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  1. U of T silent, while activist groups burn
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    On the break-in at the Praxis Institute, and the university's attitude to this and other issues in the community.
  2. U of T Sociology
    Resource Type: Paper File - File Folder
    Documents pertaining to the Univbersity of Toronto Sociology Students' Union and Sociology Department from 1971 to 1973.
  3. U.S.A. Radical, Leftist & Marxist Journals
    Resource Type: Website
    Focuses primarily on Leftist and Marxist publications and periodicals. The largest collection of online American communist, socialist and left journals & publications in the world. Containing thousands of issues of these newspapers and magazines it represents the documentary history of the U.S. Left in high resolution PDFs.
  4. The U.A.W. settles with Ford
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1967
  5. Ugly Performance of Self Exposure
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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?
  9. 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.
  10. Ulli Diemer - Brief Bio - Japanese text
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  11. Ulli Diemer interviewed by Simon Vickers
    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 2019
  12. The Uncertain Mirror
    Report of the Special Senate Commitee on Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1972
  13. Under siege: North Dakota's last abortion clinic fights on
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    North Dakota's largest city, Fargo, is home to the last facility offering terminations. And as laws tighten across America, the pro-life movement is starting to scent victory.
  14. The Underbelly of the U.S. Economy
    Joblessness and the Pauperization of Work in America
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996   Published: 1998
  15. Underdeveloping Prince Edward Island
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
  16. The Underground Railroad
    Blcokson, Charles L.; illustreated by Louis Psihoyos
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1984
    Article in Volume 166, No. 1 issue of National Geographic, July 1984.
  17. The Undergrowth of Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1969
    A sympathetic journey through the tangled undergrowth of literature.
  18. The Underside of Toronto
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    Sociological essays on Toronto.
  19. Understanding Desktop Color
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  20. Understanding Media
    The Extensions of Man
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964
    McLuhan says that the means by which people communicate determine their thoughts and actions.
  21. Understanding new media
    augmented knowledge and culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
  22. Understanding the News Business
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1983
  23. Understanding Your Community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964   Published: 1969
  24. Union Education: pathway to a better Local Union
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1966
  25. A Union: The Time is Now
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    This article, which followed the failure of the Metropolitan Toronto branch of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF) to rally their members for a fight on negotiated working conditions, appeared in the December 72 issue of Community Schools. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1972-1973.
  26. Unions and the Collective Bargaining Process
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    This book describes the main purpose and activity of Canada's unions -- collective bargaining.
  27. Unions and hospitals: A Working Paper
    Resource Type: Article
  28. Unite against monopoly
    A communist plan of action for working class and democratic unity against monopoly
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
  29. United Church of Canada Archives
    Resource Type: Organization
  30. 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.
  31. The United Nations and the Palestine Question
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
  32. U.S. academics dominate Canadian ivory towers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    Since Canada's economy is controlled by American interests, our universities have become geared to the production of trained technicians and professionals for a branch plant economy, in which capitalist and imperialist interests predominate.
  33. Universal University Press Release
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1968
  34. The Universe Ends at Sherbourne & Queen
    Poems & Prose
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A literary and photographic look at the area known as Cabbagetown. It describes the myths and legends of the area as well as the lives of the people who live there.
  35. 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.
  36. The University
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1967   Published:
  37. University Expansion
    Resource Type: Article
  38. The University Game
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  39. University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
    Resource Type: Website
    Extensive collection of official human rights documents such as UN treaties.
  40. The University of Toronto
    A History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
  41. University of Toronto Graduate
    Christmas 1968
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1968
  42. The University and Society: Transformation and Liberation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1968
    Prepared for XI Canadian Union of Students National Seminar, University of Manitoba, May 19 - 28, 1968.
  43. The University-Military-Police Complex
    A Directory and Related Documents
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  44. Unpublished Material by Indian Organizations in Canada
    List of holidings in the National Indian Brotherhood Indian Resource Info. Centre
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1982
  45. 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.
  46. 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.
  47. Unsung Heroes
    Resource Type: Audio
  48. Upper Saugeen Valley Conservation Report
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1953
    A detailed report on the upper Saugeen Valley (with important information on the entire Saugeen watershed). Chapters include the Indian Period, Settlement, Mills, Agriculture, Geology, Physiography, General Considerations, Description of Soils, Present Land Use, Conservation Practices, Land Use Capability, Land Economics, Recommended Land Use, The Forest, Forest Products, Present Woodland Conditions, Conservation Measures in Progress, Forest Conservation Measures Required, Forest Insects and Diseases, Land Acquisition, Snow Fences, Windbreaks, Harvesting, Manufacturing and Marketing of Woodland Product, The River, Floods 1837-1951, Encroachments, Underground Water, General Hydraulic Problems, Hydraulics and Control Measures, Flood Control for the Town of Walkterton, Wildlife, Present Species, Improving the Farm for Wildlife, Fish.
  49. Uprooted
    Resource Type: Audio
  50. Urban Canada and its Government
    A Study of Municipal Organization
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  51. Urban Development in South-Central Ontario
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1955   Published: 1972
    A study of the growth of metropolitanism in Ontario.
  52. The Urban Field
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1965
  53. The Urban Landscape
    A Study of Open Space in Urban Metropolitan Areas
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
  54. Urban Struggle and Organizing Strategies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    The object of this paper is to examine the potential of urban struggle as a vehicle for promoting fundamental change in capitalist societies. This will be done by contrasting two organizing approaches to urban conflict and by evaluating their impact ideologically and economically on capitalist structures.
  55. Urban Studies
    A Canadian Perspective
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  56. Urgent Tasks Following the Establishment of Kuomintang-Communist Co-operation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1952   Published: 1968
  57. URPE Teach-ins and Teach-outs on the Current Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article
  58. U.S. Aggression in Vietnam and International Law
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  59. 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.
  60. 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.
  61. 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".
  62. US soldier faces court martial for trying to stop Haiti abuses
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
  63. 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.
  64. USA - The Labor Revolt
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1967
  65. User Charges in Health Care
    A Bibliography
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1994
  66. 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.
  67. 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.
  68. Usher in the Great 1970's
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  69. Using solar power in northern Ontario village
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
  70. A Usually Reliable Source
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1971
    Published in Ottawa 26 times per year and featuring articles on community events, labour issues, world events, housing issues, and Canadian politics. There are some issues in the Connexions Archive.
  71. Utopian Reformism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    It would be interesting to trace the development of John Kenneth Galbraith's ideas, begining with American Capitalism (1952) and culminating (so far at any rate) with Economics and the Public Purpose which has just been published.
  72. 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.