2019

1. Bolivia's coup
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2019
2. Catch a Fire
   Life Tales
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2019
3. The economic Anschluss of the GDR
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2019
4. 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.
5. Father Greg: A Life
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2019
   A biography of Fr. Greg MacLeod, noted for his work on community economic development on Cape Breton Island.
6. The Forest for the Trees
   Reducing Drug and Mental Health Harms in the Inner City of Winnipeg
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2019
   15 Annual State of the Inner City report.
7. Global business of bytes
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2019
8. ICL Breaks with Leninism on the National Question
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2019
   On the radical change of direction of the Trotskyist International Communist League.
9. In Defense of (Seymour’s) Marxism
   Exposing the 'Theoretical Framework' of ICL's Neo-Pabloist Turn
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2019
   The abrupt abandonment of the longstanding approach to the national question by the Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (ICL - formerly the international Spartacist tendency [iSt]) has major (many as yet unelaborated) programmatic implications. It is difficult to overstate the political importance for the ICL of the dramatic turn represented by the main conference document, "The Struggle Against the Chauvinist Hydra" which repudiates the iSt/ICL's previous refusal to capitulate to "Third World" nationalism - a stance that distinguished the group from its pseudo-revolutionary competitors for decades. The former policy is now simply dismissed as "chauvinism."
10. Rolf Knight Obituary
    March 4, 1936 - June 22, 2019
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Born on March 4, 1936, the son of an itinerant cook, Rolf Knight grew up in B.C. logging camps, gained his M.A. in anthropology at UBC in 1962, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1968. For decades Knight was a brave and under-heralded historian and a steadfast enemy of the notion that there exists such a phenomenon as the common man.
11. Law's disorder in Nigeria
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
12. Lebanon: the right to know
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
13. Life After Life
    Why parole in America is just another prison
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    On the ineffectiveness of the US criminal-justice system's parole arm for paroled people who have been sentenced to life in prison.
14. My Gang is Jesus
    Brazil's evangelicals face the temptations of the drug trade
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Examines the use of religion by gang members as a source of community and support; highlighting the complex relationship between gang culture and religion.
15. Russia and the patriarchal code
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
16. The Toronto Reference Library's rich collection of Communist newspapers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
17. Ulli Diemer interviewed by Simon Vickers
    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 2019

2018

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Drinking Problems
   A Kansas town confronts a tap-water crisis
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
   Investigation on the drinking water crisis in the US, examinign the sources of contamination, the inadequate regulatory responses, and the potential helath consequences of long-term exposure to pollutants in the country's water supply.
5. 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.
6. For Independence and Socialism!
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2018
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. Some History Ex-Trotskyists Would Like to Keep Hidden
    As 'Chauvinist Hydra' Devours SL/ICL
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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?

2017

1. Anti-Québécois Chauvinism in the NHL
   Honor Maurice 'Rocket' Richard
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
2. 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.
3. 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".
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. From Scotland to Canada: the origin of genocide and of a genocidaire (I) - Cornwallis
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
7. 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.
8. "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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Multiple distinct groups historically populated Newfoundland, DNA study suggests
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Study suggests implies that the island of Newfoundland was populated multiple times by distinct groups.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. Ontario's health workers call for improved sick leave policies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
22. 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.
23. Public Transit
    Introduction to the March 18, 2017 issue of Other Voices
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Public transit -- good affordable public transit -- is key to a liveable city.
24. Public Transit - Arabic text
    Introduction to the March 18, 2017 issue of Other Voices - Arabic translation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
25. Public Transit - Introduction to March 18, 2017 issue of Other Voices - Chinese text
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
26. Radical Digressions 8
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
27. Rage Against the G7
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017   Published:
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. 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.
33. The Struggle Against the Chauvinist Hydra
    Document of the Seventh International Conference of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Political statement announcing a sharp change of direction in the Trotskyist International Communist League.
34. 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.
35. Vintage Photos of Traveling Libraries
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Photo essay.
36. 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.
37. When they call you a terrorist
    A black lives matter memoir
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2017
38. 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.

2016

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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
4. Dufferin Grove Park as a neighbourhood commons, stories from 1993-2015
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2016
5. "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."
6. 40 Years 40 Faces
   Portraits and Stories from South Riverdale Community Health Centre - 1976 - 2016
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. The Memory Code: how oral cultures memorise so much information
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Long before the ancient Celts, Aboriginal Australians were recording vast scores of knowledge to memory and passing it to successive generations. Aboriginal people demonstrate that their oral traditions are not only highly detailed and complex, but they can survive -- accurately -- for thousands, even tens of thousands, of years.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 54 No. 1 - Winter 2016
    Winter issue (Election and aftermath, climate talks, book and film reviews, and much more)
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
17. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 54 No. 2 - Spring 2016
    Farewell Issue
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    This is the final issue of Outlook Magazine.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. Stop Line 9
    Respect the Treaties. Protect the Land, Air and Water We All Share
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
21. 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.
22. 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.

2015

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. An Exchange on History From the Bottom Up
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
13. 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.
14. The German War
    A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945. Citizens and Soldiers
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
15. "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.
16. 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.
17. The Jewish Voice for Peace Attack on Alison Weir: JVP Loses Its Balance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. Of Newsletters and Pamphlets
    Autonomist Communication and Organizing in 1970s 'Canada.'
    Resource Type: Slide Show
    First Published: 2015
22. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 53 No. 1 - Winter 2015
    Winter Issue (poetry, book and film reviews, and much more)
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
23. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 53 No. 2 - Spring 2015
    Spring Issue (Canadian and world scene, poetry, book and films reviews, and more)
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
24. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 53 No. 3 - Summer 2015
    Literary/cultural issue (poetry, book and film reviews, and much more)
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. 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.
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. 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.
37. 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.

2014

1. 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?
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Articles and Reviews
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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?
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. The Cat at the Wall
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. Diminishing residential schools abuse?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
25. 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.
26. Eric Marshall laments closure of namesake Fisheries library
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The government seems to be saying 'We want to exploit our natural resources, whether it's natural gas or oil sands, and basically to heck with environmental impacts.'
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. 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.
33. Harvey Murphy
    Reminiscences 1918 - 1943
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Harvey Murphy interviewed by Rolf Knight 1976-1977. Foreword by daughter Mary Murphy.
34. 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.
35. The Hidden Package
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    A Holocaust memoir.
36. 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.
37. 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.
38. 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.
39. 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.
40. 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.
41. 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.
42. Is the Swiss Health Care System a Model for the United States?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
43. The journalists who never sleep
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Automated 'robot writers' could soon be personalising daily data feed.
44. 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?
45. 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.
46. 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.
47. 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.
48. 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.
49. 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.
50. 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.
51. Medical programs for homeless
    Re: Too stigmatized to find a doctor
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Community health centres provide services for homeless.
52. 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?
53. 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.
54. 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.
55. 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.
56. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 52 No. 1 - Jan./Feb. 2014
    Pete Seeger 1919 - 2014
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
57. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 52 No. 2 - Spring 2014
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
58. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 52 No. 3 - Summer 2014
    Summer literary/cultural issue (Poetry, book and film reviews, and much more)
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
59. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 52 No. 4 - Fall 2014
    5775 Happy New Year 2014
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
60. 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.
61. A place in the sun
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    An extract from Laurent Cordonnier's futuristic novel 'La Liquidation.'
62. '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.
63. 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.
64. 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.
65. 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.
66. 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.
67. 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.
68. Reproductive Rights Assaulted in the US
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    This article focuses on the continuing assault on reproductive justice in 2013 in the United States, particularly at the hands of state legislators. Twenty-two states passed 70 new restrictions in 2013, adding to the more than 135 passed in 2011 and 2012. Dominant were restrictions on providers, bans on abortion after 20-22 weeks of pregnancy, and outlawing contraception or abortion coverage in various insurance plans.
69. 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.
70. 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?
71. 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.
72. 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.
73. 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.
74. John Smith
    Life History Fragment
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Recorded on South Pender Island, August 1975 and early 1980. Interviewer Rolf Knight.
75. 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.
76. 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.
77. 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.
78. Ten threats to Americans
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Ten contemporary social, economic and political issues posing threats to American citizens.
79. Ten threats to Europeans
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Ten contemporary social, economic and political issues posing threats to European citizens.
80. 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.
81. 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.
82. 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?
83. 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.
84. 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.
85. 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.
86. 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.
87. 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.
88. 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.
89. 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.

2013

1. 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?
2. Altruism Can Be Contagious
   Contagious Altruism
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   Altruism inspires more altruism, according to many studies.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Are our household appliances getting too complicated?
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   Tom Meltzer explains why function inflation is such a turn-off.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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?
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. Literary lists: Proof of our existence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Katie Kitamura on why novelists are compulsive list-makers.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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?
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. 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.
33. 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.
34. The 'Missing Heritability' of Common Disorders: Should Health Researchers Care?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
35. 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.
36. 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.
37. 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.'
38. 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.
39. Online initiatives abound at the Library of Congress
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Card catalogues vanish from sight at the Library of Congress.
40. 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.
41. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 51 No. 1 - Jan./Feb. 2013
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2013
42. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 51 No. 2 - Mar./Apr. 2013
    International Women's day - March 8, 2013
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2013
43. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 51 No. 3 - May/June 2013
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2013
44. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 51 No. 4 - July/Aug. 2013
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2013
45. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 51 No. 5 - Nov./Dec. 2013
    50 years Anniversary Issue
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2013
46. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 51 No. 5 - Sept./Oct. 2013
    Happy New Year 2013~5774
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2013
47. 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.
48. 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.
49. 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.
50. 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.
51. 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.
52. 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.
53. 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?
54. 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.
55. 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.
56. 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.
57. 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.
58. 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.
59. 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.
60. 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.
61. 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.
62. 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?
63. 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.
64. 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.

2012

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Amazon defenders face death or exile
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   Ordinary Brazilians who report illegal logging face threats to their lives.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Granting No Quarter: A Call for the Disavowal of the Racism and Antisemitism of Gilad Atzmon
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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?
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. 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.
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. Not a Philosophical Atheism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
37. 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.
38. 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.
39. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 50 No. 1 - Jan./Feb. 2012
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2012
40. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 50 No. 3 - May/June 2012
    May Day 2012
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2012
41. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 50 No. 4 - July/August 2012
    Summer Cultural Issue
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2012
42. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 50 No. 5 - Sept./Oct. 2012
    Happy New Year 2012 ~ 5773
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2012
43. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 50 No. 6 - Nov./Dec. 2012
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2012
44. 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.
45. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 29
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
46. 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.
47. 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.
48. Rethinking Marxism - Volume 24, Number 1
    Special issue: Marxism and Nationalism
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2012
49. 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.
50. 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.
51. 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.
52. 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.
53. 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.
54. 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.
55. Sources 69
    The Directory of Experts and Spokespersons - Winter-Spring 2012
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
56. 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.
57. 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.
58. 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.
59. 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.
60. 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.
61. 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.
62. 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.
63. 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.
64. Fred Zierenberg, 1949-2012
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012

2011

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Deadly Secret
   A 1940s whistle-blower uncovers hidden evidence linking asbestos to cancer
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2011
5. Ulli Diemer - Brief Bio
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2011
   Ulli Diemer is a Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
6. '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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. Guided by Voices
    Oral historians are giving a voice to refugees fleeing trauma and persecution in their homelands
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. '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.
20. 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'
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. My politics in brief
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
26. Nation Maker
    Sir John A. Macdonald: His life, Our Times. Volume Two: 1867-1891
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
27. 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.
28. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 49 No. 1 - Jan./Feb. 2011
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2011
29. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 49 No. 2 - Mar./Apr. 2011
    100 Years International Women's Day 1911-2011
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2011
30. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 49 No. 3 - May/June 2011
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    First Published: 2011
31. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 49 No. 4 - July/Aug. 2011
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2011
32. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 49 No. 5 - Sept./Oct. 2011
    Happy New Year 2011 ~ 5772
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2011
33. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 49 No. 6 - Nov./Dec. 2011
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2011
34. Parliamentary Names & Numbers 28
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
35. 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.
36. 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.
37. 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.
38. 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.
39. 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.
40. 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.
41. 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.
42. 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.
43. The school funding debate
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The great divide in public schools reflects the increasing divide in Ontario and Canada.
44. 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.
45. Sources 67
    The Directory of Experts and Spokespersons - Winter-Spring 2011
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
46. Sources 68
    The Directory of Experts and Spokespersons - Summer-Fall 2011
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
47. Tahrir: Shock and awe Mubarak style
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
48. 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.
49. 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.
50. The Toronto Declaration (Toronto Stop the Cuts)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
51. 2011 Spanish protests
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    A series of ongoing demonstrations in Spain.
52. 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.
53. Ulli Diemer - Brief Bio - Japanese text
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
54. 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.
55. 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.
56. 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".
57. 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.
58. 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.
59. 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.
60. 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'.
61. 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.

2010

1. Anarchists Unite with Big Brother Against Reds
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   Campus anarchists support administration censorship of Trotskyist literature.
2. "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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Connexions Library French Title Index
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
6. Connexions Library Persian Title Index
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Diemer, Ulli
    Connexipedia article - Francais
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. The Food Bubble
    How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
15. 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.
16. Glimpses of the Connexions Archive
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
17. Grassroots Naturism
    A guide for the TNS Volunteer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    A primer for the naturist volunteer.
18. The hidden history of Bob Rae's government in Ontario
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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'.
22. 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.
23. 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.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 48 No. 1 - Jan./Feb. 2010
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    First Published: 2010
29. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 48 No. 2 - Mar./Apr. 2010
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2010
30. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 48 No. 3 - May/June 2010
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2010
31. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 48 No. 4 - July/Aug. 2010
    Summer Cultural Issue
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2010
32. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 48 No. 5 - Sept./Oct. 2010
    Happy New Year 2010 ~ 5771
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2010
33. Outlook Canada's Progressive Jewish Magazine - Vol. 48 No. 6 - Nov./Dec. 2010
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2010
34. Pictures of health
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Care-home staff are using books to stimulate those suffering from dementia.
35. 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.
36. 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.
37. 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.
38. Tea Party in the Sonora
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    For the future of Republican governance, look to Arizona.
39. VIP: Very Inventive Procrastinator
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
40. 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.
41. Why illegalism is stupid
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Doing illegal things makes us look like criminals in the minds of most people.