washington in protest of the new Trump Administration, which became the largest single day protest in U.S. history.
- A Matter of Life
The death penalty as a conservative conundrum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A look at the Death Penalty in the United States and a Republican's campaign to have the practice abolished in the more Conservative areas of the country.
- Momentum Activist Handbook
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An activist training guide for members of People's Momentum, the campaigning group in the British Labour Party.
- Monumental Error
Will New York City finally tear down a statue?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An examination of the Sims controversy in New York City, where authorities have long debated the removal of a statue in Central Park celebrtating 19th-century doctor J. Marion Sims, the 'father of gynecology' who experimented on black women.
- The Number That No Man Could Number
Black America's civil war over gay rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A look at the complex relationship between the Church and homosexuality among African-Americans. While many church leaders become the public face of resistance to homosexuality and same-sex marriage, behind closed doors the reality is very different.
- Obama's Legacy and the Rise of Trump
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
So much has been written about why Donald Trump won the presidency and the anger of the white working class. White supremacists are overjoyed by his victory. Much less is written or discussed about the failures of liberalism and the Obama presidency for Blacks and other minorities who voted for Hillary Clinton as a lesser evil.
- On Movement and Freedom
Tales of Enduring Transience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Canada-based artist Gita Hashemi embarks on a ground journey from Germany to Greece along the so-called "Balkan route." In this written account Hashemi meets with others who are also on the move, as well as artists and activists who support freedom of movement and refugee rights. It is part of an art project called "On the Move" about freedom of movement.
- Ontario's health workers call for improved sick leave policies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
- Over the River
Returning home to Flint
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Author Richard Manning returns to his childhood home of Flint, Michigan and recounts the city's decline from thriving industry into an economic depression, from which the city has never recovered. Flint is left with an eroded infrastructure, neighbourhoods rife with crime and public health emergencies, and the decades old question of how will it ever recover.
- Putting the Racist Flyers at University of Michigan in Context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
On Monday morning, September 26, 2017, students arrived to the U-M campus to find racist flyers plastered in Haven Hall, Mason Hall, and several other buildings
- Radical Digressions 8
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2017
- The Reichstag Fire Next Time
The coming crackdown
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The article draws comparisons between the current climate in the Trump era with that of pre-Nazi Germany, in particular the Reichstag Fire of 1933, an event which Adolph Hitler exploited and launched a militant stance that eventually lead to a facist state.
- The Rise of the Valkyries
In the alt-right, women are the future, and the problem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A look at strategies and recruiting practices of the extremist alt-right, particularly outreach efforts towards recruiting women into their ranks.
- "The Slave-Holding Republic"
Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Gerald Horne's Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic.
- Snowden's Box
The human network behind the biggest leak of all
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Edward Snowden's disclosure of NSA secrets to the press as reported by the two journalists who literally had Snowden material mailed to them in a cardboard box. The article describes their experiences with encryption, codewords, government surveillance and extreme paranoia. The journalists also reveal that they were not the only people to have received Snowden's files.
- Sons and Daughters
The village where girls turn into boys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An account of an isolated village in the southwestern Dominican Republic where children who are seemingly born female become male later in their childood; such cases are so prevalent in the village that it is no longer considered abnormal.
- Survival is the Question
Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Ian Angus' Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System.
- The Trouble with Defectors
What informants taught an intelligence officer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Author and former U.S. Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter writes about his experiences working with informants and defectors. Recounting first hand experiences he discusses the problems and issues working with informants, notably their motivation, quality of information, and its reliabitlity and currency. While quality control is a recurring problem with informants Ritter further discusses why intelligence professionals still keep using them.
- Trump not "Exceptional"
Trump: A Graphic Biography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Book review of Ted Rall's Trump: A Graphic Biography.
- The Weekly Package
How Cubans deliver culture without internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
With limited resources and government restrictions on internet access in Cuba, a thriving underground industry selling digital information has developed.
- When the Alt-Right Hits Campus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Under the auspices of the "Alt Right" and its wannabe hipster version of white nationalism, the University of Michigan community was subjected to a bombardment of racist hate that many of us thought relegated to the pre-Obama past.
- Where Health Care Won't Go
A tuberculosis crisis in the Black Belt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A look at the outbreak of tubercolosis in Alabama, where a significant proportion of the population lacks proper health care. While State reaction was swift the lack of attention to some communities persists, as do the conditions for outbreaks to reoccur.
- Who Put Trump in the White House?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The media story in the days following the 2016 election was that a huge defection of angry, white, blue-collar workers in the Rust Belt from their traditional Democratic voting patterns put Donald J. Trump in the White House in a grand slap at the nation's "liberal" elite. But is that the real story?
- W.W.E. the People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
An excerpt from Naomi Klein's book "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need", published by Haymarket Books.
- Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016 Published: 2916
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
- Academic mobbing, or how to become campus tormentors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
If you’re a university professor, chances are fairly good that you have initiated or participated in mobbing. Why? First, because mobbers are not sadists or sociopaths, but ordinary people; second, because universities are a type of organization that encourages mobbing; and third, as a result, mobbing is endemic at universities. Unlike bullying, an individual form of harassment in which a typical scenario consists of a boss victimizing an assistant, mobbing is a serious organizational deficiency.
- Science and its enemies
Introduction to the April 23, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
- "Fake News"
Introduction to the December 20, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
"Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentaries about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news."
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
Fake News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
"Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
- Don Weitz in conversation with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Activist Don Weitz interviewed by Ulli Diemer, December 8, 2016.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2016
Alternative Media
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
A special issue on alternative media.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
Depression and Joy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
- Allen Ginsberg and the '60s Movement
The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book review of Eliot Katz' The Poetry and Politics of Allen Ginsberg.
- Early U.S. Communism Revisited
The Communist International and US Communism 1919-1929
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book review of Jacob A. Zumoff's The Communist International and US Communism 1919-1929.
- A Legless Veteran's Struggle
Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book review of Robert Goldstein's Discrediting the Red Scare: The Cold War Trials of James Kutcher, "The Legless Veteran".
- Michael Ratner
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Michael Ratner was President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Chair of the Board of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. He practiced law for 45 years, dying on May 11, 2016 at age 72.
- Requiem for a Black Trotskyist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
News of the death of former United Auto Workers staff member Ernie Dillard came by way of a phone call on Bastille Day 2016. The subsequent silence about his passing in the radical and mainstream press is an accusatory reminder of the extent to which the memory of the Left has been confiscated from those who require it most.
- The Revolutionary Art of Failure
Vivas to Those Who Have Failed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book review of Martin Espada's Vivas to Those Who Have Failed.
- Glenn Shelton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Glenn Shelton, a retired president of Michigan Mailhandlers Local 307 who never stopped fighting for the rights of working people, and a member of Solidarity, died March 24, 2016, after a battle with cancer.
- When Chinese Labor Strikes
China on Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Book review of Hao Ren's edited volume China on Strike.
- Legal case deserves support
Re: Chippewas of the Thames protest pipeline
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The case that the Chippewas of the Thames is taking to the Supreme Court of Canada strikes at the heart and soul of this country's relationship with the indigenous people and their rights and the government of Canada's duty to consult.
- Wolfe Erlichman in conversation with Ulli Diemer
October 26, 2016
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
An interview with Wolfe Erlichman, who worked as a community worker/organizer in Trefann Court in Toronto in the late 1960s.
- Lurching to War
Introduction to the October 15, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Capitalism hates competition, and the U.S., the world's dominant capitalist power, has never tolerated competitors, rivals, or leaders who dare to put their own country ahead of U.S. interests.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 15, 2016
Lurching to War
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
The risk of nuclear war is as great now as it was at the height of the Cold War. From the time the Warsaw Pact dissolved itself and the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States has single-mindedly pursued a hyper-aggressive strategy of surrounding Russia with hostile military forces and missiles aimed at the Russian heartland.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2016
Back to School
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Education - about the world, and about social change in particular - is a key element in the work that Connexions does. In this issue of Other Voices, we explore a few aspects of the ways in which education and educational institutions are changing. We also look at ways in which education is used to bring about change.
- An open letter to the Peel Catholic School Board from Jewish Canadians in support of Nadia Shoufani
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Jewish Canadians writing in support of Nadia Shoufani, a teacher in the Peel Catholic School Board who was suspended pending an investigation by the Ontario College of Teachers.
- The doctor who is besting big tobacco
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
When Dr Bronwyn King discovered her pension fund was investing in the cigarette companies that were killing her cancer patients, she was staggered. And she knew she had to act
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 23, 2016
Workers and Climate Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Working people -- and most of us are workers -- are affected by climate change in every aspect of our lives. As climate change worsens, our lives will worsen. If we are successful in bringing about the needed rapid change away from a fossil fuel based economy, working people are the ones who stand to bear most of the costs, including the cost, for millions of workers and their families, of losing their jobs.
Many elements of the environmental movement have been guilty of ignoring working people, while others actually blame ordinary working people for climate change and the injustices associated with it. Yet it is working people who are dying, in many places, even now, from excessive heat in factories, fields, construction sites, and homes. And million of working people stand to lose their jobs, homes, and communities in the transition to a low-carbon or no-carbon economy.
- Open Letter To Minister Goodale
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
We are doctors, nurses, and healthcare providers working in Canada. It has come to our attention that over 50 men on immigration hold are once again engaging in a hunger strike. They are determined to remain without food until they are granted a meeting with you, Minister Goodale. They have been calling for an end to indefinite immigration detention and inhumane conditions and are now asking to bring their concerns to you in person.
- Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Introduction to the July 2, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A constant theme in elite reaction to the Brexit referendum, expressed especially through the mainstream media, has been a visceral contempt for democracy. Ordinary working people are portrayed as stupid and reactionary, incapable of understanding how wonderful the European Union project is. Again and again, one hears the comment that the great unwashed should not be allowed to vote on issues which they are incapable of understanding. This reaction is not new: ruling classes for centuries have loathed democracy, which is seen as an existential threat to the wealth and privileges of the elite.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it.
This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement.
Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence.
Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures.
Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism.
- Tax Evasion
Introduction to the May 21, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The essence of the capitalist economic system is the drive to accumulate as much as possible, by any means possible. It is almost inevitable, therefore, that those – individuals or corporations – whose existence revolves around accumulating capital will seek to avoid paying taxes.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Destabilization and Regime Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
When governments get too far out of line -- the most outrageous offence, from the point of view of imperial power, is pursuing policies that help ordinary people at the expense of transnational corporations and local elites -- then they have to be overthrown. The preferred method is a destabilization campaign followed by a coup. This issue of Other Voices focuses destabilization and regime change.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2016
Science and its enemies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016
Forests and trees
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-making, or obstacles in the way of 'development.' In this issue, we look at some of the threats to forests worldwide, and the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
- Two justice systems?
Letter to the editor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
It seems that we have two justice systems: one for the police, and one for the rest of us.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 5, 2016
International Women's Day
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark International Women's Day. An article written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1920 talks about the early history of this event, which grew out of a proposal put forward by Clara Zetkin at the 1910 International Conference of Working Women. A key focus at that time was winning the vote for women, with the slogan "The vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism". The link between women's rights and socialism became even clearer a few years later, in 1917, when a Women's Day march in St. Petersburg turned into a revolutionary uprising which led to the overthrow of the Czar and the Russian Revolution.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 20, 2016
Connexions Enters Its Fifth Decade
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
This issue of Connexions Other Voices falls on the 40th anniversary of the publication of the very first Connexions newsletter, which was published in February 1976. That first issue carried the title "Canadian Information Sharing Service", which was also the name of the collective which compiled it, from submissions from across Canada. Within a couple of years, the name of the publication became "Connexions" and then, a little later, "The Connexions Digest".
In addition to our own history, in this issue we spotlight black history as our topic of the week. We look at the Haitian revolution, when slaves confronted the French empire and won; black resistance against the Ku Klux Klan in the American South, and the meaning and limits of anti-racism. We also look at the Kurdish liberation movement in Rojava, the dangers posed by geoengineering, and we mark the publication of the Communist Manifesto on February 21, 1848.
- Line 9 pipeline needs review
Re: Pipelines face new environmental rules
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Line 9 is a disaster waiting to happen and the climate crisis disaster is already unfolding. Indeed no tar sands pipeline can pass a serious climate test if Canada is to keep its commitment to a limited warming to 1.5 degrees C.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 30, 2016
Conflict of interest
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices shines a light on the murky world of conflict of interest, the hidden reality that often underlies appearances of neutrality, objectivity, and due process. Conflicts of interest are inherent in capitalism, a system founded on the premise that the state and society should be subordinated to economic self-interest and the accumulation of private wealth. Scientists who are supposed to be studying the effects of GMOs are funded by agribusiness corporations. Doctors who receive money from pharmaceutical companies write articles promoting the drugs produced by those companies. Decisions about pipelines are made by regulators who have spent years working in the oil industry, and who will be heading back to jobs in the industry after their stint 'regulating' it. Politicians receive campaign funds from corporate lobbyists.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
Working class organizing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. In this issue, we pay special attention to working class organizing. There can be no meaningful change without the active participation of the majority of the population: working people. Yet much activism ignores this obvious reality, while the organized labour union movement has put much of its reliance on 'professionals' who see organizing as a top-down technique rather than a grassroots movement. Several articles in this issue look at aspects of these issues. We also delve into the relationship between feminism and socialism, and look at the so-called 'sharing economy,' which produces increasingly exploited and precarious work, and immense profits for super-rich corporate owners.
- Beyond Banksters
Resisting the New Feudalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Beyond Banksters explores how the powers of the Bank of Canada were appropriated in the 1970s, resulting in billions of dollars in public debt. From Milton Friedman to Justin Trudeau's Canada Infrastructure Bank, from BlackRock to crappy trade deals to Bilderberg, Nelson exposes the major players privatizing the world and creating a new state of feudalism. Icelanders resisted. Nelson says Canada must too.
- Canada Since 1960: A People's History
A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
- Everyday Exposure
Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada's Chemical Valley
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Surrounded by Canada's densest concentration of chemical manufacturing plants, members of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation have expressed concern about a declining male birth rate and high incidences of miscarriage, asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular illness. Everyday Exposure uncovers the systemic injustices they face as they fight for environmental justice.
- A Future Without Hate or Need
The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Driven from their homes in Russia, Poland, and Romania by pogroms and poverty, many Jews who came to Canada in the wave of immigration after the 1905 Russian revolution were committed radicals. A Future Without Hate or Need brings to life the rich and multi-layered lives of a dissident political community, their shared experiences and community-building cultural projects, as they attempted to weave together their ethnic particularity -- their identity as Jews -- with their internationalist class politics.
- Gently to Nagasaki
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
An exploration both communal and intensely personal, Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage. Set against the backdrops of Vancouver, Toronto, the Slocan and Caoldate Valleys, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, this book from Joy Kogawa is also an account of a remarkable life.
- Life Sentence
Stories from four decades of court reporting - or, how I fell out of love with the Canadian justice system (especially judges)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Through an examination of notable trials she has covered, Chrisitie Blatchford makes the case that Canada's judicial system is out of control and often inept. Judges, she says, are the new senators, unelected, unaccountable and overly entitled, while lawyers are often self-satisfied and contemptuous of anyone who is not a member of the club.
- The Other Slavery
The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of Natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors.
- Queer Progress
From Homophobia to Homonationalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
- A statement against the immigration detention of children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
As organizations and individuals that care about children, we believe that Canada should immediately cease the practice of placing children in immigration detention. These detainees include asylum seekers, refugees, Canadian citizens and non-citizens. Children range in age from newborns and toddlers to pre-teens and teenagers, some of whom are unaccompanied.
- Stop Line 9
Respect the Treaties. Protect the Land, Air and Water We All Share
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume 2
Economic Writings 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015 Published: 2016
Rosa Luxemburg’s theoretical masterpiece
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 19, 2015
Utopia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical. This issue of Other Voices peers into the world of utopian visions, practical or otherwise.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015
Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urban gardening, the destruction of olive trees, and how the police are able to use Google's timeline feature to track you every move, now and years into the past.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015
Climate Change and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come - everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles - while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible. A serious effort to address climate change therefore means social change and economic change.
- Down With U.S. Imperialism's Anti-China Trade Pact!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
If it is ratified, the TPP will be the largest trade agreement in history, encompassing at least 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product and one-third of all global trade. Japan and the more minor imperialist countries Canada and Australia have been cut in on the deal -- and competing European powers cut out -- but it is the U.S. rulers who hold the whip hand. Under the banner of "free trade," the TPP aims to drive up the exploitation of labour across the board while increasing imperialist domination of dependent countries. Above all, this agreement targets China, escalating the U.S. bourgeoisie's drive to promote capitalist counterrevolution there through economic pressure and military encirclement.
- Connexions Postcard
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 2015
A two-sided Connexions postcard. One side features the Connexions website; the other side features the Connexions Archive.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2015
Corporate rights treaties
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Our focus is on the corporate rights treaties that are misleadingly sold as trade agreements. In particular, the spotlight is on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated in secret, and now scheduled to be rubber-stamped by national governments on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. The TPP is best understood as a major milestone in the long-term war waged by the corporate elite against any form of democracy.
- Trade agreements and the corporate war on democracy
Introduction to the November 7, 2015 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated in secret, and now scheduled to be rubber-stamped by national governments on a take-it-or-leave-it basis, is best understood as a major milestone in the long-term war waged by the corporate elite against any form of democracy. It gives corporations the power to block any environmental protections or health and safety legislation that could be interpreted as interfering with a corporation's 'right' to make a profit by doing whatever it wants.
- How to Promote a Just Transition and Break out of the jobs vs. environment trap
A Superfund for Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A strategy has been emerging to protect workers and communities whose livelihoods may be threatened by climate protection policies. Protecting those who lose their jobs due to necessary environmental policies has often been referred to as a "just transition."
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 24, 2015
Whistleblowers and national security
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
This issue sheds light whistleblowers and the murky world of national security. Governments may often pay lip service to the importance of protecting whistleblowers, but in reality they are almost always persecuted. Repercussions can range from being fired to being imprisoned.
- The Black Panthers: Movie Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
With its powerful archival footage and interviews with former Black Panther Party members, Stanley Nelson’s documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution reopens a chapter of black history that has long been distorted, hated and feared by the racist rulers of America.
- Leninism vs. Debs's Socialist Party
The Communist Fight Against Black Oppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Articles by Eugene Debs, written as polemics against racists within the Socialist Party, are eloquent in defending black people against racism, in calling for working-class unity across racial lines and in emphasizing that the Socialist Party should open its ranks to black people. In "The Negro in the Class Struggle," Debs stressed, "The history of the Negro in the United States is a history of crime without a parallel." Debs stands out favorably against most of his contemporaries in the labor movement -- including within the SP. Debs's writing remains a powerful denunciation of white workers' racism. Debs recognized that black oppression, rather than making white workers privileged, degrades them, thus providing a refutation of the later concept of "white skin privilege."
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015
Elections
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about change, and the neo-liberal attack on democracy. Articles look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the financial takeovers of Ukraine and Greece, and debt bondage. Also: a discussion of James Hansen's fossil fuel exit strategy, and a critique of Alinsky-style organizing.
- Class-Struggle Road to Black Freedom: Part Two
Marxism vs. the Myth of "White Skin Privilege"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The victory of the socialist revolution in this country will be achieved through the united struggle of black and white workers.
- A comment on John Holloway's 'Read Capital: The First Sentence, Or, Capital starts with Wealth, not with the Commodity'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
John Holloway has written an article entirely devoted to the first sentence of Marx's Capital, a sentence which he claims is key to the whole book. Ulli Diemer thinks Holloway is misguided.
- TIFFs corporate mentality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) tries to prevent anyone from handing out flyers to people standing on the sidewalk waiting for a film.
- Thoughts about the "college-educated left"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Today, in the neo-liberal phase of capitalism, neo-liberal ideology is dominant in the universities. Neo-liberalism denies the idea of class, denies that there are any alternatives to capitalism, and rejects so-called ‘grand theories’ which view capitalism as a historical period with a beginning and an eventual end.
- What is Stephen Harper doing to Canada? How can we stop him?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Harper regime has had a toxic effect on Canada. The wealthy are better off, but most Canadians are worse off, and rights and freedoms, democracy, access to information, and science have suffered. How can we stop him? Here is a factsheet which can be downloaded, printed, and distributed as a two-sided flyer.
- Contest: Guess the date of Harper's next 'terrorist plot'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
What are the odds that a 'terrorist plot' will be 'uncovered' in the late stages of the election campaign, so that Harper can spend the final days of the campaign talking about terrorism, terrorism, and more terrorism?
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015
Labour Day issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis.
- How We Changed Toronto
The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.
- Memory as paying business
Getting a battlefield, the site of tragedy or a memorial museum onto Unesco's World Heritage List is now a shrewd way to increase tourist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A look at how memorials and sites of great tragedy are now being exploited for financial gain as tourist destinations.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
Canadian federal election, mining and the environment
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
- Canada After Harper
His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
- The real reason American public transportation is such a disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Stromberg dissects socials attitude regarding public transit in the United States, where infrastructure in most cities was designed with automobile dependency in mind, thereby causing transit to be been viewed and designed, as a form of social welfare rather than a public utility.
- Bangladesh volunteers learn to make a life-or-death difference in a disaster
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
In the wake of the Rana Plaza collapse, civilians - often first on the scene of disasters in poorer countries - are being trained to support emergency teams.
- This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste - and it's leaking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is a hulking legacy of years of US nuclear testing. Now locals and scientists are warning that rising sea levels caused by climate change could cause 111,000 cubic yards of debris to spill into the ocean.
- Mass Incarceration for Profit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
In the face of growing public criticism and improved technologies, companies like Securus search for new ways to remain competitive while marketing themselves as providers of a quality service that keeps the public safe. Yet with the involvement of global financial houses in the prison industrial complex, the pressure mounts to produce value for shareholders. Ultimately, this systematically incentivizes mass incarceration. While we often hear about the activities of private prison providers like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, corporate interests are immersed in every aspect of criminal justice.
- South Africa's short memory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The migrants so recently attacked in South Africa almost all came from neighbouring countries that paid a high price in death and ruin for supporting anti-apartheid struggles.
- Spirit of Truth and Reconciliation already broken
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
It is clear that the outcome of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has at best, no consequence for the present lives of the First Nations peoples of Canada.
- Tory right-to-buy plan threatens mass selloff of council homes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Speculators circle as London councils could be forced to sell every new house they build, warns housing expert.
- In more innocent days, you could write about cocks and not be misunderstood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The BBC has changed Titty for Tatty in a remake of Swallows and Amazons. Much children's literature is a hazard for double entendres.
- The Jewish Voice for Peace Attack on Alison Weir: JVP Loses Its Balance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
- Cape Town's death industry: 'If you’re buried here, it's as if they threw you away'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Xhosa people make up the vast majority of Cape Town's black population, spending most or all of their lives in the South African city. Saverin narrates why the people living there don't want to be buried there.
- A novel oasis: why Argentina is the bookshop capital of the world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Buenos Aires alone has more bookstores per person than any other city in the world - just enough for inquisitive Argentinians to indulge their literary cravings.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2015
Corruption
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Corruption - or at least some types of corruption - are much in the news, with the ongoing scandals in the Canadian Senate and the recent U.S. targeting of the Swiss-based football federation FIFA for alleged bribery. In this issue, we look at these and other forms of corruption. Diana Johnstone writes about the double standards displayed by U.S. institutions, which happily target enemies and rivals, while ignoring the much greater corruption that underlies the power structures in Washington. We feature an article detailing how much money U.S. Senators received from corporations prior to their vote on the TPP negotiations, as well as materials on criminal conduct by some of the world's biggest banks, and an article on the work of investigative journalists in exposing corruption.
- Pakistan: 'Son, you brought electricity to the village and added 15 years to my life'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A micro-hydro programme bringing sustainable energy to a region of Pakistan ravaged by conflict and floods has won an Ashden award for lighting the future.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015
Residential schools
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assimilate' Native children by taking them away from their parents and communities, and depriving them of their language, culture, history, and emotional supports. Based as they were on a system of arbitrary power and cruelty, it is not surprising that they also fostered physical and sexual abuse of the children forced into the schools. We spotlight the report and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as films, books, and survivor stories. Also in this issue: the Orwellian language and tactics being used to sell 'anti-terrorist' legislation, mind-boggling subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and, on the other side of the ledger, stories of courage and resistance.
- A quick note on neoliberalism and state capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The key to understanding neo-liberalism, in my opinion, is power, not ideology.
- California turns to fake grass in response to drought
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Despite objections from environmentalists, artificial turf is growing in Calinfornia.
- Communism and the Family (Part Two)
The Marxist Approach to Women's Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The family is the primary institution through which bourgeois ideology in its various forms is transmitted from one generation to the next.
- BBC defends reality show involving poor, dubbed 'Hunger Games'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Britain's Hardest Grafter will pit 25 of Britain's lowest-paid workers against each other for cash prize in series it claims is a 'serious social experiment'.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
A Healthier Planet
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
- Marikana massacre: the untold story of the strike leader who died for workers’ rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
In 2012 a strike at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa ended when police opened fire, killing 34 miners. Investigations have revealed one rebel leader died trying to broker a peaceful solution.
- Communism and the Family (Part One)
The Marxist Approach to Women's Liberation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Replacing the family with collective institutions is the most radical aspect of the communist program and will bring about the deepest, most sweeping changes in daily life, not least for children.
- Time to break silence on Gaza assault
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Previous reports from such groups as Physicians for Human Rights Israel have indicated clearly that civilians were indiscriminately targeted, including in hospitals and ambulances. Testimonies from soldiers given to Breaking the Silence give further evidence to the extreme criminal actions of the Israeli army last summer. The silence in North America media on this report is deafening. Even Israeli media has reported it. The suppression of the truth does not serve us well. It’s time for the North American media to break its silence.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
Urban agriculture and local food production
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
- America's trailer parks: the residents may be poor but the owners are getting rich
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
It's an unusual but potentially lucrative investment: Warren Buffett is prompting people to attend Mobile Home University, a 'boot camp' in trailer park ownership.
- France’s libraries discovering a new lease of life beyond just books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Seminars, events and cafes are helping some formerly staid institutions reinvent themselves as social 'third spaces' beyond work and the home.
- Canada's Creeping Police State
Capitalist Repression and War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Conservative Harper government’s Bill C-51, the "Anti-Terrorism Act 2015," is a sweeping attack on free speech and other civil liberties. The bill targets publications, web postings and even private conversations sympathetic to causes that the capitalist rulers deem to be "terrorism." It authorizes the CSIS secret police to go after any activity that "undermines the sovereignty, security or territorial integrity of Canada" or interferes with the country's "economic or financial stability." And you don't have to actually do anything; the bill provides for "preventive detention" of individuals who the police claim "may commit" an offense.
- The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929: A Review
Upholding the Revolutionary Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929 examines the founding, development and degeneration of the Communist Party (CP) in the United States in the broader framework of the struggle for international proletarian revolution. Available in both paperback and hardcover, this fully indexed book, with extensive footnotes and references, will be of enduring value as a reference work for avowed socialists as well as scholars of communism. It is also a fun and interesting read and belongs in the toolkits of everyone seeking a coherent revolutionary program and lessons on building an organization.
- May Day: workers of the world unite and take over -- their factories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The co-operative movement is giving employees the chance to rebuild shuttered livelihoods.
- Zionists Seek to Silence the Lancet and Secure the Dismissal of its Editor, Richard Horton
Response to the Complaint to Reed Elsevier, Publishers of the Lancet, by Professor Sir Mark Pepys and 395 Colleagues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The involvement of 396 senior researchers in a mass effort to force Reed Elsevier to withdraw the letter is the latest in a series of heavy-handed interventions to stifle media coverage of the Israel-Palestine issue and should be resisted.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2015
Eduardo Galeano, Latin America, the Vietnam War
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark the death of Eduardo Galeano by featuring two of his books, as well as an article about his life and work. Galeano once wrote that he was "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." In his writing, especially Open Veins of Latin America and the mesmerizing Memory of Fire trilogy, Galeano contributed enormously to bringing alive, and keeping alive, the memories of Latin America, and especially of those whom he called the "nobodies" -- the people "who do not appear in the history of the world." Next week also marks the 40th anniversary of the final victory of the Vietnamese war of resistance against the American invasion and occupation.
- The right way to end terrorism
From armed resistance to jihadist networks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Gresh discusses a way to end terrorism, by placing an emphasis on the term itself and the repercussions of its meaning and use.
- Can you really make a living by selling used books on Amazon for a penny?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Secondhand book sales online not only make millions but also offer demanding customers rare – or simply cheap – titles that might otherwise rot in landfill.
- Israeli occupation damages Palestinian health, human rights group shows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Israeli group Physicians for Human Rights has released two reports documenting the deterioration of Palestinian health under occupation. Divide and Conquer documents the deterioration of Palestinian health in the West Bank and Gaza as the direct consequence of ongoing Israeli military occupation.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2015
Resisting Neoliberalism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Resisting neoliberalism: "free markets" and "free trade" are an ideological cover for what is actually a form of state capitalism in which working people subsidize and bail out corporations and the rich. In this edition of Other Voices, and more extensively on the Connexions website, we look at both neoliberalism and the resistance to it. The version of capitalism which became dominant by the 1980s has been given the name neoliberalism. The term refers to the global economic restructuring which has taken place, and to the accompanying shifts in the structures of power under which local and national governments have seen their ability to act independently curtailed by international treaties and by institutions which owe their ultimate allegiance to corporate capital. The essence of neoliberalism has been an unending campaign of class struggle by the rich against the rest. Yet resistance continues, and indeed continues to grow.
- Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum's Indigenous Australian show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Indigenous Australians are calling for the objects on show at the British Museum's new exhibition to be returned.
- Resisting Neoliberalism
Introduction to the April 9, 2015 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Neoliberalism is a fraud. The so-called free markets and free trade which it pretends to promote are in fact controlled by giant corporations, and massively subsidized by workers and ordinary citizens.
- Attica: The Nightmare That Never Ends
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Today, the incarcerated population in the U.S. has mushroomed to some 2.4 million, seven times the number in 1971, not least as a result of the racist "war on drugs." The prison population grew massively in the 1970s and 1980s in direct proportion to the sharp decline in unionized manufacturing jobs, a measure of how the bourgeoisie has deemed whole layers of the ghetto and barrio masses "surplus." Prisons and jails represent, in concentrated form, the brutality of this racist capitalist society, with severe dehumanization and oppressive conditions directed against an already marginalized and demoralized population.
- Libya's second civil war
From armed resistance to jihadist networks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
With the events that led to Gaddafi's fall, a civil war between local groups and rival militias started in Libya. Four years later IS has appeared, and the country seems on the brink of collapse.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
- Bangkok's Big Brother is watching you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Abigail Haworth charts the rise of General Prayuth Chan-ocha and his despotic regime.
- Cops Charge Black Activist with "Lynching"
Defend Maile Hampton!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
On January 18, 2015, Maile Hampton, a young black woman and member of the ANSWER Coalition, was leading chants at a Sacramento, California, protest against a pro-cop rally. An online video shows the cops violently attacking several protesters, slamming a woman against a cop car and repeatedly throwing a man to the ground. While both were being handcuffed, the crowd chanted to let them go. Five weeks later, Hampton was arrested at her home. She now faces up to four years in jail on charges of felony "lynching"! A law supposedly intended to criminalize the extra-legal murder of black people, Mexicans and others by the racist terrorists of the KKK and their ilk, is now wielded by the police against those who actively protest the modern-day legal lynchings carried out by the cops.
- Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement (Part Two)
Police Terror and Black Oppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Formal, legal inequality in the South was susceptible to reform. But getting rid of the economic and social reality that is black oppression in America -- from de facto segregation and poverty to police brutality -- is not subject to reform because it is integral to the capitalist system.
- Conservationist murders threaten Costa Rica's eco-friendly reputation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The murder of Jairo Mora, who was trying to protect endangered turtle eggs, was the latest in a string of crimes against environmentalists in the country. Many worry activists will stay away if poachers continue to go unpunished.
- Rail disaster strategy lacking
Re: Rail disaster plan falls short, critics warn
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A rail disaster strategy should include an actual plan to save lives and the environment. It is impossible to compensate lost lives and damaged environment from highly toxic damaging crude oil and radioactive substances that are being transported.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
Organizing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 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.
- The biggest threat to a free society is freedom of speech, says Canada’s Public Safety Minister
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Canada's "Public Safety" Minister Steven Blaney says that the Holocaust could have been prevented if only Germany hadn't suffered from an excess of freedom of speech.
- Bigotry in the Guise of Secularism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The murder at Charlie Hebdo and the Paris kosher supermarket have unleashed a wave of attacks on French Muslim communities, their culture and religion.The analysis by Carmen Teeple Hopkins helps explain the background of the present dangers and tragedies.
- A Case of Police Violence Against Women
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The police torture of a woman at Kalamadanga village, in the Bardhaman district of West Bengal, is a grim reminder that "normalization" of state violence, particularly violence on women, has continued unabated regardless of which party is in power.
- Defend Reverend Pinkney
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
An appeal hearing is scheduled for February 24, 2015 regarding the imprisonment of Reverend Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, MI. The American Civil Leaders Union has filed an "Amicus Curiae Brief" in support of Pinkney.
- Eslanda Robeson's Journey
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A book review of Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson, by Barbara Ransby.
- Feminism, Marxism: Marriage or Divorce?
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A book review of Dangerous Liaisons: The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism
By Cinzia Arruzza.
- Hillary Clinton and Corporate Feminism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Feminist enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton is reflective of a profound crisis of U.S. liberal feminism, which has long embraced or accepted corporate capitalism, racism, empire, and even heterosexism and transphobia.
- Honoring the Socialist Mary Marcy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Withe the centenary of World War I underway, it does us well to recall the remarkable socialist militant, Mary Marcy (1877-1922).
- Jobs, Ecology, and Survival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Lars Henriksson presents some thoughts about solving the old contradiction between jobs and the environment, ilooking specifically at the auto industry.
- Marx and the Family Revisited
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A book review: Marxism and the Oppression of Women Toward a Unitary Theory, by Lise Vogel.
- The Murder of Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh, 32 years old, a mother, poet and member of the Socialist Popular Alliance Party, was gunned down January, 2015 24 by black-clad snipers who were seen on video pointing rifles in her direction
- The Two-Party System, Part III
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
This perceived marriage of "progressive" change and the Democratic Party grew from conditions that prevailed from the 1930s through the 1960s. The next half century sustained this faith less through positive policies than by comforting images. Integral to this has been the rise of a warfare state with its own logic. The implications of both have made a two-party political order unchanged by the end of either World War II or the Cold War.
- Workplace Violence: Silent Epidemic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Workplace violence ranges from threats and curses to murder. Spitting on bus drivers is so common in New York City that their union won them DNA kits last year, to collect saliva.
- "Gestapo" tactics at US police 'black site' ring alarm from Chicago to Washington
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Politicians and rights groups call for inquiries into interrogations at Homan Square. Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces questions as top supporters examine abuse.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
Ukraine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
- Airport expansion
Re: Billy Bishop expansion plan needs real scrutiny
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Toronto Island airport in its present configuration is already harmful to public health. Any expansion would contribute to climate change by increasing emissions and air pollution and decreasing green and recreational space.
- Montreal: Campus Feminists Fail to Gag Marxists
For Women's Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The logic of feminism is class collaboration. It also means relying on the bourgeois state to "defend women." The role of the capitalist state is to defend the interests of the capitalists. It has nothing to do with ending the misery of the oppressed.
- SYC Defends Marxism at Finkelstein Talk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
- Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
While the conflict with Russia heats up in the east, life for most Ukrainians is marred by corruption so endemic that even hospitals appear to be infected.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 29, 2015
Land seizures and land take-overs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices focuses on the issue of land seizures and land take-overs. Also included: Greece's solidarity movement, and the challenges and opportunities it faces after the election of a Syrizia government. From the archives, there are interviews about the 1974 occupation of Anicinabe Park, an article about anti-dicrimination fighter Viola Desmond, and the publication, in 1929, of All Quiet on the Western Front.
- The Police and the 1918-19 German Revolution
A Correction to Our Militant Labour Pamphlet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
After the SPD took the helm of the government, Emil Eichhorn, a member of the left wing of the USPD, became the Berlin chief of police, acting on the false view that this arm of the bourgeois state could be transformed into a revolutionary instrument. On 4 January 1919, the Prussian Ministry of the Interior dismissed Eichhorn in a deliberate provocation.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 15, 2015
Workers' Health and Safety
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
The topic of the week is Workers' Health and Safety. Articles on why environmentalists should support working class struggles; whistleblowers; the appalling death rate from U.S. drone strikes; the murderous attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris; and what humanity could learn from Bonobos. The feature from the archives is Traces of Magma. The International Labor Rights Forum is the group of the week, and Silkwood is the film of the week.
- NYC Cop Backlash
Amid Protests Against Racist Police Terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Weeks of mass protests that erupted after the policemen who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner got off have left cops across the country seething. These hired guns of the capitalist rulers are howling over any criticism of how they do their job, which in racist capitalist America does include terrorizing and killing unarmed black people. Leading the pack in New York City are the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) and its ilk, which have seized on the December 20, 2014 killing of two Brooklyn cops to further push their agenda of bonapartism: that is, to stand above the law as judge, jury and executioner.
- Who's the true enemy of internet freedom - China, Russia, or the US?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Beijing and Moscow are rightly chastised for restricting their citizens' online access – but it's the US that is now even more aggressive in asserting its digital sovereignty.
- Altered Genes, Twisted Truth
How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Drucker elucidates the scientific facts about genetically engineered foods that the PR myths have been obscuring.
- Debunking Barrick
2015 Update
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
A updated annual report of the 2013 publication titled Debunking Barrick. The report outlines the abuses by the mining company Barrick Gold and the many communities around the globe that are affected by its operations.
- Dr. Mike Carr passes at 73
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Dr. Mike Carr, community activist, academic and teacher, passed away amongst his Cuban family in Havana Cuba.
- Esraa's Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
The illustrated children's book Esraa's Stories tells the tale of a girl who loves to write stories, and one day chooses to write about what everyone misses most from the camp in Syria. Through book distribution Kitabna seeks to develop reading, writing, and teaching skills with young people in refugee camps.
- Mining: Extracting the Future
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
A publication on the negative impact of the mining industry on local communities and the environment. Articles include a look at the opening of Canada's North to industry, mining exploitation in Peru and targeted assassinations in Mesoamerica, Indigenous Water Defence, and the efforts of mining companies to excerpt influence and undermine accountability.
- Planned Parenthood under siege
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Women, especially poor women, have already been severely impacted by an avalanche of laws that effectively strip them of being able to obtain what is a legal medical procedure. The Republican vow to defund Planned Parenthood would mean $500 million cut from two programs aimed at helping poor people: 75% from Medicaid; and the rest from Title X—the federal family planning program that serves poor Americans.
- Read Capital: The First Sentence, Or, Capital starts with Wealth, not with the Commodity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
John Holloway claims that Marx, in Capital, does not start with the commodify.
- Slick Water
Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Mot Powerful Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
A story of abuses by the fossil fuel industry and governments, telling the story of fracking rhough the lens of a legal battle to expose the truth. Nikiforuk raises stark questions about the role of Big Oil in government, society's obsession with mining low-grade oil and gas formations, and the future of democracy.
- What Does Science Tell Us About Race?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Six points about the complex relation between scientific research and the reality of human group differences.
- Regent Park story not so simple
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Individuals and families already marginalized by poverty, poor health and barriers to accessing services, are being further marginalized by displacement.
- Radical Digressions 7
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2014 Published: 2017
- Marxism and the Fight Against Native Oppression in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014 Published: 2015
Our political tendency has always emphasized the need to combat the special oppression of Natives, blacks, women and others. Such oppression is intimately connected with the “normal” capitalist exploitation of the workers and must be fought by means of the class struggle. Most of our opponents on the left these days reject historical materialism, just as they reject the perspective of working-class revolution and instead push variants of Native cultural nationalism and "ecosocialism."
- The Rise of British Imperialism
Part I: The Protestant Reformation to the English Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014 Published: 2015
Russell Stroker of the Trotskyist League goes back to the origins of the world capitalist system in the 16th century to explain how imperialism emerged out of the political and economic logic of capitalism.
- Polish farmers threaten uprising over opencast coalmine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Heinz unites with farmers in rebellion against plan to build a vast lignite mine and power plant on farming land in western Poland.
- The bird that travels 29,000km a year
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The Rufa red knot's epic annual migration from Tierra del Fuego to the Canadian Arctic risks being grounded by climate change.
- Diaries reveal Jewish suffering during Holocaust in Hungary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Diary reveals how doctor hid Jewish boy and his aunt from Nazis in her Budapest home during the late stages of the Second World War.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 18, 2014
The Commons
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
From its beginnings, one of capitalism's prime imperatives has been an all-out and never-ceasing assault on the Commons in all its manifestations. Common land, common water, public ownership -- anything rooted in the ancient human traditions of sharing and cooperation is anathema to an economic system that seeks to turn everything that exists into private property that can be exploited for profit. This issue of the Connexions Newsletter focuses on the Commons.
- American drought: California's crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
California is undergoing its worst drought in a generation. Chris McGreal explains how it is affecting the state.
- Shut down the tarsands
Re: Pipeline projects need a rigorous review process,
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Present emissions are already too much and carbon released from extreme extraction such as the tarsands, experts say, will tip the planet over to become uninhabitable. The health impacts from such extraction is also unacceptable, suffered by indigenous people and workers, and the local environmental costs are huge. We need to find a better way for our world and we need to do it now.
- Tsunami, 10 years on: the sea nomads who survived the devastation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Thailand's indigenous sea gypsies predicted the waves that swept their villages away in 2004, and most of them escaped unharmed. Now they are facing a new threat to their centuries-old way of life: tourism and the encroaching modern world.
- Level up: how PlayStation infiltrated youth culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Twenty years ago, new games consoles began appearing in nightclub chillout rooms, subversive TV ads and cutting-edge style magazines. Keith Stuart and Steve Boxer describe how Sony created the PlayStation generation based on the underground culture.
- A Chinese alternative
Social democracy by the union route
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Dongfang discusses how changing undemocratic Chinese business enterprises, through active labour unions, would also change the social structure of the country.
- Inventing the future
A tradable commodity in the huge, globalised ideas market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Experts and writers are competing publicly to offer their visions of what is to come in the future.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2014
Climate Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
The theme for this issue, and the topic of the week, is Climate Change. Groups and websites engaged in the fight for action on global warming and climate justice are featured. Book of the week is Magdoff and Foster's "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism." In addition to articles on climate change, there are articles on Ebola, corporate tax evasion, and state terrorism, as well as a 1971 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
- The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continents and Centuries by Jeremy Seabrook – review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A review of the book "The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continents and Centuries", an account of the clothing industry and the exploitative conditions that workers undergo as they work for international firms.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
The topic of the week is Libertarian Socialism. Articles on no-state solutions in Kurdistan; right-wing dirty tricks used to attack labour and environmental groups; scientists unravelling the risks of new pesticides; the terrors faced by fishermen in Gaza; and bringing books and seeking peace in Colombia. Film of the week is Even the Rain, and book of the week is Adolph Reed's Class Notes.
- Whale songs: shanties drag mysteries of whaling life back from the deep
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A new album of songs chronicling the lost culture of whaling reminds new audiences a forgotten way of life.
- Look back in joy: the power of nostalgia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Long considered a disorder, nostalgia is now recognised as a powerful tool in the battle against anxiety and depression. Researchers prove that looking back can improve the outlook for today and tomorrow.
- The rise and rise of sexology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Christopher Turner examines some of the objects found in the Institute of Sexology and finds that the pioneers of the study of sex were not just campaigners but political activists and collectors.
- Beat off the vulture's swoop
The judge who took an economy hostage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Emerging economies need to issue their state bonds in financial centres where the law blocks vulture funds from profiting from financial woes. New York is off the list.
- Democracy rezoned
Republicans fix polls in US elections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
By employing techniques that take advantage of the extreme polarisation of the US electorate, the Republican Party is able to fix polls.
- Mass Incarceration and the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Thompson opens up a discussion regarding the American criminal justice system and why incarceration does not lead to rehabilitation back into society.
- The Middle East's "World War"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The editors compare the reasons driving the United States' involvement in Iraq and Syria with those behind the decision to invade Afghanistan.
- Off the Land
What subsistence really looks like
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Short essay on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation and their subsistence activities.
- Russia's other October revolution
How did we get from perestroika to Putin?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Explaining contemporary Russia as the product of Boris Yeltsin's insistence to enforce a neoliberal economy.
- Two Years After the CTU Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In light of the Chicago Teachers Union's strike that changed the discourse on education in the United States, Bartlett analyzes the persisting problems with public education systems, such as school closings, privitization, and poor allocation of funding.
- We've got our eye on you
US wants to control, and own, the world online
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Edward Snowden not only told the world about US state surveillance of national and personal secrets, he reminded us that almost all the companies surveying us for commercial gain are American.
- Why a Killer Cop is Not Arrested
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Miah analyzes the grand jury system and police conduct in the United States to explain why the large number of African Americans killed by police are considered justifiable homicides in court.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014
Refugees
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Refugees. Featured articles look at migration, counter-surveillance resources, farmers in Ghana fighting to retain the freedom to save their own seeds, and rebuilding communities faced with mining companies in Ecuador. The website of the week is Mediamatters. From the archives we've got Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement.
- Prisoners' Pictures review -- exploring science and propaganda amid conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A photography exhibition in Frankfurt examines first world war propaganda attempts to stir revolt among Muslim soldiers.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 16, 2014
Arms Trade
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Topic of the week is the Arms Trade. Featured resources include The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade, an article on Israel's War Business, and the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. A new feature in Other Voices is the Film of the Week: to start off, we spotlight The Corporation, an exploration of the dominant institution of our time. Plus: Lying to ourselves about the air war, Karl Marx's critique of modern agriculture, and a challenge to Montreal's anti-protest bylaw.
- Illegal loggers remain hidden in Peru's forest but timber finds global buyers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
State exercises little control over remote Amazon region blighted by poverty and illiteracy, and organised crime fills the vacuum.
- Cuba leads fight against Ebola in Africa as west frets about border security
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The island nation has sent hundreds of health workers to help control the deadly infection while richer countries worry about their security – instead of heeding UN warnings that vastly increased resources are urgently needed.
- Headscarf ban turns France's Muslim women towards homeworking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Headscarf ban in French public service jobs turns many Muslim women towards self-employed e-trading.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 2, 2014
Climate Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
This issue of Other Voices looks at why so many people deny or ignore the very real and very near threat of climate change. We also look into the ways on how NGOs tame and undermine grassroots movements. Other Voices also shares an article detailing how a $182 billion bail-out of tax-payer money was not enough for one bank. Finally, in this issue, we look into the horrors of American slavery and how it shaped the United States into the economic power it is today.
- Devil and the deep blue sea: how Mediterranean migrant disaster unfolded
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Desperate migrants from Gaza and Syria tell how they put themselves at the mercy of people smugglers in their voyage to cross the Mediterranean.
- You Are Not Alone Across Time
Using Sophocles to treat PTSD
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Article on "Outside the Company," a theatre company that performed in a project called Theatre of War, where actors played the Greek drama "Ajax" by Sophocles.
- China hopes to revive the Silk Road with bullet trains to Xinjiang
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
China hopes high-speed rail link will help pacify Xinjiang province.
- Everyone on the Bus: Rider-Driver Alliances
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Kann sheds light on the increasingly desperate state of transit in Detroit as number and frequency of buses and entire routes are experiencing increasing cuts and riders join in a union with drivers to protest these affairs.
- The weird afterlife of the world's subterranean 'ghost stations'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
With plans afoot to transform disused London tube stations into tourist attractions, Drew Reed digs into how they get abandoned in the first place and what could become of them in the future.
- Life in Timbuktu: how the ancient city of gold is slowly turning to dust
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Mali's ancient city is disempowered, suffering the effects of desertification and slowly disappearing. Despite this, little is being done to ensure the city has a future.
- The journalists who never sleep
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Automated 'robot writers' could soon be personalising daily data feed.
- The hunt for Spinosaurus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A chance meeting in Morocco and a trip to Milan joined pieces of the Spinosaurus, the world's first semi-aquatic dinosaur.
- 'Poison pill' privatisation contracts could cost £300m-£400m to cancel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Taxpayer stands to lose millions if probation contracts are cancelled.
- Medical programs for homeless
Re: Too stigmatized to find a doctor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Community health centres provide services for homeless.
- Allan Sekula, Against the Grain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A tribute to the photographer, film-maker, cultural theorist, political activist, and Marxist intellectual, Allan Sekula.
- August 1914 and World War I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Smaldone analyzes the political circumstances during WWI to explain why socialism as an international movement failed to take hold and ultimately collapsed.
- Death in the Eagle's Shadow
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Loewenstein details the circumstances surrounding her friend Anwar Za'aneen's death by an Israeli drone in Gaza, to highlight the severity of the dangers that Palestinians must live with in everyday life.
- De-colonizing North America
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of King's "The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America," and Dunbar-Ortiz's "An Indigenous People's History of the United States."
- Detroit: Your Pension and Your Life!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Amidst the ongoing bankruptcy of Detroit, workers are faced with having their pensions involuntarily reduced.
- Ferguson on Center Stage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Miah examines race relations in Ferguson, Missouri after the recent police murder of Michael Brown as a result of racial profiling and police brutality.
- Fred Ho, Presente!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A tribute to saxophonist, composer, and revolutionary Marxist activist Fred Ho, who was an active member of the Jazz and radical left-movements.
- A Green New Deal for New York
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The Green Party outlines its revised goals for their campaign plan in the election for governor and lieutenant governor of New York.
- Is Water a Human Right in Detroit?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Feeley examines the questionable actions of the Detroit Water and Sewage Department's recent decision to shut-off the water of residents with outstanding bills, a process that penalizes the large portion of the population that is low-income in a city that is undergoing bankruptcy.
- Making the Rulers Obey
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of "Until the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements" edited by Clinton Ross and Marcy Rein.
- Military Emancipation
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of Levine's "The Fall of the House of Dixie: The Civil War and the Social Revolution that Transformed the South," and Oakes's "Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865."
- One Historian's Journey
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of "A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics, and Labor" by Nelson Lichenstein.
- One Step Up, Three Steps Down
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In an interview with author Barbara Garson, Against the Current examines the economic meltdown surrounding the Occupy movement and the effect it has had on working-class Americans.
- Our Planet, Our Movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In response to recent activist activity regarding climate change in New York City, the editors examine the dimensions of the global environmental crisis and how to confront it.
- Palestine's Unfolding Horror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Weissman interviews Dr. Hisham Ahmed regarding the Israeli bombing of Gaza in 2014, its underlying causes, and possible impact on the political prospects for the future of Hamas and Israel.
- Piketty on Capital and Inequality
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" by Thomas Piketty.
- A place in the sun
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
An extract from Laurent Cordonnier's futuristic novel 'La Liquidation.'
- Resisting the New McCarthyism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Against the Current interviews Professor Abdulhadi regarding recent accusations by the rightwing McCarthyist AMCHA Initiative that she secured university funding on a false pretext of attending a conference in Beirut. It is believed that this accusation is part of a greater objective targetting pro-Palestinian activities.
- Spotlighting Inequality and Injustice
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Swerdlow reviews Naison's "Badass Teachers Unite!", Heckman's "Giving Kids a Fair Chance", and Marsh's "Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality" in order to discuss whether more education is the solution to income inquality in the United States.
- Tailbacks in Panama
China sponsors rival east-west canal routes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Despite the expansion works in the Panama Canal, the number and size of ships are getting too large for it. Other Latin American countries, backed by China, want some of the action.
- Toward Energy Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
As energy systems are beginning to transition towards greener alternatives to fossil fuels, a debate surrounding its production emerges.
- In Scotland or Catalonia, the pitch is for difference without much difference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In the referendums in Scotland and Catalonia, the idea is for bracing, defining change that won't be greatly noticed.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2014
Killings by Police
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Killings by Police. Articles on the way the Ebola crisis illuminates the moral bankruptcy of capitalism; Responding the capitalist crisis, in 1914 and 2014; Globaling Gaza: Israel's leading role in undemining international law; and Marinaleda, a town in Spain attempting to create alternatives based on democracy, co-operation, and mutual aid. Group of the Week is Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.
- Black market boom lays bare a social divide in Colorado's marijuana market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Inside Colorado's black market for pot, segregation and resentment flourish.
- After the massacre: life in South Africa's platinum mining belt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Two years ago 34 striking miners in South Africa were shot dead by security forces. The ensuing cover-up was a national scandal. Will the wage protests herald a major force for change and loosen the African National Congress' grip on power?
- Police want right to see medical records without consent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Police want new and expanded rights to access medical records and other confidential data without an individual's consent.
- Cotton trade: where does your T-shirt grow?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Growers of the world's most important non-food crops are learning how to raise it without harmful chemicals.
- 40 people stage 'die-in' in front of Israeli consulate in Toronto - Friday August 8, 8:30 am
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Canadians call on government to end weapons sales to Israel. At least 40 people are disrupting rush hour traffic on one of Toronto's busiest roads this morning in protest against Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
- Terrorists hide weapons in holy places, schools and civilian
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
English summary of a Hebrew-language document listing a number of cases in which, during the time of the British Palestine Mandate, Jewish underground organizations stored weapons and made similar non-civilian use of civilian locations. While only one of these groups, the LEHI (aka Stern Gang) described itself as 'terrorist', the other two groups - ETZEL (aka the Irgun), and the Haganah - were regarded as terroristic by theBritish authorities.
- Costa del Cam Ranh
250,000 Russian budget tourists hit Vietnam's beaches
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Expat Russian entrepreneurs, budget Russian tourists, and a government hoping the post-Vietnam war exiles will come back home rich to retire: Vietnam is a demonstration model for change.
- How much for your data?
What you whistle in the shower
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Rapacious financialisation risks turning everything we are and have into a productive asset. And the foremost asset is our personal data, mined by digitalised technology.
- Latin American coups upgraded
These days the military go back to their barracks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The classic Latin American coup used to put the military in direct command and control of a country. That doesn’t work well on the world stage, and is being replaced by more clever manipulation, however the same people end up in power.
- Bug spotting: Germans hold 'nature walks' to observe rare NSA spy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
'Nature' walks leading protests against digital surveillance.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 31, 2014
Truth, justice and reconciliation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Articles on truth, justice and reconciliation efforts in countries affected by civil war or internal conflict; Bone Collectors: the fate of the remains of Australian aboriginal people stolen from their burial grounds and dispersed to museums; the Galway children's mass grave; and Which came first: Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence? The topic of the week is the Israeli military.
- Dijon adapts its urban thinking to the needs of an ageing population
The French city is at the forefront of an urban network aiming to actively improve the lives of its older residents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Dijon, a city in France is taking an innovative approach adressing the needs of it's ageing population. Research has suggested that movement, and minimizing isolation are the leading methods in the slowing of ageing, and are the forefront of thought while implementing novel changes to the city center.
- Radio programme a beacon of hope for Afghans searching for lost relatives
In Search of the Missing tries to track down some of the 1 million people who have disappeared during three decades of war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
An Afghani radio station has started a semi-weekly segment entitled "In Search of the Missing", aimed at reuniting missing loved ones. Citizens are invited to call the 10-year-old radio programme and leave a 20 second message reaching out to their loved ones.
- Questions about Israel's attack on Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Why do these terrible outbreaks of violence keep happening? Written during the Israeli attack on Gaza in July 2014.
- The rise of data and the death of politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Why is it that the infomation collected from our ever-smarter devices can only measure effects, and not deal with causes?
- Gaza headline absurdly inaccurate
Re: Palestinians flee Gaza as ceasefire pleas fail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Targeting civilians is always wrong. We speak out against Hamas when it does so, but our Canadian government applauds the Israeli government when it does so on a much greater scale. As human beings, as Canadians, as a Palestinian and Jew, we condemn this horrific collective punishment.
- I, spy: Edward Snowden in exile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The Guardian interviews Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked thousands of classified documents to media outlets. Snowden shares his views on the events that have occured since his exile, and describes his life in Moscow.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 17, 2014
Gaza
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Gaza, which was under attack by Israel as this issue appeared. Articles on surveillance capitalism, the tactics and successes of the movement for same-sex marriage in the United States, and profiles of alternative archives. Website of the week is Democracy Now!
- Election and Revolution
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A review of two volumes by August H. Nimtz: "Lenin's Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels Through the Revolution of 1905" and "Lenin's Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917".
- Foreclosure Is Blight!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Using her experience working with the Detroit Eviction Defense group, Feeley examines the current housing crisis in Detroit and offers insight into how to combat evictions, foreclosures and underwater mortgages by combining legal defense with direct action.
- Galileo's Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In celebration of the 450th anniversary of Galileo's birth, this article examines the famous scientist's life, contributions, and relevance today.
- Imagining Socialism in Our Lives
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of "Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA" edited by Francis Goldin, Debby Smith and Michael Steven Smith.
- Inside Venezuela's "Proceso"
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of "Who Can Stop the Drums?: Urban Social Movements in Chávez's Venezuela" by Sujatha Fernandes.
- John Handcox, "Sharecropper's Troubadour"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Robin Lindley interviews University of Washington labour history professor Michael Honey regarding his biography about singer and labour activist John Handcox.
- Minneapolis 1934 Strike Revisited
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of "Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934" by Bryan D. Palmer.
- Racism Refusing to Go Away
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Miah analyzes the position of race and racism within American culture, history, and politics and how it has been continuously central in society from the beginning of Europe's colonial agenda to the present day, though it has taken on different manifestations.
- Richmond: Company Town or People's Town?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Feeley delves into the problematic dynamics surrounding the election campaign in Richmond, CA whereby the city's dominant corporation, the Chevron oil refinery which carries a long history of environmental concerns with it, could potentially have a greater hand in municipal decisions if one of its candidates are elected.
- The Ruins of War, Then and Now
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The editors provide an overview of the United States' involvement in WWI and how the country's imperialist dynamics have grown since then despite anti-war, labour, and socialist efforts.
- Solidarity and Contradiction
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of "Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa" by Yuichiro Onishi.
- Tribune of the People
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of "Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution" by Clifford D. Conner.
- 21st Century Limited
The lost glory of America's railroads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014 Published: 201
An essay on Armtrak's railroads gradual decline due to the Republican politicization of train travel.
- Utopia and Anti-Utopia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In response to the recent popularity of dystopian series "The Hunger Games," by Suzanne Collins, Hubler examines the genre of dystopian and utopian fiction.
- VA Care is for Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Data production takes priority over concrete patient care itself in the new healthcare assembly line, as evidenced in the Veteran's Administration scandal.
- World War I and Its Century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Ruff anaylzes the effect that WWI had on the world's imperial powers, shifting the hold on dominance between countries and transforming economies into different forms of war state capitalism.
- Diminishing residential schools abuse?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
- Champion of Chinese Farmers' Rights Jailed for Forging Official Documents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Villagers pack the court to applaud woman given two years in prison for trying to prevent land grabs and illegal demolition.
- Special Report: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
An examination of how countries around the world affected by civil war or internal conflict have approached justice.
- Argentina is Right to Stand up to Greedy US Vultures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Although in a precarious position after a US court ruling on debt repayments, Argentina must put its economy and people first.
- Britain took more out of India than it put in -- Could China do the same to Britain?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Large parts of India's economy were destroyed by British technology in the 1800s, and by deals that favoured British shareholders. Today, it's China that holds that kind of power.
- The Bone Collectors
A Brutal Chapter in Australia's Past
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The remains of hundreds of Aboriginal people, dug up from sacred ground and once displayed in museums all over the world, are now stored in a Canberra warehouse. When will they be given a national resting place?
- The Mother Behind the Galway Children's Mass Grave Story
'I Want to Know Who's Down There'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
It was amateur historian Catherine Corless's painstaking research that brought news of the children's mass grave in Tuam to the world's attention. She tells how her search for the truth turned her life upside-down.
- Forgotten Graffiti Sheds New Light on Long, Hot Journeys to Vietnam
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Inside a rusting former US army ship, historians found vivid details of the hopes and fears of soldiers bound for war.
- Vodafone Reveals Existence of Secret Wires that Allow State Surveillance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Wires allow agencies to listen to or record live conversations, in what privacy campaigners are calling a 'nightmare scenario'.
- Uzbekistan Rediscovers Lost Culture in the Craft of Silk Road Paper Makers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A Samarkand craftsman revives thousand-year-old paper production methods in Central Asian workshop.
- The injustice industry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
There is a major legal business in corporate lawsuits against governments, seeking either a change in proposed legislation to suit corporate demands, or compensation. Under TTIP, European governments could face the same claims.
- Keeping us in the dark
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The TIPP negotiations are being conducted almost in secret, with governments and the European Parliament deliberately denied essential information. However, business lobbyists can access all areas, and do.
- Ten threats to Americans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Ten contemporary social, economic and political issues posing threats to American citizens.
- Ten threats to Europeans
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Ten contemporary social, economic and political issues posing threats to European citizens.
- Marx and Engels Belong to the Workers of the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Lawrence & Wishart, the British publisher of the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (MECW), has compelled the Marxists Internet Archive to remove free digital versions of this 50-volume treasure from its Web site. This step is meant to further the publisher’s pursuit of private, profitable licenses with paying customers.
- 1,000 Days of Syria – Turning War Journalism into a Game
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
How an American journalist is attempting to tell the story of Syria’s conflict through an online adventure game.
- Privatise Child Protection Services, Department for Education Proposes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Experts sound alarm over UK proposal to outsource children's services to private firms.
- The Education Deform Fraud
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Book Review of "Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools" By Diane Ravitch.
- A Fossil Fuel Exit Program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Ekeland analyzes climate activist Hansen's climate change exit strategy and why it has not been supported or pursued by political and environmental groups.
- Freedom Schools: The Curriculum
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Oppenheimer analyzes the curriculum taught in the 1964 Freedom Schools, which were designed to help Black students understand oppressive American social structures in and to think about them critically.
- Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Oppenheimer provides a historical overview of the events leading up to and surrounding the 1964 Freedom Summer, when organizers worked to register Black voters in segregationist Deep South in the United States.
- Freedom Summer Remembered
Interview with Walter Kaufmann
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Finkel interviews retired community college teacher Walter Kaufmann about his experiences in the Freedom Summer project and teaching in the Freedom Schools.
- "Greater Israel" in Real Life
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Book Review of "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel" by Max Blumenthal.
- In the Wake of Carnage
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Book review of "Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru" by Kimberly Theidon.
- Lean & Mean Health Care
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Chern examines the Affordable Care Act from the perspective of being an industry and how this will regulate, standardize, and consolidate the healthcare system.
- The Minimum Wage Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In a discussion of the debate over the minimum wage increase in the United States, Miah advocates for a socialist mentality and a focus on individual rights in order to provide an economic solution to the decline of the middle class caused by capitalisim.
- Notes on the Current Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The editors debate the subjectivity of international law as the United States publically denounces Russia's seizure of Crimea yet condones Israel's occupation of Palestine and treatment of its people.
- Nothing Left
The long, slow surrender of American liberals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
On the gradual decline of the U.S. liberal-left party and its principles.
- Reinterpreting the Cotton Kingdom
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Book review of Walter Johnson's "River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom."
- Reintroducing Sarah Wright
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Karageorgos places Wright's novel "This Child's Gonna Live" about the experience of Black women's triple oppression within a historical context to analyze her critique of Black nationalism.
- Remembering Mississippi, 1964-65
Interview with Claudia Morcom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Feeley and Finkel interview Morcom about her work in Mississippi during Freedom Summer 1964 and subsequently from September 1964 through October 1965, as Southern Regional Director for the National Lawyers Guild's program of legal assistance for civil rights workers.
- Revolutionaries in the a Time of Retreat
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Book review of "Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922" edited and translated by John Riddell.
- Steady Hands for Freedom
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Book Review of "Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC" by Faith S. Holsaert, et. al
- The University & the Security State
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Gasser examines the implicit political agendas behind the offers of funding given to American universities by the Department of Homeland Security to research the "cognitive science of terrorisim."
- Update on Detroit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Feeley provides an update on the economic situation in Detroit as the city declares bankruptcy and is suffering from foreclosures, evictions, pension and funding cuts.
- A Witness to Destroying Schools
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Book Review of "Schoolhouse Shams: Myths and Misinformation in School Reform" by Peter Downs.
- Brazil Puts the Arts in the Pockets of the Poor with New Cultural Coupon Scheme
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The government hopes $20 Vale Cultura voucher will encourage poorest Brazilians to sample wider range of cultural pursuits.
- Deforestation of Central America Rises as Mexico's War on Drugs Moves South
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Swaths of Central American rainforest are affected by 'narco-deforestation', caused by landing strips and roads built by and for drug traffickers.
- What the Tamiflu Saga tells us about Drug Trials and Big Pharma
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
We now know the government's Tamiflu stockpile wouldn't have done us much good in the event of a flu epidemic. But the secrecy surrounding clinical trials means there's a lot we don't know about other medicines we take, says Ben Goldacre.
- CIA used Doctor Zhivago as a Literary Weapon during the Cold War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Newly declassified documents reveal the CIA published Boris Pasternak's Nobel-winning novel to sow unrest among Soviets.
- Largest Urban Cable Car Soars Over 'Desperate' Commuters of La Paz
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The La Paz region's new cable car system will transform the lives of commuters between La Paz, Bolivia and the mountaintop of El Alto, who currently have to zigzag up the slope in horrible traffic. But will everyone be able to afford it?
- CIA Torture Architect Breaks Silence to Defend 'Enhanced Interrogation'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The psychologist regarded as the architect of the CIA's “enhanced interrogation” program has broken a seven-year silence to defend the use of torture techniques against al-Qaida terror suspects in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
- Fill the gap: Ontario should insure injured migrant workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
We want to sound the alarm over the unjust federal and provincial immigration and health policies that are based on the exploitation of human labour and xenophobia. Migrants increasingly enter Canada to work under temporary foreign worker programs through which they are denied equitable access to services while still being required to pay taxes.
- France Remains Faithful to Food as Meals Continue to be a Collective Affair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In France, life is dominated by three shared meals, and it's taboo to break the ritual, writes Anne Chemin.
- SOS Alternatives to Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
An investigation of the alternatives to capitalism, including socialism, anarchism and deep ecology.
- The Fleets That Throw Away More Fish Than They Land
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Fishing vessels operating off the coasts of Florida and California and in the Gulf of Mexico routinely dump more fish overboard than they bring to shore, a report says.
- The Dependent Generation
Half Young European Adults Live with their Parents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Almost half of Europe's young adults are living with their parents, new data suggests – a record level of dependency that has sobering social and demographic implications for the continent.
- War is Over - Now Serbs and Bosniaks Fight to Win Control of a Brutal History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Serb nationalists are striving to suppress reminders of atrocities committed in the name of separatism, mostly against the country's Muslims (known as Bosniaks) and to construct an alternative history in which Serbs were the principal victims. Many Bosniaks and outside observers fear that this refusal to come to terms with the past means there are few guarantees that such acts will not be repeated.
- Women and the Pakistani Left: Can the Awami Workers' Party imagine a new basis for struggle in the cause of women's liberation?
Can the Awami Workers' Party imagine a new and more concrete basis for struggle in the cause of women's liberation?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
We condemn the co-option of the question of women’s emancipation by neo-liberal forces through the de-contextualized celebration of Women’s Day as another opportunity to further the neo-liberal development agenda.
- Women's Oppression and the Struggle for Liberation
A Marxist Analysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Society's mores and culture-on questions of marriage, the family, the roles of men, women and children-are not preordained, but must be studied in their man-made historical context. Emancipation means putting an end to the economic system of capitalism. Thus, for Marxists, the liberation of women cannot be separated from the liberation of all the exploited and oppressed.
- India's Rice Warrior Battles to Build Living Seed Bank as Climate Chaos Looms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Rice conservationist Debal Deb grapples with 'mindless Indian elite' to reintroduce genetically diverse, drought-tolerant varieties
- Hungary Law Requires Photographers to Ask Permission to Take Pictures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Civil code that outlaws taking pictures without permission of everyone in the photograph is 'vague and obstructive' say critics.
- WikiLeaks, Ukraine and NATO
A Relentless March to Russia's Doorstep
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Is the Russian occupation of the Crimea a case of aggressive expansionism by Moscow or aimed at at blocking a scheme by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to roll right up to the Russia’s western border?
- No compassion on immigration
Re: Protesters seek accountability on immigration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The compassionless attitude of our Canadian immigration authorities is becoming the increasingly default position. I commend the protesters who continue to articulate their rage against this.
- Universities Being Used as Proxy Border Police, Say Academics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
More than 160 academics have written to the Guardian to protest at being used as an extension of the UK border police, after universities have come under more pressure to check the immigration details of students.
- Defying Fundamentalism
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A review of "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism" By Karima Bennoune.
- Dirty Water, Dirtier Practices
Ecuador's Battle with Texaco's Legacy Pollution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Texaco (now owned by Chevron) left polluted soil and ground water after 20 years of oil extraction in the Amazon in Ecuador. The legal claims and counter-claims over responsibility and reparation continue.
- Egyptian Women and the Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Radwan focuses on the role women are playing in the Egyptian Revolution, their reasons for being active in the movement, and the repercussions they experience as a result of their involvement.
- Egypt's Revolution at Three
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Radwan examines the Egyptian Revolution and the rise of General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi after the ousting of President Morsi.
- Fish, Phosphates and Tomatoes
Morocco Exploits Western Sahara's Natural Resources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Morocco is making considerable profits from the land and waters of the annexed Western Sahara, and no external power, including the UN, has challenged this.
- Honoring Marta Russell (1951-2013)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A tribute to the life and work of the late disability rights advocate Marta Russell.
- Inside Komen's NGOized Culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The authors analyze the monopoly that the Komen Foundation has over breast cancer research and how the process of "NGOization" has cultivated a consumer culture in how participants engage with the movement.
- It's War on the Poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Miah analyzes the increase in numbers within the working poor class and the economic structures that keep them poor.
- Lineages of the Arab Revolt
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A review of "Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East" by Adam Hanieh.
- The Lives of Amiri Baraka
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A tribute to the life of author and poet Amiri Baraka who was active in the American Black Arts movement.
- Mainspring of the Arab Revolt
A review of Lineages of Revolt by Adam Hanieh
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
This book ought to be read — or better, studied — by every socialist interested in the Middle East.
- Not Your Father's Far Right
Populist Radical Versus Traditional Extremism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
All over Europe, the new, populist far-right parties have become part of the political scene. They're not defined, as the old far-righters used to be, by what they want, but by what they don't want.
- A Political Witch-Hunt in the Name of "Academic Freedom": In Defense of the American Studies Association
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Wald provides insight into the American Studies Association's decision to boycott Israeli universities and defends the group's decision against the backlash given by the media and academia.
- Reproductive Rights Assaulted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Feeley examines the lack of rights American women have in regards to reproduction, abortion, and access to contraceptives as legislations currently in place bar women from having full coverage or information regarding their options.
- Review: Defying Fundamentalism
A review of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Concerned with the rising Jihadist fundamentalism on one hand, and increasing discrimination against Muslims following 9/11 on the other, and having in mind the question repeated by many commentators — “Why don’t Muslims speak out?” — Bennoune documents the voices of Muslims in various ways victimized by Islamic fundamentalists.
- Searching for Sustainability
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Review of "State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?" by the WorldWatch Institute.
- Socialist Feminism in the 21st Century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Brenner analyzes socialism in the 21st century, with a new discourse of gender equality that focuses on transnational feminism, community alliances, the mobilization of members, and overcome the divisions between social classes.
- State of the "Recovery"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The editors provide an overview of current issues in American politics, such as the debate over minimum wage, Wall Street, immigration reform, the Trans Pacific Partnership and the need for economic recovery.
- Studies About Workplace Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A few published studies about workplace violence.
- Superheroes for the Empire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Estébanez examines the parallels between pop culture superhero fiction and contemporary politics as writers are inspired to make implicit statements about current ideologies.
- Yes, There is an Alternative!
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Review of "Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism" by Peter Hudis.
- Yes, There is an Alternative!
A review of Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism, by Peter Hudis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Peter Hudis has written a valuable analysis of what Marx said on a critical issue. In this sense it reminds me of Hal Draper’s volumes on Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution. Hudis’s subject matter differs from Draper’s in that it deals with what comes after the revolution, rather than with how we get there. It also differs in method: While Draper was centrally concerned with Marx’s politics, Hudis, writing in what’s called the Marxist-Humanist tradition, sees engagement with Hegel’s dialectic as an essential part of creating a Marxism adequate to ever-changing times.
- Let's Point a Satellite at GCHQ and the NSA, and See How They Feel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Turning the tables on the spy agencies would be a fitting form of radical retaliation for their webcam prurience.
- Optic Nerve
Millions of Yahoo Webcam Images Intercepted by GCHQ
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Britain's surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal.
- Maidan, Ukraine ... Tahrir, Egypt ... The Square Symbolises Failure, Not Hope
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The lesson of Egypt for Ukraine is that defiant crowds may destroy an old regime – but they seldom build a new one.
- Central American Women Put their Lives on the Line for Human Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Solidarity is at the heart of an initiative that seeks to protect women activists facing harassment, death threats and violence.
- Scandal of Europe's 11M Empty Homes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
More than 11 million homes lie empty across Europe – enough to house all of the continent's homeless twice over – according to figures collated by the Guardian from across the EU. Housing campaigners denounce the 'shocking waste' of vacant homes.
- Defeat of Reconstruction and the Betrayal of Black Freedom Part Two
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
During Reconstruction, black people fought to assert their American-ness. Throughout the South, it was blacks and their allies who would march, parade and celebrate the Fourth of July, but not out of gross and vulgar American patriotism. Rather, it was part of a struggle to uphold the ideals of freedom and liberty that came with the Civil War and the promise of equality that came with Reconstruction.
- Campaign to Halt Female Genital Mutilation tops 150,000 Signatures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Guardian-backed campaign calls on Education Secretary Michael Gove to launch initiative to protect girls from being mutilated.
- Defeat of Reconstruction and the Betrayal of Black Freedom Part One
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Reconstruction was a tumultuous, brief and extraordinary period of American history defined by an unprecedented experiment in interracial democracy. It was an era of exceptional developments, all taking place simultaneously and impacting one another.
- Pete Seeger was the best of us
Re: Folk music legend's spirit lives on at Brampton camp
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Pete Seeger was the best of the human spirit exemplifying hope and love and passion for social justice.
- Back to the Land in Romania
A Pig, Milk and Cheap Veg Against EU Agribusiness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The EU sends Europeanisation agents across Romania to end subsistence farming and encourage agricultural competition. But those who have turned to self-sufficient farming because of austerity resist the world of the CAP.
- The Real Cost of a Cheap Burger
Fastfood Workers Go Hungry: Is that the American Dream?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
America’s fastfood outlets are not restaurants but food systems serviced by cheap labour in de-skilled jobs — employees so badly paid that they need state aid and charity. They went on strike in North Carolina last summer.
- Tunnel Vision
Will the Air Force kill its most effective weapon?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Should the U.S. Air Force A-10 attack planes should be eliminated?
- Australia's Asylum Policy
Teenage Detainees' Plight Shines Light on Regime
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Human rights groups say Coalition's hardline approach to immigration flies in the face of international law.
- From Maoism to Trotskyism
Recollections of a Participant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In 1968, a massive movement of radical students in the U.S. was attracted to Maoism. By 1972, the movement had already ruptured and was rapidly dissipating. What happened?
- Ukraine Turmoil
Capitalist Powers in Tug of War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The ongoing aim of the Western imperialists is to establish a client state on the border of Russia, which under the rule of capitalist strongman Vladimir Putin has increasingly become a thorn in their sides. And Ukraine would be a big prize. Its industrial base supplies the Russian market, and its Black Sea and Crimean peninsula territories are of strategic importance to the Russian military.
- Clara Zetkin
Oppression, Class, and Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Lindsey German responds to John Riddell's article, 'Clara Zetkin in the Lion’s Den'.
- NHS Patient Data to be Made Available for Sale to Drug and Insurance Firms
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Drug and insurance companies will from later this year be able to buy information on patients once a single English database of medical data has been created. Privacy experts warn there will be no way for public to work out who has their medical records or how they are using it.
- The Nigerians Who Dare to Speak of Love as a Tide of Anti-gay Hatred Rises
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A new crackdown on gender minorities has led to arrests and fears of mob violence. But a brave few are still fighting for sexual freedom.
- The Saints Go Marching Out as the Face of Islam Hardens in Pakistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The Sufi-influenced tradition of Barelvism, with its shrines, music and meditation, is reeling under an ideological assault from severe, Saudi-funded Wahhabism, religious leaders warn.
- Museum and Gallery Curators Reopen the Cabinet of Curiosities Concept
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Stuffed pelicans, bell-jarred oddities and unicorn horns: the wunderkammer – or 'cabinet of curiosities' – is a macabre, colonial throwback. So why is it back in vogue?
- Against Our Better Judgement
How the U.S. was used to create Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
An account of how U.S. support enabled the creation of modern Israel, and of how U.S. politicians pushed this policy over the forceful objections of top diplomatic and military experts.
- Austerity Against Democracy
An Authoritarian Phase of Neoliberalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
- Beautiful Trouble - Pocket Edition
A Toolbox for Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
Ideas for organizers.
- Black Workers, Fordism and the UAW
Book Review of Bates's "The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of Beth Tompkins Bates's analysis of how the automotive industry provided an opportunity for African Americans to fight for equal working rights, unionize, and forge an alliance with white workers.
- Breadking the Grid, Making Our Class
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Yang provides a reading of E.P. Thompson's "The Making of the English Working Class" through the lens of contemporary and historical working-class revolutions and struggles.
- Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
- The Cat at the Wall
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
- Civil Rights, Poverty and Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Oppenheimer examines poverty in the United Stated during the 20th century and analyses the power structures that have prevented improvements to the basic living standards in American society.
- Down With Tory Crackdown on Prostitution!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The Tories, who have slashed billions from social programs and caused immeasurable harm to poor and working-class women, have fraudulently promoted Bill C-36 as a way of protecting victims of "exploitation." In this they are backed by an unholy alliance of right-wing outfits like REAL Women of Canada and the feminist groups that make up the Women’s Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution.
- Ecuador's Bitter Choice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Becker analyzes the politics behind the decision to extract petroleum from Ecuador's ecologically fragile Yasuní National Park.
- Free and Accessible Transit Now
Toward a Red-Green Vision for Toronto
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The free transit model makes public transit a right of all people, which would dramatically increase its use. While serving he vast majority of Torontonians and strengthening the public sector's role in meeting their needs, it would also address the special mobility requirements of the last mobile and most public-transit-dependent.
- Freedom Now Vision Unfinished
Book Review of LeBlanc and Yates's "A Freedom Budget for All Americans"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Miah critiques LeBlanc and Yates' analysis of the Civil Rights Revolution, in light of the fact that the Freedom Budget issued during this time remains unfulfilled.
- A German Lenin?
Book Review of "In the Steps of Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Writings of Paul Levi" edited by David Fernbach
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A review of the compiled writings of Paul Levi, a leading figure in the German Communist movement.
- The Invisibility of Fascism in the Postwar United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Vials examines the use of the term "fascism" in post-war United States politics since the Tea Party have twisted its meaning to denote a left-wing phenomenon.
- Is the Swiss Health Care System a Model for the United States?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
- A Line in the Tar Sands
Struggles for Environmental Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
The fight over the tar sands in North America is among the epic environmental and social justice battles of our time, and one of the first that has managed to quite explicitly marry concern for frontline communities and immediate local hazards with fear for the future of the entire planet.
- Making Their Own Freedom
Book Review of Rediker's "The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A review of Rediker's re-centering of The Amistad Revellion toward a bottom-up perspective from that of the African slaves involved.
- Manufacturing Bankruptcy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The authors analyze the politics behind Detroit's manufactured bankruptcy through an analysis of capitalism's expropriation of assets in order to produce wealth -- a process that is at the expense of the working-class majority.
- Much Has Been Said...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In the wake of Nelson Mandela, Finkel brings attention to contemporary political activists being imprisoned by their governments.
- Nelson Mandela's Long Walk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A look at Nelson Mandela's book, "Long Walk to Freedom" in the context of the apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1980s.
- On E.P. Thompson's Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In a tribute to E.P. Thompson, Cohen gives insights into his work "The Making of the English Working Class" regarding its valuable focus on the self-activity and self-organization of the people.
- Organizing Immigrant Labour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Barriers to unionizing the smelter workers of Trail, British Columbia, during the Second World War.
- Organizing that Changed Mississippi
Book Review of Salter Jr.'s "Jackson Mississippi" and Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A review of two books about the Mississippi's civil rights movement in 1965 from the perspectives of an African-American female student and a Native American male professor.
- Petition in Support of Letter: Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of Nazi genocide unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
- Police Terror in the Big Apple
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Scott exposes the realities of police brutality and the character of organized opposition in New York City.
- Postcolonial Thought's Blind Alley
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Throughout the 20th century, the anchor for anti-colonial movements was, at least for the left, a belief that oppression was wrong wherever it was practised, because it was an affront to basic human needs for dignity, liberty, wellbeing. But now, in the name of anti-Eurocentrism, postcolonial theory has resurrected the cultural essentialism that progressives rightly viewed as the ideological justification for imperial domination. What better excuse to deny peoples their rights than to impugn the idea of rights, and universal interests, as culturally biased? No revival of an international and democratic left is possible unless we clear away these ideas, affirming the universalism of our common humanity, and of the threat to it from a universalising capitalism.
- Resisting the Occupation with Olive Oil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
About Zatoun, which brings Plaestinian olive oil to Canada.
- Revolutionary Medicine - A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2014
The story of the building of a hospital in Ciriboya, Honduras -- an authentic, grass-roots, community development project, from the initial community meetings, the organized planning, the community defense committees, to the actual bricks, mortar and staffing. The viewer of Revolutionary Medicine is guided through the process in a series of compelling interviews with doctors, patients and community protagonists.
- The Rise of British Imperialism
Part II: Capitalism and Slavery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
On the ascent of Britain as the first modern imperialist power.
- A Saga of Revolution
Book Review of Reiss' "The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A review of Tom Reiss' biography of Alexandre Dumas, a largely underemphasized figure in the French Revolution and the slave trade during the 18th century.
- Slavery's Harrowing Reality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A review of the film "12 Years as a Slave" in the context of the literary genre of slave narratives.
- System Change Not Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Stopping climate catastrophe and winning a world of climate justice is a critical task of our generation -- and it will require a radical transformation of society and of our relationship with nature. This pamphlet examines the climate crisis, Canada's contributio, and the development of colonialism and capitalism that led us here.
- Why We Reject the "Constituent Assembly" Demand
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Our rejection of the call for a constituent assembly reflects both the historical experience of the proletariat and the extension of the Marxist program over the years.
- Will the Iran Deal Hold?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Finkel explores the underlying reasons behind Israel and Saudi Arabia's disapproval over the United States' nuclear weapon deal with Iran.
- "You Can't Kill a Revolution"
Book Review of Bloom and Martin's "Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A book review of Bloom and Martin's "Black Against Empire" and a look at the interpersonal relationships between the members of the Black Panther Party that allowed the group to gain support.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2014
A newsletter with news and articles about current issues, as well as news from the realm of grassroots archives and people's history. Also featuring selected items from the Connexions Calendar, Seeds of Fire, book, film and website of the week, and news about the Connexions project.
- Pakistan: Bloody Origins of the Z.A. Bhutto Regime
Part Two: The Bangladesh War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013 Published: 2014
The Pakistani military expected to put a quick end to the nationalist aspirations of the Bengalis. Just before midnight on 25 March 1971, Pakistani troops led by General Tikka Khan launched "Operation Searchlight," an orgy of killing directed against the civilian population of Dhaka and other cities and towns. Working-class and Hindu neighbourhoods in Dhaka were attacked with tanks, mortars and machine guns. Using prepared lists, soldiers went door-to-door gunning down Awami League activists. U.S.-supplied tanks led a military assault on student residences at the University of Dhaka. The students and teachers who were killed were dumped into a mass grave in the football ground.
- Pakistan: Bloody Origins of the Z.A. Bhutto Regime
Part One: Hidden History of the 1968-69 Workers Upsurge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013 Published: 2014
Pakistan’s 1965 war with India over Kashmir -- a reactionary war in which the working class had no side -- was a key turning point in Bhutto’s career. The Pakistani military's poor showing provoked a bitter backlash against the regime among much of the population. Following the signing of a January 1966 armistice agreement in Tashkent, student demonstrations erupted in cities throughout the country. Despite being a principal architect of the war, Bhutto emerged as a national hero, denouncing the Tashkent accords (which he had helped negotiate) and accusing the regime of having given away at the peace table what the generals claimed they had won on the battlefield. In November 1967, Bhutto launched his Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) based on a combination of virulent anti-Indian chauvinism, "socialist" demagogy and paeans to Islam.
- Deputation Opposing Island Airport Expansion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
It is absurd to have a major airport on a city's waterfront. The negative impacts -- air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, massively increased traffic, the risk of planes taking off and landing with a few hundred meters of homes and schools -- are clear and unacceptable.
- Ontario's Announcement to Fill the Refugee Health Gap a Win for Migrant Communities
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Health for All welcomes yesterday's announcement that Ontario will join Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, and Quebec in filling the gap left by federal cuts to refugee health care and send the federal government the bill.
- Deputation to the Toronto Board of Health regarding proposed expansion of Island Airport
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The waterfront is a highly utilized collective space that we have highly invested in to be used for recreational activities that promote health and fit into the city's vision of increasing green space. Why would we destroy it with an expanding airport?
- Porter's corporate interests can't be allowed to trump public health
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
We are concerned that it will be the children who live, study and play less than 300 metres from the current airport in the high-rises, the Waterfront school, Little Norway Park, the daycare and community centre who will be most affected by the addition of jets. Consider that landings and takeoffs generate the highest emissions and that peak airport periods coincide with times children walk to and from school.
- The Budget/Deficit Deal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Some serious ruling class intervention finally presented John Boehner an instruction he couldn't refuse: Get the Harry Reid-Mitch McConnell Senate deal to the House floor for a straight vote to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling.
- Canary Islands vs. Big Oil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Thousands of Canary Islands residents and activists have begun campaigning against Spanish oil company Repsol, and the potential oil spill that could devastate the wildlife and tourist and fishing industries.
- Dirty South
The Foul Legacy of Louisiana Oil
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
On the workings and effects of the oil industry in Louisiana, including a particular focus on legacy lawsuits, through which landowners have sued companies for contamination of properties leased to produce oil and gas.
- Dream Worlds Here and There
Book Review of "2312" by Kim Stanley Robinson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Short reviews Robinson's "2312," which concerns the state of a world three hundred years from now in which a twisted version of the dream "another world is possible" has come to pass, where nothing stops the daily grind of class oppression and ecological devastation but the sheer ruin of the Earth itself.
- E.P. Thompson: Feminism, Gender, Women and History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Winslow reflects upon her experiences working with E.P. Thompson at the University of Warwick in 1969, especially in relation to his support for the women's liberation movement.
- Forging the Capital Security State
Book Review of Panitch and Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
"The Making of Global Capitalism" recounts how the United States came to rule and continues as the primary architect, coordinator and essential guarantor of the present empire of capital.
- Job makes us sick
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Corporations blame individual workers for their own state of health, which in reality is adversely impacted by unsafe work conditions individual workers have little or no control over. When management puts austerity and cost-cutting ahead of well-being, individual human beings pay the price.
- The Man Who Saves You from Yourself
Going Undercover with a Cult Infiltrator
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
An account of the life and work of David Sullivan, a San Francisco-based private investigator who specializes in cults.
- Mexico in Labor's Crucible
Book Review of Roman and Arregui's "Continental Crucible" and Gomez's "The Collapse of Dignity"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
These two books deal in important and interesting ways with the question of building a real labour movement throughout North America.
- A Militant, "Minority" Union?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
At the AFL-CI0 convention in Los Angeles in September 2013, a small group of rank-and-file workers managed to alter the convention agenda -- by threatening to protest the presence of Kaiser Permanente, which happens to be their employer.
- Museum of the World and Image
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Challenges the "official narrative" that re-writes the Civil War as a struggle of "national security" against an "internal communist threat," manifested in the form of unions, student groups, human rights and refugee organizations, progressive Christian base communities, and the peasant insurgency of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
- The New "Politics from Below"
Book review of Raul Zibechi's "Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Zibechi's "Territories in Resistance" centres on the practices in Latin American movements, such as the Zapatistas and the Landless Workers Movement, analysing their strengths and weaknesses over time vis-à-vis the central governments that they helped bring to power.
- No Easy Victories
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
In today's "new Middle East" with its cauldron of Arab upheavals and the likelihood of longterm revolutionary processes, the United States cannot dictate terms unilaterally.
- Obama, African Americans and War on the Working Poor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Malcom X's speech given nearly 50 years ago still remains valid today even in the age of the first African-American president and a sizable Congressional Black Caucus. While much has changed legally and socially -- upper-class African Americans can work and live almost anywhere if qualified -- much hasn’t changed for the working poor who are Black.
- On Syria Crisis and Prospects
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
This article speculates and considers the probable outcomes and consequences that could result if a U.S. bombing campaign against Syria takes place.
- On the Perils of Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Barak Obama's September 10, 2013 address, originally meant to mobilize Congress in support of an authorization for using military force against Syria, turned into a "life-saving" speech for Obama avoiding embarrassment and political defeat.
- The Passion of Richard Seymour
Book Reviews of "The Liberal Defence of Murder" and "UnHitched: The Trial of Christopher Hitchen" by Richard Seymour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The books of Richard Seymour skewer the predictable platitudes and puncture the sanctimonious pretensions of the "Pro-War Left," what was a transatlantic confederacy of journalists, public intellectuals, and bloggers that championed the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq as a "humanitarian intervention."
- A Poet for Our Planet
Book Review of Friedman's "A Turnpike Utopia"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Azure provides a review of Friedman's poems within the collection "A Turnpike Utopia" dealing with issues of AIDS, workers' rights, racism, and the mistreatment of immigrants.
- The Politics of Extractivism
Book Review of "Geopolítica de la Amazonía: Poder hacendal-patrimonial y acumulación capitalista" by Alvaro García Linera
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
García Linera's work is most certainly an expression of the dramatic changes in Bolivia and the "cultural and democratic revolution" Morales and his MAS party claim to have inaugurated.
- Roads to the Arab Uprisings
Book review of "The Journey to Tahrir" eds. Sowers and Toensing and "The Arab Revolts" eds. McMurray and Ufheil-Somers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The strength of all the essays in these two collections is that the principal trends the authors analyzed have become critical background to recent events in Egypt and Syria during the summer of 2013, even as the nature of these events continue to shift.
- Thompson, William Morris and Ecosocialist Tasks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Bernabe highlights E.P. Thompson's biography of William Morris and his theories regarding ecosocialism.
- Which Way Out for Detroit?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Feeley discusses the prevention of further home foreclosures in Detroit through a consideration of two of the most urgent issues: unemployment and evictions. These indicators reflect the poverty of the city -- where 35% live below the poverty line according to the 2009 U.S. Census.
- Louisiana prisoner released after 41 years in solitary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Herman Wallace, who is dying of cancer, endured long legal battles after his 1972 murder conviction.
- Content and Its Discontents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
On the negatively changing nature of journalism and the press in the digital age, including four potential pillars of a reformed press that will restore the exchange value between news publications and their readers.
- A Kangaroo in Obama's Court
Will the Guantánamo Tribunal Execute a Man We Tortured?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Can a tribunal born of an impatient contempt for due process prove itself a legitimate institution of American law? On trial by military commission at Guantánamo's courtroom.
- Denying health coverage to injured migrant workers is shameful
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Imagine getting injured at work, and instead of going to a hospital or seeing your health-care provider, you are deported from Canada.
- How not to grow a new town
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
For years the governments of Peru, and the municipality of Lima, had a working deal with rural migrants who flocked to the city: we'll plan the place, you build it, amenities will arrive. Then came the cheap neoliberal substitute of granting land titles -- and the speculation began.
- Online initiatives abound at the Library of Congress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Card catalogues vanish from sight at the Library of Congress.
- Leave Yemen, US tells citizens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The United States and Britain on Tuesday told their citizens to leave Yemen in the light of intelligence apparently gathered from overseas communications intercepts showing a serious but unspecified threat against western and US interests. The US was reported to have begun evacuating citizens immediately on military flights.
- Plan already disastrous
Re: City shocked by proposal to extend runway
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Having jet airports close to communities is dangerous and unhealthy.
- The women of Greenham Common taught a generation how to protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The women of Greenham Common taught a generation how to protest. Thirty years on, the lessons of their occupation are as relevant as ever.
- Life as a Terrorist
Uncovering my FBI file
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
An essay about William Vollmann's uncovering of his FBI file.
- Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism – and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative – this work shows that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society which informed the whole of his approach to political economy.
- Mexico's war on drugs is one big lie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Anabel Hernández, journalist and author, accuses the Mexican state of complicity with the cartels, and says the 'war on drugs' is a sham. She's had headless animals left at her door and her family have been threatened by gunmen.
- A Very Perfect Instrument
The ferocity and failure of America's sanctions apparatus
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Essay on the U.S. system of sanctions and its international negative repercussions.
- We can't go on like this
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The legitimacy of capitalism as a way of organising society has been undermined; its promises of prosperity, social mobility and democracy have lost credibility. But there has been no radical change. The system has repeatedly come under fire, but it has survived. What has happened? What can be done about it?
- Wrong Answer
The case against Algebra II
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Why force all students to take algebra, which most of them will never use in their future lives? Why not let those students who like math, take math?
- India is taking acid attacks more seriously
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Women campaign for courts and public to take notice of impact of devastating assaults.
- NSA files: why the Guardian in London destroyed hard drives of leaked files
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A threat of legal action by the government that could have stopped reporting on the files leaked by Edward Snowden led to a symbolic act at the Guardian's offices in London.
- So the innocent have nothing to fear? After David Miranda we now know where this leads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The destructive power of state snooping is on display for all to see. The press must not yield to this intimidation.
- Google: don't expect privacy when sending to Gmail
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
People sending email to any of Google's 425 million Gmail users have no "reasonable expectation" that their communications are confidential, the internet giant has said in a court filing.
- China and India 'water grab' dams put ecology of Himalayas in danger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
More than 400 hydroelectric schemes are planned in the mountain region, which could be a disaster for the environment.
- Altruism Can Be Contagious
Contagious Altruism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Altruism inspires more altruism, according to many studies.
- Unregulated oil fracking boom does permanent damage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
We know about the dangers of pollution from fracking. But its lethal, long-term byproducts and the ease with which they leak or are dumped may be causing worse problems in a state that can’t even question them.
- Privacy tapped out
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
For over a century, Americans and their judiciary fiercely fought any attempt by security agencies and law enforcement to listen in on private electronic communications. Now they’ve stopped fighting, and the surveillance is out of control.
- Zero-hours contracts cover more than 1m UK workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Poll of more than 1,000 employers reveals controversial contract used far more widely in the UK than government data suggests.
- Letter to Toronto City Council regarding jets at Toronto Island airport
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
We are writing to express grave concerns regarding the proposal to expand the Billy Bishop Airport to jets. We are community health physicians and are extremely alarmed by the potential health harm of jets which will particularly impact the community that lives in such close proximity to the airport.
- Emptying the World's Aquarium
The dismal future of the global fishery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Essay on the fishery at the Sea of Cortez, Mexico and the implications of environmental conservation policies on the local fishermen's economy.
- The Homeless Herd
An Indian village battles an elephant invasion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The struggle of villagers against elephants raiding theIR crops at Nohotia, India.
- The soundcloud city
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Cities are increasingly saturated with visual information -- advertising, instructions, prohibitions -- so smart marketing is shifting its attention to a new battleground in its quest for your attention -- your ears. Sounds are used to attract and repel, to inform and sell. Private companies and public services try to seduce customers through their ears, or to discourage non-target groups.
- Archbishop of Canterbury embarrassed about church's financial link to Wonga
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Justin Welby 'irritated' to discover Church of England holds indirect £75,000 stake in payday lender he singled out for criticism.
- US drone strikes in Yemen cast a long shadow over life on the ground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Unmanned aircraft create refugees and resentment among civilians as remote provinces become a battleground.
- Healthcare in China: GSK claims prompt crackdown on corruption
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Fallout of bribery allegations against British company shows the state wants to be seen to act to clean up murky system.
- You selling to me?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Individually targeted online marketing, based on unwittingly supplied consumer information and monitoring of online activities, is replacing conventional advertising media.
- Ancient Greece, the Middle East and an ancient cultural internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The ancient Greek world is being recast from an isolated entity to one of many hybrid cultures in Africa and in the East.
- Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.
- The man behind the great Dickens and Dostoevsky hoax
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
When writer AD Harvey invented an 1862 meeting between Dickens and Dostoevsky, it was for years accepted as fact. So why did he do it – and why did he also create a series of fake academic identities?
- Croatia's entry fee
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The country has a long coastline and history of sailors, fishermen and shipbuilders, but EU membership will probably put an end to one of its oldest industries. The yards had to be completely privatised before Croatia officially joined the EU on 1 July, 2013.
- Where Syriza stands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Syriza leads the leftwing coalition in Greece, and the opposition to the external financial occupation of the country by the states and organisations that are at present keeping it from bankruptcy.
- Kuwait's citizens without rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Kuwait depends on the labour of foreign nationals, and of its underclass who do not have formal proof of nationality.
- Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia offer asylum to Edward Snowden
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
President Maduro offers to protect NSA whistleblower 'from persecution by the empire' and rejects US extradition request.
- The boss is spying
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The data mining by large U.S. corporations gets less attention than U.S. government surveillance. It goes beyond the tracking of every mouse-click, purchase and "like" registered by every consumer on the internet, and relies not only on sophisticated electronic devices, but on the currency of fear and sheer intimidation which would make a Big Brother tyrant proud, the kind depicted in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984.
- Forget One Direction - We Need a New Direction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
If people think equality and social justice are unrealistic, then we really are lacking in imagination. When they try to tell you that our better-world ideals are unrealistic, tell them it's unrealistic to allow elite bankers to send tens of millions of people into starvation.
- In the Valley of Conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The story of the Kashmiri Pandits, a minority group driven from their home in the beautiful but strife-torn Kashmir Valley, is rarely told by progressive media. Their suffering is part of Kashmir's continuing troubles.
- Let us prey
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Cheaply buying up 'bad' debt owed by countries in distress and aggressively suing for full payment plus compound interest -- that's the modus operandi of the secretive companies known as vulture funds.
- Marxism and "Subaltern Studies"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A review of Vivek Chibber's book Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital.
- Fighting the poachers on Africa's thin green line
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Underpaid, ill-equipped and outnumbered, park rangers fight a one-sided war against vicious gangs of poachers. Hundreds have been murdered in the defence of endangered wildlife, and their deaths leave their own families in jeopardy. David Smith reports from Zambia.
- Obama defiant over NSA revelations ahead of summit with Chinese premier
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
President says oversight of NSA surveillance programme should be left to Congress in comments criticising media 'hype.'
- Bangladesh's exploitation economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Before the collapse of Rana Plaza, which killed over a thousand people, most of them textile workers, there was the fire that killed a hundred at the Tazreen factory. A major cause is western companies' greed for profits.
- Boracay islanders fear for their lives in battle with Philippine tourist trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Hotel security guard is charged with murder after shooting of spokesman for Ati people, who claim ancestral land rights.
- Promised Land
Will Brazil's rural poor ever inherit the earth?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Article on the historical rural poverty of the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
- Mes Aynak: Afghanistan's Buddhist buried treasure faces destruction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Mes Aynak, a magnificent Buddhist city, is the most important archaeological discovery in a generation. But it is sitting on a vast copper deposit and is about to be destroyed.
- Mali: Timbuktu's literary gems face Islamists and decay in fight for survival
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Daring by a dedicated few saved many manuscripts in Mali from Islamists.
- Police retain DNA from thousands of children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Some 120,000 gene samples have been taken in two years, as police forces argue they are acting within the law.
- Ukip: the battle for Britain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A exposé on Ukip, which wonders: is it a lunatic fringe or a sign of things to come?
- Guadeloupe and Martinique threatened as pesticide contaminates food chain
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Chemical once used on banana crops threatening livelihoods and public health by polluting soil and sea.
- May 5, 1818: Birth of Karl Marx
Seeds of Fire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Marx breathes dialectics and revolution. For Marx, radicalism means going to the root, and Marx's radicalism seeks to go to the root of capitalism, to comprehend its essence dialectically, to understand its inherent contradictions - and the seeds of revolution it contains.
- Why parents should leave their kids alone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
What if the best thing we could do for our children is to set them free? Jay Griffiths explains why moden parenting often makes children miserable.
- Capitalism's violence, masses' revolt show need for total view
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
News and Letters' Draft Perspectives Thesis. Our age is in such total crisis, facing a choice between absolute terror or absolute freedom, that a revolutionary organization can no longer allow any separation between theory and practice, philosophy and revolution, workers and intellectuals, “inside” and “outside.”
- Judging workers for control and profit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The computer with its air of objectivity has come to dominate human beings. The usurping of human judgment pervades all of society, from healthcare and education to manufacturing and the judicial sphere. Human empathy and understanding have been replaced by automated thinking that mimics the computer. Reclaiming our own minds is a step towards human freedom.
- China commits billions in aid to Africa as part of charm offensive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
China has committed $75bn (£48bn) on aid and development projects in Africa in the past decade, according to research which reveals the scale of what some have called Beijing's escalating soft power "charm offensive" to secure political and economic clout on the continent.
- In Spain they are all indignados nowadays
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The indignado protests that flared up two years ago have become a Spanish state of mind.
- Files that may shed light on colonial crimes still kept secret by UK
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Secret government files from the final years of the British empire are still being concealed despite a pledge by William Hague, the foreign secretary, that they would be declassified and opened to the public.
- Gene wars: the last-ditch battle over who owns the rights to our DNA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A US biotech company is fighting to protect the patents it took out on a test for a cancer-causing gene. Scientists say a win for the firm would set back a growing ability to detect diseases.
- The high price of cheap meat
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A tiny percentage of the wrong animal passed off as beef in industrially processed food in western Europe? It’s a small misdemeanour set against the misuse of the world’s agricultural land to produce the luxury of meat.
- Climate change: how a warming world is a threat to our food supplies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Global warming is exacerbating political instability as tensions brought on by food insecurity rise. With research suggesting the issue can only get worse we examine the risks around the world.
- 150 Years Since the Emancipation Proclamation
Finish the Civil War!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The Emancipation Proclamation was a pledge, a promise. It only freed slaves in areas that were not yet controlled by Union armies, true enough. But in that sense it was like the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which didn’t make any of the colonies free—it took a victorious war to free the colonies from British rule. The Emancipation Proclamation bound the defense of the Union to the destruction of slavery.
- The extraordinary range of people using offshore hideaways
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Secret records obtained by ICIJ represent the biggest stockpile of inside information about the offshore system ever obtained by a media organisation, and lay bare an extraordinary range of people using offshore hideaways. The leaks illustrate how offshore financial secrecy has aggressively spread around the globe.
- The Awakening
Ron Paul's generational movement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Article on the upsurge of THE movement that Ron Paul (from the Republican Party) initiated. This 'Awakening' is characterized for its emphasis on peace and liberty.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013 Published: 2014
This No-Nonsense Guide looks deeper into the idea of economic growth – to trace its history and understand why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful.
- Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Noam Chomsky is one of the world's most controversial thinkers. Now 84, he reflects on his life's work, on current events in Syria and Israel, and on the love of his life – his wife.
- How Brown Moses exposed Syrian arms trafficking from his front room
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A Leicester-based blogger's monitoring of weapons used in conflict has been taken up by media and human rights groups. Never having been near a warzone has not stopped him from breaking some of the most important stories on the Syrian conflict in the last year.
- Rise of the naked female warriors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Known for its topless protesters, Femen is a worldwide movement against patriarchy. But are the activists' breasts obscuring the message?
- The airport malls
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
An airport is a zombie zone between two worlds. The retail spaces are seductive, yet you didn't choose to shop here. You didn't choose to be here. They are controlling you, guiding you, harassing you: will you be able to resist a purchase?
- Hugo Chávez and me
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Tariq Ali's thoughts on how Hugo Chavez, the late president of Venezuela, will be remembered by his supporters as a lover of literature, a fiery speaker and a man who fought for his people and won.
- Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents.
- The oil war
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Declassified documents now reveal what everybody, especially the Iraqis, always knew: the US invaded Iraq to secure its oil supplies for US and allied companies. It hasn't quite worked out as planned.
- Connexions: Perserving and Sharing People's History
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A short overview of the Connexions project, including a statement of The Case for Grassroots Archives and the Connexions statement of values.
- Are our household appliances getting too complicated?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Tom Meltzer explains why function inflation is such a turn-off.
- Literary lists: Proof of our existence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Katie Kitamura on why novelists are compulsive list-makers.
- Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Anonymous billionaires donated $120m to more than 100 anti-climate groups working to discredit climate change science.
- Filipino women take lead in resolving Mindanao conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Teresita Quintos Deles and Miriam Coronel Ferrer won over Islamic leaders who initially balked at dealing with women.
- Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Raytheon's Riot program mines social network data like a 'Google for spies', drawing ire from civil rights groups.
- War on the seabed: the shellfishing battle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
In the fertile inshore waters of the west coast of Scotland, a battle is brewing between small-boat fisherman and industrial trawlers.
- A user's guide to artspeak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
There is now a name for the pompous prose used by art galleries: International Art Speak. You need to speak it to be a part of art culture.
- Lincoln: A Review
Civil War, Not Compromise, Smashed Slavery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Lincoln—Steven Spielberg’s new movie reduces the abolition of slavery to so many parliamentary maneuvers.
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
Economic Writings 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
- Fight the Power!
A Visual History of Protest Among the English-Speaking Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Throughout history, ordinary people have risen up against oppression and injustice. Fight the Power visualizes 14 key moments in the last 200 years when people across the English-speaking world stood up and fought for a better life for all.
- The History of Democracy
A Marxist Interpretation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
- Media Names & Numbers 13th Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats.
- The 'Missing Heritability' of Common Disorders: Should Health Researchers Care?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
- Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may change many things, but not human constitutions. His defense of this argument sets the stage for a deliberate, careful explication of the key tenets of historical materialism. This argument is that humans, everywhere, take an interest in defending their well-being and their dignity.
- Privatising the Oceans
Fished out in our Lifetimes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Long-range fishing with the backing of the EU deprives countries elsewhere in the world of employment and a crucial food source. And it is depleting the seas to the point of ecological collapse.
- Toolkit for a New Canada - 2013 Edition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimensionmagazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the second decade of the 21st century. The articles are short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
- Understanding Idle No More
Special Topics in Aboriginal Community Learning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A selection of readings related to the Idle No More movement, and to aboriginal struggles in Canada generally.
- Yes, But What Are You For?
Occupy Wall Street and its Evil Twin, the Tea Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Reading all the accounts of Occupy Wall Street’s theorising in Zuccotti Park can send you to sleep: all academic prose and no real world action or demands. They also make explicit Occupy’s resemblance to its enemy, the Tea Party.
- Notebooks 1936-1947
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012 Published: 2019
Victor Serge - writer, novelist, revolutionary -- left the Soviet Union in 1936 and spent the rest of his life in exile, first in France, then in Mexico. His notebooks, written in the years of fascist and Stalinist ascendency, combine grief at the state of the world with resilience, curiosity, steadfast adherence to his principles, and a love of life and culture.
- Health care is for everyone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The proposed cuts to health coverage for refugees by the Harper government are misinformed and mean-spirited. They will most certainly have a devastating impact on refugees who are already in a vulnerable state of physical and mental health.
- Presentation on grassroots archives at Beit Zatoun
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A copy of the text of this talk, as well as an audio recording, are available in the Connexions Archive.
- Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012 Published: 2017
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
- Sources 70
The Directory of Experts and Spokespersons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
A directory of contacts for journalists, editors, and researchers who need to reach experts and spokespersons to provide background information and comment on a wide range of topics.
- Grassroots archive information sheet
About your archive - collection - resource centre - library
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Connexions is working on a project to help network grassroots archives and collections of materials about activist and radical history. If you have a collection of social justice materials in your basement/locker, etc., and would like to participate in an exploration of co-operative archiving and/or searching for shared space, please fill out this form and email it to Connexions.
- African odysseys turn to the south
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Fewer than 5% of African migrants now want to reach Europe or America. They’re looking instead to neighbouring countries, or the continent’s dreamland, South Africa. It’s a long, hard way there, and they may be no better off if they reach it.
- Gypsies who went nowhere
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The EU misclassification of Roma as inherently itinerant has done considerable, and continuing, damage to groups of often deeply rooted people.
- Call it as it is
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Now is the time to see that most of our problems are the result of the insatiable greed of the very few. And to say so, clearly and repeatedly. It’s the only way to start changing towards reality.
- How to Rig an Election
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Election fraud in the United States in the era of computerized voting machines controlled and programmed by far-right corporate executives.
- Resistance in China Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Cases of Resistance in China continue to grow. Protests both large and small are extremely frequent. These range from workers’ protests against unpaid wages and demands for labor rights to protests against corrupt officials and environmental abuses. While these struggles have often been brought to a swift end through repression, they have also frequently led to protestors being granted concessions.
- After the Arab spring, the struggle continues on a university campus
A dispute between a secular academic and conservative Islamists threatens the peace at a Tunisian university
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A university administrator takes a stand against religious extremism.
- MoD staff and thousands of military officers join arms firms
Guardian research in the aftermath of the 'jobs for generals' scandal shows extent of links between MoD and private sector
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Conflicts of interests are brought to light as senior military personnel depart the military and transition into the private sector side of the military industrial complex.
- Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
- Collective Memory, Archives, and the Connexions project
Michael Riordon interviews Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2012
An interview with Ulli Diemer about the Connexions project, collective memory, and the importance of archives and the challenges faced by those who work to preserve them.
- Landmines still exacting a heavy toll on Vietnamese civilians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
37 years on, unexploded bombs continue to ruin lives in the former wartime frontline regions of Vietnam.
- Little regard for poor countries
Re: Factory fires fill 314 in Pakistan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The lack of regard for the poorer countries in our world and their citizens, including workers, continues.
- Mass Incarceration and Black Oppression in America
The New Jim Crow and Liberal Reformism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The singular focus on mass incarceration as the embodiment of racial oppression has a purpose: it poses the fight for black freedom as a matter of "dismantling" that system, much as the civil rights movement dismantled Jim Crow. But mass black incarceration is both a symptom and a means of enforcing the special oppression of black people that is fundamental to American capitalism
- False positives: fraud and misconduct are threatening scientific research
High-profile cases and modern technology are putting scientific deceit under the microscope
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Better detection tools and a rising retraction rate suggest scientific fraud may be widespread.
- Moken nomads leave behind their 'sea gypsy' life for a modern existence
Brought to the world's attention by the 2004 tsunami, the seafaring tribe is struggling to reconcile tradition and modernity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The Moken, deep-sea divers off Thailand, find their way of life threatened by modern trawlers and voracious property developers.
- World's conservation hopes rest on Ecuador's revolutionary Yasuni model
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A plan to preserve the most biodiverse region on Earth from oil exploitation has put Yasuni national park at the frontline of a global battle between living systems and fossil fuels. But enthusiasm is cooling and this bold project may now be at as much at risk as the wildlife itself.
- All Over the Map
A Revolution in Cartography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
On the effects of the digital revolution in cartography, including a discussion of Ken Jennings' Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks and Rebecca Solnit's Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas.
- Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho: 'I don't scare easily'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Lydia Cacho is one of Mexico's most fearless journalists. Her investigations have led to attempts on her life, and now she has been forced to flee her country. What next?
- The Only Game in Town
An Unlikely Comeback for Dying Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Private newspaper owners have vaulted themselves into a historically unique situation, which enables them to sculpt the news to serve their personal interests while circumventing the costs that come with true adverserial journalism.
- Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
- The modern US army: unfit for service?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Gone are the days of the all-American army hero. These days, the US military is as likely to be a sanctuary for racists, gang members and the chronically unfit.
- How to Start a Magazine
The Basics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A list of practical suggestions for starting a magazine via several frequently asked questions by new and would-be publishers.
- The village where people have dementia -- and fun
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
How is society to look after the ever-growing number of people with dementia? A curiously uplifting care home near Amsterdam may have the answers.
- Wade Michael Page and the rise of violent far-right extremism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The man who opened fire in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin was not just a crazed loner, but a vocal neo-Nazi – in fact, his white supremacist ideology reflected a growing form of extremism that expresses its strength through violence rather than at the ballot box.
- Cruise industry chafes at regulation that would help clean up Alaska's air
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The cruise ship Sapphire Princess will emit the same amount of sulphur dioxide as 13.1m cars as it takes its guests from Whittier, Alaska to Glacier Bay and eventually Vancouver.
- Broken Heartland
The looming collapse of agriculture on the Great Plains
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Today, the idea of a return to nature, which a pair of academics named Frank and Deborah Popper, first described twenty five years ago in a scholarly article entitled "The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust," has become central to almost any conversation about the region's future.
- Why is India so bad for women?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Of all the G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be a woman. How is this possible in a country that prides itself on being the world's largest democracy?
- Berlin's oldest squatters in town defend threatened community centre
Pensioners take a stand against development of their comunity centre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Dozen of pensioners took over a community centre in the east Berlin suburb of Pankow last month after the local council said the building they had used as a community centre for 15 years had to make way for real estate development.
- The mass graves of Kashmir
India's dirty war unmasked
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
For 22 years this contested region has endured a regime of torture and disappeared civilians. Now a local laywer is discovering their unmarked graves and challenging India's abuses.
- Chinese shrine seeks stock-market path to financial nirvana
Zhejiang's Mount Putuo is latest sacred site to contemplate listing, prompting alarm over commercialisation of Chinese culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Mount Putuo in Zhejiang is the latest of several religious sites whose administrators have announced plans for a multimillion-pound stock-market flotation.
- Beyond Solidarity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The American sociologist Richard Sennett has explored themes of class and social exclusion for more than 40 years. Horatio Morpurgo speaks with him about his recent book Together: The Rituals, Pleasure and Politics of Co-operation.
- Kazakhstan's 99 per cent
Protests by Kazakhstan's oil workers in 2011 were crushed, but anger remains over huge inequalities of income and lifestyle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Kazakhstan could be among the world’s top 10 oil producers by 2020, but the Kazakhs who get the oil out of the ground don't benefit much from it. In May 2011 thousands of oil workers in western Kazakhstan began the biggest strikes since the country emerged from the breakup of the USSR.
- The Legacy of Forest Defender Chut Wutty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
On the life, work, and death of the late Cambodian forest activist Chut Wutty, shot and killed at a logging site by military police.
- Redemption Road
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A four-month-long walk on an ancient pilgramage route offers young offenders a different pathway. Adam Weymouth reports on the slow healing of Oikoten.
- Museum of Endangered Sounds enshrines audio from bygone era
Saved from the silence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A website preserves outmoded electronic sounds that are lost to the world.
- My life as a bibliophile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
From school prizes to writing his own novels, the author reflects on his lifelong bibliomania and explains why, despite e-readers and Amazon, he believes the physical book and bookshops will survive.
- Richard O'Dwyer: living with the threat of extradition
Student who set up website posting links to TV and film content fears being used as a guinea pig by Hollywood giants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Richard O'Dwyer's web-linking site would place him at the heart of the titanic running battle between the Hollywood giants – struggling to keep their beleaguered business model intact in the online era – and a new digital generation unwilling to play by the old rules.
- Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
The searing account of Chris Hedges' and Joe Sacco's travels to sacrifice zones, those areas in the United States where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize profit, places that have been offered up for maximum exploitation in the name of profit and progress.
- Western Uganda: crop-raiding elephants call for plan bee
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Attempts to stop the destruction of farmers' crops around Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park had failed until research into elephant reactions to bees provided an answer.
- Brazil's Quilombola Hit by Major Land Tax
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
For decades, marginalized ethnic communities in Brazil have fought for--and won--land rights. But this victory is turning into something of a poisoned chalice for some remote Quilombola communities, who are now facing a giant tax bill.
- Child Migrant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
An article in the June-July 2012 issue of Canada's history, about children sent from Britain to Canada.
- Goodbye Welfare, Hello Workfare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The world’s richest countries are coercing their citizens to ‘donate’ their labour to big businesses and other organizations in return for welfare payments.
- Preparing the Ground
Left Strategy Beyond the Apocalypse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Richard Swift considers the fall -- and future rise -- of left politics.
- Tools That Might Help Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A list of ideas that different groups and social movements have suggested for inclusion in the Rio+20 Final Declaration. At the time of writing, only two -- Planetary Boundaries and the Ombudsperson for Future Generations -- appear to have much chance of getting into the official text.
- US was 'key player in cyber-attacks on Iran's nuclear programme'
Obama reported to have approved bid to target Tehran's nuclear efforts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Fresh light is shed on the rapid development of US cyberwarfare capability and reveal its willingness to use cyber weapons offensively to achieve policies.
- Inside Halden, the most humane prison in the world
Amelia Gentleman visits Halden, the high-security jail in Norway
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A look into the flagship prison of Norway, where recidivism after two years is only 20%, and the focus is on rehabilitation rather than punishment.
- Medicare Myths and Realities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine public support for, and confidence in, the health care system, with the goal of gradually undermining and dismantling it.
- Jamie Oliver: 'Tell me Mr Gove, Mr Lansley. How can we stop Britain being the most unhealthy country in Europe?'
In the 10 years since opening his Fifteen restaurant, Jamie Oliver's campaigns have gone global. But his passion to improve British schools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Jaime Oliver continues in his challenge to the educate people on healthy eating, with or without the British government's aid.
- Escape from Camp 14
The first political prisoner born in a North Korean labour camp to make it past the fence and flee
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
An excerpt from a book of the same title narrating the harrowing experiences of Shin Dong-hyuk. He is believed to be the only camp-born person to have escaped the North Korean prison labor camps that detain up to two hundred-thousand political prisoners.
- Rendition ordeal raises new questions about secret trials
Fatima Bouchar's story reveals involvement of the British government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Investigative reporting on the rendition (initiated by British intelligence officers) of Libyian Islamist militants who sought to oust Muammar Gaddafi.
- US has a new tool to control the masses
No one should want the state to have power to strip your clothes off. And yet that's what is happening, thanks to the supreme court
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Denouncing a new US Supreme court ruling that allows police to strip search any person who is placed under arrest for any offence at any time. Wolf says this state sanctioned sexual humiliation is a troubling anti-democratic development in a nation that is quickly expanding police powers.
- Tree-top vigil highlights destruction of Tasmanian forest
Miranda Gibson hopes to bring international attention to the unprotected status of the ancient forests that are threatened by logging
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
For more than three months, 30-year-old Gibson has been living high above the canopy floor that is the home to some of Australia's most threatened indigenous wildlife, including the Tasmanian devil and spotted-tail quolls.
- Sierra Leone: local resistance grows as investors snap up land
Farmers and activists more transparent about large-scale land deals with foreign firms and t
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Ten years after the end of civil war in Sierra Leone, the government is taking great pains to attract large-scale agribusiness investments, which it says will help boost exports and employment opportunites.
- Scandal forces Cameron to give details on Tory donor dinners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Information has come to light that the British Prime Minister hosted private dinners in his official residences for wealthy donors.
- Media Names & Numbers 11
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats.
- Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
- From Google downwards, our digital masters must be watched
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Commentary on how the wielders of power who scrutinize our actions should be held in check, in the same way as politicians.
- Revealed: government plans for police privatisation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Private companies could take responsibility for investigating crimes, patrolling neighbourhoods and even detaining suspects under a radical privatisation plan being put forward by two of the largest police forces in the country.
- A Civil Tongue
South Sudan tries to learn English
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
South Sudan has proclaimed English its official language as part of an attempt to encourage economic growth.
- Somaliland: open for business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The self-declared independent state in the north-west corner of conflict-ridden Somalia has been an oasis of calm, and it is now seeking foreign investment.
- State and mafia take their cut as Italians develop gambling habit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Economic crisis and legalisation of slot machines help drive 20-fold rise in spending over a decade.
- Mobile reserves could save marine species
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Mobile marine nature reserves have been advanced as a tool to protect highly mobile marine mammals such as seabirds, turtles and sharks. These would protect migratory routes and mating grounds during certain times of the year.
- One latrine at a time
Liberia's president is unusually frank as she agrees that toilets are fundamental to creating a healthier country
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Diarrhoea kills more children than HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined – and its main cause is food and water contaminated with human waste. Liberia's president is trying to change all that. Building latrines must be a key priority to promote health and sanitation.
- Panama's indigenous champion defies president's mining deal
Canadian-Korean consortium plans 30-year gold, silver and copper project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In Panama the Ngabe-Bugle indigenous community fights to keep a Canadian copper mining company off their land.
- Buoyant thinking for the future
Homes that float could provide a solution for often-flooded regions in Thailand
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Building amphibious homes in Thailand that are designed to weather the annual flooding.
- Amazon defenders face death or exile
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Ordinary Brazilians who report illegal logging face threats to their lives.
- Fred Zierenberg, 1949-2012
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
- Designs on equality
City planning is a mechanism of discrimination - it mainly serves the able-bodied
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The idea of “universal design” is to stop creating public infrastructure that privileges one particular group, whether it’s car drivers, the able-bodied or those with paycheques, and start envisioning people with parallel but not identical mobility and sociability needs: children, teens, seniors, new immigrants, those on low incomes, parents, those with sports injuries or with physical and mental limitations, and those who care for any of the above.
- All Politics is Local
Election night in Peru's largest prison
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Daniel Alarcon explores the internal politics of Peru's largest prison.
- Killing the Competition
How the new monopolies are destroying open markets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Barry Lynn discusses how today's markets have moved away from the openess they are supposed to represent.
- Some Assembly Required
Witnessing the birth of Occupy Wall Street
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Nathan Schneider describes his experiences inside the early days of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
- The strike that led to Tahir Square
An act of courage that launched a revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Labour struggles at Egypt's largest cotton mill, starting in 2006, laid the groundwork for the revolution of 2011.
- The contribution of trees to our lives: it is time to take stock
French botanist Francis Hallé makes a case for the defence of trees as a powerful ally in saving the Earth's ecosystems
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A reflection on the impact of trees in the world and the necessity of improving urban forestry out of self-preservation.
- French farmers will have to pay to use their own seeds
'Compulsory voluntary contribution' to seed companies extended to 20 more types of crops, and use of saved seeds for other crops banned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
French government to begin cracking down on enforcing plant breeders' rights -- farmers will have to pay to use farm-saved seed.
- The Arab Spring, the West and Political Islam
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The contemporary Arab political system, until the recent outbreak of Arab revolutions, is the byproduct of a number of domestic, regional and global arrangements and developments in the post-World War II international order.
- The CIA's Death Machine at Work (book review)
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In compelling detail, two leading civil rights attorneys — both leaders of the Center for Constitutional Rights (New York) — recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the world’s most popular revolutionary, Ernesto Che Guevara. Using internal U.S. governmental documentation, only recently released, the authors use their forensic skills to analyze the evidence of the CIA’s involvement in the execution of a war prisoner captured alive.
- C.L.R. James' Visionary Legacy
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In order to understand the connection between Black History Month and revolution, we must explode the stifling separation between art and everyday life that bourgeois society everywhere seeks to impose on us.
- A Convergence of Realities
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
What's striking the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Movement and its popular slogan “We are the 99 percent” is how much the central demand of the movement resonates with the Black community. African Americans with few exceptions are in the bottom 20% of income and wealth. Double digit unemployment is the norm in “good” economic times.
- The Debate at Halle
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
There were two defining moments in the history of the international working-class movement in the first half of the 20th century. The first, by far the most discussed and written about for obvious reasons, was the revolution in Russia in October 1917 and its subsequent isolation and defeat. The second was the disaster in the German movement, which had been for half a century the model of a militant, socialist working-class movement, and the subsequent collapse of that movement in the face of Nazism.
- Detroit's Crisis -- Coming to You?
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
There are two realities to grasp about the current plight of Detroit. Reality one: Detroit is caught in a set of interlocking crises, from the level of the world economy and national political gridlock down to the viciously reactionary Michigan state government and the yawning divide between the city and suburban Detroit, that would severely challenge the most competent, the most visionary, the most energetic and most progressive city leadership.
- A Doctor's Quest
The Struggle for Mother-and-Child Health Around the Globe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Recounting medical missions in half of the thirty countries in which she has worked for the past twenty-five years in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific -- from Darfur in Sudan to Papua New Guinea and Bhutan -- Dr. Gretchen Roedde shares the grim reality of world politics, bureaucratic red tape, and corruption on the front lines as a doctor in mother-and-child health and HIV/AIDS.
- An Education in Occupy
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Two months earlier, I had been sitting in class listening to an ILWU member talk about Export Grain Terminal’s (EGT) union-busting tactics in Longview, WA. “Great,” I thought, “but how can I help from the campus of a little college in Moraga, California?”
- Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
An interview with Atef Said, a human rights lawyer and a political activist in Egypt before moving to the United States in 2004. He is the author of two books on torture under Mubarak.
- Fighting Back: Sotheby's and OWS
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Forty-two teamster art-handlers at Sotheby’s auction house in New York City have been locked-out of their jobs for more than four months. Against the Current interviewed Sotheby’s shop steward David Martinez about what’s at stake, and how they’ve built links with the Occupy movement to fight back.
- France: The NPA in Crisis
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
France's new Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA) is in crisis. While only two years ago many on the international left talked about the NPA as one of the brightest lights on an otherwise dim revolutionary horizon, today the Party is hemorrhaging members and struggling to stay afloat.
- Freedom Riders
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
When Hillary Clinton expressed dismay over gender segregation on buses in ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem — where women are forced to sit separately — she somehow neglected to mention the Jewish-settlers-only bus system in the Occupied Palestinan Territories.
- From "Occupy" to ...
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The question isn't whether the magnificent “Occupy” movement will continue after police action and the onset of winter have largely emptied the encampments. The righteous rage that made the movement possible, and the enormous social and economic crisis that made it necessary, are not going away anytime soon. Quite the contrary — capitalism’s inherent contradictions, made worse by economic policies in Europe and the United States that seem calculated to maximize the damage, pose the real possibility of a new global financial meltdown and potential world depression.
- Hitler's Bestiary from the Inside
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Over a decade ago, I spent several months poring through the Martha Eccles Dodd papers at the Library of Congress. I was driven to research her life while working on a book about Left feminist culture and anti-fascist resistance in the McCarthy era. I had just read two of Dodd’s novels (Sowing the Wind and The Searching Light) and was driven to find out more about the sources of Dodd’s attraction to antifascist causes.
- How Laws Assault Queer People (book review)
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Queer (In)Justice is authored by Joey Mogul, a partner at the People’s Law Office in Chicago and director of DePaul University’s Civil Rights Clinic; Andrea Ritchie, an attorney and organizer who works on issues of police misconduct; and Kay Whitlock, an organizer and writer around structural injustices.
- The Inconvenient Indian
A Curious Account of Native People in North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
- Israel's Worldwide Role in Repression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Researched, written, and edited by members of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, this pamphlet focuses on the role of Israel’s government, its military, and related corporations and organizations in a global industry of violence and repression. The states most involved with this industry profit from perpetual war and occupation across the globe while maintaining vastly unequal societies of their own.
- Mumia Faces Life in Prison
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
On Wednesday, Decemerber7, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams held a news conference to announce that the city will no longer seek the death penalty against long-time political prisoner and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jama — convicted in a frameup trial for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.
- The Oakland Port Shutdown
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A personal account of the growing dialogue between the labour movement and the Occupy organizing, as seen by someone heavily involved in attempting to build these linkages.
- Occupy and Detroit's Crisis
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
What's the new center of gravity on the political landscape? Dan La Botz has provocatively remarked that Occupy Oakland’s November 2 shutdown of the Port of Oakland — one of the largest recent labor actions — was initiated from outside union structures. Earlier, in New York City, on the morning Mayor Bloomberg dispatched police to expel Occupiers from Liberty Park, 5,000 people — many city workers, transit workers and teachers — turned out, forcing him to back off.
- Occupy Isla Vista for the 99%
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Isla Vista is an unincorporated community within the Santa Barbara County, a gentrified ghetto on the sunny seaside of southern California packing 23,000 people within its meager 1.8 square miles. The core is composed of students studying at the nearby University of California, with a largely ignored community composed of Latino/Latina working-class and other permanent residents, including a houseless population.
- Our Great Lakes Commons
A People's Plan to Protect the Great Lakes Forever
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 2012
A booklet on the proposal to designate the Great Lakes and its tributary waters as a lived 'Commons' that will be protected by a robust legal and political framework.
- Our Harsh Logic
Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2010-2010
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
Testimonies from more than 100 soldiers detailing the viciousness of Israel's military in the occupied Palestinian territories.
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 29
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
- The Police Riot at OccupyCAL
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
I remember as if it were just yesterday. I was linked in arms, peacefully protesting in support and solidarity with the students of UC Berkeley and my friend Meleiza. What I would soon have to witness would leave me traumatized and utterly disgusted.
- Police Violence and Media Coverup
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Among many tactics used by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD ) to disorient, dishearten, and divide members of Occupy Los Angeles during our detention at city jails, one of the more insidious was denying us access to the news.
- Pushing Demands at OWS?
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
A debate is going on about whether Occupy Wall Street should adopt a list of demands. A number of people I know and respect have supported the Demands Working Group in New York and have called for the General Assembly to adopt their list. The draft includes great demands — there is nothing I’ve seen that I don’t agree with, and I’ve worked hard for some of them for much of my life. Yet I keep thinking that pushing the list of demands is not the way to go right now.
- Raising the Workers' Flag
The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
- Rethinking Marxism - Volume 24, Number 1
Special issue: Marxism and Nationalism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2012
- Roots of U.S. Capitalism (book review)
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
This is a thoughtful, learned, stimulating, challenging and altogether valuable volume. It reprints a series of reflections by the Marxist sociologist Charles Post on various aspects of the rise and evolution of capitalism in North America between the colonial era and the late 19th century.
- "Solidarity" Beats Austerity
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The tumultuous month of November 2011 marked the emergence of a powerful and widespread movement on public university campuses throughout California. Brutal police repression of Occupy encampments at UC Berkeley and UC Davis gained national media attention and sparked massive solidarity actions among social justice movements around the nation and the world.
- Sources 69
The Directory of Experts and Spokespersons - Winter-Spring 2012
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
- The Unknown Slave Rebellion
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Though the planters had no difficulty reconciling the wealth they enjoyed and the price the slaves paid, the region’s black laborers did. By aborting their own children, poisoning livestock, lighting fires, and escaping to the cypress swamps, the slaves struggled to dilute, deflect, and if possible demolish slaveholders’ authority. Even open revolt was not beyond question. While it was a card that slaves played only rarely — planters tended to take a dim and deadly view of armed rebellion — the German Coast teemed with violent possibilities. The planters’ world rested on a powder keg to be ignited by the smallest of sparks.
- Why I Stand with Occupy
Against The Current vol. 156
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
- Slucaj za arhivsku osnovu
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Ovaj dokument ocrtava razlog za Connexions-ovu arhivu i knjižnicu, projekt baziran u Torontu koji cuva i dijeli informacije i dokumente vezano za osnovne pokrete za društvene promjene. Connexions sadržava fizicku arhivu materijala, kao i opsežnu online knjižnicu na www.connexions.org.
- An Illustrated Guide to Growing Food on Your Balcony
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011 Published: 2015
A booklet for people in the city who grow or want to grow plants in container. The information is meant to be basic enough for beginners and informattive enough to be a handy reference for even an experienced gardener.
- Charity nice, but no solution
Re: The coolest gift ever - ice time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
This kind of private generosity is fine but one must be clear that this is no funding model. We need a proper progressive tax system in which the rich pay their fair share.
- This bastardised libertarianism makes 'freedom' an instrument of oppression
It's the disguise used by those who wish to exploit without restraint, denying the need for the state to protect the 99%
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
An argument against modern right-right libertarianism, using the concepts of positive and negative freedoms to illustrate.
- Immigrant cleaner leads revolt against Spanish mortgage trap
Aida Quinatoa leads the fightback as Ecuadoreans struggle to escape 'impossible' home loans in their adopted homeland
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Ecuadorian woman using homeland courts to fight punitive morgage agreements in adopted homeland Spain.
- South Africa: Early Years of the Communist Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
A brief history of the beginnings of the Community Party of South Africa.
- Pipeline follies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
There are many of us Canadians who are totally outraged by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's policies on the environment - and particularly the tar sands devastation of the indigenous peoples.
- UK urged to prevent vulture funds preying on world's poorest countries
Campaigners demand Jersey legal loophole be closed as financiers seek $100m from the DRC
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Britain is being urged to help close down a legal loophole that lets financiers known as "vulture funds" use courts in Jersey to claim hundreds of millions of pounds from the world's poorest countries.
- Vulture funds await Jersey decision on poor countries' debts
26 companies hope to double $1bn haul
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Pressure grows to end trade that has made $1bn for speculators but has been blamed for delaying recovery of war-torn countries.
- From 1960s New Left to Trotskyism
Recollections of a Participant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
What I am going to do today is talk about the 1960s—the last time there was serious social struggle in the U.S.—and why some of us concluded that struggle, even quite militant struggle, is not enough.
- Tasers: 'If officers have a new toy, they like using it'
Tasers in the Line of Fire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Tasers are part of the modern police's arsenal. But how safe are they and why are the guidelines for their use so vague? By 2011, Amnesty International had recorded 450 deaths after a Taser firing.
- Is 'urban fiction' defined by its subject – or the skin colour of its author?
Black writers see 'urban fiction' as ghettoising their work.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Why are black authors of urban fiction treated differently from white novelists of the same material? Carlene Thomas-Bailey speaks to self-published black authors in the US who complain of 'seg-book-gation'
- The food rush
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Commodity speculators have moved into food - with dire consequences for the world’s poorest.
- Latin America's Pink Tide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Current governments in Latin America – not quite red and hardly cresting the wave – are discovering that policies of redistribution, for which they were elected, now have limits.
- A freedom that we can't afford
Rightwing thinktanks profess a love of freedom, but their refusal to reveal who funds them is deeply undemocratic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Freemarket thinktanks vastly outnumber those arguing for public spending. The author suggests that these thinktanks allow corporations to exert influence on public life without showing their hand, he advocates for legislation that would insure their funding is transparent.
- Global effects of GM crops questioned
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Twenty Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups have published a damning study, saying that GM (genetically modified) crops have failed to increase yield, while requiring farmers to increase their dependence on herbicides and pesticides.
- Counter Power
Making Change Happen
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "have-nots" can use to remove the power of the "haves." This book sets out to demystify the power dynamics of social change.
- The Mau Mau uprising against British imperialism
Kenya's independence struggle in the 1950s
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In Kenya the colonial rulers imprisoned in concentration camps a large proportion of the million and a half Kikuyu people, the country’s largest ethnic group. The Mau Mau rebellion was essentially a peasant-based revolt of the landless Kikuyu people against colonial rule that had dispossessed them of their lands, the basis of their existence. Although it was ultimately defeated, the uprising forced an end to colonial rule.
- Gay Rights: A World of Inequality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In the 82 countries that still criminalize homosexuality, new NGOs are taking a top down approach to making change. They are liaising with top ranking officials and establishing global legal networks to challange criminalization on the grounds that it contravenes intenational human rights law.
- My politics in brief
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- Who owns Papua New Guinea's Resources Boom?
Where tribes own the land
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Tribal people in Papua New Guinea fight to retain control of their communal lands in the face of 'development'.
- Filipino Maids for Export
'Always be Punctual and Don't Count the Work You are Doing'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Twelve percent of the Philippines’ GDP comes as remittances from nationals abroad. Many of those are maids, sent all over the world into domestic service to support their children back home. The Philippines government is even training them in servitude.
- Germany goes for sustainable capitalism
Greens now just ‘neoliberals on bikes’
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The Greens are likely to be a major part of the next German government; few seem to have noticed that they’ve already been a substantial part of its regional governments for years.
- Guided by Voices
Oral historians are giving a voice to refugees fleeing trauma and persecution in their homelands
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- The Secret Lives of Terrorists
Struggles that Change Little in the Real World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
European groups who took part in violence in the 1970s and 80s did not gain the wide popular support they had hoped for. Interest in terrorism has grown since 9/11, but the motivations for it are not well understood: the transition from radicalisation to violence is neither systematic nor inevitable.
- Revolutionary Women in the Paris Commune
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The Women’s Union was one of the most politically advanced expressions of revolutionary working-class consciousness in the Commune. It was able to lead and organize the widespread popular ferment among women.
- Grand narratives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Those who reject 'grand narratives' have simply bought into the hoariest grand narrative of all, the one which says that capitalism is all-powerful and eternal.
- Good Accounting is M.I.A
City budget system is obsolete: daycare is as much a capital item as bridges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The author calls on Toronto's city hall to recognize that environmental and social programs are a kind of infrastructure in that they create stakeholders in the community. He advocates that the municipal budget treat these as such and consider them an investment rather than an expenditure.
- The Toronto Declaration (Toronto Stop the Cuts)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- 1493
Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Alternate title in the United Kingdom: 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World. A study of the Colombian Exchange -- the biological cross-proliferation between the eastern and western hemispheres and its ripple effects through history.
- Save the feature before it explodes
Several films directed by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1920s are being fully restored
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Nine films Hitchcock directed during the 1920s will be restored by archivists at the British Film Institute before the volatile nitrate reels combust. The film archivists' work and the hirstory of the profession are chronicled in this article.
- Why anger is all the rage
The internet has made critics of us all. But why do so many commenters exploit the anonymity of chatrooms to promote hatred.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Anonymity in the online community has its proponents and detractors, the author interviews the founder of wikipedia and a facebook employee about the importance of moderation in social media. He comes to the conclusion that many of the extremist opinions espoused online would not be published if their authors had to attach them to their names.
- ER certainties: death and co-pays
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Our society has made choices that dehumanize all of us. Dehumanization is felt inside and outside the shop floor. The HMO's bottom line is not about how well the patient's illness is treated, but how to minimize costs. They remind us employees daily that we're a business. The corporate ethos is the survival of the business above all, over anyone else's survival.
- The poor against the poor
'Up for it to cause havoc' on the streets of London
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The August riots in England may foreshadow far worse: they are the result of almost 30 years of deliberate destruction of a way of life and work that had a place for even the least-educated of young urban men.
- Social geography of a night of plunder
‘Up for it to cause havoc’ on the streets of London
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In London last month every local uprising, or as a notice in a closed Clapham pub read, ‘social unrest’, had different origins and manifestations. And very few of them were riots.
- The pleasure principle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Wilhelm Reich invented 'the Orgasmatron' and claimed that better orgasms could cure society. Then the FBI got involved.
- Iceland's Loud No
Can't Pay Back, Won't Pay Back
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The people of Iceland have now twice voted not to repay international debts incurred by banks, and bankers, for which the whole island is being held responsible. With the present turmoil in European capitals, could this be the way forward for other economies?
- Riding a wave of economic growth
Asian charities, awash with cash, are filling the gap left by the west
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Asian charitable organizations have grown in number and capacity in recent years, partly filling the gap left by western organizations and donors that have been crippled by the recession.
- Madrid barrio expels 'racist' police patrols
Jeering crowds chase away officers who try to detain immigrants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Community protests police practice of racial profiling: the protests have been dubbed the "indignant" movement.
- Norway lets fathers do their share
Paternity leave law has helped to create a quiet revolution in childcare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In Norway, twelve weeks of the forty six weeks of paid parental leave is reserved for the father. If he chooses not to take the leave the time and money is forfeit. The legislation is designed to promote equality in the household as well as the job market and has been adopted in Iceland, Germany and Portugal.
- Vanishing Lifeline
Water is essential, but Earth's growing population are draining supplies and wells are running dry.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Water supplies in the Middle East and north Africa are built on an environmental Ponzi scheme. The UN estimates that by 2025 two thirds of the world's population will face water shortages. Aid for the water shortage crises has drastically declined in the past decade as is seen as "unsexy" causes.
- 'Independent' currency hit by fraud
More than nine million dollars of online cash was stolen this weekend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Bitcoins are mined as a result of intensive calculations carried out on PC's throughout the world. Political hackers have been accused of the theft and the future of the currency remains unsure.
- Line in the sand: Africa's 'green wall' aims to stop desert's growth
Villagers will help establish 15km-wide swath of trees as a nature reserve
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The Great Green Wall is a pan-African plan to halt desertification through reforestation.
- The unrecognised truth behind that 'spontaneous' Belfast riot
Violence was planned by manipulative, self-interested individuals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
An analysis of sectarian violence in Belfast between the loyalists and republicans and the international media coverage of this violence, which often frames it as political.
- What Great Recession?
Global report finds nearly 11million 'cash millionaires'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The richest people on the planet have now recouped the losses of the 2008 world markets crashed. High Net Worth inidviduals have at least one million in readily available funds, and there are more of them than ever before.
- Uk needs modern mosques
The third generation of British Muslims still don't have mosques that teach compassion and citizenship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
An Islamic woman's opinion column mourns the lack of modern mosques in England. She discusses her search for a place where her children could learn Arabic and how to read the Qu'ran without facing violence or being forced to cover their faces or change their hair.
- Pharmageddon: how the US got hooked on prescription drugs
White House declares prescription drug abuse in US 'alarming' as thousands flock to Florida – the home of oxycodone pill mills
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
An investigation into the underground trade of oxycodone, a widely abused prescription drug. Ninety-eight percent of prescriptions in the United States come from southern Florida, where doctors at "pill-mills" can see up to one hundred patients in a sitting.
- How the 'ecosystem' myth has been used for sinister means
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
When, in the 1920s, a botanist and a field marshal dreamed up rival theories of nature and society, no one could have guessed their ideas would influence the worldview of 70s hippies and 21st-century protest movements. But their faith in self-regulating systems has a sinister history.
- Google can't be trusted to look after our books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The author warns that Google's lack of accountability to the public could put its digital collection in jeopardy should it become too expensive to maintain. He argues that the protection of cultural resources should be in the hands of the public sector.
- A Revolutionary Marxist History of May Day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The revolutionary heritage of May Day
- Get your head out of the clouds
If we allow our personal data to be stored in giant electornic centres, we deserve what we get
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Appraising the risks to personal data held in cloud computing systems.
- Air safety pinned on isolated controllers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The problem of acute fatigue among air traffic controllers has been known. It was studied by sleep scientists genuinely concerned about the workers and public safety. Studies have shown that the kind of shift scheduling to which controllers are subjected affects behavior in the same way several alcoholic drinks would. That is especially true of constant shift changes and stacking eight-hour shifts as close together as possible, like working five shifts in three days.
- Revolution and counter-revolution take world stage
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2011-2012
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Revolution and counter-revolution have forced their way back to the center stage of history. First in Tunisia, then in Egypt, revolutions have opened up tremendous new possibilities and spread the fire of their passion from Libya and across the Arab world to Iran, Europe, the U.S. and China. Counter-revolution has reared its head in many forms as well.
- Strategy and tactics: how the left can organise to transform society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
John Rees draws on the experience of recent mass movements and past revolutions to suggest ways in which the left can maximize the effectiveness of all those who want to transform society.
- 'Evil' is in reality a lack of empathy
It is one of humankind's strongest emotions; its absence lies at the root of human cruelty. How can we study it?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
A psychopathologist reframes the debate around 'the root of evil' by attributing it to a lack of empathy.
- The American right is trapped in a hyperbolic and dysfunctional world
To have credibility within the Republican party is to have none outside it.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
On the Republican primary race and the problem of credibility that socially conservative candidates who mobilize the Republican base will face in a general election regarding their appeal to centrist voters.
- Deadly Secret
A 1940s whistle-blower uncovers hidden evidence linking asbestos to cancer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- US military taps 'sock puppets'
Fake personas on social websites to manipulate and influence opinion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
A new $2.76 million dollar 'counter-terrorism' initiative to create a pro-America online presence using fake online personas is underway. These interventions will not be conducted in English or on American sites, but will be Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and Pashtu speaking "sock-puppets".
- The school funding debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The great divide in public schools reflects the increasing divide in Ontario and Canada.
- Google a great painting
Project allows users to get a close-up view of works from 17 museums
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Google's Art Project allows viewers to browse works from 17 museums including the Metropolitcan Museum, MoMA, The National Gallery, Tate Britain and others in super-high resolution.
- Handcuffed and herded
My big Alpine adventure with Switzerland's police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
A journalist at the World Economic Forum Summit is detained and intimidated along with protestors by Swiss police.
- Protesters cast shadow over US billionaires' rally in the sun
Koch brothers to host rightwing politicians and business leaders to discuss how to influence politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The Koch brothers' annual rally of rich Americans and rightwing media figures was hosted to raise money for anti-government think tanks and climate change denial. This year a counter rally was orgnaized by Common Cause.
- Mubarak's third force terror tactic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
President Mubarak unleashed his 'personal' thugs in a failed attempt to silence protestors seeking an end to his regime.
- Tahrir: Shock and awe Mubarak style
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- Letter to Mayor Ford regarding funding for Immigrant Women's Health Centre
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
The health work done at Immigrant Women's Centre is high quality care involving all aspects of immigrant women's reproductive health.
- Fuck Hamas! Fuck Israel! Gaza youth offers up a cry of despair
Rapid global reaction to cyber-manifesto surprises its drafters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
A group of Palestinian youth put out a manifesto that calls for an end to divisive party politics in Gaza and the West Bank. The youth want peace and freedom.
- About Connexions - Farsi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- About Connexions - Japanese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- Acerca de Connexions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Connexions es un proyecto canadiense creado para conectar a las personas que trabajan por la justicia social, con información, recursos y otras personas.
- The Arab Revolts Against Neoliberalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- Connexions Archive home page
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2011
The Connexions Archive & Library is Toronto-based project dedicated to keeping alive the rich history of grassroots movements for social justice.
- Connexions Információ Megosztási Szolgáltató
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Czech text
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- Ulli Diemer - Brief Bio
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Ulli Diemer is a Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
- Enlightening Disillusionments
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Memoirs of an Israeli whom the Zionist dispossession and oppression of the Palestinians turned into a humanist and therefore anti-Zionist.
- False Prophets of Peace
Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Honig-Parnass unearths the central role played by the Israeli Left in laying the foundation for the colonial settler project and its campaign of dispossession.
- Get Up, Stand Up
Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Levine offers insights into the epidemic of political passivity in America and analyzes how major U.S. institutions have created helplessness and fatalism. He proposes ways of recovering dignity, energy, and unity in order to wrest power away from the corporatocracy.
- Love and Capital
Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A biography of Karl and Jenny Marx.
- The Next American Revolution
Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Why revolution is not only possible and necessary, but in some places already in the making.
- Our Way to Fight
Peace-work under siege in Israel-Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Documents the lives and work of grassroots peace activists, Israelis and Palestinians fighting for justice and human rights on both sides of the wall. The book also explore events that stirred people to action, and the escalating risks they face in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The title is borrowed from a young Palestinian who makes and teaches film in the Jenin refugee camp. "This is my way to fight," he said. Like other people featured in the book, he is a peace activist. Like them he is also, in his own way, a freedom fighter. If a just peace can grow in this beautiful, hard land, the seeds for it will have been planted by people like these.
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 28
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
- The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Stephen Jay Gould was not only a leading paleontologist and evolutionary theorist, he was also a humanist with an enduring interest in the history and philosophy of science. The extraordinary range of Gould’s work was underpinned by a richly nuanced and deeply insightful worldview. Richard York and Brett Clark engage Gould’s science and humanism to illustrate and develop the intellectual power of Gould’s worldview, particularly with regard to the philosophy of science.
- Shoot the Messenger
WikiLeaks: Journalism or Espionage?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
In setting up WikiLeaks, Julian Assange wanted to bring to light secret agreements between countries. That he succeeded is clear from the number of companies and governments who have tried to shut him down.
- Sources 67
The Directory of Experts and Spokespersons - Winter-Spring 2011
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
- Sources 68
The Directory of Experts and Spokespersons - Summer-Fall 2011
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
- Ulli Diemer - Brief Bio - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- Una diferente forma de democracia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
- An Unfinished Revolution
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A study of Marx's analysis of the American Civil War as a conflict about slavery, not tarrfifs. Marx saw the north as a bourgeois republic, and the south as expansionist.
- What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism
A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
- Why Marx Was Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Eagleton takes common objections to Marxism and demonstrates how and why they are wrong.
- Work
Capitalism. Economics. Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
About work in capitalist society.
- Grassroots media relations
A short introduction to media relations strategies for activist groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010 Published: 2017
A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
- Marx at the Margins
On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010 Published: 2016
Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
- The Problem of the Democratic Opposition Organization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010 Published: 2014
The basis for this proposal is an attempt to address the classic dilemma of the broad democratic opposition. In summary it is the need for a competent professional cadre to implement the changes needed, combined with the maintenance of a democratic and effective membership control of this 'elite'.
- The War on Unhappiness
Goodbye Freud, hello positive thinking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A report on the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference in Anaheim, California.
- About Connexions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010 Published: 2011
- Cheap clothing proves far too dear
The death of workers in Bangladesh are just the latest tragedy that springs from the west's addiction to fashion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
In Bangladesh one hundred workers died in a garment fire, a common occurence plaguing a workforce that already has the distinction of being the "most poorly paid in the world". The author investigates the market forces that drive the terrible conditions and compensation for workers in this export industry.
- Cotton-pickin trade
US and European growers receive government subsidies while farmers in Mali struggle to survive on 300$ a year
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Inequity in the global tradiing system of cotton means that farmers in West Africa struggle to survive. International prices have been driven down by subsidies and disproportionately disadvantage the poorest producers. The author inteviews these farmers and investigates the benefits of fair trade cotton in West Africa to the producers and their communities.
- Ignorance and Courage in the Age of Lady Gaga
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
It can be safely said that cultural ignorance consists of the rational, sensible questions that never get asked. But it also includes the weird ones that are. For instance, one of the questions asked regarding tasering school kids is: What is the allowable weight range of a child to be tased? (Taser manufacturers say 60 pounds.) Somehow, by this geezer’s prehistoric reasoning, that sounds like the wrong question.
- Extremism goes mainstream
Across Europe far-right parties are gaining power by forming coalitions while liberals have failed to find a coherent response
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Right wing extremist parties that attempt to stir up racial and ethnic prejudices have been gaining support during the recession in Europe. In Denmark, the Netherlands and Italy liberals already form coalition governments with such parties. Both centre right and centre left political leaders across Europe are coming together to form a coherent response.
- Bright Frenetic Mills
Easy Chair
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Chronicling the decline of the print media industry and the rise of market driven online content mills, the author speculates about professional standards in journalism and how they might have a hope of being upheld.
- "Autonome Nationalisten"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Die "Autonomen Nationalisten" send eine aesthetisch-stilistische and strategisch-aktionistische Neuerung im deutschen Neonazismus. Durch die Adaption linker Codes und Inszenierungsformen hat er sein Auftreten modernisiert.
- Curiouser and curiouser
Tea Party members aren't foaming at the mouth racist bigots
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A journalist travels to the first National Tea Party Convention in Tennessee as a delegate and finds the other delegates privately share his disdain for the racism and conspiracy theories the group fosters. He describes the delegates as average voters baffled by Obama's health care bill and economic policies.
- The fruits of protest
Russia has shelved plans to break up the historic Pavlovsk seed bank
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The Pavlovsk open air seedbank in St. Petersburg maintains 12,000 species of fruit trees, berries, and flowers. Plans to auction off the land have been placed on hold after protests.
- Saving past is first step to the future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The archives of southern Sudan are all currently housed in a tent donated by USAid. Many documents have been damaged due to the poor storage facilities. The Rift Valley Institute, a non-profit research group and scholars from Oxford plan to digitize and find a permanent home for the collection in the near future.
- Anarchists Unite with Big Brother Against Reds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Campus anarchists support administration censorship of Trotskyist literature.
- The hidden history of Bob Rae's government in Ontario
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Fanning the flames of intolerance
The burning of books -- an ultimate form of control and condemnation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A historical overview of book burnings by political and religious regimes.
- I was wrong on veganism
Traditional livestock production makes ecological sense
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
An environmental reporter reviews the environmental impacts of meat production in the developed world. He finds that First World meat production is incredibly wasteful but that this is not a requirement of livestock rearing so much as an entrenched practice, and offers suggestions for greening the industry.
- Once more around the Bloc
Tactics, democracy, and mass politics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Black Bloc tactics are deeply undemocratic -- and they don't work.
- Internet addiction driving South Koreans into realms of fantasy
Government caught between promoting gaming and restraining its use in world's most wired nation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Two million South Koreans are thought to be addicted to Internet games as the government struggles to deal with the problem.
- The Food Bubble
How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- SNCC's 50-Year Legacy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Celebrating SNCC's legacy.
- Tea Party in the Sonora
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
For the future of Republican governance, look to Arizona.
- Why illegalism is stupid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Doing illegal things makes us look like criminals in the minds of most people.
- Kyrgyzstan faces humanitarian crisis as Uzbeks flee slaughter
Kyrgyzstan shaken by ethnic slaughter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Kyrgyzstan is in the grip of a humanitarian crisis after more than 100,000 minority Uzbeks, fleeing Kyrgyz mobs in the south of the country, gather on the Uzbekistan border.
- The Fire This Time: Burning Bridges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Some activists hold back from condemning tactics that are politically stupid and destructive, like the recent Ottawa arson attack by an anarchist group, because of a commitment to the doctrine of a 'diversity of tactics'. However, the original idea behind a diversity of tactics, that is, a variety of approaches to organizing for change, has been appropriated by activists devoted to property destruction as a media spectacle, who feel that they should be exempted from criticism by other activists, no matter how much their tactics serve to undermine the building of a broad-based movement against capitalism.
- How Canada's Christian right was built
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The religous right is organizing hard, and effectively, to get their hands on the levers of power.
- Joel Osteen: the new face of Christianity
Through the eye of the needle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A profile of the most succesful pastor in America, Joel Osteen, one of those who preach 'the prosperity gospel'.
- They're Recharging Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- A serious newspaper should not confuse Jews and Zionists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
On the eve of the 62th anniversary of Israel, it is important to remember that it was the Zionist minority of Palestine's inhabitants that issued the unilateral declaration of independence. Israel is a Zionist state, not a Jewish one, another important distinction to make in future articles on this burning subject.
- The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement
For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The mass mobilization of black people in the Southern civil rights movement, and the subsequent Northern ghetto rebellions, disrupted and challenged the racist American bourgeois order. It shattered the anti-Communist consensus and it paved the road for the mass protest movements that followed—against the U.S. dirty war in Vietnam, for the rights of women, gays, students and others.
- English Defence League: new wave of extremists plotting summer of unrest
Growth of anti-Muslim group raises fears of street violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A profile of the supporters and the protests of the English Defence League, a right wing anti-Islam group of mostly white, young British men, many of them mobilized through their soccer clubs.
- Notebook: Toward a Second Haitian Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A historical review of economic policy in Haiti since its independence, and the impact of its smallholder's disposession by US policies that sought to 'liberalize' the economy. The author advocates investment in subsistence farming rather than spending foreign aid on foreign imports in the wake of the earthquake.
- The internet's cyber radicals: heroes of the web changing the world
A generation of political activists have been transformed by new tools developed on the internet.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Internet activists speak about censorship, the democratising impact of open source technology, and the importance of oportunities for anonimity in a post 9-11 world.
- Met police face legal action for 'kettling' of protest teenagers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Police in the UK are being sued for using violence against students during a tuition fees protest by three minors who suffered injuries. They claim they were falsely detained and denied medical assistance. Their lawyers believe the police violated the European convention on human rights.
- Black Liberation and the Fight for a Socialist America
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
From slavery to convict labour, from the chain gang to the assembly line, American capitalism has been built upon the lash-scarred backs of black labour. Any organization that claims a revolutionary perspective for the United States must confront the special oppression of black people and their forced segregation at the bottom of capitalist society and the poisonous racism that divides the working class and cripples its struggles.
- Political activists call for inquiry after revelations about undercover police
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Protest groups that were targeted by infiltrators plan legal action to obtain access to police files after disclosures by Officer A.
- Is Israel an Apartheid State?
Rhetoric or Reality? Summary of a Legal Study by the Human Sciences Research council of South Africa
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Do Israel's practices in occupied Palestinian territory, namely the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, amount to the crimes of colonialism and apartheid under international law?
- Pictures of health
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Care-home staff are using books to stimulate those suffering from dementia.
- Funding for Non-profit Media or Public Interest Activities
Part 7 of 7 - Canada's Media in Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A group that launches, or even refocuses, an independent news media project - or raises money for just about any public-interest activity - will probably have success in fundraising if it does the proper research and targets a unique audience. It will need to demonstrate that it offers an important public service, such as providing in-depth coverage of local political, economic, and social issues not covered adequately by other media.
- Conning the Climate
Inside the carbon-trading shell game
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The carbon is, in essence, an elaborate shell game, a disappearing act that nicely serves the immediate interests of the world's governments but fails to meet the challenges of our looming environmental crisis.
- Independent media advocates must develop creative news sites
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
We should be able to come up with two or three practical models that can be used to set up sustainable news and information production and delivery systems.
- Could a 'mini-paper' nip at the heels of mainstream press?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A mini-paper would be incredibly inexpensive to publish. There would be no requirement for newsprint, a huge printing plant or large delivery system.
- Creation of Sustainable Free Media Would Be Huge Breakthrough
Part 4 of The Crisis in Canadian Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Independent media organizations would approach news differently compared to the coverage provided by corporate-owned media.
- Canadian Media in Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
How so-called "business journalism" is often biased and tends to give readers a distorted picture of the news.
- Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Engler documents the fact that the essence of Canadian policy has always been support for the establishment and continued dominance of an expansionist Zionist state in the territories that now comprise Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank.
- Connexions Informacijas Apmainas Pakalpojumi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Connexions (pilns nosaukums: Connexions Informacijas Apmainas Pakalpojumi - Connexions Information Sharing Services) ir centrala tiešsaistes biblioteka un arhivs, kas apkalpo Kanadas iniciativas par izmainam sabiedriba. Šis bezpelnas projekts uztur ari izsmelošu Kanadas asociaciju un NVS raditaju.
- Connexions Library French Title Index
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Connexions Library Persian Title Index
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Consensus decision-making
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Article about the group decision making process known as consensus decision-making.
- Diemer, Ulli
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
- Diemer, Ulli
Connexipedia article - Francais
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Glimpses of the Connexions Archive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- Grassroots Naturism
A guide for the TNS Volunteer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A primer for the naturist volunteer.
- Justice for All: the Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt
A Report by the Solidarity Center
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
A report on recent workers' struggles in Egypt, against falling wages, oppressive working conditions, and violations of workers' rights, in the face of an authoritarian and repressive government.
- Libertarian Socialism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A socialist political orientation which promote a non-hierarchical, non-bureaucratic, stateless society without private property in the means of production. Libertarian socialism is opposed to coercive forms of social organization, and promotes free association in place of the coercive social relations of capitalism
- Live Working or Die Fighting
How the Working Class Went Global
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Mason realtes a series of struggles for worker and human rights over the past two hundred years and compares them to current struggles.
- Making the Most of Your Media Interview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Being prepared for an interview will make you less nervous and more confident, and with confidence comes increased credibility.
- Media Names & Numbers 10
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
- Moffatt, Gary
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Canadian anarchist and activist.
- New Hogtown Press
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.
- Nostalgia de la luz (Nostalgia for the Light)
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2010
In Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers search the sky and explore the origins of the universe. Nearby, a group of women sift through the sand searching for body parts of loved ones murdered and dumped in the desert by the Pinochet dictatorship. The desert also holds the stories of pre-Columbian indigenous societies, 19th-century miners, and political prisoners. A meditation on astronomy, the past, memory, and persistence.
- A Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides.
- The Punishment of Gaza
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
An account of Israel's criminal treatment of Gaza.
- Social Classes in the Process of Capitalist Landnahme
On the Relevance of Secondary Exploitation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
So far, growing social insecurity and inequality have not led to a revival of class-conscious labour movements in the centres of capitalism. This article builds upon Rosa Luxemburg’s concept of Landnahme to attempt to explain this phenomenon.
- SUPA - Student Union for Peace Action
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
A Canadian student organization active from 1964 to 1967.
- The Trouble With Billionaires
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatends everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
- VIP: Very Inventive Procrastinator
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
- A Vision from the Heartland
Socialism for the 21st Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
La Botz argues that to solve the problems of our economy and the environment, and to end America‘s wars abroad, we must begin to create a socialist society. A socialist society is one where the working people collectively own and democratically plan and manage the major industries and enterprises. I call for the abolition of the corporations and of capitalism in order to create a society of plenty for all. I believe that such a society can only be created by building a powerful movement for democracy and for working class power.
- The West Bank
A Collection of Graphic Novels
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
A collection of graphic stories by twelve students from An-Najah University depicting real descriptions of life in Palestine.
- What Would it Mean to Win?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Where is the movement today? Where is it going? Are we winning? The authors of the essays in this volume pose these and other momentous questions.
- Police arrest 8 protesters at Israeli consulate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Toronto police have arrested eight Canadian Jewish women who occupied the Israeli consulate on Bloor Street. The group carried out the occupation to show their opposition to Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip and its two-year economic blockade of the territory, Miriam Garfinkle, a spokesperson, told ctvtoronto.ca on Wednesday.
- Tácticas desesperadas: Acusaciones falsas de "antisemitismo" para silenciar reproches a la conducta de Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
- Tactics of Desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-Semitism' - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
- Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
- La tactique du désespoir : Utilisant de fausses accusations de l'antisémitisme comme arme pour faire taire toute critique sur le comportement d'Israël.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
- Taktyki Desperacji: Uzywanie falszywych oskarzen antysemityzmu jako broni uciszajacej krytyke zachowania Izraela
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
- Düstere Aussichten
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Ist es schon zu spät? Wir wissen, dass bereits vieles verloren ist. Aber wir können nicht wissen, ob bereits alles verloren ist. Man kann im voraus nicht wissen, was eine gemeinsame Aktion alles bewirken kann. Wir befinden uns in der Lage von Eltern, die bereits ein Kind verloren haben, und die sich jetzt überlegen müssen, ob sie für ihre anderen Kinder kämpfen wollen, die in Gefahr aber noch am Leben sind.
- Why Canada must limit the influence of corporate media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Traditional news departments follow unwritten but well-understood guidelines concerning what they should not cover. Most people in the newsrooms have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in corporate ideology that they seldom suggest a story that falls outside of the guidelines.
- Canwest latest 'media giant' to exploit news operations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Media corporations claim to care about quality journalism, but they've deceived Canadians for decades -- censoring news to protect their profits, pandering to the interests of the corporate world, and neglecting to invest adequately in their news operations. For decades powerful media corporations have decided what news Canadians should read, hear, and see. By reading just about any Canadian daily newspaper it's not hard to see how the values of corporate-owned media are quite different from the values and interests of the majority of Canadians.
- Half a man beats none
In Russia and Mongolia, women don't shy away from polygamy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Investigation into the socio-economic motivations behind the movement to legalize polygamy. There are fewer men than women in Russia and Mongolia due to economic migration and alcoholism. Both urban and rural women choose relationships that look like polygamy.
- Vaccine conspiracy theories spring from a society so skeptical that it's actually gullible
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
I wish I could sustain enough faith in humanity to believe in the conspiracy theores that I've heard recently regarding the H1N1 vaccine.
- Capitalism and the Ecological Footprint
Published in Monthly Review, Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The capture of ecological discourse by the political culture of the consensus (a necessary expression of the conception of capitalism as the end of history) is well advanced. In contrast, the expression of the demands of the socialist counterculture is fraught with difficulty—because socialist culture is not there in front of our eyes. It is part of a future to be invented, a project of civilization, open to the creativity of the imagination.
- The Resistable Rise and Predictable Fall of the U.S. Supermax
Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The modern supermax regime is an aberration in American corrections. Based upon a penitentiary model that was dismissed as unsound more than 150 years ago, it was resurrected in the late 1970s and ’80s during the greatest period of growth of the penal state, and at a time of government anxiety about the rise of radical political movements, both in and out of prison. However, the enormous expense of supermax-style solitary confinement and its evident failure to decrease prison violence or recidivism, combined with lawsuits alleging abuse and a rising tide of public anger at U.S. complicity in torture, predicts its eventual demise.
- What Needs To Be Done: A Socialist View
Published in Monthly Review, Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
What is worth fighting for? Perhaps this severe recession offers us an opportunity to ask this question. This crisis has revealed the rotten foundation of our economy and called into question the neoliberal policies and ideology that have deepened the rot.
- Police log 'domestic extremists' and keep database on activists
Forces survey and file details of peaceful protests and political activities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
'Domestic Extremists' are persons involved in political meetings and protests who are photographed and added to a national database by the UK police. This surveillance falls under the purview of "terrorism and allied matters" and these police tactics are now the subject of an internal review. They have been widely criticized for lacking accountability.
- We attacked the bankers, but took our eyes off the whole rotten system
Prince Andrew says that bonuses are minute 'in the scheme of things'. He is half-right. We must take the focus off individuals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Much focus has been placed on individual bankers who, despite the banking crisis, are collecting exorbitant bonuses, diverting attention from the underlying systems that allow banks to own and trade risky securities -- a more intrinsic contributor to the economic crisis.
- Prostitution and trafficking – the anatomy of a moral panic
Victims who never existed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The author challenges the underlying assumptions and methods used to assess the incidence of sex trafficking into the United Kingdom.
- If you're a new Canadian, 'you go to university'
Variety of social factors cause first-and second-generation Canadians to attend university far in excess of non-immigrant children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
An investigation into the factors that contribute to the very high university attendance rate for second generation immigrants and first generation immigrants who came to Canada as children as reported by Statistics Canada. The reporter found that strong family bonds and parental expectations are important factors.
- State steals authority from adults
An official power grab is creating a British society that has no control over its children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Adults no longer have the authority to reprimand or comment on the behaviour of children whom they are not the guardians of. Adults who directly speak to children about inappropriate behavious even if such behaviour is directed toward their own children, are increasingly facing legal consequences.
- Inuit Are Living on the Front Lines of Climate Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Climate change is being felt in northwest Canada, and in a wide circle at the top of the world, stretching from Alaska through the Siberian tundra, into northern Scandinavia and Greenland, and on to Canada's eastern Arctic islands, a circle of more than 300,000 indigenous people.
- Olympic torch stokes warm pride and fiery protest among aboriginals
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Differing opinions between aboriginal groups towards the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and Torch Relay.
- Season of dread returns as Haiti awaits devastating hurricane season
Decades of deforestation left the Carribbean island defenceless against last year's catastrophic hurricanes. But Haiti hopes attempts to sav
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
An examination of the continuing effects of recent hurricanes on the economy and ecology of Haiti.
- Computer viruses slow African expansion
Hampered by pirated software and super-slow download times, computer users in Africa are finding PC viruses hard to eradicate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Expense of anti-virus software means a majority of African computer's are rife with malware that can brutally cripple the users relying on those systems.
- Collectors on the edge
The influence of Kew Gardens reaches far. In the heart of Botswana, meet the leaders of the Millenium Seed Bank Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The Millenium Seed Bank Project is an international botanical project to collect and study 10% of the world's plant species.
- Out of Africa but not very different
Despite our expectation that human diversity should be reflected in our genes, a study reveals surprising little variation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Partial exerpt at: http://www.amren.com/news/2009/06/among_many_peop/
- Iran's democracy in the eyes of the Arab world
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The sentiments in the Arab world regarding Iran are often ridden with tense undertones, as the Shiite-Sunni dichotomy and the history of this division is never exempt from the political speech in the Middle East. Also considering the recent "moderate/radical" schism in the region, SASEEN KAWZALLY looks at what the Arab media has to say about the ongoing protests in Iran.
- Citizen media takes the stage as protests continue in Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Wth foreign media expelled from Iran, and local journalists being targeted, citizen journalists are becoming vital in covering the situation on the ground. MENASSAT interviewed Magda Abu-Fadil, Director of the Journalism Training Program at the American University of Beirut (AUB), to discuss what this means for the future of journalism
- Crisis Fund for Independent Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The global financial crisis is threatening to silence independent news outlets more effectively than any government. The Media Development Loan Fund's (MDLF) Crisis Fund is providing vital support to help clients survive the recession.
- The New News
Jouralism we want and need
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
With support from the Chicago Community Trust, the Community Media Workshop released "the New news: Journalism We Want and Need." This 36-page report is co-authored by giraffe prospect Thom Clark and includes a ranking of their top sixty news websites in Chicago, topping the list is the Chi-Town Daily News. An assessment of news coverage in the Chicago area due to economic pressures and crucial development in communication such as the importance of the online realm.
- The Penal State in an Age of Crisis
Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 2 - June 2009
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
We may be approaching a moment where it will be possible to open up a debate on the obscenity and absurdity of the present order and its punitive social control mechanisms. Smashing the penal state is job one for socialist politics as we put the neoliberal hell in our rearview mirrors.
- Talk to United Church Toronto Conference AGM
Supporting the call for boycott, divestment and sanctions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
Miriam Garfinkle spoke to the United Church Toronto Conference Annual General Meeting in 2009 when the United Church was considering resolutions supporting boycott, divestment and sanctions to pressure Israel to ends it oppression of the Palestinian people.
- Swine Flu Coverage Around the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The swine flu story quickly topped the American media agenda when the story broke in late April. How did coverage in other countries compare with the U.S.? Was there any correlation between the number of confirmed cases and quantity or nature of coverage? How did Spanish-language media in the U.S. react? A new report examining press coverage of the outbreak in several countries offers answers. How did coverage in the U.S. compare to media in other countries, both in the level of coverage and the way it was framed? How did the number of cases reported or the geographic proximity to the epicenter of the outbreak impact coverage? And, did the Spanish-language press in the U.S. treat the outbreak differently than its English-language counterparts?
- Are you paying too much to send out your news releases?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
If you have been using a corporate newswire service to send out your news releases you are likely paying $500 or more to send out a single release -- and that release may not even be reaching the people you want to reach.
- Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
- Publishers look to China and India to help them weather recession
Potter, Blyton and business guides serve global appetite for English language books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Book sales slowing in Britain, but booming in overseas markets.
- Confronting prejudice in South Korea
Foreign teachers are campaigning against visa rules that they say are discriminatory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Foreigners teaching English in South Korea who hold work visas are being subjected to compulsory STI and drug testing in response to a media frenzy that the teachers are a corrupting influence.
- A second tier in public system
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
I applaud People for Education for continuing to defend public education. The idea of a public school website with a shopping bag is repugnant.
- Canadian Jews condemn suppression of criticism of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Over 150 Jewish Canadians signed a statement expressing their concerns about the campaign to suppress criticism of Israel that is being carried on within Canada.
- Jailed for a MySpace parody, the student who exposed America's cash for kids scandal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Judges receive kickbacks for imprisoning youths; slapping a friend or having tantrum leads to prison.
- Knicker protest targets Hindu militants
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The socially conservative Hindu Sri Ram Sena (Lord Ram's Army) a group of vigilantes has attacked women in pubs and unwed couples, in an effort to protect what they call "Indian Culture". Indian women fought back by sending 40,000 pairs of pink underwear to their offices.
- Children of the revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
When a 15-year-old schoolboy was shot in Athens in December, it triggered the worst civil unrest in Europe since 1968. Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith join the frontline activists to talk anarchic protest, political upheaval and police brutality.
- For a Workers Recovery Plan - The Causes and Cures of a New Great Depression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Economics is now not just for the experts. If anything is clear from the panic that started in mid- September, 2008, it is that workers must understand the economy. For clearly the 'experts' have no idea what they are doing.
- Written off
How the Indian Media Deals with its Freelance Journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Most freelance journalists in India are perceived to be the stepchildren of the Indian news media. Though some indications are there, we want to come up with concrete numbers.
- Media Interviews during the January 7, 2009 Israeli consulate occupation in Toronto
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2009
On January 7, 2009, a group of Jewish women occupied the Israeli consulate in Toronto to protest against Israel's attack on Gaza. In this audio clip, spokeswomen Miriam Garfinkle and Judy Rebick explain why they are taking this action.
- Are there too many people?
Population, hunger, and environmental degradation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
A number of liberal writers and publications have raised the specter of growing population as an unpleasant yet necessary topic of conversation.
- The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organisations and Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
A partical, do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wanting to help organisations to function and to develop in more health, human and effective ways as they strive to make their contributions to a more humane society.
- Building Media Relationships
How to Establish, Maintain, and Develop Long-Term Relationships
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Sommers wrote this guide to teach how media can be used to raise an organization's public profile and improve its connection with the target audience.
- The Deaths of Michael Jackson and Neda Grip the Blogosphere
PEJ New Media Index: June 22-26, 2009
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Michael Jackson and Neda Agha-Soltan had little in common in life. But together last week their deaths in Los Angeles and Tehran consumed the blogosphere and became emblematic of the flow and character of modern communication.
- Detecting Bull
How to Identify Bias and Junk Journalism in Print, Broadcast and on the Wild Web
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
This book helps teach students how to view the news and find trustworthy information. It takes the lessons learned from his years leading GradeTheNews.org, a website that rated the news in San Francisco.
- Economic crisis and the responsibility of socialists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Henryk Grossman is particularly relevant today and not only because of his explanation of economic and financial crises
- Hope for Animals and Their World
How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Goodall illuminates the heroic efforts of dedicated environmentalists and the truly critical need to protect the habitats of endangered species.
- Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
A readable introduction to the history and practice of apartheid in Israel.
- "Liberté de parole" - aussi longtemps que cela n'offense personne
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
- Making a Killing
The Canada-Israel Military-Industrial Partnership
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Canadian companies supply many essential components to Israel's war machine. This pamphlet provides information on the arms trade that will help to strengthen the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
- Mirrors
Stories of Almost Everyone
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Open any history book and you'll learn about revolutionary leaders, decorated generals, genius scientists and passionate artists. What about the leaders’ assistants? The loyal soldiers? The helpful lab assistants and the inspirations for great art? History books are so filled with greatness that the stories of the people are often neglected. Mirrors resolves this issue. Mirrors is a mosaic of humanity.
- Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?
A re-assessment of Israel's practicies in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
A study of the Israel-Palestine situation from the standpoint of international law.
- The Path of Human Development
Capitalism or Socialism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
If we believe in people, if we believe that the goal of a human society must be that of "ensuring overall human development," our choice is clear: socialism or barbarism.
- The politics of display
The redesign of the Ashmolean in Oxford provides a chance to reflect on how we understand the meaning of collections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is the oldest museum in Britain, founded in 1693. The institution has grown, thanks to a new postmodern building by architect Rick Mather. The open concept design of the new galleries is perfect for the curatorial focus on the impact of trade and the legacy of intercultural exchange titled "Crossing Cultures Crossing Time".
- Revolutionary Traveller
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
John S. Saul draws on a series of his own occasional articles written over a span of forty years which, together with a linking narrative, serve to trace not only his own career as an anti-apartheid and liberation support movement activist in both Canada and southern Africa but also help recount the history of the various struggles in both venues in which he has been directly involved.
- The State of the News Media 2009
An Annual Report on American Journalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Some of the numbers are chilling. Newspaper ad revenues have fallen 23% in the last two years. Some papers are in bankruptcy, and others have lost three-quarters of their value. Nearly one out of every five journalists working for newspapers in 2001 is now gone, and 2009 may be the worst year yet. In local television, news staffs, already too small to adequately cover their communities, are being cut at unprecedented rates; revenues fell by 7% in an election year # something unheard of # and ratings are now falling or are flat across the schedule. In network news, even the rare programs increasing their ratings are seeing revenues fall. The report also includes our in-depth content analysis, based on a study of nearly 80,000 news stories and television and radio segments in A Year in the News. This year we also offer some Special Reports. There is one on citizen-based media, including a university study of 363 citizen websites in 46 markets. There is a backgrounder on the growing models of entrepreneurial journalism, new Web news organizations run by professional journalists outside the mainstream press.
- Transcending Pessimism: Rekindling Socialist Imagination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Between Marx's broad historically-inspired vision of revolution/transformation and his detailed critique of political economy, there was an analytical and strategic gap - unbridgeable without addressing the problematic of working class capacities - which later Marxists sometimes addressed, but never overcame. Every progressive social movement must, sooner or later, confront the inescapable fact that capitalism cripples our capacities, stunts our dreams, and incorporates our politics.
- Transforming Power
From the Personal to the Political
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Rebick champions new ways of achieving political goals by emphasizing co-operation and consensus over confrontation and partisanship.
- Two fronts of anti-apartheid struggle: South African and Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
- Women Soldiers' Testimonies
Breaking the Silence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
A collection of testimonies selected from interviews with more than forty Israeli women soldiers breaking their silence, and is an additional example of the ethical and societal cost of the missions with which the Israeli Security Forces have been charged.
- Remember what we owe to Arab science
It's time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
In an era of intolerance, the West needs to appreciate the fertile scholarship that flowered with Islam.
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - Korean text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008 Published: 2011
- Sources Wikipedia article - Korean
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008 Published: 2011
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Dutch text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008 Published: 2010
Connexions (volledige naam Connexions Information Sharing Services) is de voornaamste online bibliotheek en het archief voor Canadese organisaties voor sociale verandering. Dit project dat geen winstoogmerk heeft, beheert ook een uitgebreide gids van Canadese en niet-Canadese verenigingen en niet-gouvernementele organisaties.
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Artikel - Deutscher text
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008 Published: 2010
Connexions ist die Zentrale Online Bücherei und Archiv für Kanada's Bewegung für gesellschaftlichen Wandel.
- Sources (portal for journalister og skribenter)
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008 Published: 2010
Sources er en informationsportal for journalister, freelance skribenter, redaktorer, forfattere og forskere som især fokuserer på menneskelige kilder: eksperter og talsmænd som er parate til at svare på journalisters sporgsmål eller som er disponible til live interviews.
- Sources (portal para jornalistas e escritores)
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008 Published: 2010
- Wikipedia's article about Sources
Local version on Sources website
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008 Published: 2009
- Sole offender?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
When an Iraqi journalist throws his shoe at the commander-in-chief of the forces that invaded and continue to occupy his country, the Globe huffily calls the reporter a disgrace to his profession and says he should be fired.
- Perché tante storie per l'omicidio di una ragazza musulmana dalla pelle scura?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Por qué protestar por el asesinato de una chica musulmana de piel oscura?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Chinese version
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? - Korean version
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Communist Organizing in the Jim Crow South
What's Not in The Great Debaters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The Great Debaters is a well-made movie. But in its paeans to dedication and debate, it downplays the real social struggle that was going on in the U.S. in the 1930s, including by black people in the South.
- Guilty Mileage
How the Indian News Media Covered the Judgements in Two High Profile Cases
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The last few years have seen a number of high-profile cases in Indian courts wherein the rich and mighty have been held guilty and sentenced to prison. The news media, in many cases, has been accused of conducting its own shadow trials. The news media coverage these court cases have derived has been phenomenal...
- What We Mean By Social Determinants of Health
International Journal of Health Services, Volume 39, Number 3, Pages 423-441
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008 Published: 2009
Analyzes the changes in health conditions and quality of life in the populations of developed and developing countries over the past 30 years, resulting from neoliberal policies developed by many governments and promoted by international agencies. Critiquing a WHO report on social determinants of health, Navarro argues that it is not inequalities that kill people; it is those who are responsible for these inequalities that kill people.
- The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must end
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must end. The dispossession of the Palestinians must be fully acknowledged and Israel must reach out to embrace the full rights of Palestinians to nationhood and viability. Only then will the nightmare end that is the reality of the Palestinian people living in the Occupied Territories and the refugee camps. And only with that can there be any hope for a real peace.
- Jewish International Opposition Statement Against Attack on Iran
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
We seek security for all concerned by affirming the right of all to security. While we lend no credibility to the prospect of an inevitable conflict, we nonetheless object to the hysteria promoted by the Iran-bashers who are now desperate in their repeated false starts to create another unnecessary war. The attempt to oblige Iran to comply with Security Council resolutions loses its legal, diplomatic and political force as the United States and Israel consistently ignore UN diplomacy and World Court decisions, relevant to the question of Palestine. We call upon all opposed to a military confrontation with Iran to write their governmental representatives demanding that the State of Israel subject its nuclear facilities to international inspection and sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) as has Iran, rather than issue threats of war.
- Inclusao ou Exclusao?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Enqanto isso acontece, nós vamos preferir acreditar que as "comunidades étnicas" nao tem interesse nenhum em tais assuntos e nenhuma posiçao na luta que está sendo travada em volta deles?
- Inclusión o exclusion?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Inclusion or Exclusion? - Farsi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
- Integracja czy wykluczenie?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Intégration ou Marginalisation?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Free speech for me - you shut up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the principle of free speech.
- Master's student earns top marks for dissent
University of Toronto rabble rouser graduates in a gown of protest- but still faces criminal charges from a sit in gone wrong
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- The spectre of socialism for the 21st century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Building socialism is the only alternative to barbarism.
- Insurrection & Organisation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
An attempt to analyze the role of insurrection in the class struggle, in relation to the problem of revolutionary organization.
- Speech at Dr. Khan's Talk
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Health Care Professionals In Canada Join with PHR-Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Canadian health care professionals are linking with Physicians for Human Rights - Isreal to support their work in struggling and advocating for human rights, in particular the right to health, for people both in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
- UK press targets middle India
Associated's Mail Today is one of many British titles targeting the growing market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
International publishing groups have recently rushed to publish and market Indian versions of their publications. They are taking advantage of the booming market the growing middle class demographic has created and the recent elimination of restrictions on foreign ownership of national media.
- Slumming in Kenya's back streets
A young TV crew is chronicling a life of dirt, violence and hope
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Slum TV is a group of young people from Mathare, one of the slums of Kenya, who chronicle life in their community during times of peace and unrest.
- Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
- Broken Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion in Victory, Defeat, and Beyond
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
An analysis of the 2006 Oaxaca rebellion and its contradictions. Its diversity encompassed workers, indigenous groups, Stalinists, anarchists and others. Its weapons and tactics included general assemblies, strikes, barricades, mirrors and fireworks.
- Where has all the rage gone?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
In 1968, fury at the Vietnam war sparked protests and uprisings across the world: from Paris and Prague to Mexico. Tariq Ali considers the legacy 40 years on.
- Sri Lanka Safety Tips
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Provides journalists who will be travelling to Sri Lanka during the war with practical guidelines on how to stay safe considering government hostility towards visiting journalists.
- The Stasi could only dream of such data
Britain, the birthplace of liberalism, has become the database state
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
As technology increases the flow of stored data about individual actions, assurances of the "right to informational self-determination" must be hard won from governments. Government surveillance of citizens has become an accepted 'counter-terrorism' measure.
- Capitalism is still in dreamland
Despite the markets' excesses, policymakers think they are in control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Reporting on the World Economic Forum 2008, the author finds the IMF's suggestion to cut taxes and interest to be perpetuating the myth that the crises is one of liquidity rather than solvency.
- Why the US has really gone broke
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
There is an enormous anomaly in the U.S. economy above and beyond the subprime mortgage crisis, the housing bubble and the prospect of recession: 60 years of misallocation of resources, and borrowings, to the establishment and maintenance of a military-industrial complex as the basis of the nation's economic life.
- 'It's like bombing the Louvre'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Marie Smith Jones was the world's last Eyak speaker - by the time she died last week, she could use her mother tongue only in her dreams. But the loss of a language is not just a personal tragedy, it is a cultural disaster
- CIA whistleblower was a spy who never came in from the cold
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Obituary of Philip Agee a CIA operative for twelve years, during which time he was posted throughout Latin America. He questioned the company's alignement with the military dictatorships of the region and defected, writing a tell all book and exposing CIA operatives.
- Access Denied
The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Many countries around the world block or filter Internet content, denying access to information -- often about politics, but also relating to sexuality, culture, or religion -- that they deem too sensitive for ordinary citizens. Access Denied documents and analyzes Internet filtering practices in over three dozen countries.
- Bookworms Rejoice
Digital deal paves the way for online access
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Google and the US book industry struck a deal to sell digitized books online and distribute royalties to their authors and publishers through a third party.
- Canada's 1960s
The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
A history of social movements of the 1960s, including Canada’s student and anti-war movements, the rise of women’s liberation, labour agitation, and Quebec’s independence movement.
- Chasing a Mirage
The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
According to Tarek Fatah, "Morality is doing what is right, regardless what we are told; Religious dogma is doing what we are told, no matter what is right." Fatah argues that since Islam's advent, there have been two parallel strains of the religion that are in clash. The first "state of Islam" is a person's moral compass; the way Islam governs an individual's personal life. By contrast, the yearning for "an Islamic state" has been bloody and fruitless.
- Connexions Information Sharing Services - Wikipedia Article - English text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Connexions (full name Connexions Information Sharing Services) is the central online library and archive for Canada's movements for social change. The non-profit project also maintains a comprehensive directory of Canadian associations and NGOs.
- Creating a Sense of Belonging
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Social inclusion isn't rearranging chairs on the Titanic. It's building a new vessel, says Uzma Shakir.
- Drop till you shop
I insert my vision of retail subversion one haiku at a time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The author experiments with the culture jamming practice of shopdropping, leaving poems, polaroids, stickers, and other manner of messages for shoppers. This is designed to lead to a moment of incongruity for shoppers to reflect on consumerism.
- An end to Balkan national states
Independence for Kosovo: The Domino Effect
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
If the Kosovo region declares indepence from Serbia, how will ethnic communities agitate to have the borders of Balkan countries redrawn to reflect and include their ethnic makeups? Will this only further the Balkan legacy of nationalist revenge and retaliation?
- HTO
Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow Toilets
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
A collection of essays on Toronto's water and watershed, ranging from burying streams to storm sewers and rainwater harvesting.
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Gabor Mate looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them, and outlines what he thinks is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours.
- It makes economic sense to kill people
Britain's approach to climate change puts a price on human lives. And the richer you are the more yours is worth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
A study of the economics of climate compares the costs of halting runaway climate changewith the costs of inaction. The "costs" of climate change are calculated in part by calculating the reduction in consumption that would result from death and disease in the third world. Monbiot challenges the ethics of this economic model.
- Killing Hope
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
- La "libertad de expresión", siempre y cuando no ofenda a nadie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Media Alert West Africa
2006-2007: Annual State of the Media Report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
An annual publication on the poltiical, economic and social conditions of the media in West Africa published by the Media Foundation for West Africa.
- Putting Technology to Work for Palestine Activism
Palestine Activism Handbook Module
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Real Utopia
Participatory Society for the twenty-first century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
- Servizi di condivisione dell'informazione Connexions
Connexipedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Connexions (nome intero Servizi di condivisione dell'informazione Connexion [Connexions Information Sharing Services]) è la biblioteca centrale online e l'archivio dei movimenti per i cambiamenti sociali del Canada.
- Soldiers' Testimonies from Hebron 2005-2007
Breaking the Silence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
A booklet of testimonies from combatants who served in Hebron between 2005-2007, describing how IDF soldiers were required to exert absolute, daily and almost limitless control over the Palestinian residents of the city.
- Sources 61
Winter (January) 2008
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2008
- Sources 62
Summer-Fall 2008
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2008
- Strange Fruit
Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the differences to biology, anti-racists attribute them to deep-rooted cultural traditions which are typically seen as inherent in the group. Malik argues that these positions are actually quite similar, and makes the case that racism and racial inequality are best combatted by focusing not on our differences but on what unites us. Malik also strongly criticizes the cultural relativism of many anti-racists, and their increasing tendency to reject science as some kind of western imperialist conspiracy to oppress the rest of the world.
- Tainted politics of a nuclear umbrella
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
A review of the US Pentagon's Missile Defence program since its incepton in 1946.
- There's still one injustice in Cuba to which Americans are wilfully blind
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
While criticizing Cuba for human rights violations, American politicians ignore the massive abuses taking place in their own prison at Guantanamo Bay.
- Toolkit for a New Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimension magazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the first decade of the 21st century. The articles are all short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
- Tough Love at the Table
Power, Culture and Diversity in Negotiations, Mediation & Conflict Resolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Stories that illustrate dispute resolution and bargaining concepts.
- Where News Itself is a Category
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Highlighting the various reasons for the decline of quality news, Subir Ghosh says when business interests hold sway over all others, the basic tenets of journalism fall by the wayside. However, if people in the society want mature journalism, we ourselves have to mature too, he maintains.
- Women and the News
Expanding the News Audience, Increasing Political Participation, and Informing Citizens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The proceedings and talks given at a conference discussing women in the news, the need to address how women are less likely to be informed of political issues and a discussion of gender biases in the news.
- Sources Wikipedia Article - Chinese
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
- Stupid to the Last Drop
How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007 Published: 2008
As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and carpet bombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells.
- Interview about The New Tendency
Gary Kinsman interviews Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
- Five Challenges for Ecosocialists in 2008
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Ecosocialism is not separate from the existing left and green movements, and it is not a structured movement on its own. Rather, it is a current of thought within existing socialist and green-left movements, seeking to win ecology activists to socialism and to convince socialists of the vital importance of ecological issues and struggles.
- The Lessons of the Anti-Asiatic Riot
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
In 1907, an anti-immigration rally explodes into violence and vandalism in Vancouver's Chinatown and Japantown.
- A Tale of Tatamagouche
The true story behind the beginning of the Acadian expulsion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Describes the explusion of the Acadians in 1755.
- A race for land is destroying the Guatemalan rainforest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Agriculture is quickly decimating Guatemala's primal forests> It has experience the most rapid deforestatation of any nation in the last five years.
- The treasures of Timbuktu
The race is on to preserve papers dating back to a west African golden age
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
West African scholars are quickly discovering the wealth of manuscripts burried in and near Timbuktu dating from the 11th century. Governments and universities are building archives in which to house and digitize these important relics.
- How we learned to stop having fun
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
We used to know how to get together and really let our hair down. Then, in the early 1600s, a mass epidemic of depression broke out - and we've been living with it ever since. Something went wrong, but what?
- Das Leiden der Kinder im Gazastreifen
Katastrophale Lage im Gazastreifen - Unzureichende Gesundheitsversorgung
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
- Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
- Salute e bambini in crisi a Gaza
I bambini di Gaza sono in crisi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
- Speech for Gaza Fundraiser
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
- Women behind the wheel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
An article about the Immigrant Women's Health Centre and the mobile health centre van which travels to different locations around the city to provide health care to women.
- TOGETHER for GAZA
Palestinians and Jews work together
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
A group of Palestinians and Jews in Toronto are holding an event to raise funds for primary health providers in Gaza.
- Post-traumatic stress and the children of Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The situation in Gaza is devastating. We have to act to protect the children of Gaza.
- How the Left Should Frame Issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The art and science of strategic frame analysis -- issue framing -- is relatively new in Canada, though the concept of framing is not. The right has been framing its issues carefully for years while the left has been oddly complacent about re-framing issues from their perspective.
- Province must treat health centre staff fairly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The government should deal fairly with health and social service staff who are bargaining for a new contract.
- The Abolition of the State
Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Both Anarchists and Marxists believe that it will be possible to do away with the state. But what do they mean by that? What is the state, after all? What institutions, if any, would be necessary to replace its functions? Would a transitional “dictatorship of the proletariat” be needed or will it be possible to immediately abolish the state? Does modern technology require a centralized institution such as the state? Throughout the history of revolutions, the people have created workplace councils and neighborhood assemblies--how could these replace the state?
- Anarchy and Art
From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
- The Brain That Changes Itself
Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Doidge explains neuroplasticity and shows that the brain is not a collection of specialized parts but a dynamic organ and can rewire and rearrange itself as the need arises.
- Calling All Radicals
How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
- Choosing to be the man of the house
An ancient tradition of the sworn virgin living as a male still survives in Albania
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
In Albania, biological women take an oath of virginity to have the freedom to live as men. They wear men's clothes and their hair is shorn. The tradition has persisted since the 15th century, in a region where ancient laws still limit women's rights.
- Creative Destruction
An Exploratory Look at News on the Internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Examines trends in Internet Based news traffic for the purpose of predicting future trends of news in America.
- Crimes of War
What the Public Should Know (Crimes of War project)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
An A-Z guide to the laws governing armed conflict and their application in practice. The chapters include discussions of the crimes prohibited by international humanitarian law, key terms relating to modern warfare, analysis of legal categories, and case studies showing the place of war crimes in recent conflicts. The text of the Arabic edition of Crimes of War is also available online. For anyone interested in using Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know in high school or college education, Human Rights Education Associates have produced a study guide to accompany the book.The book is now available in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Serbo-Croat and Spanish.
- Dinner with Friends
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Profile of restauranteur and host of Italian language and culture classes and community figure Roberto Martella, the recipient of the Jane Jacobs prize in 2007.
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Israelo historian Ilan Pappe recounts the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Israel during the war of 1948.
- For Political Equality
All citizens vote on all policies: 20th Century Power Politics and their 21st Century electronic alternative
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
This book aims to motivate people to set up post-parliamentary direct democracy (DD) enabling all citizens to propose-debate-vote on all issues of society. Every citizen - one vote - on every issue of society. This political equality abolishes Power - the role of deciding on behalf of others - the main cause of violence and corruption in society. "To be" is not merely "to exist" but to decide all issues of one's life. Denying citizens' right to decide all issues of society reduces them to mere political pawns. All citizens have the right to decide all policies.
- Heeding nature to understand ourselves
A new genre of writing is putting centre stage the interconnectedness between human beings and the wilderness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
A new literary tendency in the nature writing genre is to point out the interconnectedness between humans and their environment. Rather than study nature as a thing apart from man, these books challenge their readers to engage with the other species in their immediate surroundings.
- Hell & High Water
Canada and the Italian Campaign
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
- The Internet and the Threat it Poses to Local Media
Lessons from News in Schools
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Internet news is trumping both television news and local newspapers as a daily mode of classroom instruction. Furthermore, national and international news site, such as nytimes.com and bbc.com. are trumping local news sites in American news. These developments threaten the economic viabilityof local news outlets but also the special contribution they make to American democracy.
- Live News Africa
A Survival Guide for Journalists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Provides practical information for journalists who plan to travel to Africa for on site work including circumstances of danger specific to the country and then possible consequences a journalist may have to deal with (PTSD, pursuing medical aid etc.). Available in different languages on the website in a more generalised context relevant to all regions.
- Media Names & Numbers 2007-2008
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2007
- Mercenaries on the make
Iraq is now awash with unaccountable 'security contractors'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Contracted mercenaries now outnumber American troops in Iraq. These contractors are immune to prosecution for any wrongdoing in Iraq thanks to provisional laws that came into effect after the invasion. Most of these contractors are not American, the war is being outsourced.
- Moby Duck
Or, the synthetic wilderness of childhood
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
- Move into the light?
Postscript to a turbulent 2007
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Can the left movement move into the light and become visible?
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 25
Winter (January) 2007
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2007
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 26
Autumn 2007 - Srping 2008
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2007
- Political Columns
Behind the scenes with powerful people
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
A reader of his book will get Bonner's insight on everyone from Winston Churchill to Belinda Stronach. It is a series of columns, many of which were written for the US magazine Winning Campaigns.
- Poverty and Policy in Canada
Implications for Health and Qualityof Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Raphael writes with authority on the problem of inequality and poverty in Canada. Income variability has increased while social assistance and minimum wages have not kept people up.
- The Rankin Family Reunion
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2007
- Roots of Empathy
Changing the World Child by Child
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Roots of Empathy looks at eliminating crime and changing the world by starting with a compassionate environment for children.
- The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
- Sources 59
Winter (January) 2007
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2007
- Sources 60
Summer 2007
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2007
- Winnipeg's Red Scare
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
An account of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
- Workers Solidarity Issue 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2007
- The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
- Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006 Published: 2017
Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective.
- Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006 Published: 2014
A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
- How Sources magnifies your Internet visibility
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006 Published: 2009
How the high Internet ranking of the Sources Web site helps magnify the public profile of organizations and companies who are listed in Sources.
- Dancing in the Streets
A History of Collective Joy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006 Published: 2007
An account of the toll that depression has taken on European and North American health since the 18th century.
- National Post columnist traumatized by having to wait his turn
Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006 Published: 2012
Columnist thinks people with money should get quicker treatment in emergency rooms than people who are poor.
- Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
- Give your Sources media profile an extra boost
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Creating a link from your Web site to your Sources listing boosts your visibility.
- How does your Web site rank? Alexa tells you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Find out your Web site's reach and what other sites are popular with the people who come to your site.
- Stupid Opinion #1: All Opinions are Equal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
People say, "Don't be judgmental" - as if we shouldn't evaluate behaviour, from amazingly loving to atrocious. Many intone, "No one has the right to judge opinions" - as if racist opinions, say, had the same validity as anti-racist opinions.
- Israel Must Win
"You Cannot Promise Victory, Produce a Humiliating Defeat and Stay in Power"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
IDF military offensive doctrine is grounded on one basic axiom that was defined by David Ben Gurion in the early fifties: whatever it takes, Israel must always win! This axiom is indeed very powerful, yet, in reality, the Israeli army can’t provide the goods anymore. In the last three decades the Israeli army is constantly being beaten time after time by enemies that are getting smaller and smaller.
- How to fight reactionaries
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Fundamentalists of all kinds only thrive when their communities feel besieged. Understanding why is not an indulgence.
- Statement of Concern for the Public Health Situation in Gaza
Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
A statement by over eighty Canadian health professionals, including a number of prominent medical advocates for human rights and peace, expresses deep concern over the silence of the Canadian Government and the Canadian media about the humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
- Letter to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers from Israeli filmmakers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
We unequivocally oppose the brutality and cruelty of Israeli policy.
- Shame on you, Mr. Harper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Open letter initiated by members of Shalom-Salaam, a Jewish-Arab Montreal dialogue group.
- Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Nothing will change until the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to change the rules of the game, and rebuild the country on a new basis that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations.
- If Israel Has the Right to Use Force in Self Defense, So Do Its Neighbours
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
There is no reason why Israel should be able to enter Arab sovereign soil to occupy, destroy, kidnap and eliminate its perceived foes - repeatedly, with impunity and without restraint - while the Arab side cannot do the same.
- Stop That Shit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Whoever longs for a solution must know: there is no solution without settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- The real aim of Israel's attacks on Lebanon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The real aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.
- With A Little Help From Outside
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The world sees a great and ongoing injustice. They want a just Israel. They see an Israel that occupies and is clearly unjust, and they believe they should do something. We should thank them for this from the bottom of our hearts.
- South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
- A Reply to B'nai Brith's Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario's Boycott of Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
- Take a STAND Canada. An Interview on the Darfur advocacy group's path to success with director Ben Fine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
An interview on the Darfur advocacy groups's path to success with director Ben Fine.
- A Revised History of the Slave Trade
Lessons from a Terrible Global Experience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
It’s almost 200 years since the Anglo-American trade was banned: how do historians now view its practices and effects?
- New book describes a century of Jewish opposition to Zionism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
- Media obsession over young voters' apathy reflect neediness and self-absorption that make teenagers such exhausting company
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Coverage of voter apathy among teens reveals the Canadian media's advertiser driven content and desire to gain circulation in a desirable age bracket rather than a sincere desire to affect change and involve youth in the democratic process.
- American Fascists
The Christian Right and the War on America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Hedges examines the Christian Right's origins, its driving motivation and its dark ideological underpinnings, with interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques. Hedges argues that the movement resembles the young fascist movements in Italiy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. He challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.
- Books of Interest - Sources 58
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Reviews of books about journalism, media, and research.
- Build It Now
Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
- College Street - Little Italy
Toronto's Renaissance Strip
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
- Counter-Rhetoric
Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantras and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
- Dean's Digital World - Sources 58
The Invisible Web
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Article about the "invisible Web" or "Deep Web".
- Effective Media Relations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Media relations is human relations. Journalism is about telling compelling stories about people and their lives.
- Expose Yourself!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
A booklet about effective media relations, providing practical advice about getting media coverage and relating to the media.
- First Aid
In Armed Conflicts and Other Situations of Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
A practical manual presenting the specific knowledge, skills and practices that First Aiders should have to act safely and effectively when caring for people caught up in armed conflicts and other situations of violence, such as internal disturbances and tensions.
- Heat
How to Stop the Planet From Burning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Concerns about the effects of global warming on the Human species - especially those unfortunate enough to live in poorer countries - require drastic action, far outstripping the recommendations of the Kyoto protocol.
- Jane Jacobs, Urban Visionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
A biography of Jane Jacobs.
- Keeping Current
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
With a blog, a piece in the Globe or an appearance on a cable show that only two percent of the population watches, you can get a bounce or multiplier effect. Mainstream networks and cable news shows are reading blogs on the air to viewers, thus giving them legs.
- Labour Left Out
Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
- Life, Money & Illusion
Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
- Manufactured Landscapes
Resource Type: Film
First Published: 2006
Photographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing.
- Marxism's 'Communicative Crisis'?
Mapping Debates over Leninist Print-Media Practices in the 20th Century
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Marxism’s ‘communicative crisis’, it was a topic of concern that was addressed, debated and negotiated over by party leaders, intellectuals and activists on a continuous basis throughout the 20th century. These concerns revolved around three areas: first, the primary means of print communication, the party paper; second, the specialization of production, particularly around the role of writers and journalists; and third, the search for a popular rhetoric and writing style, which would appeal to the general public.
- Masters Of Our Domains
Those ugly websites full of ad links are a multibillion dollar industry. Meet its kings.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Buying domain names and filling these with nothing but advertisor links who pay the owner a pay per click fee has become big business. The two largest advertisors on the ugly domain owner sites are Google and Yahoo who have been criticized for this practice.
- Media Names & Numbers 2006
February 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
- My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes
Uncensored Iranian Universities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
With contributions by Azar Nafisi, Marjane Satrapi, Reza Aslan, Mehrangiz Kar, Azadeh Moaveni, Gelareh Asayesh, Naghmeh Zarbafian, Roya Hakakian, Salar Abdoh, Shoreh Aghdashloo, Negar Azimi, Babak Ebrahimian, Abbas Kiarostami, Shirin Neshat, and Daryush Shayegan.
- Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Former U.S. President Carter calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians 'apartheid' and identifies continuing Israeli control of the occupied territories as the primary obstacle to peace.
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 23
Winter 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 24
Summer 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
- The Perils of Faith-Based Multiculturalism
The Case of Shari'a in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Conservative religious leaders have become more vocal and demanding, and governments are giving in to their demands without much regard for the serious consequences for democracy and citizens’ rights.
- Pictures Bring Us Messages
Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa. Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
An example of museum professionals working with member of an aboriginal community to explore photographs taken of members of that community many decades earlier.
- A Reporter's Field Guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
What is the extent of the right to gather news? The question arises on a daily basis for journalists around the country: reporters and photographers are told by police that they cannot enter a crime scene, are threatened with arrest for not moving where police order them to move, or are ordered out of a building or an area where a newsworthy event is taking place.
- Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs
And Other Fascinating Facts about the Language from Canada's Word Lady
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
- Sources 57
Winter (January) 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
- Sources 58
Summer 2006
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2006
- Three Brothers In Blood
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2006
- Top Ten Questions to Ask When a Reporter Calls You
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
When you're respoding to a reporter's call, take time to think and ask yourself these questions.
- Top Ten Strategies for Appearing on a TV Talk Show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Prepare yourself to appear on a TV talk show.
- Top Ten Things to do Before a Radio Talk Show
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Be prepared when you go on a talk show.
- Towers of Deception
The Media Cover-Up of 9/11
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
- Understanding new media
augmented knowledge and culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
- Yellowjacket
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2006
- The Case for Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005 Published: 2010
An argument for socialism: a society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice -- one in which people come before profit. A society based on the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.
- A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense
Find Your Inner Chomsky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005 Published: 2008
What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through everyday spin and jargon -- from politics to advertising, from mysticism to news reporting.
- The Wall Must Fall
End the Occupation and Violence in Israel-Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005 Published: 2007
A resource for interested union and community members featuring voices from the Israeli and Palestinian peace movements often shut out of the mainstream media. By highlighting the progressive peace movement, The Wall Must Fall demonstrates that this issue is not a Jewish vs. Palestinian one, but one of basic human rights.
- Insurgency Online
Web Activism and Global Conflict
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005 Published: 2006
Explores the nature of the web and its potential for facilitating participation in political debate.
- Race Against Time
Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005 Published: 2006
This book is a compilation of the 2005 Massey Lectures on the topic of the Millennium Development Goals, with a special focus on AIDS in Africa. Lewis' lectures are personal and passionate in their denunciation of the international community's response to the AIDS pandemic and poverty in Africa.
- A Writer at War
A Sovet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941 - 1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005 Published: 2006
War reporting by Vasily Grossman, a correspondent for the Red Army, the Soviet Army's newspaper.
- Telling it like it isn't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Let's call a colony a colony, let's call occupation what it is, let's call a wall a wall.
- Demonizing the Victims of Katrina
Coverage painted hurricane survivors as looters, snipers and rapists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Hurricane Katrina led many media reporters and commentators to reveal themselves and their deep-seated prejudices.
- Punctuation Marks: A Story of Class Struggle
From 1905 to Our Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
An essay on the relevance of the 1905 revolution in Russia.
- Homefront Confidential, 6th Edition
How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public's Right to Know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
In the days immediately following September 11, the U.S. government embarked on a disturbing path of secrecy. The atmosphere of terror induced public officials to abandon this country's culture of openness and opt for secrecy as a way of ensuring safety and security.
- The settlers' retreat was the theatre of the cynical
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
The settlers' retreat from Gaza was the theatre of the cynical.
- Multiculturalism fans the flames of islamic extremism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Multiculturalism as lived experience enriches our lives. But multiculturalism as a political ideology has helped create a tribal Britain with no political or moral centre.
- Sanctions Against the Israeli Occupation: It's Time
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
A call from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) for sanctions as the next logical step in the global campaign to end the Occupation.
- Ukraine: the practice of protest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
There was genuine, widespread rejection of the regime in Ukraine, but the mass demonstrations were still not spontaneous. They were backed by self-seeking organisations, both local and international.
- Autonomous Media
Activating Resistance & Dissent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Essays written by media activists examining the efforts of communities and social movements to appropriate media technologies.
- Big business is not to blame
Corporations would act on global warming but are stalled by government in the name of the market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Innovative technologies are available to improve the energy efficiency of residential and commercial properties. Businesses who want to adopt these new technologies would be placing themselves at a disadvantage to do so, unless governments mandate improved efficiency standards -- which they refuse to do.
- Black History and the Class Struggle
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
Articles include: "A Life in the Black Panther Party — We Want Freedom — A Review of a Book by Mumia Abu-Jamal," "How the Liberals and Reformists Derailed the Struggle for Integration — For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!", "The 'N' Word in Racist America."
- Canadian Newspaper Ownership in the Era of Convergence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
An academic text aimed at scholars and students.
- The Case Against Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Neumann argues that Israel's policies are the cause of the conflict, and that the conflict can be ended by Israel changing its behaviour.
- Don't be a Time Bandit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Don't waste journalists' time.
- The Empire of Mind
Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Strangelove believes the Internet is a dire threat to capitalism.
- Employee Management for Small Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
- 1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
- The Great War for Civilisation
The Conquest of the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Fisk explores a number of key themes in the history of the modern Middle East: the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf War as well as the 2003 Iraq War as well as other regional conflicts such as the Armenian Genocide and the Algerian Civil War.
- Health Disparities By Race And Class: Why Both Matter
Health Affairs, 24, no. 2 (2005): 343-352
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
This essay examines three competing causal interpretations of racial disparities in health. The first approach views race as a biologically meaningful category and racial disparities in health as reflecting inherited susceptibility to disease. The second approach treats race as a proxy for class and views socioeconomic stratification as the real culprit behind racial disparities. The third approach treats race as neither a biological category nor a proxy for class, but as a distinct construct, akin to caste. The essay points to historical, political, and ideological obstacles that have hindered the analysis of race and class as codeterminants of disparities in health.
- History of the Book in Canada
Volume Two: 1840 - 1918
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
The second of three volumes dealing with the history of publishing in Canada.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume 5: War & Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
The subject of this volume is Marx and Engels' views on the relation between war and revolution. Its thesis is that, over the course of decades, their views on this question changed -- evolved is a better word -- although, in this case as in others, they wrote no definitive statement of their views. Instead, we have a considerable corpus of ad hoc responses to the events of the hour, many of them politically explosive, from which we have to reconstruct, not a line, but an approach. To complicate things further, many of these crises, while they were the news of the day at the time, have since faded from memory.
- Living in One's OwnTime: A Memoir from the Left
Introduction by Kirk Niergarth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
- Low-Budget Online Marketing for Small Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
- Media Names & Numbers 2005
February 2005
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
- News, Truth and Crime
The Westray Disaster and its Aftermath
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
McMullan examines the media coverage devoted to the ten year (1992-2002) aftermath of the May 9, 1992 explosion where 26 miners died at the Westray mine.
- Newsroom tips from The Canadian Press
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Newsroom tips from The Canadian Press.
- 9/11: Debunking The Myths
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Popular Mechanics special report on September 11 conspiracy theories.
- Paper-contestations and Textual Communities in England 1640 - 1675
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 22
Spring 2005
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
- Rebels, Reds, Radicals
Rethinking Canada's Left History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
McKay looks at the history of the left in Canada as a series of experiments in "living otherwise" -- efforts to work out ways of life and thought strategically opposed to the prevailing liberal-capitalist order.
- Ruling Canada
Corporate Cohesion and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
- Sales Gurus Speak Out
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
- Salmon Wars
The Battle for the West Coast Salmon Fishery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
The history of the west coast salmon fishery and the recent controversies that have surrounded it.
- Scott's Government Index
Your Guide to Canada's Federal and Provincial and Territorial Governments
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
- Sell Your Home in Canada
Understand the pros & cons of selling your home yourself or through an agent.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
- Setting the Table
An Anthology of Community Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Reminiscences about food.
- Smooth Talking! Explore the Paid Speaking Market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Becoming a professional speaker.
- Socialist Register 2006:
Volume 42: Telling the Truth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
- Sources 55
Winter (Jan) 2005
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
- Sources 56
Summer 2005
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2005
- Speaking to the Media
A special report from Sources with articles from The Sources HotLink
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Being seen, heard, and quoted in the media is perhaps the quickest, best, and most lasting way for a speaker to become better known and more sought after. This booklet offers advice on handling media calls and interviews well.
- Start and Run a Copywriting Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
A resource for writers interested in selling their services in a commercial arena.
- Surrealism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Takes the reader on a journey through one of the most fascinating and influential are movements of the twentieth century. Exploring works from some the the modern ear's greatest masters including Dai, Ernst, Miro and Magritte, this richly illustrated reference book offers a welath of insight into the complexities of the Surrealist imagination.
- Ten Thousand Roses
The Making of a Feminist Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Using interviews with many feminist activists, Rebick provides an oral history of feminism in Canada from the 1960s through the 1990s.
- Whose Health Care?
Challenging the Corporate Struggle to Rule Our System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
- A Writer at War
Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the front lines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soliders and civilians alike. Beevor and Vinogradova have taken Grossman's notebooks and fashioned them into a gripping narrative.
- Hope in the Dark
Untold histories, wild possibilities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004 Published: 2016
Solnit reminds us of how changed the world has been by the activism of the past five decades. She argues for hope - hope even in the dark. She offers a vision of cause-and-effect relations that provides new grounds for political engagement in the present.
- The Invention of Journalism Ethics
The Path to Objectivity and Beyond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004 Published: 2005
- Smoke and Mirrors
Financial myths that will ruin your retirement dreams
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004 Published: 2005
- A Threat from Within
A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004 Published: 2005
Rabkin brings to light continuing Jewish opposition to Zionism, a religious tradition which presents a fundamental challenge to the idea of Israel as a Jewish state.
- Action Will Be Taken
Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Marxism's decline isn't just an intellectual concern -- it too has practical effects. If you lack any serious understanding of how capitalism works, then it's easy to delude yourself into thinking that moral appeals to the consciences of CEOs and finance ministers will have some effect. You might think that central banks' habit of provoking recessions when the unemployment rate gets too low is a policy based on a mere misunderstanding. You might think that structural adjustment and imperial war are just bad lifestyle choices.
- Medical Reform - Volume 24 Issue 2
October 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- Can the Sciences Help Us to Make Wise Ethical Judgments?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Scientific knowledge has a vital, if limited, role to play in shaping our moral values and helping us to frame wiser judgments. Ethical values are natural and open to examination in the light of evidence and reason.
- For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Part Two
How the Liberals and Reformists Derailed the Struggle for Integration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
There is a lot of talk today about multiculturalism, diversity, whiteness and "racialized subjects" and other liberal jargon that essentially attempts to erase the centrality of anti-black racism and black oppression in racist capitalist America.
- Medical Reform - Volume 24 Issue 1
July 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- Pranks, Frauds, and Hoaxes from Around the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
It's pretty easy to hoax people. We all want to be deceived, but only up to a point. Some hoaxes are fun and pleasant, others malicious and unpleasant. We'd like a way to tell the difference.
- Elementary, dear teacher
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Discusses an 1868 murder as means and motive to teaching history as investigation rather than a timeline with concrete established facts, encouraging more critical thinking and acknowledgement that we can't always know the answers.
- Trotskyism and Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
A Trotskyist view of political currents in the Spanish Civil War.
- Bridging the Chasm Between Two Cultures
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
A full-on clash of cultures makes communication extremely difficult between the skeptical community and the metaphysical/new age community.
- Journalist's Guide to Covering Bioterrorism
Second Edition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation has published "A Journalist's Guide to Covering Bioterrorism" to help reporters and producers tackle these stories. Among this guide's features:
- Specific information on biological weapons, including when they've been used in the past, how an attack might unfold and what countries have them
- Details about possible bioweapons, including information about infection, prevalence and treatment
- A list of national and local contacts
- A glossary of terms
- Medical Reform - Volume 23 Issue 4
April 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- Inventing Tax Rage (excerpt)
Misinformation in the National Post
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004 Published: 2005
The propaganda campaign to invent "tax rage".
- Words have failed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation.
- From Internet Scams to Urban Legends, Planet (hoa)X to the Bible Code
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
- An Action a Day
Keeps Global Capitalism Away
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
- Another world is possible if...
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
- Anti-Vaccination Fever
The Shot Hurt Around the World
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Sensationalist media, religious fanatics, and alternative medical practitioners fanned the fires created by questionable research to spawn worldwide epidemics of a disease that has almost been forgotten.
- Bad Marxism
Capitalism and Cultural Studies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. After an introduction critiquing the so-called 'Marxism' of the academy, Hutnyk provides detailed critical analyses of the approaches and theorists of cultural studies.
- Barrie Zwicker's 9/11 Resource Guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
- The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry, Aboriginal writings, Francophone writings, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, urban writing, nature writing, travel writing, and short fiction.
- Challenged Books List
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
- Co-operatives Bite back! The return of the co-op
New Internationalist June 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
A look at the issues regarding and the basic principles of a co-op. Discussion of the history of the international co-operative movement and information on how to set up a co-op.
- Dark Age Ahead
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
- Directory of Editors 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- Doing & Saying the Right thing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Professional risk and crisis management.
- Don't Think of an Elephant
Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Lakoff explains how conservatives think, and how to counter their arguments. He outlines in detail the traditional American values that progressives hold, but are often unable to articulate. Lakoff also breaks down the ways in which conservatives have framed the issues, and provides examples of how progressives can reframe the debate.
- The Elephants of Style
A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Opinionated commentary on American English in the computer age.
- The Follow-Up Telephone Call
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Making follow-up phone calls to the media.
- Getting Ink for Your New Product
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Get media coverage of your product.
- Getting the Most From Strategic Alliances
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2004
- Graphic Monthly Estimators' & Buyers' Guide 2004
Ontario Edition: The Printing Industry at Your Fingertips
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
- The Great Conspiracy
The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2004
- A History of Modern Palestine
One Land, Two Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
A history of the people of Palestine.
- HotLink Resource Shelf - #29
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Here's a list of new releases that will keep you busy for a while.
- HotLink Resource Shelf #30
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Start by accepting the fact that the media moves faster than you do, so be prepared. Always.
- How to Build a Media List
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Often your desired target audiences are diverse so this should be clearly defined before beginning to build your media list.
- Hurricane Hazel
Canada's Storm of the Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
- Imperial Crusades
Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Iraq was just one of three major imperial crusades in the decade after 1992, orchestrated by a new generation of American politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who backed pre-emptive strikes to overthrow unruly regimes in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan under the pretext of humanitarian intervention. Imperial Crusades chronicles the lies that are now returning almost daily to haunt the liars in Washington and London, the secret agendas and the under-reported carnage of these wars.
- In Print: Maximizing Coverage in Community Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
How to get coverage in community newspapers.
- It's the Law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
The laws of media relations.
- Journey to the Ice Age
Discovering an Ancient World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
- Judging Authority
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
We are often required to accept the word of another person, but how can we best judge whether or not that person is a legitimate authority?
- Letters to the Editor
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
The Letters page is one of the most popular sections of any newspaper, and is therefore an ideal way to keep your name and your core message in front of the public.
- Look Like a Hero
The art directors' guide to magazine print production
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
- Media Names & Numbers 2004
Winter (Jan) 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- Media Relations
The Bonner Communications Series
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
A primer on attaining media preparedness.
- Media Relations: Rule of Engagement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Rules for dealing with the media.
- Medical Reform - Volume 23 Issue 3
January 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- Meeting the Media Face-to-Face
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
What to do when a reporter calls or when meeting the media face to face.
- New Legal Landscape Affecting PR
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
New laws affecting public relations.
- New on the Bookshelf
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Reviews of recent books on publicity and media relations.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
- The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Here are the basic details of the main events, institutions, places, and people in Canada's past. The topics appear to be politics, economy, education, religion, law, medicine, science, transportation, social and cultural events.
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 20
Winter (Jan) 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 21
Summer 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- Point and Click
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Services that can help you write and distribute news releases.
- The Politics of Revolution: Learning from Autonomist Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
- Prints for Books
Book Illustration in France 1760-1800
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
- The Red Pages
Toronto Website Directory 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- The ROM Field Guide to Wildflowers of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
- 7 Ways to Get More Mileage from a Case Study
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Case studies are a valuable addition to your public relations' arsenal. They not only explain the success of your product or service in action, they also tend to have high editorial acceptance and readership rates.
- A Short History of Progress
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
- Social Determinants of Health
Canadian Perspectives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
The social determinants of health are summarized and analyzed by over 30 medical and social academics.
- Sources 53
Winter (Jan) 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- Sources 54
Summer 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- 3 Keys to Keeping Your Marketing and PR Writing on Strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
How do you ensure that your marketing and PR piece isn't just pretty prose?
- Tips for Making the Call
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Tips for making follow-up calls to the media.
- Touching Hearts and Changing Lives
A Speaker's Legacy
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2004
- 2004 Canadian Donor's Guide
To fundraising organizations in Canada, 19th Edition
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- An Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
- Using History to Write Powerful Leads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Using history in writing marketing and PR communications.
- Weapons of Mass Persuasion
Marketing the War Against Iraq
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media.
- Wellness Options
Number 18, 2004 - Brain & Memory
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
- What's the Matter with Kansas?
How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Explores the rise of conservative populism in the United States through the lens of Frank's native state of Kansas. According to his analysis, the political discourse of recent decades has dramatically shifted from the class animus of traditional leftism to one in which "explosive" cultural issues, such as abortion and gay marriage, are used to redirect anger towards "liberal elites."
- When to Contact the Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Advice on when to contact the media.
- Who Me? Yes You!
Self-Marketing: Making it Work
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2004
- Why Publicity Sometimes Fails
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
You've done everything you can think of to publicize your new product launch, event, or small business. But nothing seems to work. Barbara Florio Graham explains why.
- Workers Solidarity Issue 2
June - August 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
A newsletter pulbished by the Workers Solidairty Alliance (WSA).
- Workers Solidarity - Volume 1, Number 1 - New Series
February - April 2004
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2004
A newsletter pulbished by the Workers Solidairty Alliance (WSA).
- Three parents & a baby
But the law only leaves room for two
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Article regarding the application of the non-biological parent in a lesbian couple to be recognized as co-parent without displacing the biological father's legal status as parent.
- Breakfasts keep friendships in shape
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Profile of a fitness group that has a fifteen year standing breakfast date, and has become a support group and circle of friends.
- Trust Me
A Handbook of Tory Contortions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003 Published: 2011
Satirical bites from Ontario’s past — 1995 to 2003. They expose the Common Sense Revolutionary backgrounds of some of Canada’s highest-ranking conservatives currently on the scene.
- Why is Religion Natural?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Is religious belief a mere leap into irrationality as many skeptics assume? Psychology suggests that there may be more to belief than the suspension of reason.
- Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003 Published: 2004
Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
- Oxford Canadian Thesaurus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003 Published: 2004
- Victims No Longer?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
The author begins with the position that suffering is not moral and criticizes Israeli settlers and Zionists for disenfranchising Palestinians. She debunks the notion that they are a nation of victims. She calls into question the assumption that criticizing Israel is anti-semitic.
- Free trade is fine in a world of equals
Developing countries should be wary of liberalisation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
A discussion of how the theory behind free trade is not real-world viable and in fact penalizes the developing countries.
- Power outage traced to deregulation and dim bulb in White House
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
An investigative report on the Federal and State deregulation of the energy sector by George Bush Sr. and Jr and by Republican governors in California and New York that weakened industry accountability and resulted in blackouts and price fixing.
- Against School
How public education cripples our kids, and why
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
An essay by a retired teacher on the infantilization of children by the public school system. This intellectual history of US public school curiculum reveals that it was conceived as a democratic means to a reflexively obedient work force.
- Medical Reform - Volume 23 Issue 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
- These little piggies like deficits
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
A comparison of the early stages of the US debt crisis with that of Canada 1993 and the reactions of their respective financial communities, observing that because the US deficit was actually benefiting the financiers, there was minimal protest.
- Medical Reform - Volume 23 Issue 1
July 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
- Jewish Voices for Peace and Justice
Press Release
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Canadian Jews who oppose the continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza by Israel will gather for a one-day conference on June 8, 2003 in Toronto.
- Medical Reform - Volume 22 Issue 4
April 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
- Die Irak-Krise im Kontext
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
- The Iraq Crisis in Context
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
- Kryzys w Iraku - podsumowanie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
- Acupuncture, Magic, and Make-Believe
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Traditional Chinese acupuncture is an archaic procedure of inserting needles through the skin over imaginary channels in accord with rules developed from pre-scientific superstition and numerological beliefs. New research has replaced this mystical sham medical procedure with a simple evidence-based no-needle treatment that stimulates motor points and nerve junctures and induces gene-expression of neurochemicals and activates brain areas important for healing. This is a scientifically based alternative to the previous metaphysical theories and magical rituals.
- Health care to go
Special van delivers community program
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
An article about the Immigrant Women's Health Centre Mobile Health Unit
- Geschichte eines Irrtums: Das Tuch und das Missverständnis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Das Palästinensertuch is neuerdings auch bei den Rechten in Mode. Manche Linke wollen es deshalb künftig lieber im Schrank lassen.
- We can't afford a dim view
Deputation at City Hall regarding funding for women's health clinics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
These clinics are doing YOUR public health work at a grassroots level. The need and should receive more money, not less.
- Access to Electronic Records
A State by State Guide to Obtaining Government Data
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Reporters have a tool that allows them to report on entire populations and do original analysis on a subject for their stories, rather than relying solely on anecdotes. Computer-assisted reporting helps journalists do important stories that otherwise would not be covered.
- Aids Activist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
- An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
- Beautiful
A Tribute to Gordon Lightfoot
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 2003
- Big Ideas
For growing your Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
- Canadian Key Business Directory 2003
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
- Canadian Left and the Test of War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
The bloody U.S. war of conquest against Iraq was a litmus test for the left. Millions internationally and hundreds of thousands in Canada rallied against the war. yet is is patently clear that the biggest antiwar demonstrations in history had no effect whsoever on the war-crazed American ruling class.
- The Canadian Wirter's Guide 13th Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
- The Canadian Writer's Guide
13th Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
The handbook of the Canadian Authors Association, featuring how-to articles on many areas of publishing.
- The Canadian Writers' Guide
13th edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Over 130 how-to articles on many aspects of writng for publication.
- Censorship in Islamic Societies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
A study of censorship in Islamic societies, concentrating on key events throughout history. The text includes analysis of: censorship in Algeria the "fatwa" against Salman Rushdie Taliban repression in Afghanistan and the 1980 transmission on British TV of "Death of a Princess".
- The charm of abusers
Why queers put up with dangerous partners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Abusive relationships often have a magnetic quality to them. They can be very intense, like a one-of-a-kind partnership, which also makes them very hard to leave.
- Continentalizing Canadian Telecommunications
The Politics of Regional Reform
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
The issues behind privatization policies and telecommunications policies are looked at through a glass of drifting continentalism
- Contracts for Couples
Self-Counsel Press Legal Series
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
- The Corporation
The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Makes the case that corporations function as a psychopathic entity. A companion to Mark Achbar's 2003 documentary of the same name.
- Democratic Struggle: What Role for Marxism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Exploring what Marxist approaches to democracy have offered to contemporary discussions.
- The Eight Best Books for Publicity Seekers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
For those of you pursuing and perfecting the fine art of getting publicity, here's a list of books you can't live without.
- Free for the asking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Any organization, corporation or individual listed in Sources has the ability to post news releases to the Sources Web site.
- The Holocaust Chronicle
A History in Words and Pictures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
A chronological account of the genocide of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
- HotLink Resource Shelf #26
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Reviews of public relations books.
- HotLink Resource Shelf #27 - The Art of the Handwritten Note
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Review of a book about handwritten notes.
- How to Make Your B-roll Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Getting a videographer or camera assigned to your story is a challenge to say the least. If you're lucky, you may get one or two cameras out to your news event. That leaves another three or four stations, not including the networks that will not cover your story because they are not there with a camera. PR practitioners can maximize their TV impact by investing in B-roll and hiring a news videography service.
- How to Make Your PR Photos Work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
There is a real art and science to the news photo.
- Imagined Nations
Reflections on Media in Canadian Fiction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
A basic look at the effects different forms of media have had on Canadian novels and film adaptations and cyberspace, and how these affect the sense of time and space and national identities.
- In Times of Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
As anyone facing a crowded room of reporters during an emergency will tell you, effective crisis communications is paramount in overcoming the predicament.
- Internet Marketing Intelligence
Research Tools, Techniques, and Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
How to use the Internet for market research.
- Journalism: Truth or Dare?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the criticism thrown at journalism today by all sectors of society.
- Media Names & Numbers 2003
January 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
- Media Relations - Behaviours Unbecoming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
What NOT to do when dealing with the media.
- Medical Reform - Volume 22 Issue 3
January 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
- Memoirs of a Media Maverick
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
An engaging memoir of a radical socialist who also was a recognized journalist, writer, and filmmaker.
- Michael Levine's Ten commandments for Dealing with the Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Rules for dealing with the media.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to HIV/AIDS
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
This book gives an overview of the origins of HIV, the ways in which it spreads, the profits made by drug companies, women's special vulnerability and the positive action being taken by people and communities to fight back.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
- Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Chomsky's classic analysis of the liberal scholarship that justified American foreign policy and aggression during the 1960s.
- Old Toronto Houses
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Photographs of old Toronto houses, with accompanying text.
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 19
Spring 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
- Real Estate as a Professional Career
Career Orientation Kit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
- 6 Tips for Writing a Successful VNR
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
A video news release(VNR) is essentially a press release on video. The key difference is how it is planned and written.
- Sources 51
January 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
- Sources 52
Summer 2003
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2003
- The State of the News Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Journalists are older, smarter, generally more educated, and usually more cynical than their predecessors. Cynicism often breeds distrust making the current generation of news reporters more suspicious and more formidable than ever.
- Telling Tales
Storytelling in the family
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
A guide to the art of storytelling.
- Terrorism, War and the Press
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
- There's no such thing as a slow news day
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
The news media are always looking for news.
- User Error
Resisting Computer Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
- Video News Releases
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Video News Releases (VNRs) are just that: broadcast-quality videos intended for release to television stations. They typically contain a "story" in television format, complete with reporter, just as a news release imitates a news story.
- We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
- What is Public Relations?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
PR should be the guardian of an organization's brand, and that concept of brand is not just reserved for a private sector, product-oriented company. The concept of brand, what an organization is, what is it about, what it wants to say, is the organization's being, and PR is often its protector.
- Which Ad Pulled Best?
40 Case Histories on How to Write and Design Ads That Work
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
- Without a Net
The female experience of growing up working class
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Essays on growing up working-class in the USA.
- Writing a Successful Case Study
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Readers love a good story. That's why these chronicles of success will often stand out on the editor's desk while press releases, media kits and other media communications fight a tough battle just to get noticed.
- CIA's dirty little secrets exposed
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Investigative reporting into the interrogation techniques used by the US Military on captured terrorism suspects. The author exposes the CIA secret detention centers abroad where interrogation occurs and US due process does not apply.
- Unravelling the DNA Myth
The spurious foundation of genetic engineering
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
A survey of the implications of the collapse of molecular biology's "central dogma", that an organisms genome fully accounts for its characteristic assemblage of inherited traits. The author adresses how the biotechnology industry has been able to convince the world that genetic modifications are safe.
- From Dictatorship to Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002 Published: 2010
A short, serious introduction to nonviolent struggle, its applications, and strategic thinking. Based on pragmatic arguments, this piece presents nonviolent struggle as a realistic alternative to war and other violence in acute conflicts. It also contains a glossary of important terms and recommendations for further reading.
- The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002 Published: 2007
We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
- A Proposal to American Labor
'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
- Another World is Possible
Globalization and Anti-capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002 Published: 2006
A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
- The write place to work
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
A study of the perfect environment for writing, with views from many of Canada's pre-eminent authors.
- The lessons we have learned
Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
A speech on "the peace movement: lessons learned and the way forward." Henry Lowi argues that "There is no sign of hope, for the old prejudices and the old concepts, and there is no hope for the colonialists, and the supremacists, and the ethnic nationalists. There is hope for those who proclaim clearly, and organize diligently, for coexistence between Arabs and Jews under a democratic constitution that upholds human rights."
- Quest for Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Judith Stone, an American Jew, argues that Jews of conscience must support the right of return of the Palestinian people.
- Do I Divest?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
If apartheid ended, so can this occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined.
- Medical Reform - Volume 22 Issue 2
September 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
- The High Cost of Skepticism
What happened to two scientists who believed that tenure and First Amendment would protect their rights to free inquiry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Here’s what happened to two scientists who believed that tenure and the First Amendment would protect their rights to free inquiry.
- Healing Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Cherie Brown discusses some core obstacles to dealing with the Israel/Palestine issue and offers steps for a groundwork to build on.
- Investigative Files: Benny Hinn: Healer or Hypnotist?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Benny Hinn tours the world with his "Miracle Crusade," drawing thousands to each service, with many hoping for a healing of body, mind, or spirit.
- Prophetic Witness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Editorial discussing some brief history of Israel since the Occupation up to the current day, focusing on the abuses of the Palestinians and seeking support for increasing awareness of the current situation.
- The State of the Spirit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
The text of Michael Lerner's "State of the Spirit" address given at the founding conference of The TIKKUN Community.
- State Terrorism in Israel?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
A critique of the double standards applied to the different sides of the Israel/Palestine question and of the continued U.S. perception of Israel as victim versus oppressor.
- A truly fragile identify
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Israel has equated modern identity not with actual live people, with rights and obligations, but with a vast collectivity with no limits either in the past, the present, or the future.
- How it all adds up
$4 billion more flows out than comes back in - and that has to change if the city is to stay healthy, critics say
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
A discussion of Toronto's position within the Canadian economy, and an argument that given its' status as 'economic powerhouse' for the country, that perhaps some additional re-investment into the city is warranted.
- The Smile of Policeman Agadi
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
An account of the abuse of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system.
- Advice on Hiring a Media Trainer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Media training is highly recommended for any media spokesperson, whether a novice or a veteran.
- Blue Book 2002
Directory of Community Services in Toronto Bringing People and Services Together
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
- The Canadian Paper Finder 2002
Canada-wide Fine Paper Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
- The Canadian Writer's Market
15th Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Lists markets for freelancers to sell their writing.
- Contact 02
6th Annual Toronto Photography Festival
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
- A Crisis by Any Other Name
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
The role of communications in a crisis.
- Crow Lake
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
- Dialogues on Cultural Studies
Interviews with Contemporary Critics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Thirty-three questions were asked (but not necessarily answered) of each participant, dealing with cultural studies, modernity, postmodernism, referentiality, ideology and history, post-colonialism, neo-orientalism, revolution and tragedy, intellectuals and universities, gender, Marxism, new communications technology.
- Do think tanks matter?
Assesing the impact of public policy institutes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
- Facing the Facts
A Guide to the GATS debate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
- HotLink Resouce Shelf: In the News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Review of a book on media relations in Canada.
- HotLink Resource Shelf: The Art of Cause Marketing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Review of a book on how to use advertising to change personal behaviour and public policy.
- How Media Relations Helps the Marketing Plan
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Using media relations to support your marketing strategy.
- In The News
The Practice of Media Relations in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Carney gives everyone, from student to seasoned practitioner, a thorough understanding of who the media are, how they work and how to approach them with stories.
- The Intangible Benefits of Media Training
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
One of the greatest frustrations of media relations specialists, and news media, is the slow response to interview or information requests. Many times I've noticed that executives don't understand the rapid timelines that the news media operate under - they don't understand how quickly something ceases to be "news" or how quickly the media may lose interest in a proactive media relations venture.
- Managing the Media: A Lesson in Making Publicity Come First
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Case study of media relations strategy.
- Maximizing Coverage of Charity Activities in Community Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
When it comes to getting coverage in the local newspaper, presentation is paramount. Tto maximize your profile and get your story or event covered, give the newspaper what it wants, when it wants it.
- Media Events - Maximizing Your Attendance & News Pick-up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Maximizing your attendance and news pick-up at media events.
- Media Names & Numbers 2002
January 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
- Medical Reform - Volume 22 Issue 1
2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
- The Navigator of New York
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
Ths book explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class.
- Ontario Rocks
Three Billion Years of Environmental Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
A three-billion-year story of Ontario's geological evolution.
- The Other Israel
Voices of Refusal and Dissent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
A compilation of essays written by Israelis who oppose Israel's occupation of Palestine.
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 17
Spring 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 18
Fall 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
- Presence of Excellence
Twenty-Five Years of Selections from The National Magazine Awards
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
- Public Relations Strategy a Valuable Fundraising Tool
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
A case study of using public relations to enhance a charity's fundraising activities.
- Secret Justice
Access to Terrorism Proceedings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
The American judicial system has, historically, been open to the public, and the U.S. Supreme Court has continually affirmed the presumption of openness. However, as technology expands and as the perceived threat of violence grows, individual courts attempt to keep control over proceedings by limiting the flow of information. Courts are reluctant to allow media access to certain cases or to certain proceedings, like jury selection. Courts routinely impose gag orders to limit public discussion about pending cases, presuming that there is no better way to ensure a fair trial. Many judges fear that having cameras in courtrooms will somehow interfere with the decorum and solemnity of judicial proceedings.
- Slavery and the origins of racism
International Socialist Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Racism is not part of some unchanging human nature. It was literally invented.
- Sources 49
January 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
- Sources 50
Summer 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
- Spying 101
The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities 1917 - 1997
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
If you attended a Canadian university in the past eighty years, it's possible that, unbeknownst to you, Canadian security agents were surveying you, your fellow students, and your professors for 'subversive' tendencies and behaviour. Since the end of the First World War, members of the RCMP have infiltrated the campuses of Canada's universities and colleges to spy, meet informants, gather information, and on occasion, to attend classes. Why they were there is the subject of this book.
- Top Ten List of Media Relations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Top ten recommendations for becoming (and remaining) media friendly:
- Tragedies and Journalists
A guide for more effective coverage
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Reporters, editors, photojournalists and news crews are involved in the coverage of many tragedies during their lifetimes. They range from wars to terrorist attacks to airplane crashes to natural disasters to fire to murders. All having victims. All affecting their communities. All creating lasting memories. The practical tips in this booklet can help you become more effective in handling these vital areas
- The University of Toronto
A History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002
- What Makes a Good Story?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
What makes a story interesting is often a combination of the interests of the audience, the interests and abilities of the reporter, and a long history of journalistic tradition.
- When & How to Hold a News Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
So before you decide to call a news conference, make sure that the circumstances meet ALL of the criteria.
- When the Political Became Personal
Health Matters Issue 51
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
One health care professional's experiences with the British National Health Service while going through treatment for breast cancer.
- Private-school debate grows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Proposed legislation to aid private schools amounts to a subsidy for rich parents, opponents to Bill 45 say.
- Is Your Web Site Media Friendly?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001 Published: 2005
How to make your Web site media-friendly.
- The Princess and the Press
How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001 Published: 2005
Your relationship with the press might not be a fairy tale, but it definitely doesn't have to be horror story: How to write a news release that will make you the belle of the ball.
- Canada: A People's History
Volume Two
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001 Published: 2002
Canadian history from the 1870s to the 1990s.
- Understanding Power
The Indispensable Chomsky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001 Published: 2002
In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
- Sons and mothers vs. sacred cows
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
A growing movement to refuse to serve in the Israeli military and especially in the occupied territories.
- Making mid-life changes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
"I'm so much more myself." So says Miriam Garfinkle, a family physician who recently left her busy private practice to work in a community health centre.
- Quilt gives peace a chance
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Now more than ever people need to try to understand one another. That is what Miriam Garfinkle believes in the aftermath of Sept. 11 and why she feels it is even more important for people to come out and view the Middle East Peace Quilt when it comes to North York.
- Peace messages are wrapped in quilt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Sima Elizabeth Shefrin wanted to do something to contribute to peace in the Middle East. And she wanted to do something that would draw the world's eyes to a just peace for both Arab and Jew.
- Magical Thinking in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Homeopathy and other popular therapies demonstrate ancient and universal principles of magical thinking, which some recent research suggests are fundamental to human cognition, even rooted in neurobiology.
- Response to Toronto Sun article
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Sun reporter's ill-informed and poor-quality reporting reflects her hostility to organizatons providing services for immigrant women.
- World should intervene to end the Israeli Apartheid
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Transcript of a speech given in South Africa addressing the circumstances of the Palestinians and the Israeli apartheid.
- When journalists forget that murder is murder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
- Anti-racists who queston Zionism are not racists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Anyone who criticizes the actions of the Israeli government runs the risk of being labelled anti-Semitic by those who want to silence all criticism of Israel.
- Is the Corporation Obsolete?
Corporate irresponsibility? Predatory behavior? Blame the charter--and rewrite it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
The more pervasive the corporation becomes, the less we seem to notice. It's just the way things are, the new normal, and rapidly it is becoming the norm for the entire world.
- Godfrey High
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Former and current students of Bathurst Heights Secondary School are objecting to the decision to invite Tory backroom operator Paul Godfrey to be the keynote speaker at a ceremony to mark the school's closing, given that Godfrey is a key advisor to the Conservative government whose cutbacks are responsible for the school's being shut down.
- Freedom through regulation
People power must make an ally of the state
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
The people's movements being deployed against corporate power are perhaps the biggest, most widespread popular risings the world has seen.
- Alien Invasion
How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
An examination of the devasting results of seven years of social and economic destruction inflicted the by the right-wing fanatics who ruled Ontario under the premiership of Mike Harris.
- But It's Only a Tool!
The Politics of Technology and Education Reform
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- Canada's Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- Canada's Red Scare 1945-1957
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
A summary and examination of Canada's Red Scare, the name used to describe the paranoia and ideological insecurity that swept Canada in the years following the Second World War amidst widespread mistrust of the Soviet Union. Volume 61 of The Canadian Historical Association booklets.
- Canadian Books in Print Subject Index 2001
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- Challenging McWorld
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- Daily News, Eternal Stories
The Mythological Role of Journalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Argues that in many ways news articles of today draw from age-old tales have have chastened, entertained, and entranced people since the beginning of time.
- Desintresse am Öffentlichen Intresse
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
In den Industrienationen haben die Menschen über Jahrzehnte hinweg gelernt, dass man privaten Unternehmen nicht trauen kann, wenn es um Sachen der öffentlichen Sicherheit geht.
- Eating Fire
Family Life, on the Queer Side
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
An inside look at a rainbow of relationships, sexual and otherwise, that gay, lesbian, and transgendered people create to animate their lives: lovers, partners, parents/kids, quick tricks, torrid affairs, sweethearts, crushes, exes, friends, bottoms and tops, threesomes, butches and fems, bears, cubs and johns. Based on hundreds of intimate conversations across Canada, Eating Fire explores the deepest currents of life: sex, love, loneliness, abuse, power and consent, giving birth, death, being a wo/man, pleasure, fear, joy - risks and rewards of creating family without boundaries.
- E-Commerce vs. E-Commons
Communications in the public interest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
From privacy issues to intellectual property, from universal access to union activism, these essays challenge the rush to deregulate and disconnect communications from the public interest.
- The Essential Contact -12th Edition
Canada's Music & Entertainment Industry Directory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- Expand your knowledge by getting advice from the experts!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Public opinion plays a key role in government spending decisions, and one of the most effective ways to influence public opinion is through the media. A single appearance on television, for example, gets your message across to tens of thousand of people.
- Fatal Passage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- First Chapter
The Canadian Writers Photography Project
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
A "photographic archive" of Canadian writers from across the country.
- Flying High: 5 Sure Ways to Get Your Business Soaring
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Know your audience, know your message, be clear and consistent in that message, then develop a strategy and execute it.
- The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
The deepest and most systemic threat to civil and planetary life the world has ever faced is underway. Behind the disasters of regional economies and planetary ecosystems melting down, the threat is driven by an underlying meta-program, in terms of which every decision, every policy, every regulation and implementation is demanded and instituted by servant governments.
- Great Canadian Magazines 2001
CAMPA Member Directory
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
- Das grosse Sackhüpfen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
- Guerrilla Tactics for Maximizing the Results of Your Media Campaign
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Strategy and tactics for successful media campaigns.
- How Embarassing when your messages unravel
The Emperor's New Speak
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Analyze your messages to make sure their will hold up to critical scrutiny.
- How the Media Can Be Positive For Your Business
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
If both you and the reporter benefit, the chances are you will do business with that reporter again, good business.
- How 2 Take an Exam... & Remake the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- Kick It Over #39
Fall 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
- Media and Minorities
Representing Diversity in a Multicultral Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
An examination of the politics of media minority relations in a multicultural Canada.
- Media Names & Numbers 2001
February 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
- Medical Reform - Volume 21 Issue 2
2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
- Medicine Wars Will Alternative and Mainstream Medicine Ever Be Friends
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
In the wake of dozens of new and complementary medicines flooding both the marketplace and some hospitals, which path will medicine take?
- Missing Pieces II
An Alternative Guide to Canadian Post-Secondary Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- New Internationalist
#331 - January-February 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
How the system makes us sick.
- Nickel and Dimed
On (Not) Getting By In America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them, inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour?
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
- Our School Our Selves
Volume 10 Number 2 (#62) January 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 15
Spring 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 16
Fall 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
- Pensions Under Attack
What's behind the push to privatize public pensions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Townson discusses the forces behind the drive to privatize public pensions and its impact on the financial security of seniors. In doing so, she traces a history from Pinochet's Chile to Thatcher's Great Britain to critique Canada's move toward privatization.
- Photo Impressionism and the Subjective Image
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- Reckless Abandon
Canada, the GATS and the future of Health Care
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- Resist
A grassroots collection of stories, poetry, photos and analyses from the Quebec City FTAA protetst and beyond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
A dynamic collection of personal accounts, creative works, reflections, images and analyses about the protests against the FTAA summit that took place in April 2001 in Quebec City.
- Respect Bathurst
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
A protest against inviting a Harris Tory to speak at the closing of Bathurst Heights Secondary School.
- Scott's Directory of Canadian Associations 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
- Sources 47
Winter 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
- Sources 48
Summer 2001
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2001
- Standards of Practice for Counsellors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- Stolen Lives
The 'sisters' who are challenging Australia to admit to its forced separation of Aboriginal families
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
The issue of Austaralia's stolen children.
- Surviving and Thriving in a Crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Surviving and thriving in a crisis means joining hands for support and sharing information clearly, effectively and with respect for the human condition. Remember, you're never alone in a crisis - it just feels that way.
- Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
A reference book on Canadian film and filmmakers, with reviews, biographical listings, and a detailed chronology of major events in Canadian film and television history.
- Trees of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
- 205 Arguments and Observations in Support of Naturism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Arguments in favour of naturism backed up by research and writings from various sources.
- The View from the Press Room
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
How charities can sell their stories to the media.
- What Does a Reporter Want?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
What does a reporter what when they interview you?
- Why I Am Listed in Sources
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Over the years, I have turned to Sources time and time again to track down experts to interview for whatever newspaper or magazine article I happened to be researching at the time. So when the time came for me to position myself as an expert it was immediately obvious to me what I had to do: take out a listing in Sources.
- Abandonner l'intérêt publique
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Les sociétés industrielles ont appris au cour de décennies, que les intérêts privées ne peuvent être fait confiance de sauvegarder l'intérêt publique si il y à conflit avec leurs intérêts. C'étais une dure leçon apprie aux coûts de plusieurs vies, mais le résultat à été graduellement, pièce par pièce, pays par pays, une infrastructure de régulations publiques et d'agences et procédés mis sur pied pour protéger la santé publique et la sécurité. L'infrastructure est maintenant sapée pas seulement de l'extérieur, mais du gouvernement même.
- In the Crossfire
Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000 Published: 2010
This book is the story of those other movements and revolts in Vietnam, caught in the crossfire between the French and the Stalinists, told by one of the few survivors.
- Media Names & Numbers
Your Connection to the Media
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000 Published: 2009
A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
- Media Names & Numbers 2009
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000 Published: 2009
A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
- The Beaver - February-March 2000 issue
Volume 80, Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
Special issue on Contemplating Our Century.
There is a copy of this publication in the Connexions Archive.
- Nature of Economies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000 Published: 2001
Jacobs argues that since human beings exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect, we should look to the processes of nature for vibrant and flexible models of economic planning.
- Left awakes
John Clarke cheers conference with plan to bring down Mike Harris
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
It was a bombshell of a week in Toronto politics, one in which the two extremes of left-wing politics - the hard and the soft - gave two Toronto audiences their points of view, prognoses and programs.
- CHO!CES Transformed
A look back on a long and extraordinary mo(ve)ment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Kevin Matthews reflects back on CHO!CES, a coalition for social justice that to many has represented an exceptional moment in the history of the Canadian Left, and in the Winnipeg activist community's contribution to that history.
- Abandoning the Public Interest
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000 Published: 2001
The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
- Abandoning the Public Interest - Farsi Text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Abandoning the Public Interest - Japanese text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- L'abbandono dell'interesse pubblico
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Het publieke belang negeren
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Natural light
Life among Vermont's hippies, hunters, bears, and moose
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
An essay on the author's experience in his second home, in rural Vermont.
- Can We Really Tap Our Problems Away?
Thought Field Therapy is marked as an extraordinarily fast and effective body-tapping treatment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Thought Field Therapy is marketed as an extraordinarily fast and effective body-tapping treatment for a number of psychological problems. However, it lacks even basic empirical support and exhibits many of the trappings of a pseudoscience.
- Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
The story of Ontario's right-wing Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
- Kontaminiert: Das giftige Erbe der Kürzungen in Ontario's Umweltpolitik
Ein Artikel über Katastrophe für die Umwelt in Kanada.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Rosa Luxemburg
A letter about Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to Marxism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
In a time when the socialist movement was evolving in directions increasingly removed from Marx's positions -- Social Democratic reformism on the one hand, and Leninist bureaucratic centralism on the other -- Luxemburg was the leading exponent of a Marxism in the spirit of Marx.
- An affair to remember
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Graham Green's two-year passion for Catherine Walston.
- Medical Reform - Volume 20 Issue 1
April 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
- Agnes Macphail
Champion of the Underdog
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- Att överge allmänintresset
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- The Best of The Nation
Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
An anthology of articles from The Nation.
- Betrayal of Trust
The Collapse of Global Public Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The story of recent failings of public health systems across the globe.
- Birds of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- Blowing Your Own Horn!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Launching your own public relations campaign.
- Bowling Alone
The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
- Canada: A People's History
Volume One
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Covers Canadian history from the beginnings to the 1870s.
- Canada's Distorted Electoral System
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Canada's electoral system is undemocratic
- Canada's Great Divide
The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Over the course of the 1990s, Canada's growing gap has become a slippery slope for a growing number of middle income familes sliding towards the bottom of the income ladder.
- Canadian Books in Print 2000
Author and Title Index
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
- Canadian Books in Print 2000
Subject Index
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
- The Case for Penal Abolition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
A collection of essays on various aspects of the penal abolition movement and its arguments.
- Caveat Surfer: Beware When Using Electronic Communication
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Points about electronic communication and online security.
- City of Toronto Streetfinder
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- Colour Coded
A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- Contaminación: El envenenante legado de los recortes ambientales de Ontario
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Il contributo al marxismo di Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Vedo Rosa Luxemburg come la marxista che fece il massimo per progredire le teorie rivoluzionarie di Karl Marx nel periodo successivo alla morte di Marx ed Engels.
- Doing Well and Doing Good
How Softnews and Critical Journalism are Shrinking the News Audience and Weakening Democracy- And what News Outlets can do about it
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
The News has changed greatly in the past two decades. In response to the intensensely competitive media environment created by cable, news and entertainment, news outlets have softened their coverage. Their news has also become increasingly critical in tone.
- Effective Media Relations
Nurturing your relationships with reporters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Our relationships with journalists need to be maintained over time in order to be fruitful.
- Emily Carr
Rebel Artist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- Event Planning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- Falling Behind
The State of Working Canada, 2000
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
An accessible collation of data and analysis, analyzed from a progressive perspective, about the social and economic realities of working people in Canada.
- Family ties: a brief, brief history of the Left in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
A brief overview of the history of the Canadian political Left.
- Flying Without A Net
The "Economic Freedom" of Working Canadians in 2000
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Reports on a project to construct a quantitative index summarizing the multi-dimensional economic status of working people in Canada, based on variations in 14 different component indicators of economic and social well-being.
- GATS: How the World Trade Organization's new "services" negotiations threaten democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Examines closed-door negotiations to expand the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), which have the goal of commercialize every service sector in every WTO country, including essential services such as health care, education, and drinking water.
- Group Sex
Communal Ethics of Eroticism, Free Love, and the Extended Family
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Is free love a relic of the past? Does principled promiscuity still persist at the dawn of the twenty-first century? Where do anti-authoritarian radicals stand in the cultural combat?
- HotLink Resource Shelf #16
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Reviews of books on writing and presentations.
- HotLink Resource Shelf: Going for Gold!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Review of Going for Gold, a book on marketing strategies for speakers.
- Imagine Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
- In London treffen wir uns wieder
Vier Spaziergänge durch eine vergessenes Kapitel deutscher Kulturgeschichte
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- In the Corporate Interest
The YNN Experience in Canadian Schools
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- Inside Language
A Canadian Language Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- Involve Your Audience During TV Interviews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
People who are watching the news are usually doing something else as well, like washing clothes, eating dinner or helping the kids with homework. It's up to you to get their attention.
- Islamic Peril
Media And Global Violence
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- A közérdek mellozésre kerül
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- The Laws of Nature
A Skeptics Guide
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- A Life on the Jewish Left
An Immigrant's Experience
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Biderman was a leader of the Labour League and the United Jewish Peoples Order, Communist-led organizations whose members were unted by progressive ideals and a love of Yiddish culture.
- Media Names & Numbers 2000
February 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
- Media Think
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
- Medical Reform - Volume 19 Issue 3-4
January 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
- Medical Reform - Volume 20 Issue 2
2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
- The MegaCity Saga
Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- The Missing News
Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
- Nature Hikes
Near-Toronto Trails and Adventures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- New Media... Endless Possibilities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Using new media to get your message out.
- Oh, the Mistakes Spokespeople Make: Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Blow an Interview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Mistakes to avoid when being interviewed by the media.
- Other Conundrums
Race, Culture, and Canadian Art
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
A collection of essays on Canadian art.
- The Other Guide to Toronto
Opening the Door to Green Tourism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 13
Spring 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 14
Fall 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
- The Politics of Anti-Sweatshop Organizing in Canada What's missing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
The ruthlessness of so-called "economic restructuring" over the past few decades has not only entrenched exploitative work conditions in the South; it has also caused an explosion in sweatshop work in the North.
- Reading Pictures
A History of Love and Hate
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
A meditation on the questions we ask ourselves when standing in front of a piece of art.
- A Report Card on Women and Poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Revolutionärer Optimist
Ein Interview mit Martin Glaberman
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Scott's Canadian Sourcebook - 2001
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- Skills Mania
Snake Oil in Our Schools?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Davis argues that the purpose of education should not be primarily that of teaching skills useful in the job market.
- Sources 45
Winter 1999-2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
- Sources 46
Summer 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
- The Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
- Le système électoral faux du Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
- Toronto's Ravines
Walking the Hidden Country
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- Unsafe Practices
Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario Health Care
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Describes the process of healthcare privatization and its negative impact in Ontario.
- Watching the News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Watching the news to learn what the media are interested in.
- When Bad Things Happen to Good Spokespeople: Handling Tough Interviews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
How to handle problems that arise in a media interview.
- Who do we try to rescue today?
Canada under corporate rule
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
- Why Bad Beliefs Don't Die
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Because beliefs are designed to enhance our ability to survive, they are biologically designed to be strongly resistant to change. To change beliefs, skeptics must address the brain's "survival" issues of meanings and implications in addition to discussing their data.
- Zimbabwe Independence and Beyond
Labour, Capital and Society - Volume 33, Number 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
- Marx and Nature
A Red and Green Perspective
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999 Published: 2014
While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions. Paul Burkett shows that it is Marx's overriding concern with human emancipation that impels him to approach nature from the standpoint of materialist history, sociology, and critical political economy.
- A Guide to the Ferns of Grey and Bruce Counties, Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999 Published: 2005
- Relax a Little!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999 Published: 2001
Learning how to relax can mean the difference between a serene sense of accomplishment and a pounding headache.
- Seven golden rules for more effective speaking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999 Published: 2001
Tips to be a more powerful, memorable and successful speaker.
- Awakening Your Life Skills
A light-hearted, pragmatic and humorous approach to leading a less streeful life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999 Published: 2000
- Crisis Communications Checklist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999 Published: 2000
Nothing impresses like real confidence, and only advance planning can bestow it.
- The far-right stuff
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Something nasty is stirring in the heart of Europe. Linda Grant examines the rise of anti-immigration forces in Switzerland as voters flirt with extremism in unprecedented numbers.
- Medical Reform - Volume 19 Issue 2
September 1999
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1999
- The Snuff Film
The Making of an Urban Legend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
One of the most enduring, and little-recognized, urban legends about cinema is the "snuff film," in which actresses are supposedly actually killed onscreen. Over the course of nearly a quarter century, the snuff film has transformed from grade-Z slasher film to hoax to anti-pornographers' straw man to urban legend, and shows no sign of slowing down.
- Media in the United States
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999 Published: 2009
Media omissions, distortion, inaccuracy and bias in the US is something acknowledged by many outside the USA, and is slowly realized more and more inside the US. However, due to those very same omissions, distortion, inaccuracy and bias in the US mainstream media, it is difficult for the average American citizen to obtain an open, objective view of many of the issues that involve the United States (and since the United States is the largest economic and military power in the world, they are naturally involved in many issues!).
- War, Propaganda and the Media
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Probably every conflict is fought on at least two grounds: the battlefield and the minds of the people via propaganda. The #good guys# and the #bad guys# can often both be guilty of misleading their people with distortions, exaggerations, subjectivity, inaccuracy and even fabrications, in order to receive support and a sense of legitimacy
- If you can moan this job is yours
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Life as a cyber sex worker.
- Academic Freedom In English Canada
A History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- After the interview
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
What to do after being interviewed by a reporter.
- Backing it Up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
If you say something in a media interview, make sure you can back it up.
- Canadian Who's Who
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1999
To find background information on a prominent individual quickly, the Canadian Who's Who is an excellent resource. More than 15,000 Canadians are profiled, with addresses and phone numbers, date and place of birth, education, family history, career information, memberships, honours and awards, and short biographies (nothing juicy, though).
- Civil Society in Question
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Civil Society ranks as flavour of the month among community volunteers, academics and policy makers. Many view it as a key concept in the struggle against poverty and for social justice and democracy. Is civil society anything more than a projection of our desires, a chameleon concept that can mean all things to all people? Does it risk being co-opted beyond recognition and usefulness?
- Compass Points
Navigating the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
A radical history of the twentieth century by a wide of Canadian authors and essayists grappling with crucial developments in politics, economics, society, and culture in Canada and abroad.
- Copyright
Guide for Canadian Libraries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- Don't neglect your presentation skills
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Do not wait until you are about to present. It's not worth the stress, or to risk looking like a fool. Take time to prepare.
- Down To Earth People
Beyond Class Reductionism and Postmodernism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Working class women and men offer their analysis of the world today and its multi-dimensional inequalities.
- Easily Led
A History of Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
From Ancient Sumer to modern Poland, Thomson traces the use of propaganda and its influence on human events.
- Equal Shares
Oodi Weavers and the cooperative experience
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
The story of a community-based co-operative in Botswana.
- God's Spies
Stories in Defiance of Oppression
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Short stories on the theme of resistance to oppression.
- The Great Canadian Book of Lists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- History of Medicine
A Scandalously Short Introduction
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- Hostile Takeover
Annual Report on Privatization
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- Krieg im Kosovo
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- Medical Reform - Volume 19 Issue 1
1999
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1999
- Mushrooms of Ontario and Eastern Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- News releases that work -- and those that don't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Media relations know-how: effective media releases.
- The Niagara River
An Important Bird Area
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- Out of Control
Canada in an Unstable Financial World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers 12
Fall 1999
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1999
- "People and Government Travelling Together"
Community Organization, Urban Planning and the Politics of Post-War Reconstruction in Toronto 1943-1953
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Published in Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine, vol 27, No. 2, 1999, p. 44-58
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- The Power of public relations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
An overview of the role of public relations practitioners.
- A Primer on Canadian Productivity
(or everything you wanted to know about productivity but were afraid to ask)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
- Profit over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
- Regent Park
The Public Experiment in Housing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Photographs, commentary, and interviews.
- A Reporter's mindset
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Remember that reporters have a job to do. If you help the reporter, you are really helping yourself.
- Review: Secrets of Power Marketing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
A lively book, with a streak of practicality that reveals itself in an impatience with hoity-toity notions of marketing that have little impact on the bottom line.
- Review: World Wide Web Marketing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
A book for those whose jobs involve creating and maintaining corporate Web sites.
- Selling Online
How to Become a Successful E-Commerce Merchant in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- Sisters in the Wilderness
The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- Special Places
The Changing Ecosystems of the Toronto Region
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Special Places explores the changing ecosystem of the Toronto area over the past century, looking at the environmental conditions that influence the whol region and at the surprising range of plants and animals you can find in many of its natural spaces.
- Spinwars
Politics and New Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
- Spirit of the Web
The Age of Information from Telegraph to Internet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
A journey through communication technology and our fascination and tribulations with it.
- Stories from the Ice Storm
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Personal stories of the ice storm which hit eastern North America in 1998.
- The Straight Goods
Canadians Informing Canadians
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1999
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
A daily Internet news and feature publication featuring investigative reports, columns, and a variety of features. Ceased publication 2013.
- Street-Level Democracy
Political Settings at the Margins of Global Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- Toward a Healthy Future
Second Report on the Health of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
An Open Conspiracy for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
- Us and Them
Building a just workplace community
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
- What are Journalists for?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
Does the world you read about bear much resemblance to the one you actually live in?
Who, or what, really writes the news?
Are there any facts, or is there only spin?
Is news inherently conflict-driven?
- Working/Travailler
Images of Canadian Labour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
The author, a film and TV producer for programs about Canada's labour movement, chronicles the Canadian labour movement using black-and-white photographs.
- The World Trade Organization
A Citizen's Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Shrybman argues that the WTO not only aggravates envrionmental and social problems, but takes away the tools that governments need to address them.
- World Wide Web Marketing - Second Edition
Integrating the Web Into Your Marketing Strategy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
This book is designed for those whose jobs involve creating and maintaining corporate web sites.
- Writing For the Web
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Kilian puts communication before flash.
- Onward Humanist Soldiers!
Arming Ourselves with Logic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
A humanist take on the religious debate over whether or not "God" should be removed from the Canadian constitution.
- The History of Costa Rica
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998 Published: 2007
An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
- Resources for Radicals - Fourth Edition
An annotated bibliography for those active in movements for social change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998 Published: 2002
Annotated resources - books, periodicals, films, handbooks, and other materials -- for people working for non-violent social change.
- The Canadian Oxford Dictionary
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998 Published: 2001
More than just a dictionary, this is also a reference book with its ample informational entries which include short biographies of Canadians ranging from Elvis Stoiko to Nellie McClung and Canadian locations as diverse as Nunavut and the Red Chamber.
- Going to the Public -- Ten public speaking tips
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998 Published: 2000
Advice on effective public speaking.
- Your virtual storefront: Your telephone
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998 Published: 1999
Don't let a poorly thought out phone system interfere with your media relations.
- They are the champions
Nine heroes for 99 -- Torontonians who inspire our own good deeds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
- Even a 50-something with greying hair and a smallish you-know-what can be a Porn Star
How to make your own smut so it moves you where it counts
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Learning how to make a pornographic film.
- Has Fetish Flaked Out?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Now that everyone's doing it, perversion may never be the same.
- Keystone Cops Sex Registry
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Washroom sex might show up on Ontario's new offender list, but real pedophiles will probably go free.
- Does this ad actually encourage rape?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Campus groups pull overly sensational rape crisis centre ads.
- Liberal dogma shipwrecked
From Market Madness to Recession
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
The first serious crisis of the post-communist era is at once economic, political, ideological and strategic. All the postulates put forward over the past 10 years as fundamental to modern society are called into question, this time throughout the world.
- Porn stripped of its secrets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Covering the pornography industry.
- Medical Reform - Volume 18 Issue 2
September 1998
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1998
- Where Ya at, General Strike ? !
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
The trade union hierarchy will claim that the will to fight a class battle is not there, yet they have done their best to make sure that Ontario's workers and anti-harris activists are ocvercome by doubt and demoralization. Nothing less than a general strike will even make harris sit up and take notice, let alone offer serious concessions.
- Why Punish Madame?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
A landmark trial is to determine whether a dominatrix dishes out sex or therapy.
- Medical Reform - Volume 18 Issue 1
June 1998
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1998
- A pricey suburban sewer plan that stinks
City pays for new pipe and the results will be flushed into our lake
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Discussion of connecting King township to the Toronto sewer system.
- Medical Reform - Volume 17 Issue 4
March 1998
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1998
- Why do Progressive Foundations Give too Little to too Many?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Progressive funders, perhaps driven by the New Left's historic distrust of leadership and hierarchy, are inclined to avoid general-support funding. The natural result is a proliferation of short-term projects attached to flimsy institutions. And inherent in institutional weakness is poor press work, poorly marketed publications, poor management and poorly paid core staff with low morale and high turnover.
- Ashbridge's Bay
An Anthology of Writings by Those Who Knew and Loved Ashbridge's Bay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
The story of a great freshwater marsh destroyed by urbanization.
- At the Cutting Edge
The Fight for Canada's Forests
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Exposes the overexploitation of Canada's forests and suggests measures to create a sustainable industry.
- Die Autonomen
Portrait einer linksextremistischen Subkultur
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
- Ban Landmines
The Ottawa Process and the International Movement to Ban Landmines
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1998
- Civil Society and the Aid Industry
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- Coming Back to Life
Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
A guidebook for dealing with the despair that stands in the way our our changing the world.
- The Common Good
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
- Don't play that game: Ending telephone tag
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
The multitude of communications technologies have actually made it more difficult to get in touch.
- Enhance your image in novel ways
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Soft marketing supports and image enhancement strategies require as much consideration as any other portion of your marketing plan.
- Enough
Lifestyle and Financial Planning for Simpler Living
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- Exhibitors can get more bang for their buck
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Trade shows are effective marketing vehicles when used well.
- 44 Country Trails
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- Guidelines for successful interviews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Things to keep in mind when going into a media interview.
- Harness the Future
The 9 Keys to Emerging Consumer Behaviour
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- Hidden Agendas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
- How many spokespersons?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Speaking with one voice means your spokespersons should deliver the same message. It does not mean use only one spokesperson. If the news media representative knows your experts are available and reliable, you are more likely to be called and more importantly, to be believed.
- Industrial Cathedrals of the North
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- Into The Looking-Glass Wood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
A journey through the possibilities of reading.
- The Iroquois in the War of 1812
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- Keeping current with today's newsletters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Newsletters concerned with public relations, fundraising, and speaking.
- Lament for an Ocean
The Collapse of the Atlantic Cod Fishery: A True Crime Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Harris's account of why and how the northern cod was taken to the brink of extinction in little more than thirty years.
- Learning how to live with editors
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Pay attention to editorial fit, readership relevance, and good writing.
- Learning to Love Patriarchy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
A Canadian Catholic school teacher's struggle with the patriarchal values of the Catholic Church and their instruction to teachers to impress upon their female students the "value of motherhood".
- Mailing list know-how
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Your mailing list is one of the cornerstones of a good communications strategy.
- Manifestations And Declarations
Of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
This collection of original documents describes what significance they had for the social change and political movements of the twentieth century.
- Massive Uncritical Publicity for Supposed "Independent UFO Investigation"
Demonstrates Media Gullibility Once Again
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
On Monday, June 19, 1998, all of the major media outlets were suddenly filled with accounts proclaiming that an independent panel of scientists had taken a fresh look at the UFO question, and had concluded that the matter needed to be taken seriously after all.
- Montreal Up Close
A Pedestrian's Guide to the City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- 1998 Canadian Internet Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- 1999 Canadian Internet Directory and Research Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- 1999 Canadian Internet New User's Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- On Beulah Height
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- Out of Mind
An Investigation into Mental Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- Pain on Their Faces
Testimonies on the Paper Mill Strike, Jay, Manie, 1987-1988
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
An accourt of an epic struggle by workers and their community against a powerful and aggressive corporation -- a strike by 1,250 workers against the International Paper Company in Jay, Maine, in 1987-88. Over 40- testimonies by strikers and their supporters explain in their own words the significance of this struggle for themselves, their families, their community and future generations.
- Relationship Marketing
New Strategies, Techniques and Technologies To Win Customers You Want and Keep Them Forever
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- Researcher's Guide to the World Wide Web
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- Review: Leadership from within
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
An outline of skills and leadership techniques.
- Reviews: The HotLink Bookshelf
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Resources for communicators.
- Secrets of a worthwhile presentation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Preparation is the key to a successful presentation.
- Slumming It At the Rodeo
The Cultural Roots of Canada's Right-Wing Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Are the Federal Reform Party's Manning, Ontario's Harris and Alberta's Klein the struttin' cowboy champions of direct democracy? Or just sell- outs to the private sector? Laird tackles these questions.
- So You Think You Need a Lawyer
How to screen, hire, manage or fire a lawyer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Being a Successful Consultant
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
A practical guide to becoming a successful consultant.
- Toronto Rocks
The Geological Legacy of the Toronto Region
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Toronto’s urban geology.
- Unequal Freedoms
The Global Market as an Ethical System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
McMurtry's central argument in this work is the global market can be an ethical thing if a civil commons is put into place. The civil commons is a economic system in which individuals, not a handful of corporations, take part in a equal opporutinity framework of supply and demand.
- Where To Go When the Bank Says No
Financing your small business in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
- Writing for broadcast
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
Avoid the common pitfalls.
- Yesterday's News
Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.
- The Joy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 2007
Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I'm afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
- Your Guide to Toronto Neighbourhoods
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 2002
- The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers, and Journalists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 2000
- The Activist Cookbook
A Hands-on Manual for Organizers, Artists and Educators who want to get their message across in powerful, creative ways
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 1999
Spicy recipes for fighting economic injustice.
- No Sweat
Fashion, Free Trade, and the Rights of Garment Workers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 1999
Surveys the chasm between the glamour of the catwalk and the squalor of the sweatshop.
- Successful news releases: 7 must-know tips
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997 Published: 1999
Make it short, make it make, make sure it's important.
- The God of Small Things
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 1998
A novel.
- Letter to Ira Basen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Respect for others, high academic standards and creative and collaborative approaches to challenges have been the hallmarks of Huron Street School. What a shock then, to hear us represented on your show as a divided and bitter community unable to tolerate, much less respect, divergent opinions.
- Why Bogus Therapies Seem to Work
At least ten kinds of errors and biases can convince intelligent, honest people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
At least ten kinds of errors and biases can convince intelligent, honest people that cures have been achieved when they have not.
- Feminism, multilinearism and revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Grasping the historic uniqueness of each new women's movement is crucial. But the point is not mere multicultural diversity, but opening doors to new kinds of revolutions.
- News Media Stifle Ideas and Debate
Review of Democracy's Oxygen: How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Far from providing democracy's oxygen, as they claim, the news media today legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informed, they manufacture public consent for policies which favour their owners: the corporate elite.
- Reporting the Realities of Poverty
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Review of Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, by P. Sainath.
- Boys: Do you know where your mothers are?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Dr. Miriam Garfinkle got tired of being just the mom in the stands. She instigated the uprising from fan to player at her son's house league championship team party.
- Medical Reform - Volume 17 Issue 1
June 1997
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1997
- A Life of Learning
Charles Homer Haskins Lecture for 1997
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
- Media Watch: When the Media Tell Half the Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Twenty-eight years after Chariots of the Gods? author Eric von Däniken brought pseudoscience to new lows by suggesting that our ancestors were too stupid to create the pyramids, Stonehenge, and other monuments without the help of space aliens, his ideas are alive and well.
- Culture and monoculture: Old Order Amish face Ontario's dairy bureaucrats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Tucked away in various pockets of Central Ontario is a quiet scattering of Old Order Amish and Mennonite communities. Apart from their sober black dress, the most obvious sign of their presence is the horse-drawn buggies they drive on road shoulders made deliberately wide to accommodate them.
- Some ideas about organizing from Citizens for Local Democracy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Suggestions about starting a local group which will focus on issues of local democracy.
- Principles governing municipal/provincial financial relationships
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
In past decades, provincial governments have generally recognized the separate nature of local government and have not acted unilaterally in the field of financial relationships, but have attempted to reach amicable agreement.
- Letter to Ontario Minister of Education and Training John Snobelen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
The actions of your government have made us all take a good look at what we have taken for granted for many years in Ontario and have forced us to stand up for the things we value most -- a caring society with quality universal public education system.
- Further Dialogue on Pornography
Pornography, Censorship, Sexuality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
The Church and right-wing groups have intensified their war on the three horsemen of immorality: abortion, gays and pornography. In the struggle against this, we have emphasized the need to oppose censorship. We have also-if appropriate or necessary-defended pornography. a freer, richer, sexuality cannot evolve by somebody (experts, feminists, socialists) legislating what liberating sex is, while censoring what falls beyond the practices so defined.
- Aboriginal Issues Today
A Legal and Business Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
An overview of current laws and policies.
- Anarchism: How Not to Make a Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
- Anatomy of Censorship
Why the Censors have it Wrong
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Bringing together diverse disciplines such as literary and legal history, modern psychology and contemporary feminism, Anatomy of Censorship sorts out the many confusing explanations and often misleading justifications for censorship to reveal the underlying conditions and motivations that lead to the suppression of various forms of communication.
- And Peace Never Came
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
The memoir of a Holocaust survivor.
- The Bruce Trail Reference
Trail Guides and Maps
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- Canadian Dictionary of the English Language
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- The Canadian Style
A Guide to Writing and Editing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
The Canadian Style suggests the first step in communicating clear ideas is to use plain language, without jargon or expressions. Then, consider your audience.
- The Canadian Writer's Guide
12th Edition
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1997
- Citizens for Local Democracy Newsletter 20, November 1997
Periodical profile published 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1997
Fighting for democracy and against the Harris government.
- Community Organizing: Canadian Experiences
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Essays looking at four decades of community organizing in Canada.
- Corporate volunteering
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Corporate volunteer programs.
- Crisis Communications
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Being prepared for a crisis is second best only to avoiding one altogether.
- Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
- Democratizing Public Institutions: Juries for the selection of public officials
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
- Dictionary of Canadian Place Names
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Includes 6,200 names of Canadian cities, towns, lakes, rivers, national parks, mountains, capes, channels and bays.
- Una diferente forma de democracia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
- Do You Hear...
Christmas with Heather, Cookie and Raylene Rankin
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1997
- Don't Forget to Write
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Writing letters to the editor is an effective way of getting publicity for your point of view.
- Don't forget to write
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Writing letters to the editor is an effective way of getting publicity for your point of view.
- Dressing for TV
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
What to wear when you're going to be interviewed on TV.
- Dying for Gold
The True Story of the Giant Mine Murders
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- The Ethical Slut
A guide to infinite sexual possibilities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A guide for anyone who dreams of having all the sex and love and friendship they want. Explores the skills and issues of a life beyond tradiational lifetime monogamy, from scheduling dates to handling jealousy, finding partners, resolving conflict, and raising children.
- Fresh Air
The Private Thoughts of a Public Broadcaster
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- Friendly faxing
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
When you communicate by fax, keep these tips in mind.
- From Politics to Profit
The Commercialization of Canadian Daily Newspapers, 1890-1920
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Analyzes the transformation of Canadian newspapers that occurred between 1890 and 1920 when daily newspapers slowly changed from political mouthpieces to a marketable industry.
- From Starting to Marketing: Your Own Consulting Business
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- Get the Internet working for you
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
A Web site works best when it is integrated into a co-ordinated communications strategy.
- Getting the Most from Interviews
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Tips from a pro for getting the most from media interviews.
- How to Lobby Like a Pro
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
To reach government with your message you need to lobby like the professionals do.
- The Illustrated History of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- Improve Your Publicity Awareness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Tips on networking for success.
- Internet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- Leadership from Within
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Skills and techniques for leadership and success based on a holistic approach.
- The Lesson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
An educator in a nursing home's essay on Alzheimer's disease.
- Looking for Old Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- The Macmillian Atlas of Irish History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A full-colour atlas of Irish history.
- Marginal Distribution 1997 Full Catalogue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1997
There is a copy of this catalogue in the Connexions Archive.
- Mass Media and Canadian Diversity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A collection of Canadian focused articles which examine portrayals of minority populations in the mass media as wel as cultural production emanating from within minority linguistic and cultural groups.
- Measuring Well-Being
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- Media Exposure
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Promoting your magazine on a shoestring.
- Medical Reform - Volume 17 Issue 2
1997
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1997
- Mike Harris's Ontario
Open for Business, Closed to People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- More HeartSmart Cooking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- No olvides escribir
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
- N'oubliez pas d'écrire
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
- Oak Ridges Moraine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Members of the Oak Ridges Moraine (STORM) Coalition - naturalists, botanists, geologists, historians, writers, photographers -- celebrate the special nature of the Moraine in this collection of essays and photographers.
- Operating in the Dark
Accountability in our Health Care System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- Perspectives On Power
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
- Politics and The Press
The News Media and Their Influences
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Politics and the Press not only examines how journalists define the news; it also explores the role of the media in elections and the shaping of public opinion, as well as the reportage of the news on policy issues.
This important work presents original research by a unique team of visiting scholars, journalists, and industry leaders at the Joan Shorenstein Center at Harvard University. Norris and the contributors pay particular attention to the influence of the press on the policy apparatus of government, and the impact of economics and changes in communications technology on news reporting. Included in the book are perspectives on minorities and women as members of the news industry.
- Radical Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
- Resources For Radicals
An Annual Review of Books and Publications for Those Active in Movements for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
An annotated list of resources -- books and periodicals -- for people working for non-violent social change.
- Review: Your Guide to Public Speaking
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
A no-nonsense guide to public speaking.
- The Slave Trade
The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
- Successful Event Marketing Strategies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Tips for marketing your events.
- Tomorrow the World
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1997
- Truth About Global Warming
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Review of The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate, by Ross Gelbspan.
- Valuable Clues to Finding What You Need to Know
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Review of books about online research.
- We're Being Cheated!
Corporate and Welfare Fraud: The Hidden Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
We've allowed our corporate dominated media and politicians to sell us a bill of goods that welfare fraud is a big problem. Meanwhile, corporations continue on their robber baron path, virtually untouched by enforcement of our social rights.
- Wetland Plants of Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- Working Together Online
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
- Yours in the Struggle
Reminiscences of Tim Buck
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Tim Buck's reminiscences, taken from a series of interviews taped by John (Mac) Reynolds for the CBC.
- Access to Places
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A guidebook intended to give reporters a "plan of attack" when access to newsworthy events has been unreasonably denied, and discusses legal restrictions that may be placed on reporters, as well as what to do if the restrictions seem unreasonable.
- A Different Sort of Democracy - Arabic translation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
- A Different Sort of Democracy - Japanese translation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
- Eine andere Art von Demokratie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Wie können wir uns eine neue freie und kooperative Gesellschaft ausmalen, wenn wir doch in einer Welt gefangen sind, die von Gier und Engstirnigkeit geprägt ist?
- The Peace Journalism Option
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
The Peace Journalism Option represents the findings of the Conflict and Peace Journalism summer school which took place at Taplow Court in Buckinghamshire, UK, over the week of August 25-29 1997. Participants comprised journalists, media academics and students from Europe, Africa, Asia and the U.S. who divided their time between lectures, workshops and debate. The resulting document is a fair representation of the findings but may not represent the whole view of any of the contributors.
- Business Writing Basics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996 Published: 2002
- A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996 Published: 1998
The Beothuk, the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland, were hunters, gatherers, and fishers who moved seasonally between the coast and the interior. With the influx of European settlements and fisheries in the 1700s the Beothuk found their territory increasingly reduced and conflict between the two groups escalated. The Beothuk declined steadily in numbers and by the early 1800s they had ceased to exist as a viable cultural group.
- Out Our Way
Gay & Lesbian Life in Rural Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996 Published: 1998
Explores the richly varied life experience of gay and lesbian Canadians living in small towns and rural areas across the country. Travelling 27,000 km and recording more than 300 conversations, the author distills stories of people aged fifteen to eighty-one, including First Nations/Two-Spirited, people living with HIV/AIDS, individuals, couples, communes, and a range of chosen families. Riordon includes his own experience and his partner's in rural eastern Ontario.
- The Outdoor Resource Directory
The Premier Guide to the Outdoor Experience 1997-98
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1996 Published: 1998
- Unfair Shares
Corporations and Taxation in Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996 Published: 1998
A popular tax directory that documents corporations and taxation in Canada. Includes a list of over 300 companies that paid little or no corporate income tax, as well as tables on corporate deferred taxes, CEO compensation, and corporate tax loopholes.
- The Struggle For Canadian Sport
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996 Published: 1997
Bruce Kidd, a former track star, documents the development and transformation of Canadian sport in the twentieth century.
- Medical Reform - Volume 16 Issue 4
December 1996
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1996
- Building Working-Cass Opposition to Stalin's Dictatorship?
The Trotskyist Opposition, 1927-1940
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
A review of Tony Cliff's book Trotsky, 1927-1940. In Cliff's view, the Trotskyist movement in the USSR was not so much destroyed by Stalin as much as it collapsed under the weight of its own fundamentally faulty assumptions regarding the nature of the enemy--indeed, just who the enemy was.
- Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia: Note from a Mind-Control Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
The debate over "recovered" and "false" memories continues to be one of the most contentious issues in the field of psychology today. The debate is extremely polarized with very little amicable communication among members of the opposing camps. While such a dispute may eventually be beneficial to science, in that both sides are clearly being spurred on to produce original research at a frenetic pace, at the moment the clearest manifestation of this dichotomy is miscommunication and friction between factions.
- Disabled Activists Seek Freedom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
"I'd rather go to jail than to die in a nursing home".
- Medical Reform - Volume 16 Issue 2-3
September 1996
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1996
- Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 6
1914-1918: Imperialist War and the Realignment of the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
The conclusion to a six part series, this article deals with how the formation of the Communist International, under the profound impact of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, culminated the realignment of the left which had begun in August 1914.
- Art, Politics, and the Imagination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
The work of our best artists throws into sharp relief what is painfully missing from most activists' work: a fusion of living experience with political insight.
- Deep Left Dilemmas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Comments on how the radical environmental movement in Canada should define itself.
- English Road Opponents Turn to Direct Action
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
In Alternatives Journal 22:3, July/August 1996
- Pornography and the Sex Censors
A review of 'Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights,' by Nadine Strossen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
The pornography debacle has driven deep wedges among feminists, and has weakened the women's movement by alienating many women who cannot relate to a perceived ethos of anti-sexuality, gender antagonism, and victimhood. To the extent that it has convinced women to conceive of themselves as victims, to live in constant dread of male violence and aggression, rather than thinking of ourselves as the agents of our own liberation, it has been profoundly disempowering.
- Tips on How to Oppose Corporate Rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Dr. Kelsey has devised what she calls "A Manual for Counter-Technopols" -- suggestions and ideas for actions that challenge corporate rule.
- Medical Reform - Volume 16 Issue 1
June 1996
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1996
- Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 5
From 1848 to the Bolshevik Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Seymour analyzes the syndicalist movements - which emphasized that the main obstacle to social revolution lay in the organizational weakness of the anarchist movement and the disorganization of the working class in general - that preceded World War I.
- Resistance in Ontario
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Jason Ziedenberg and Bryan Palmer look at London, Hamilton and the OPSEU strike.
- Medical Reform - Volume 15 Issue 4
March 1996
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1996
- An Acre of Time
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Phil Jenkins tells the life story of a single acre on Le Breton Flats, in Ottawa, Canada.
- Allow the Water
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
The author shares his Christian vision of radical social transformation to develop a society based on the gospels of Jesus. Included are the stories of famous others who have also gone through social transformation, such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., J.S. Woodsworth, Jim and Shirley Douglas and members of the White Rose Movement.
- Alternate Sources
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1996
A safe sex manual for SM Play. The authors, all experts in SM play, dispel the stereotypes and myths about sadomasochism with this introduction to a hitherto hidden world of human expression. Safe Edge is a pan-sexual book structured to answer the questions a novice might have as he or she begins to explore safer SM play, and those of experienced players as they try new ways to play. It provides an understanding of how SM play can be a positive, safe, and healthy expression of sexual fantasies.
- Answering Machine Tips
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Voice mail needs to be managed effectively.
- Anti-Chomsky Fictions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Exposing right-wing lies about Noam Chomsky.
- At Twilight in the Country
Memoirs of a Canadian Nationalist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
- Canadian Ethnic Media Guide '96
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1996
- Censorship in Canada - When the Censor Comes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Developed primarily for teachers, librarians, booksellers and others who disseminate the printed word, this guide offers basic information about dealing with would-be censors. Researched and written by Sandra Bernstein for the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council.
- Chomsky for Beginners
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
- Class Warfare
Interviews with David Barsamian
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
- The Cultural Industries in Canada
Problems, Policies and Prospects
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Dorland discusses policy problems specific to the Canadian cultural industries that produce cultural commodities, such as books, films and television programs.
- Deadlines & Diversity
Journalism Ethics in a Changing World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
An anthology on journalism ethics.
- Dissent & Sensibility
Linda McQuaig's uncompromising journalism challenges Canada's economic elite
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
- The Empire God Built
Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
- Essais sur les droits humains et le developpement democratique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
- Essay 5, The issues at stake of the international decade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
- Essays on Human Rights and Democratic Development
People or Peoples; Equality, Autonomy and Self-Determination: The Issues at Stake of the Internation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
- Forest Plants of Central Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
- A Good File Never Forgets
Improve your publicity awareness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Keep track of the calls you receive from the media. Don't rely on memory alone.
- The Graphic Monthly Master Equipment Catalogue
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
- A History of Reading
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
An exploration of what it means to be a reader of books.
- I Have Lived Here Since the World Began
An Illustrated History of Canada's Native People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Ray shows that Native culture played an important -- and largely unrecognized -- part in Canada's economic development. Rather than being "civilized" by European explorers, the indigenous people were already accomplished traders, artisans, farmers and hunters.
- I Remember Sunnyside
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
- If boycotts could change the system they'd be illegal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
A ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal says that boycotting by a grassroots group Friends of the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation of Daishowa paper products was illegal because it resulted in economic harm to the corporation. This is an example of a growing number of "SLAPP suits" Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation brought by corporations against activists.
- Landscapes of the Interior
Re-explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
- Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
- Local Places In the Age of the Global City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
- The Marxism of C.L.R. James
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
James is generally acknowledged to have been one of the most original Marxist thinkers to emerge from the Western hemisphere, yet essential aspects of his identity came from the other side of the Atlantic, from Europe and Africa. He offered penetrating analyses on the interrelationships of class, race and gender, and his discussions of colonialism and anti-colonialism could be brilliant. C.L.R. James also embraced the heritage of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and the working-class and socialist movements of Europe and North America.
- McLuhan's Children
The Greenpeace Message and the Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Looks at Greenpeace's rise to global prominence through its savvy use of mass media. Traces the evolution of Greenpeace's relations with the media.
- Politics and Memory in the Flint Sitdown Strikes
A comment on Historiography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
The General Motors strike of 1936-37 was the most important union victory of the 20th century, but the very meaning of its success was ambiguous indeed.
- Print Action
National Help Directory for the Trade 1996
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1996
- Prisons in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Gosselin provides a political and historical view of the prison system and its inherent contradictions. He argues that the penal system is used by the State to maintain its authority. He remarks on corporations, the press and the parole board and the difference in their treatment and coverage of prisoners and prisons. He sees the penal system as a morally bankrupt bureaucracy which threatens future incarceration for many people that the economy cannot absorb.
- The Queer Exchange
Fall '96 Spring '97
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1996
- Satan, the State and Anti-Sex Hysteria
Unholy Alliance of Feminists and Christian Right
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
A lengthy review of two books about the anti-sex witchhunts in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s.
- 7 Tips for Effective Speeches
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
How to make your speeches more effective.
- Talking Back to the Right
A guide for community activists
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
The right's enormous success in framing the American public debate is based not just on isolated issues, but on in overall definition of what the debate is about. The purpose of this guide is to suggest ways that progressive community-based advocacy groups can reframe the right's definition of the debate-ways that can connect with deeply-held Values and understandings of the American people. It is designed to help advocates frame their views for the media, develop educational programs and materials for their constituents, and talk to their fellow citizens in meetings and informal discussions.
- Towards 21st Century Democracy
Interview with a Proportional Representation Activist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
- Tracking the News that Wasn't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
- Watch the Rope
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
- The Waterfront Trail
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
- Shunpiking
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1995 Published: 2013
Web site of Nova Scotia's "discovery magazine". The magazine is no longer published, but an archive is available online.
- A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995 Published: 2003
Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
- Thinking Union
Activism and Education in Canada's Labour Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995 Published: 1999
Examining activism and education in Canadian labour, it's both a personal memoir and a guide to labour education. Martin explores and explains union culture, mergers and internal splits, the mechanics and dynamics of grassroots campaigns and the changes in Canadian unions over two turbulent decades.
- Oxford Minireference Dictionary & Thesaurus
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995 Published: 1997
- Marxism and the National Question
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995 Published: 1996
- Medical Reform - Volume 15 Issue 3
December 1995
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1995
- Medical Reform - Volume 15 Issue 2
October 1995
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1995
- Ten Health Care Myths
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Medicare's opponents have launched a sustained ideological attack on medicare. Their propaganda relies on myths and misrepresentations.
- Community is my family's support system
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
The teacher, the mother, my community - they are reminders of a world that still struggles to maintain decent values and a basic kindness between human beings.
- Beyond Oppression, Beyond Diversity: Class Analysis and Gender Inequality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Massive increases in tuition fees resulting from government cutbacks to education were not addressed at a Status of Women conference -- an indication that much of what shall be referred to in this paper as "left feminism" has increasingly lost its way.
- Breaking the Hurt/Counter-Hurt Cycle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
- Medical Reform - Volume 15 Issue 1
April 1995
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1995
- US soldier faces court martial for trying to stop Haiti abuses
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
- Exploring Mind, Memory, and the Psychology of Belief
Part II: Perception, Memory and the Courtroom
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
So-called simple perceptions are anything but simple, and what we see is not always the true nature of reality. Perception is a creative act that involves not only the purely sensory apparatus of the brain but also such things as memory, emotion, and our hopes and fears.
- Medical Reform - Volume 16 Issue 5
March 1997
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1995
- Remembering Dangerously
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Like the witch-hunt trials of old, people today are being accused and even imprisoned on 'evidence' provided by memories from dreams and flashbacks -- memories that didn't exist before therapy.
- "Displaced Persons". Ein vergessenes Kapitel der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
At the end of the Second World War, the three western zones of Germany contained approximately 7 million "displaced person".
- Die Kriegsgefangen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Issues relating to the fate of German prisoners of war after World War II.
- Die Vertreibung der Deutschen - ein unbewältigtes Kapital europäisher Zeitgeschichte
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
The explusion of Germans after World War II.
- So, What Really Happened at the New Times, Anyway?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Focuses on 'The New Times' newspaper as part of Canadian left journalism. Author's involvement with the paper; transformation from organ of the Communist party to a project of the left; support for the paper; failure of the paper.
- Against Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Some of us would rather not have customs officials and cops deciding what we can read or look at.
- Blake
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
A biography of William Blake.
- Blindspots in The News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
The filters that determine what gets into the "news" and what doesn't.
- A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Covers the year 1979 - 1994.
- Crossing The Line
Unionized Employee Ownership and Investment Funds
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
This book studies the issue of employee ownership as the divide between management and labour blurs.
- Democracy Against Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Wood provides a brilliant explication and defense of the key theoretical concepts relevant to socialism, understood to be the most radical social and economic democracy.
- Diez Mitos del Cuidado de la Salud
Entendiendo el Debate del Servicio Medico en Canadá
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
- 10 mythes des soins de sante
Comprendre le debat de l'Assistance Medicale Canadienne
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
Un guide concis expliquant les 10 mythes regardant les Soins de Sant.
- Get a Life!
How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
- Harm de Blij's Geography Book
A Leading Geographer's Fresh Look at Our Changing World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
The world from a geographer's perspective.
- How Deregulation Destroyed Canada's Airlines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Skene links the deregulation of Canada's airline industry with layoffs, service disruptions, higher fares, privatization, and bankruptcies.
- The Jade Peony
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
- Kriegsende in Kassel
Beiträge und Fotos aus der HNA
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
In Kassel endete der zweite Weltkrieg am 4. April 1945 mit der Kapitulation der deutschen Truppen. Die Amerikaner besetzen die Stadt und die gesamte Region -- knapp funf Wochen spater endete der Krieg endgultig.
- The Market Tells Them So
The World Bank and Economic Fundamentalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Mihevic asserts that World Bank policy can be viewed as a powerful fundamentalist quasi-religion whose effect is to perpetuate and even worsen inequities between developed and developing countries.
- Marketing on the Internet
Multimedia Strategies for the World Wide Web
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
- Maximum, Minimum, Medium
A Journey Through Canadian Prisons
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Serving a nine-year sentence, Melnitzer documented his experience in three different prisons, along with his own introspections.
- The More Information The Less Knowledge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
While our short-term quest for knowledge must be related to the immediate problems of saving society from environmental and economic collapse, the long-term goals of learning more about humanity's place in the universe must not be neglected.
- No Place Like Home
A Discussion Paper about Living and Working in Ontario's Long-Term Care Facilities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
- Park Prisoners
The Untold Story of Western Canada's National Parks 1915 - 1946
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
- Patent Folly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
The misuse of patents rights and associated dangers.
- People's Aesthetics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
An essay on self-proclaimed "progressives" and their hypocritical defense of cultural hierarchies and consumption of popular or lower middle class culture for camp value. He opines that the distinction between craft and art is class based.
- Population Growth, Resource Consumption, and the Environment
Seeking a Common Vision for a Troubled World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
This work looks at the problem of overpoplulation and the environment.
- Progress Without People
In Defense of Luddhism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
This book describes how jobs and skills will be lost through new technologies as they were in the 19th century industrial revolution.
- Protecting Canada's Endangered Spaces
An Owner's Manual
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Conservationist Hummel explains what needs to be done by whom and when to protect wilderness in Canada.
- The Real Child Molesters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
The prime question you must ask yourself when you see "concerned citizens," social workers, child psychologists, police, politicians, educators and jurists, lawyers, newspapers and televison stations pumping up an "issue" such as kiddie porn and child abuse is -- WHO PROFITS?
They do! They are the real child molesters.
- Recovered Memories Cross the Oceans
Psychic Vibrations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
The American practice of "recovering memories" of all manner of unspeakable abuse has leaped the Atlantic, and the Pacific as well.
- Restricted Entry
Censorship on Trial
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
- Seeing Ourselves
Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
- Shooting the Hippo
Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
An examination of how economic policies systematically favour the interests of the rich while pretending to be for the common good.
- The Sources Select Online Story
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1995
In SOURCES SELECT Online (SSO) we attempt to provide true diversity: access to people in organizations large and small, for-profit and not-for-profit, from low-tech to high-tech, long-established to just-launched.
- Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change
Selected Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Drache collects a selection of Innis' most important essays. This new collection commemorates the hundredth anniversary of Innis' birth in 1894. The subjects range from cultural issues to economic development in Canada.
- Toronto The Wild
Field Notes of an Urban Naturalist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Toronto as a natural world and and ecosystem.
- The Training Trap
Ideology, Training and the Labour Market
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
A collection of essays examines changes in the Canadian labour market with respect to education, training, and unemployment.
- Trolleycars
Streetcars, Trams and Trolleys of North America: A Photographic History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
- Warpaths
Travels of a Military Historian in North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
- What You Really Need to Know About Cancer
A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Their Families
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
- Whole Life Economics
Revaluing Daily Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
- The Hike Ontario Guide to Walks Around Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994 Published: 199
- Das Wahljahr 1994 und die Strategie der PDS
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
- Parliamentary Names & Numbers
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994 Published: 2007
- Selling Illusions
The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994 Published: 2002
Since he immigrated to Canada, Neil Bissoondath has consistently refused the role of the ethnic, and sought to avoid the burden of hyphenation - a burden that would label him as an East Indian-Trinidadian-Canadian living in Quebec. Bissoondath argues that the policy of multiculturalism, with its emphasis on the former or ancestral homeland and its insistence that There is more important than Here, encourages stereotyping and division.
- You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A personal history of our times
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994 Published: 2002
Zinn tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war.
- Counselling Ethics Casebook 2000
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994 Published: 2000
- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994 Published: 1997
A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- Health News Briefs 1992- 1994
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
A round-up of health care in the news, 1992 - 1994.
- Gedanken über Selbstbestimmung
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Bei der Unterstützung für die Unabhängigkeit handelt es sich bei ein großen Teilen der Linken um nicht mehr als kleinbürgerlichen Nationalismus. Im Gegensatz dazu hielten es Karl Marx und Rosa Luxemburg für wichtig zu analysieren und nur die progressiven Bewegungen zu unterstützen.
- Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 5
December 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
- Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 4
September 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
- User Fees Hurt Sick
News Release August 19, 1994
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Doctors who see no problem with asking patients to pull out their wallets before receiving medical treatment need to be educated about the negative effects of user fees, says the Medical Reform Group.
- The politics of Greenpeace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Discusses various aspects concerning the programs, policies and management of Greenpeace Canada.
- What's Wrong With Front Yard Parking?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
The negative effects of front yard parking are significant, and affect us all. The benefits are small, and go only to a few.
- Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 2
April 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
- Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 1
February 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
- Bündnis 90/Die Grünen: Oppositions- order Regierungspartie?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
- Aboriginal Ontario
Historical Perspectives on the First Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Essays on the history of Ontario's native people.
- The Alternative Health Services Directory 1994
The Authoritative Resource Directory of Therapists, Products and Services
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Listings of therapists, alternative healers and quacks in Toronto.
- Alternative Resources: An Investment in Human Dignity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
- Always Change a Losing Game
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Help you to improve your life by showing you how to make positive, personal changes.
- L’autodétermination pour qui ?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
- Bloody Victory
Canadians and the D-Day Campaign 1944
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
- Brotherhood To Nationhood
George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
George Manuel's work as leader of the National Indian Brotherhood and the later founding of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples.
- The Canadian Patients Book of Rights
A Consumer's Guide to Canadian Health Law
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
- Censorship
A Threat to Reading, Learning, Thinking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Pointing out that censorship is undermining the goals of education and plaguing all areas of the curriculum, this collection of essays considers many areas in which students' right to read is being infringed. The collection offers thought-provoking perspectives on the methods used by protesters to remove books and materials from classrooms and libraries and outlines the rationales behind censors' motivations.
- Charging Peter to Pay Paul
Accounting for the Financial Effects of User Charges
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
- Class Warfare
The Assault on Canada's School
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
- Compass
Volume 12 Number 1, March/April 1994 - The Twentieth Century, Part 5
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
- Connexions Annual 1994
A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
- Dead Silence
The Greatest Mystery in Arctic Discovery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Disappearnce.
- Demobilization, Demilitarization, and Democratization in Central America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
- Derailed
The Betrayal of the National Dream
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
- Empathic Parenting
Volume 17 Issue 4 Autumn 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
- Eyes
Your personal health series
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
- Flack Attack
Public relations is shaping public life in ways we're not supposed to notice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Public relations plays an important role in contemporary US politics. This essay follows the coopted grassroots organizing techniques of PR firms hired by industry lobbyists to undertake counteractivism campaigns. PR men mobilize citizens who may be opposed to new legislation, for example farmers may be opposed to clean air legislation that would impose taxes on small trucks, organize them and coach them to appeal to their congressman.
- A Gentle Death
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Explores the moral and legal implications of euthanasia. Offers advice on working with doctors and other health-care professionals, dealing with unresolved personal conflicts, involving family members and friends in the decision-making process, and coping with legal realities.
- Gotcha!
How the Media Distort the News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Written by a mainstream journalist/commentator, this book reveals information withheld by media and describes biases and a lack of professionalism.
- The Green Trees Beyond
A Memoir
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
R.D. Lawrence, a self-taught biologist whose first years of life coincided with the Spanish civil war, and who later became a noted as well as self-taught Canadian biologist.
- Houses and Homes
Housing for Canadians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Canadians need access to sound housing in decent neighborhoods, writes author Sewell. And in order to achieve this, all ideoligical freight is to be jettisoned and deliver nothing but the straight goods. One solution is to build diverse neighborhoods and abolish the many building and planning codes that suppress the creation of affordable housing.
- In Conflict with the Law
Women and the Canadian Justice System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Critique of women and the Canadian justice system. Written from a feminist perspective, the collection is organized into three thematic sextions: Federal Imprisonment of Women -- Past, Present and Future; Images and Realities -- Profiles of Women Offenders; and Theoretical Considerations about Women in Conflict with the Law."
- In The Rapids
Navigating the Future of First Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
A collection of speeches by Mercredi with contributions by the Dalhousie law professor who assisted him in 1992 constitutional negotiations.
- Israel: Politics, Myths and Identity Crises
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Essays dealing with the politics and ideology of Zionism, the sociology of Israel, and politics of ethnicity generally.
- It's Not the Money, It's the Principle
Why User Charges for Some Services and Not Others?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
- Keeping the Rabble in Line
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
- Kick It Over #33
Spring 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
- Kick It Over #34
Food and Land- Fall 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
- Labour Gains, Labour Pains
50 Years of PC 1003
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
This book is comprised of 4 parts: Historical Context, Origins and Evolution of the Fordist Accord, Case Studies, International Comparisons.
- Land Trusts: Land Held in Common
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
With land trusts, we can ensure that the land is used the way we believe it should be used (or not used at all). With land trusts, we can ensure that human beings left behind in the race for corporate profits have a roof over their heads that no bureacrat or business interests can take away from them.
- The Legacy of the New Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
- Making Connections
A Directory of Development Organizations Working in Southwestern Manitoba
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
A directory of 22 organizations active in southwestern Manitoba, with addresses, phone and fax numbers, contact persons, and a descriptive paragraph.
- Making Money With Multimedia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
- Menopause & Emotions
Making Sense of your feelings when your feelings make no sense
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
"Looks beyond the physicial side of menopause to the emotional, cultural and developmental aspects."
- Moral Panic
Biopolitics Rising
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Biopolitics, politics based on the grievances of sex and race, is said to distort facts especially with respect to violence against women.
- Morals and the Media
Ethics in Canadian Journalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Russell focuses on the fundamental moral questions and ethical dilemmas faced by journalists and discusses how the media both reflect and influence society.
- Organizing Unions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
How to form or build a union. Shows how to strength organizing drives by responding to the concerns of all workers, including women, immigrant workers, people of colour, workers with disabilities, lebians and gay men, and part-time and casual workers.
- Pensando en la Auto-determinación
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Un buen lugar para empezar seria preguntarse si el familiar principio de la Izquierda, "el derecho de auto-determinacion" realmente significa algo o si es otro eslogan vacio cuyo principal uso es que la Izquierda lo puede repetir como mantra y asi salvarse de tener que pensar de manera critica.
- Pensando sobre Autodeterminaçao
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
O significado oculto, a essência real, desse slogan, é a crença de que nao é possível ou desejável por dois ou mais grupos étnicos ou de linguagem viver juntos em um país. Nao consigo imaginar um momento mais pessimista e menos socialista do ponto de vista.
- Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
- Progeny and Progress
Reflections on the Legacy of the New Left - Our Generation, Volume 24, Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1994
- Project Censored Canada
Researching The Nation's News Agenda - 1994 Yearbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Researching under-reported news stories.
- Przemyslenia o samostanowieniu i niepodleglosci
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
- Rae Days
The Rise and Follies of the NDP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
An account of Bob Rae's New Democratic Party government in Ontario.
- The Remarkable Tenacity of User Charges
A Concise History of the Participation, Positions and Rationales of Canadian Interest Groups
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
- Review of three books about Heidegger
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
- Rogue Primate
An Exploration of Human Domestication
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
The first domesticated animal, according to Livingston, was neither dog nor goat, but human. Humans cut themselves adrift from the rest of the world by becoming entirely dependent on ideas. Technical ideas gave them the power to manipulate nature as well as a rationalization for their destructiveness. Now humans have drawn other animals, and even the natural world itself, into the service of their belief systems. Even our understanding of nature is informed by an ideological insistence that domination is somehow 'natural'.
- Rural Routes
Exploring the Back Roads of Saugeen Country
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
- Secrets, Lies and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian.
- Strong Medicine
How to Save Canada's Health Care System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
The authors make comparisons of health care between the United States and Canada and argue that changes must be made to Canada's health care system so services can be accessible to the public.
- Take Care
Warning Signals for Canada's Health System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
"Examines the modern Canadian health care system and exposes the impact of neo-conservative and market-oriented policies, showing the effect these have on patients and caregivers, particularly women. The voices of hospital workers, relating their own daily experiences in the wards, add a poignant urgency to the crucial question: What kind of health care system will Canadians inherit in the twenty-first century?"
- Thinking About Self-Determination
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
Does that familiar canon of the left, 'the right to self-determination', actually mean anything, or is it an empty slogan whose main utility is that it relieves us of the trouble of thinking critically?
- Understanding Desktop Color
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
- Unruly Women
The Politics of Confinement and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Investigates the ways in which women who transgress the social order are disciplined, punished, silenced and confined. Covers material from the witch hunts to contemporary discriminatory treatment of women by the state and its law enforcement agencies.
- User Charges in Health Care
A Bibliography
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
- User Charges, Snares and Delusions
Another Look at the Literature
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
- Web of Hate
Inside Canada's Far Right Network
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Kinsella asserts that some 40 groups are more dangerous than commonly perceived because of their violence and aggressive recruitment.
- When in Doubt, Do Both
The Times of My Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Macpherson chronicles the stirrings that led to the modern women's movement in Canada, including the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1967.
- When Older is Wiser
A Guide to Health Care Decisions for Older Adults and Their Families
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
- Who Are the Zombie Masters and What Do They Want?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1994
- World Orders Old and New
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
- Years of Glory 1942-1967
The National Hockey League's Official Book of the Six-Team Era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
- The "Date Rape" Issue: Feminist Hysteria, Anti-Sex Witchhunt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993 Published: 2014
The anti-sex frenzy springs from the agenda of the religious right. Espousing an ideology supposed to have something to do with women's rights, the feminists might be expected to oppose this witchhunt. Instead, there is a convergence between feminism and religious reaction in support of moralist repression. This is particularly evident in the "date rape" frenzy on the campuses which has recently grabbed headlines across the nation and the world. Egged on by feminist witchhunters, "politically correct" sex on campus serves the war on privacy by whitewashing the intrusion of the campus administration and the cops into students' personal business as "protecting women" and "stopping rape."
- Marketing Research Made Easy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993 Published: 2002
- The Explorer's Guide to Algonquin Park
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993 Published: 2000
- Leading today's volunteers
Motivate and manage your team
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993 Published: 1999
- Blood and Belonging
Journey into the New Nationalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993 Published: 1994
Essays on nationalism in Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Ukraine, Quebec, Kurdistan, and Northern Ireland.
- Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 5
November 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- Preserving the fruits of yesteryear: rescuing old species of apples
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Most of the varieties our grandparents cherished have already been lost. A dedicated band of growers wants to rescue what remains.
- Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 4
October 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- Medical Reform - Volume 14 Issue 3
July 1994
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- ADL's Massive Spy Operation
Zionist Fingermen for Apartheid, Salvador Death Squads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
- Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 3
June 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party
A Revolutionary Marxist Analysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
A talk recounting the beginnings and tragic end of the Black Panther Power, a radical black power movement and political organization.
- Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 2
May 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- What is an organizer?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Discusses the organizer's role in democratic organizations.
- Burnt bridges and a generation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
A first person account of the struggle the children of immigrants face in communicating with their grandparents across a language barrier.
- Songs of the British Labour: Lyrical Protest and Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Despite their feelings of distress, their portrayals of discontent and their retelling of daily drudgery experienced by the British working class, these songs of labour which cannot elbow into the circle of high works of art, belong to another sphere of literature: that of political propaganda.
- Compass
A Jesuit Journal - March/April 1993 - The Dirty Thirties
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- Medical Reform - Volume 13 Issue 1
March 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- Catering to Cows' Sociability
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Organic dairy farming involves putting cows out to pasture. This provides better quality feed at half the cost of silage, reduced vet bills, and longer productive lifespans.
- The Activist's Almanac
The Concerned Citizen's Guide to the Leading Advocacy Organizations in America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Alex in Wonderland
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Alternate Societies
A brief survey on intentional community in European history
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
A brief outline of the history of attempts in western society to create living arrangements which would complement, and in some cases further, efforts to become economically independent.
- Bakunin
The Philosophy of Freedom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
An attempt to portray Bakunin's political theories in a coherent manner.
- Beyond Beef
The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
By consuming thousands of acres of North American grain, "cattle production and beef consumption now rank among the gravest threats to the future well-being of the Earth".
- Bringing Life to Artificial Ponds
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
- Canada Firsts Ralph Nader's Salute to Canada and Canadian Achievement
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Canadian Printer 1993 Directory of Suppliers and Trade Services
Plus the premier issue of the Printing Product Guide
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- Circles of Strength
Community Alternatives to Alienation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Forsey, an activist and writer who works with the Federation of Egalitarian Communites has put together a collection of essays, and interviews with First Nations, religious orders and rural intentional communities giving their views and experiences as communities.
- Closer to Paradise
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1993
- The Complete Canadian Health Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Consider the Nation and other sacred cows of the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Groups of people who share whatever it is that makes a nation don't always live in neat spatial clusters, with a given territory containing all those people who are alike and none who are different. Cultures are rarely if ever stable enough to become pure and coterminous with geographical territories.
- Culture of Complaint
The Fraying of America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
- Discussion Paper: Searching for Fairness
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
An overview of some of the issues being addressed by the Fair Tax Commission. Looks at some of the implications of the fairness issues that have been raised, and at the issues that arise in translating principles of fairness into policy. Included are sections on property taxes, personal income tax, sales tax, benefits taxes, wealth taxes, corporate income taxes, payroll taxes, resource taxation.
- Don't Blame the Medicine
Use the Drug Expert Pharmacist
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Draining Canada Dry
The Continental Thirst for Canada's Water
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The authors examine Canada's water policies and their socio-economic impact on North America.
- Empathic Parenting
Volume 15 Issues 3 & 4 1992; Volume 16 Issues 1,2,3 & 4 1993 - Crime Prevention issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- Fair Taxation in a Changing World: Highlights
Report of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- False God
How the Globalization Myth has Impoverished Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Laxer argues that the neoconservative economic agenda is folly, and that the United States is caught in a downward spiral of limited government power and widening social divisions. He demonstrates that continued free trade with the United States will doom Canada economically, socially, and poolitically.
- The Fight for Canada
Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
In an effort to realize their grand dream of one nation from Panama to the Arctic, Americans have attempted to conquer Canada using war, trade sanctions, and political interventions of all kinds. "That fight for Canada continues to this day," says David Orchard.
- Finding Answers
The Essential Guide to Gathering Information in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Outlines the essentials of how to find and use information.
- The Fine Art of Billboard Improvement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Change people's perception of an ad, and they'll never see that product in the same light again.
- Firing The Heather
The Life and Times of Nellie McClung
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
This is the story of Nellie McClung, Canada's leading figure in the early women's rights movements. She fought for the right for women not just to be recognized as persons but as also to work outside the home and for equal pay.
- Global Visions
Beyond the News World Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below.
- Grace
The Life of Grace MacInnis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Green Technologies for Development
Transfer, Trade and Cooperation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- The Greenhouse Effect
Ethics and Climate Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Historical Atlas of Canada - Volume II: The Land Transformed 1800-1891
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- A History of Warfare
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Inventing Reality
The Politics of News Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
- Justice or `Just Us'?
Rethinking Canda's economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
- Kick It Over #31
Summer 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- Kick It Over #32
Living in the City- Fall 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- The Krug Brothers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
- Letters from Lexington
Reflections on Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Magic or Medicine?
An Investigation of Healing & Healers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Part 1: Thought Control in a Democratic Society. Part 2: Activating Dissent
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- More Toronto Sketches
The Way We Were
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Municipal Directory 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- New Planning for Ontario
Final Report Summary and Recommendations
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
- Ontario Aboriginal Directory
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1993
- Patterns of Censorship Around the World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- People of Terra Nullius
Betrayal and Rebirth in Aboriginal Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Political Ideology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- The Politics of Individualism
Liberalism, Liberal Feminism and Anarchism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
An examination of the similarities and differences between liberalism, anarchism and feminism.
- The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
- Rethinking Camelot
JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
- Rituals Of Failure
What Schools Really Teach
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Contenta writes that there is a hidden curriculum of passiveness in today's schools in Canada; instead of making students critical thinkers, the not-so smart students are made to feel they are just being prepared for the workforce.
- Safety Last
The Failure of the Consumer Health Protection System in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Regush investigates how new medical devices and drugs are tested. He argues that the health protection bureaucracy is doing shoddy work, caving in to pressure from pharmaceutical corporations instead of acting to safeguard the health of Canadians.
- The Shape of the City
Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
John Sewell traces in urban planning from pre-Depression garden cities to postwar modernism and a revival of interest in the streetscape grid.
- Still Black, Still Strong
Survivors of the War Against Black Revolutionaries: Dhoruba Bin Wahad; Mumia Abu-Jamal; Assata Shakur
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- The Struggle for Social Justice in B.C.
Helena Gutteridge, the Unknown Reformer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
The biography of Helena Guttteridge, who worked for women's rights and worker's rights from the period just before the start of the First World War until the late 1930's.
- Talking Fair Taxes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
- Targeting the Public Sector
Public Services and Government Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
- Wasting Away
The Undermining of Canada's Health Care System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Reform has led to lower quality, diminishing employee rights, and more unpaid work for women in the home.
- What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
- Who Gains From the Deficit?
The Contribution of Unfair Taxation and High Interest Rates to the Debt Problem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
- Why Not User Charges?
The Real Issues
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
- Why Not User Fees?
The Real Issues
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
- Words that Count Women In - Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
Review of Words that Count Women In. A guide to eliminating gender bias in writing and speech.
- Working Harder Isn't Working
A Detailed Plan for Implementing a Four-day Workweek in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
O'Hara details how the overworked can job share with the unemployed for economic, social, and psychological benefits for all.
- Year 501
The Conquest Continues
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
- You Can't Give it Away: Donating Land for Conservation Can be a Taxing Experience
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
- Cracking The Food Chain
Shut out by supermarkets, farmers fertilize direct links between the field and the kitchen table
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1993
A survey of the challenges faced by farmers seeking to market for their organic produce.
- The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 1999
Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
- Toward Sustainable Communities
Resources for Citizens and their Governments
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 1998
The way our urban communities develop will largely determine our success or failure in overcoming environmental challenges and achieving sustainable development. Toward Sustainable Communities offer practical suggestions and innovative solutions to a wide range of municipal and community problems.
- A New and Better Canada
Principles and Policies of a New Canadian Political Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 1993
Hurtig calls for a new political party committed to sweeping political reform and plans to put Canadians back to work.
- Content Magazine - December 1992
December 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Medical Reform - Volume 12 Issue 5
December 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Medical Reform - Volume 12 Issue 4
November 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Reflections on the Canadian Left Today
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
A letter detailing some of the problems the author thinks the Canadian Left has been suffering from over the last three years.
- Medical Reform - Volume 12 Issue 3
September 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- A hell of a place for France's forbidden books
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
On the forbidden books department of France's national library.
- Local gay bookstore busted for selling lesbian S/M mag
Community activists meet to plan legal and political defence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Content Magazine - May-June 1992
May-June 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Medical Reform - Volume 12 Issue 2
May 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Kick It Over #28
Spring 92
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Articles on Indigenous Peoples' Conference, Male Violence, the Population Myth, Prisons, and Reading the Comics.
- Medical Reform - Volume 12 Issue 1
April 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- BC's green accords
The Tin Wis Coalition
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Environmentalists, aboriginal people and loggers have made encouraging progress in British Columbia in united to defend the environment.
- Content Magazine - March-April 1992
March-April 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Solidarity in a New Key
The reflections of a bespectacled solidarity supporter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
What does liberation mean? By what actions should we pursue it? In what kinds of alliances should activists for liberation join? This article intends to address these questions in a South African context. Changing words reflect changing times, so what does solidarity now mean?
- Ask Yourself... Do You Really Want More Censorship?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Censorship is dangerous and feminists who support it are wrong-headed.
- Borderline Case
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
The bizarre trial of Dr. James Tyhurst on charges of sadism and sexual abuse revealed that in the practice of psychiatry little is certain, and in the courts even less.
- Hanging On: Native media are surviving
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Native media are struggling to survice.
- The Junk Food Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Young people entering the workforce face a junk food economy.
- Libel Law is dangerous
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Libel laws threaten freedom of speech.
- Moscow Gangsters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
A conversation with Boris Kagarlitsky, a Russian social activist.
- Privatization: Fiction Versus Fact
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
The corporate sector is the big winner from privatization.
- We're Winning -- Don't Ask Where!
Roll Over George Orwell, And Give Goebbels the News!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- German guards convicted of killing escaper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Two former East German border guards were convicted of killing a person who attempted to escape over the wall. This will open the floodgates for similar trials as two hundred were killed trying to escape under the East German shoot to kill policy.
- The Acadians of Nova Scotia Past and Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A study of Acadian history from the earliest days of French settlement to present-day Acadian communities.
- Aid Cut
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Not only is our government incapable of appreciating the Nordic and EC point of view, it evens refuses to be honest about aid program: lying about aid cuts, saying one thing about development and doing something else in the field.
- An Alternative Federal Budget
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Associations Canada 1992
An Encyclopedic Directory
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Base de Datos Mujer
Chile Informacion Bibliografica
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Birder Extraordinaire
The life and legacy of James L. Baillie
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A biography of the naturalist Jim Ballie.
- Boundaries of Identity
A Quebec Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Building Economic Alternatives
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
Moffatt outlines many currently practiced methods of creating an alternative economy.
- The Canadian Book of Charities
The Guide to Intelligent Giving
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- The Canadian Guide To Working and Living Overseas
For Entry Level and Seasoned Professionals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
This work profiles 700 employers in government, the private sector,voluntary and international organizations for people who want to work in the Third World.
- Changing Men: Sex and Sexuality issue, Summer-Fall 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Feature issue on Sexuality.
- The Changing Workplace
Reshaping Canada's Industrial Relations System
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Describes how business, labour and government have organized the production of goods and services in Canada since 1945. Focusing on the industrial relations system and how it works, the authors call for fresh thinking on the economy and offer proposals for the reorganization of production.
- Children and Peacemaking
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A guide for parents and teachers interested in cultivating a peacemaking approach in children. Provides references to resources for children, parents and teachers to help develop a constructive attitude to societal problems.
- Coal in Our Blood
200 Years of coal mining in Nova Scotia's Pictou County
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
An account of the coal mining community of Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
- Common Ground
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Connexions Digest Collected News Briefs
Published in issues 50 - 54 December 1989 - February 1992
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Connexions Digest Master Keyword Index
for #45 (Volume 11, No. 1) to #54 inclusive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Connexions Digest Master Name Index (Author/Title/Contributor)
for #45 (Volume 11, No. 1) to #54 inclusive
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Connexions Digest Network News items
Issues 45 - 54
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Co-op housing under attack
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Corpus Almanac & Canadian Sourcebook 1993
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Direct Marketing News Purchasing Guide 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Dying for Care
Hospice Care or Euthanasia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Economic Conversion
A Canadian View
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Effective Purchasing of Research Services in the Private and Public Sectors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Empathic Parenting
Volume 15 Issues 1 & 2, 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Environmental Resource Book
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Ex-POW's sue Japan over atrocities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
Vol. 8: 1492-1992
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A collection of poems and essays giving various perspectives on resistance to imperialism and capitalism.
- For Earth's Sake
A Report from the Commission on Developing Countries and Global Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- 1492-1992 -- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Articles critiquing the "Columbus myth, and chronicles the repression of North America's original indigenous inhabitants.
- 1492-1992
Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Relates the European invasion and conquest of the Americas and also tells of the struggles and resistance of the indigenous peoples.
- Free Trade Tapes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- French Canadians
An Outsider's Inside Look at Quebec
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- From Policy to Practice
The Future of the Bangladesh National Drug Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
In 1982, Bangladesh became the first country to introduce a National Drug Policy based on such conceptions as primary health care and the need for essential drugs. Ten years later, it had one of the best records in terms of stable drug prices and less dependence on imported products.
- Global Warning...Global Warming
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Group wins right to leaflet at airports
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- The Gulf Within: Canadian Arabs, Racism & the Gulf War (book review)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Health Care
Conflicting Opinions Tough Decisions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Health News Briefs 1987 - 1991
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
A round-up of health care in the news, 1987 - 1991.
- High Park
Draft Proposals for Restoration and Managent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- The Hundred
Heroes and Villains, Memories and Legends. A Celebration. Toronto Star Centennial Magazine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Imprinting Our Image
An International Anthology by Women with Disabilities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- In Our Backyard
A Greater Vancouver Environmental Guide...
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
In Our Backyard focuses on environmental problems that apply directly to Greater Vancouver. With detials on local garbage and recylcing facilities, water and energy consumption, sewage disposal, air quality, and more, it is designed to help ordinary people deal with the onslaught of information and value changes that will continue to surround the environmental movement.
- Kick It Over #29
Summer 92
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Kick It Over #30
Fall 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Krauts!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Landscaping With the Land
Communities Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A collection of essays which describe 14 communities using alternative forms of development; to rebuild sustainable communities and environments.
- Left Green Notes - August-September 1992
Organizing Bulletin of the Left Green Network
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Inactive/Defunct Periodical
- Living with the Land
Communities Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
- Louis Riel
Canadian Historical Association Historical Booklet Number 50
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Madness and Ruin
Politics and Economy in the Neoconservative Age
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Watkin's book, based on his monthly articles in This Magazine is a scathing attack on the Mulroney government's adoption of neo-conservative economics. With their adoption of Reaganite policies they have cut back on transfer payments to the provinces thus hitting secondary school funding and medicare. They have also linked Canada to the United States with the adoption of the Free Trade Agreement and launched a full scale attack on the welfare state. The NDP is not spared his criticism and is blasted for its "appalling" performance in the free- trade election. It is a poweful jounalistic book that stands up well despite the passage of years.
- Manitoba Aboriginal Directory
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Maritime Radical
The Life & Times of Roscoe Fillmore
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Natural Life
Periodical profile published 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Nonviolence for Elfin Spirits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Ross writes: "The title of this book is meant ot convey two things: all elves should learn to be nonviolent, and some nonviolent people should be elves.
- One Europe - 100 Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Ontario Hospitals Directory 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Opting In?
Improving the 1992 Federal Constitutional Proposals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Organizing Dissent
Contemporary Social Movements In Theory and Practice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Perly's 1992
Street Guide Metro Toronto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Pictures of Africa
Focus on Kenya
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1992
- The Pink Pages 1992
Toronto's Gay and Lesbian Directory
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Power To Us All
Constitution or Social Contract?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Woodcock calls for a true participatory democracy.
- Preston Manning and the Reform Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A profile of Preston Manning and his right-wing agenda.
- Prized Possessions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Proclaiming Migrants Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
The New International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
- Putting Power in its Place
Create Community Control!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Essays arguing for the devolution of government and putting forward workdable models, many of them tested in practice, of how we might restructure society to better represent the full diversity of its parts. Watershed stewartship, community forest boards, local currencies, and eco-constitutions are some of the ideas discussed.
- Reform Party
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
The 'new Canada' that Reform Party leader Preston Manning is proposing is a mean-minded society based on the survival of the fittest. It simply ignores the fact that the majority of Canadians do not play on a level playing field. It is a select few who have the power and the influence.
- The River of Blood Flows On
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- The Run of the River
Portraits of Eleven British Columbia Rivers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Mark Hume celebrates eleven B.C. rivers, but also raises questions about the cost of development and the cost of wilderness. Is it possible to have industry -- forestry, smelting, fishing, and even tourism -- and still maintain the rivers and wildlife that support them?
- The Satanic Verses
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Saving the Oceans
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
This collection of writings from experts from around the world examines how the oceans are necessary to life on Eath, and what is being done by scientists and environmentalists to save them.
- Shades of Right
Nativist and Fascist Politics in Canada, 1920-1940
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Shadows in the Sun
Essays on the Spirit of Place
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Sign Crimes/Road Kill
From Mediascape to Landscape
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
- Socialism in Crisis?
Canadian Perspectives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Essays addressing questions such as What is the nature of socialism? How do gender and activism determine the socialist agenda? What is the essence of democracy under socialism?
- Still Thinking
A Guide to the 1992 Referendum
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Stolen Continents
The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A history of the Americas through Native eyes.
- Storming Babylon
Preston Manning and The Rise of the Reform Party
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A portrait of Preson Manning and right-wing Canada's Reform Party.
- Struggle For The Land
Indigenous Resistance To Genocide Ecocide And Exproporiation In Contemporary North America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Documents the struggle by North America's Indigenous Peoples for values and justice in land claims.
- Taking Action
A Union Guide To Ending Violence Against Women
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility 1989-90 Annual Report
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
- Throw it in the garbage myself
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
I will not have anyone tell me or my children what we can or cannot read.
- Towards Justice in Health
Volume 1, Number 1 - Spring 1992
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Making the links: health and social responsibility.
- Towns for People
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Examines the pressures, lifestyle changes, and social factors that contributed to the decline in urban public life in the late 20th century.
- Trading Freedom
How Free Trade Affects Our Lives, Work and Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Trails of the Don
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Charles Sauriol recalls Toronto's Don Valley.
- Training for Empowerment
A Kit of Materials for Popular Literacy Workers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Turn Signals are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Norman looks at design and technology from the point of view of human needs.
- The Un-Canadians
True Stores of the blacklist Era
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
Details the blacklisting which took place in Canada during the Cold War years.
- U.S. Strikes Drop Dramatically
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
A decade of Reaganism has left employers in a position to destroy unions without fear of significant political and public retribution.
- Wam! Comix
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
- Winter Cities
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
- Northstar Compass
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991 Published: 2017
Northstar Compass was a monthly magazine containing the latest news and views of the struggles of the Soviet peoples against the capitalist regime which took power after the fall of the Soviet Union. An archive of back issues from 1991 to 2017 is available online at www.connexions.org/CxArchive/Northstar/archive.html, along with additional articles and resources.
- Ireland: 75th anniversary of the Easter Rising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- A Troublemaker's Handbook
How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991 Published: 2005
An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
- The Scramble for Africa
White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991 Published: 2003
Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
- Take Back the Nation
Revised Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991 Published: 1993
A passionate and thoughtful assessment of Canada in crisis. Analyses the dangers posed by NAFTA to Canada's economy and independence. Proposes economic, political and cultural solutions to Canada's problems.
- Boreal Forests in Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991 Published: 1992
Canada's assault on the Boreal forest rivals Brazil's exploitation of the Amazon. In both countries governments and multinational corporations are scheming to clear-cut forests for short-term profit. They treat rivers as sewers, poison the fish and drive aboriginal peoples from their ancestral lands.
- We Can Save Social Programs
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991 Published: 1992
We can save social programs by removing unwarranted tax subsidies for corporations and wealthy investors.
- Motivating Today's Work Force
When the carrot can't always be cash
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991 Published: 1992
- The Citizen
Volume 1, Issue 1 & 2, December 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
Reports on various groups of the Left Green Network.
- Medical Reform - Volume 11 Issue 5
December 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- Content Magazine - November-December 1991
November-December 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- Medical Reform - Volume 11 Issue 4
October 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- Saving the Rouge
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Article in the October-November 1991 issue of Canadian Geographic.
- Content Magazine - September-October 1991
September-October 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- Il danse avec la Culpabilité
Un regard sur les hommes qui regardent la violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Des théories simplistiques qui sont reliées à la violence à un facteur et seulement un facteur, la masculinité qui sert à décourager un examen sérieux sur la cause qui mène certains hommes et aussi certaines femmes a devenir violents.
- Florida Sex Vigilantes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
This country's patchwork of sex laws is cruel and absurd - abolish them all.
- Medical Reform - Volume 11 Issue 3
August 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- Ecologist calls for radical green movement
Statecraft is a game of 'lesser evils'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Toronto greens got a dose of rigorous political theory when writer and activist Murray Bookchin addressed a packed house at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
- Defending the Oldman River
A conversation with Milton-Born-With-A-Tooth
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1991 Published: 1992
An interview with Milton-Born-With-A-Tooth about the struggle to defend the Oldman River in Alberta.
- Magnitogorsk: Steel town a Stalinist legacy of filth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Canada to allow new arms sales
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Canada is expanding its exports of arms.
- Ernest Mandel vs. Revolutionary Leadership
USec's "Crisis of Credibility"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Two-part article published May 24 and 7 June 1991.
- Troubling Connections
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
About how James Bacque's book, Other Losses, remains the subject of bitter controversy long after publication, as the fringe right embraces allegations of allied atrocities to downplay the horror of the Holocaust.
- Circles of mutual hatred trap Serbs and Croats
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Kurdistan: Death agonies of a people
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Medical Reform - Volume 11 Issue 2
April 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- New World Order
A postwar analysis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Everyone is allowed to play the game, so long as it's according to the U.S. rules.
- They're Going to be Stuffing Our Kids
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Will technology in the classroom be a boon to educators in the future, or a disaster waiting to happen?
- Struggle for Water in the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Abortion Stays Legal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Bill C-43 was defeated in 1991, keeping abortion legal in Canada.
- Midwives Acquitted
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
A historic decision by the Supreme Court of Canada clears midwives on charges in a case of a death during a home birth.
- Water Exports: The New Gold Rush?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Water shortages have become an top issue in the U.S., and it appears the nation will look north of the border for help. In Canada, opposition is growing.
- The prison called Albania
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Canada's Water: Resource War #2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Wars are usually fought over ideologies or natural resources. Canada should be concerned given its rich deposits of natural resources.
- The Exploitation Explosion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
- Investing in a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
The Cerro Gordo community.
- Dammed and diverted
Hyrdo projects in northern Manitoba
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Article in the February-March 1991 issue of Canadian Geographic.
- From the Editor: Green Living
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
To satiate North America's addiction to high energy consumption, the popular solution is war.
- Global Militarism and the Environment
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
The connection between militarism and environmental damage.
- KIO-Evolution of a Journal
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
The current Kick It Over editors reprint an article written two years prior for readers interested in knowing how the original editors were motivated to start Kick It Over.
- Medical Reform - Volume 11 Issue 1
February 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- The not-so-pristine Arctic
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Article in the February-March 1991 issue of Canadian Geographic.
- What a Way to Treat Your Mother: Women and the State of the Planet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Our planet is in crisis.
- Hanging on by our Fingernails
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
The West offers a false sense of security, and we are all at risk.
- After the Green Revolution
Sustainable Agriculture for Development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- ..."And The Last Shall Be First"
Native Policy in an Era of Cutbacks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Begegnung mit dem Schuldbewusstsein
Eine Beobachtung von Männern, die sich mit Gewalt auseinandersetzen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Neulich nahm ich an einem Treffen einer zwanzigköpfigen Männergruppe teil, die über das Problem der Gewalt gegen Frauen und was Männer zur Verhinderung von Gewaltsübergriffen beitragen können, diskutierte.
- Bioregion
A Means TO Community Control
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
An increasing amount of research demonstrates how the destruction of the environment and the growing levels of social disruption happening worldwide are related to the way the global economic system is organized, with its emphasis on competition, profit, and world trade.
- Black Settles on Pensions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Bulls and Bears
Winning in the Stock Market in Good Times and Bad
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- By Heart
The Life of Elizabeth Smart
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
A biography of the author of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept.
- Canada Rediscovered
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Robert McGhee descirbes wat we know about early European explorations of what is now Canada - Irish, Norse, English Portuguese, French, Spanish - as well as the early Europeans' interactions with the aboriginal inhabitants.
- Canada's Social Programs Are In Trouble
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- The Canadian City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Based on the belief that a healthy city life is possible, this volume collects articles, stories and histories about the city and its people, covering aspects such as human and social relations, art and architecture, urban planning, land development, and the greening of the urban environment.
- Canadian Mystery Stories
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Canadian Women's Autobiography in English
An Introductory Guide for Researchers and Teachers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- A Capital Scandal
Politics, Patronage and Payoffs -- Why Parliament Must be Reformed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Citizens Concerned about Free Trade
Periodical profile published 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- The collective decides...
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
The obsession with 'process politics' leads to an obsession with all aspects of internal structure and its working. As a result, the collective can often lose sight of its larger political objectives and the primacy of the form of organisation over the political objectives it was set up to meet. This often occurs in two stages. At the outset the collective process is regarded as equally important to whatever political purposes the group might have. Later the process itself often comes to be seen as of primary importance
- Community forestry conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- Consumers Union Congrress
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Content Magazine - January-February 1991
January-February 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- Danças com Culpa
Um olhar sobre os homens que olham para a violência
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Dances with Guilt: Looking at Men Looking at Violence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Why are some men violent?
- Defending the Earth
A Dialog Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
A renowned political theorist faces off against a direct-action activist to discuss: What is the connection between theory and activism? What is the role of sabotage in creating social change? How can human beings fit into a stable ecosystem?
- Dialogue on Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
A discourse between a Third World citizen and a Canadian.
- Dignity and Growth
Citizen Participation in Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Makes the case that rural communities cannot function without citizen participation in social change.
- Discovery in the North Atlantic
From the 6th to 17th Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Drawing the Line
Lesbian Sexual Politics on the Wall
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Ecology Watch
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Poverty has been identified as a major cause of environmental degradation
- Ecomedia Bulletin #91
Issue #91; Jan 1-14, 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- Educating for a Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a truly participatory society. The books offers theory and practical tools for consciously applying the principles of democratic practice to daily work.
- Electric Rivers
The Story of the James Bay Project
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Ethical Mutual Funds, Screening the Screens
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Ethical Mutual Funds are important to the growth of social programs and services in Canada.
- Execution Day in Zhengzhou
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
A first-hand account of an execution day in China.
- Fields of Vision
A Journey to Canada's Family Farms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Finding our Way
Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Foundation Reporter 1991
Comprehensive Profiles and Giving Analyses of America's Major Private Foundations
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
A directory covering the largest and most important private foundations in the United States. Designed to help non-profit organizations plan and atrget their fundraising activities.
- Funding Strategies Resource Package
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Getting There
Steps to a Green Society
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Going Home
Building Peace in El Salvador: The Story of Repatriation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
After a decade of disastrous civil war, hope for the rebuilding of El Salvador lies with its courageous refugee population. Tired of waiting to return home alive, the "campesinos" decided to return to homes to wage peace.
- The Gold Book
The Complete Investment Guide to Precious Metals
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- The Government Relations Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- The Great Car Insurance Crash
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
The Ontario NDP's backpedalling from public auto insurance demonstrates that this government doesn't want to take the drivers seat.
- Great Lakes Spills Pose Toxic Risks
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
As the largest source of fresh water in the world, and a primary trading route, pollution and the possiblity of toxic spills in the Great Lakes have the potentional to adversely affect millions.
- Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
- A Green History of the World
The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
- The Green List
A Guide to Canadian Environmental Organizations and Agencies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- Green Municipalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
A green municipalist analysis offers valuable perspectives but can become a straightjacket if it is seen as 'the' answer.
- A Guide to Feeding Winter Birds in Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- High Society
Legal and Illegal Drugs in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- A History of the Arab Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Human Rights in Asia
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Inversions
Writing by Dykes, Queers & Lesbians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Investment Strategies
How to Create Your Own and Make It Work for You
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Is Feminist Ethics Possible?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- It Doesn't Have To Be Like This
Green Politics Explained
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Kick It Over #26
Summer 91
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- Kick It Over #27
Fall/Winter 91/92
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- Labour Songs
Resource Type: Audio
First Published: 1991
1950-1985.
- The Left and the Gulf War
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
At an October 27 Toronto demonstration called to protest U.S and Canadian intervention in the Persian Gulf, a Trotskyist League contingent marched with placards and chants saying: "Defeat U.S. and Canadian imperialism!" and "Defend Iraq against imperialis war!" but the liberal/pacifist protest organizers complained about our slogans and split their own demo, moving down the street with various other left groups in tow.
- Libraries, Erotica & Pornography
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- A Long and Terrible Shadow
White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
- Misogyny reflected in Grocery Line
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Checking out the popular media at the grocery checkout.
- Mixed Media, Mixed Messages
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
This is a collection of columns by Vancouver Sun columnist Persky. Specifically, Persky tries to address moral and philosophical questions raised by media practices.
- Money Making Marketing
Finding the People Who Need What You're Selling and Making Sure They Buy It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Practical advice on marketing.
- National Aboriginal Directory
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- National Senior News
Periodical profile published 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
- News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada - Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Review of News and Dissent: The Press and The Politics of Peace in Canada, by Robert Hackett.
- No Easy Road
Women in Canada 1920's to 1960's
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
This collection of essays by Gail Brandt, Margrit Eichler, Ruth Pierson, Alison Prentice and Veronica Strong-Boag provides a background for examining women’s paid and unpaid work as well as aspects of women’s collective activities in the past.
- Occupied Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
An autobiography of Robert Calihoo, a native Canadian activist who struggled to regain the reserve that his father had sold out to the Canadian government.
- The Ojibwa of Southern Ontario
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
A history of the Ojibwa in Southern Ontario.
- "Open Skies" Coming?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Our Canada
The Story of the New Democratic Party Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
A rosy view of Canada's New Democratic Party.
- Out of Balance
The Risks of Irreversible Climate Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Parkdale in Pictures
Its Development to 1889
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
The formative years of a Toronto city neighbourhood.
- Persian Gulf crisis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Poisoned Skies
Who'll Stop Acid Rain?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
The authors chronicle the decade-long struggle to get government action against acid rain - a devastating form of pollution.
- Positive Action for the Environment
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1991
- Privatization
A global disease
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Pro-Canada group asks contributions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Race Relations Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Race to the screen
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Radioactive Heaven And Earth
The Health and Environmental Effects of Nuclear Weapons Testing in, on, and above the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
No credible justification exists for "national security" considerations to trump worldwide health when it comes to nuclear weapons.
- Rafferty-Alameda: The American Connection
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
The Rafferty, along with the Oldman River Dam under construction in Alberta, only make sense as part of a water diversion to the United States. Because 90 per cent of Canadians, according to federal government study, are opposed to the export of Canadian water, this aspect of the project has not been made public and the Devine government is using the front of a purely localized development to "save" precious water for the dry prairies.
- Relentless Persistence
Nonviolent Action in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
- RRSPs 1992
Everything you need to know to make the right choices
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Russian Literature
Ideals and Realities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Searching for Subjectivity in the World of the Sciences
Feminist Viewpoints
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- The Secret Ring
Freud's Innter Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
An account of Freud's relationship with the founding circle of the psychoanalytic movement.
- Seven Public Sector Myths
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Fact and fiction about the public sector.
- Skills for Simple Living
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Small Business Guide to Direct Mail
Build Your Customer Base and Boost Profits
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Spirit of the Wolf
The Environment and Canada's Future: Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Submarine Dead Ahead!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Sustainability as if we mean it
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Taniec z Wina: Jak mezczyzni patrza na przemoc
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Teaching for Democratic Citizenship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- The Third World Debt: The Comforts of Newspaper Pie
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Canadians are unaffected by the Third World, since most of it arrives in the form of newspaper headlines.
- This Is The Just Cause
Breaking the Silence: Testimony of the Panamanian People, Resulting from the USA Invasion
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
A very different picture of the Bush Administration's invasion of Panama. Personal testimonies and photographs document the horror and anguish suffered by the Panimanian people.
- To Change This House
Popular Education Under the Sandinistas
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
An account of how popular education transformed all aspects of life in Nicaragua following Somoza's overthrow in 1979. Throu8gh interviews, photographs, and analysis, Barndt explores the collective, participatory, critical way of learning that connects education to experience and seeks out the structural and historical causes of social problems.
- Uncivil Obedience
The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
How to push for social change without breaking the law.
- Under the Viaduct
Homeless in Beautiful B.C.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
The author, through interviews, gives a collection of testimonials of Vancouver's homeless and strategies to combat this social problem.
- The Unmaking of Canada
The Hidden Theme in Canadian History since 1945
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
This book searches for the roots of the many-sided crisis faced by Canada in the 1990s, and finds them in the post-war history of the country. In the authors' view, the hidden theme in Canadian history in the post-World War II decades has been the "unmaking" of Canada.
- Upstream
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
- Victims of the European revolutions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
European gypsy communities have historically been, and remain, the most marginalized social group.
- Video The Changing World
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- War in the Gulf
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
The U.S. and its allies are launching themselves into an unnecessary but potentially calamitous war.
- We Can Change the World
The Real Meaning Of Everyday Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Stratman draws on his experiences as a parent in the Boston school busing battle and later as Washington director of the National PTA, interviews with British coal miners and striking American meatpackers, and wide ranging research and historical analysis, to show that fundamental social change is possible. The key to changing the world he argues, lies in a different view of ordinary people.
- Wild Hunters
Predators in Peril
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
A passionate argument for the preservation of Canadian wildlife. Animals such as bears and wolves are in dire need of protection from the encroachments of civilisation.
- Women and Social Change
Feminist Activism in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Reader comments on pornography and censorship.
- The Women's Movement and Its Currents of Thought
A Typological Essay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- Women's movement archives
Organization profile published 1991
Resource Type: Organization
First Published: 1991
Inactive/Defunct Organization
- A Word to Say
The Story of the Maritime Fishermen's Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
An account of how inshore fishermen, most of them Acadian, came together to take control of their industry and their livelihood and form the Maritime Fishermen's Union.
- Workplace Guide
Practical Action for the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
- The Year of the Turtle
A Natural History
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
An account of one year of observing turtles in a New England locality.
- You either believe in freedom or you don't
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Speak out for human rights by joining the European Community and the majority of the United Nations in calling for a free East Timor.
- The country map hustlers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1991
Article in the December 1990-January 1991 issue of Canadian Geographic.
- Loving More
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1991
A newsletter published by PEP (Polyfidelitious Educational Productions), a group marriage journal and network. Previous title was PEPTALK; name was changed to Loving More starting with the Spring 1991 issue (Issue #26), and to Loving More Magazine ins 1994. Some copies of this publication are in the Connexions Archive.
See also the Loving More website www.lovemore.com.
- Toronto Men's Clearinghouse Newsletter
May 1990 - Issue 17
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
A copy of this newsletter in in the Connexions Archive.
- The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990 Published: 2011
Blending a passionate sensibility and a steely intellect with an unshakeable commitment to revolutionary socialism, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. In this comprehensive collection selection of Luxemburg's letters, her political concerns are revealed alongside the story of a vivid inner life.
- Our transportation future
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
The billions of dollars proposed to be spent on roads would be better invested in electrifying the main rail lines in Canada.
- Passionate Declarations
Essays on War and Justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990 Published: 2003
Essays looking at American political ideology.
- The Rushdie Affair
The Novel, the Ayatollah and the West
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990 Published: 2003
This is an account of the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. Following the novel's publication in London in 1988, the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued an edict condemning the author and his publishers to death for blasphemy. Part I "focuses on two texts, The Satanic Verses and Ayatollah Khomeini's edict, and attempts to explain why the one led to the other.... Part II surveys the responses to the texts, from conspiracy theories in Iran to petitions in the United States, then considers the implications of this controversy. Two issues receive special attention: the... problem of censorship... {and the} questions raised by millions of Muslims living in the West."
- The Arab Choice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The Arabs are many peoples, cultures, religions, and realities. I cannot put an Arab tyrant, whoever he is, in the same category as a martyr for democracy like Mehdi Ben Barka.
- The bureaucracy remains
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The government may change, but the bureaucracy remains, continuing the same short-sighted policies.
- The free trade disaster: round two
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Standards are being pulled down to the lowest common denominator, allowing the transnational corporations to play countries and their workforces off against each other. Already, workers in Canada are being warned that if they don't pull their wages and other demands down, workers in Mexico will be only too glad to take their jobs.
- Globalizing the Left
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The Canadian trade union movement has to put greater emphasis on using its global ties to prevent multinational companies from shifting their operations to low wage countries.
- No action on human rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The Mulroney Tories are doing nothing at all about human rights.
- Quebec's two solitudes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Quebec's hopes to chart a smooth course to sovereignty may founder on claims to Quebec's territory by its original inhabitants - claims that could involve as much as 80 per cent of its land mass.
- Winter of Discontent
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Whole communities are being plunged into a poverty culture that is very difficult to escape.
- Great Lakes clean-up
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Article in the December 1990-January 1991 issue of Canadian Geogrpahic.
- No Strikes in Canada over health care
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
The health care systems in Canada and the U.S. are very different, leading to different approaches to disagreements, and significantly different outcomes.
- Content Magazine - November-December 1990
November-December 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Entrepreneurs Convert Landfill Gas into an Alternative Source of Energy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
New technology is presenting alternatives for the generation of energy from landfill gases.
- Medical Reform - Volume 10 Issue 4
October 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Naming the Moment: Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
A review of Naming the Moment: Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups.
- Working together for peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Although English and French-speaking Canadians are sometimes at odds, the call for peace is universal. It is a language that all can agree on.
- The Right to Offend
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990 Published: 1991
Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
- Content Magazine - September-October 1990
September-October 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Medical Reform - Volume 10 Issue 3
September 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Content Magazine - July-August 1990
July-August 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Medical Reform - Volume 10 Issue 2
July 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Karl Marx and the War Against Slavery
Black History and the Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Alexander discusses Marx and Engels's views on the Civil War, the role of the First International in the struggle to overthrow black chattel slavery, and why the Marxist program of international working-class revolution is the key for black freedom and working-class emancipation.
- Killing Roads: A Citizen's Primer on the Effects and Removal of Roads
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Medical Reform - Volume 10 Issue 1
April 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Net Losses: The sorry state of our Atlantic fishery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Article in the April-May 1990 issue of Canadian Geographic.
- The Ram's Horn
Number 71, April 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
A monthly newsletter of food system analysis.
- Content Magazine - March-April 1990
March-April 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- New Maritimes
March/April 1990, Volume VIII, Number Four
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
The Regional Magazine of Culture and Politics
- What's Left? Environmentalists and Radical Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Environmentalist activism as radical practice.
- Monkeywrenching
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
An appraisal of the effectiveness of monkeywrenching or eoctage.
- How Timisoara Started the Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
An account of the start of the revolt that overthrew the Ceausescu regime in Romania in 1989.
- Alternative America
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
12,150 organizations, mainly American, listed geographically by zip code, and again alphabetically. A subject keyword index referring to group numbers only.
- Alternative Library Literature 1988-1989
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Alternative Publications
A Guide to Directories, Indexes, Bibliographies and other Sources
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
A listing of bibliographies, indexes, review journals, directories and other sources about the alternative or small press world.
- The Anarchist Papers 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A collection of essays about the history of anarchism.
- The Anatomy of Judgment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Tracing the emergence of science and the social institutions that govern it, The Anatomy of Judgment is an odyssey into what human thinking or judgment mean.
- Banking on the Grass Roots
Cooperatives in global development
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- The Barefoot Channel
Community Television as a Tool for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
How you or you group can use local community TV station to get your message out.
- Behind the Silicon Curtain
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- The Best Censored Stories of 1989
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Beyond the War on Drugs
Overcoming a Failed Public Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Beyond the War on Drugs argues persuasively for a fundamental reassessment of drug control policy. The thrust of the book is simply that the 'war on drugs' cannot be won by trying to dry up the source, since there will always be demand to create supply.
- Book Publishing Resource Guide
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
A directory of key contacts for marketing and promoting books.
- Breaking the Canadian Formula
The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Canada's Fighting Seniors
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A look at the growth of a senior's movement in Canada in the 1980s.
- Canada's Radiation Scandal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Canadian Almanac and Directory 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Listings include government directories (federal, provincial, municipal); libraries; publishers; art galleries; newspapers, magazines; radio and TV stations; boards of trade; boards of education; colleges and universities; embassies.
- Canadian Churches and Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
In the years after 1970, Canadian churches have engaged in international affairs in new ways. This book offers first-hand accounts by people actively involved in developing this new role.
- Canadian People Patterns
What's in the Cards for you?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Canadian Socialism
Essays on the CCF-NDP
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A comprehensive study of the NDP and its precursor the CCF, covering party manifestos, national conventions, and biographical profiles of federal leaders T.C. Douglas, David Lewis, and Ed Broadbent.
- The Canadian Women's Movement, Equality Rights and the Charter
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- The Case for a Nuclear-Free Canada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Christopher Who? -- Discovering the Americas
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Columbus seen as a conqueror.
- Chronicle of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Climate Change and World Agriculture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- The Climates of Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Common Security Leader's Kit
New Light for the Planet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Communicating Effectively Through Your Newsletter
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Some pointers about how to produce a newsletter that communicates effectively with its readers
- Confronting Pornography
A Feminist on the Front Lines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Content Magazine - January-February 1990
January-February 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Corporate Giving Directory 1991
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Cracking the Canadian Formula
The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Cree Challenge Settement
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
The Grand Council of the Cree of Quebec goes to court in 1990 asking that the James Bay and Northern Agreement, the largest land claim settlement in Canadian history, should be declared null and void.
- Dam the Rivers, Damn the People
Development and Resistance in Amazonian Brazil
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Cummings describes Amazonia as a colony whose resources are exploited by and 'exported' to the country's industrial south. As a result of the encroachment on their rainforest land, the peoples of Amazonia, particularly the Amazonia Indians, have suffered death, displacement, loss of self-sufficiency and exposure to disease.
- Defining a Sustainable Society
Values, Principles and Definitions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
We can approach our future in many ways, the conventional route is to project forward from present trends and make adjustments to avoide some of the uglier prospects.
- Drift Nets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Article in the February-March 1990 issue of Canadian Geographic.
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- Ecology and Culture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Ecomedia Bulletin #67
Issue #67; Jan 2-15, 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Ecomedia Bulletin #78
Issue #78; Jun 19-Jul 2, 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Ecomedia Bulletin #79
Issue #79; Jul 3-16, 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Entrevista con Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Entrevue avec Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Europe Against the Current
Catalogue of Alternative, Independent and Radical Information Carriers
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Expose Yourself
Using the Power of Public Relations to Promote Your Business and Yourself
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A hands-on, practical book that gets down to the details of doing promotion.
- Fighting for Hope
Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
- The First Canadians
A Profile of Canada's Native People Today
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- The First International Ecological City Conference
Conference Report
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Forget the Mass Media!
(And Its Clever Cousin Electoralism)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
We can't rely on the mass media to bring our message to the people we want to reach.
- Freelance Editors' Association of Canada Directory of Members 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Fresh Water Seas
Saving the Great Lakes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Weller takes readers on a tour of the Great Lakes region, tracing its natural history from the time before human habitation. He describes how the region has been affected by uncontrolled development to the point where it now contains one of the planet's most intensive concentrations of industrial and agricultural activity.
- From Land to Mouth, Understanding the Food System (Review essay)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- From Prince to Rebel
Peter Kropotkin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A bigraphy of the anarchist intellectual Peter Kropotkin.
- The Gender of Breadwinners
Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns 1880-1950
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The story of two Ontario towns, Hanover and Paris, both primarily one-industry towns. Hanover was a furniture-manufacturing centre; mosts of its workers were men, while in Paris the biggest employer was the textile industry; most of its wage earners were women.
- Getting Publicity
A Do-It-Yourself Guide for Small Business and Non-Profit Groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Step-by-step instructions illustrate what it takes to attract media attention to any enterprise.
- Getting the Goods
Information in BC How to Find It, How to Use It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A guide to the basic sources of information -- the tools of the trade -- that all reporters, researchers and investigators rely on.
- Ghost Towns of Ontario
A Field Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Good Planets Are Hard to Find!
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
For children 8 and up. Gives information about the problems facing our fragile ecosystem, and offers a large range of activities geared to solving them.
- Green Cities
Ecologically Sound Approaches to Urban Space
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Visions from around the world for an ecological urban model. Argues that putting wilderness in cities is good for conservation of wildlife.
- Greening the land
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Giving land back to nature. Autumn 1990 issue of Seasons.
- The GST in... The Big Tax Picture
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
When you start talking about the GST, you end up talking about the whole idea of taxation. And when you start talking about who pays more and who pays less, you're really talking about the kind of country you want to live in.
- A Guide to the Photographic Identification of Individual Whales Based on Natural & Acquired Markings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Guideposts for a Sustainable Future
Tools for Environmental Recovery - videotape
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 1990
- Gute Argumente: Verkehr
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Informiert anschaulich and sachlich über die Grundlagen des Verkehrssystems, über the Hintergründe der auto-orientierten Gesleeschaft und uber unweltschonende und wirtschaflich vorteilhafte Alternativen.
- Hal Draper on the Two Souls of Socialism
Insights from Hal Draper
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
A comparison of socialism-from-below and socialism-from-above that considers Marx's struggle for socialism through liberal democracy.
- Here to Stay
A Resource Kit on Environmentally Stable Development
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Heritage Languages
The Development and Denial of Canada's Linguistic Resources
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Home!
A Bioregional Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
- How To Make A Whole Lot More Than $1,000,000 Writing, Commissioning, Publishing and Selling "How To: Information
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Lant makes the point that if you know something or have something to say, them you ought to be doing everything you possibly can to get that out to as many people as possible. This book is full of advice about how to do it.
- Human Rights
A Directory of Resources
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
A directory designed to give educators, students, librarians and activists quick access to a wide variety of print, audio-visual, and organizational material. Extensively indexxed by name, title, organization, subject area, and geographic location.
- Human Rights Directory: Latin America and the Caribbean
Human Rights Internet Reporter, Special Issues Volume 13, No. 2 & 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Describes nearly 800 organizations concerned with Latin America and the Caribbean. The focus is primarily on non-governmental organizations; relevant governmental and inter-governmental bodies are also described.
- IDRC Films and videos 1991
Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- IDRC Publications 1991
Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- In 1492, What Did Columbus Really Do?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
A summary of various resistance movements then being organized to protest celebrating the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' first landing in the Carribbean.
- Interview mit Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Interview with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
- Interview with Ulli Diemer - Arabic text
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Interview with Ulli Diemer - Japanese
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Karimlan
A Simulation Game on Sustainable Development
Resource Type: Unclassified
First Published: 1990
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Much of Karl Marx's most important work came out of his critique of other thinkers, including many socialists who differed significantly in their conceptions of socialism. Draper looks at these critiques to illuminate what Marx's socialism was, as well as what it was not.
- Kick It Over #25
Winter 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Left Green Meeting
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Lesbians in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Letters to a Quebecois Friend
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Philip Resnick, a political scientist and long-time radical, formerly from Quebec, but now teaching at the University of British Columbia, wrote the "letters" in this volume to an imaginary Quebecois friend in the aftermath of the 1988 Free Trade election, when Quebec's votes gave the Mulroney government a majority of seats in the House of Commons even though a strong majority of Canadians voted against Free Trade and against the Conservatives.
- Lewis Mumford
Obituary
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Literary Marketplace 1990
Small Press Publishers
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Tackles some of the myths of about Gandhi, such as the idea that he was a "saint", or the idea that non-violence is the same as passivity, or that non-violence may have worked in India but wouldn't work anywhere else.
- Manifest Destiny? A Native Perspective on 1992
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
1992 will be a year of mourning for North American Indians; a mourning for the fragmentation and loss of our traditional way of life.
- The Masks of Proteus
Canadian Reflections on the State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A multi-faceted study of the modern state.
- Montreal
A Citizen's Guide to Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
In 1986, The Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM) were elected at City Hall defeating the Drapeau Administration. In this collection of articles, every aspect of reform under the MCM Administration is scrutinized: Employment, Housing and Planning, Ecology, Crime, Relations between ethnic groups, Public Transportation and Public Health.
- Montreal
A Citizen's Guide to Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Myles Horton
Insights from organizer Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- The National Directory of Magazines 1991
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- New Enclosures
Midnight Notes # 10 - Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- New Maritimes
January/February 1990, Volume VIII, Number III
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
The Regional Magazine of Culture and Politics
- Nightmare at Valdez
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Article in the November-December 1990 issue of Wildlife Conservation.
- The 1990 Prague Appeal: Let Us Found a Helsinki Citizens Assembly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
The peaceful transition of Europe is unthinkable without the full observance of all human and civil rights.
- 1992 The Theology of Self-Discovery Offers Hope
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
The Self-Discovery campaign does not confine itself to the struggles of Indigenous People but addresses the concerns of all social and racial groups who have experienced social/cultural destruction under the yoke of colonialism.
- 1992: A White Christian Perspective
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
I would hope that we can enter into a very sober 1992 event, so that native Christians might be able to retrieve those symbols that will give them new strength. I would hope that God is acting now as a kind of psychoanalyst, fresh dialogue might continue between the Church and native groups not within its "fold".
- Not a Sentimental Journey
What's Behind the VIA Rail Cuts, What YOU Can Do About It
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A response to the attack on passenger rail service in Canada.
- Notes from an Anarchist Sociologist
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Ehrlich's account of how his activism made him realize he could no longer comfortably pursue a professional career.
- Organization of the Government of Canada 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Organization of the Government of Canada 1990
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Parliamentary Forum on Global Climate Change
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Peace and Environment Rally
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
- Peaceful Measures
Canada's Way Out of the War on Drugs
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- The Philosophy of Social Ecology
Essays on Dialectical Naturalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Bookchin addresses questions such as 'What is nature?", "What is humanity's place in nature?", "What is the relationship of society to the natural world?"
- The Political Economy of Manitoba
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
- Privatization and Health Care
The Case of Ontario Nursing Homes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Tarman identifies many problems with privatization, among them, a basic contradiction between the profit motive and quality of care, poor accountability and lack of public input, less government control of services with the balance of power decidedly in favour of the nursing home industry, and the problem of access.
- Processed World - Issue 25 - Summer/Fall, 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Rattray Marsh
Then and Now
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A complete and living chronicle of the Rattray Marsh Conservation Area, its human settlement and natural history.
- Recolonization or Liberation
The Bonds of Structural Adjustment and Struggles for Emancipation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, structural adjustment is the goal of the economic and social programs which they impose upon indebted Third World governments. This booklet examines Structural Adjustment Programs from the perspective of those who are made to bear the burden of 'adjustment' in countries around the world. It shows how not only nations of the Third World, but also Canada and Eastern Europe, are being subjected to structural adjustment.
- The Redesigned Forest
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
An exploration of how forests are utilized, with particular interest paid to the old-growth coniferous forests of the Pacific north-west.
- Regulating Labour
The State, Neo-Conservatism and Industrial Relations (Volume 6)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A collection of essays on industrial-labour relations in Canada, the United States, Britain, and Sweden.
- Resources Reading List 1990
Annotated Bibliography of Resources By and About Native People - Periodical profile published 1990
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
- Restructuring and Resistance
Perspectives from Atlantic Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Seeks to answer two questions: Will the Atlantic region further marginalise to the point of an eventual elimination of the rural economy of small producers and the social system underlying this economy? And can any alternatives be found to the capitalist approach through the resistance and restructuring approach?
- Right on the Marx
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
The shared vision articulated by Ulli Diemer will never attain an organized and effective form unless it can be concretized into a series of political programmes, and eventually made real through one or many political organizations or parties.
- Rise Up Singing
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
There was a time when singing was a part of everyday life. Rise Up Singing was compiled to help bring song back into our lives, and especially to bring singing more strongly into the movement for social change.
- The Rising Seas
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