1. Arundhati Roy on Obama's Wars, India and Why Democracy Is "The Biggest Scam in the World"
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   First Published: 2010
   Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy on President Obama, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, India and Kashmir and much more. Roy also talks about her journey deep into the forests of central India to report on the Maoist insurgency.
2. Bridging the Class Divide and Other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1996   Published: 1997
   A guide to grassroots organizing with a focus on bridging the gap between middle class organizers and affected members of lower class communities.
3. Calling All Radicals 
   How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
4. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
5. Coalitions for Justice
   The Story of Canada's Interchurch Coalitions
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1994
   
6. Committees Of Correspondence: To Defend Freedom And Secure Good Government
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   Two hundred and fifty years ago the people of America were subject to an unrepresentative government controlled by powerful commercial interests. They rebelled and formed their own government, which has now come to be controlled by powerful commercial interests. Once again, "these are the times that try men's souls." What lessons can we learn from history to help us through this crisis?
7. Communication for and Against Democracy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1989
   This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
8. Communities of Resistance
   Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1990
   A series of essays advocating grass roots organisations as the pathway to socialism.
9. Connexions
   Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1981
   
10. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    
11. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
    
12. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
13. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
14. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
15. Dancing with Dynamite
    Social Movements and States in Latin America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    The complex ways in which grassroots movements work for, with, against, and independently of national governments in Latin America.
16. Fake grassroots advocacy part of TransCanada's plan to silence Energy East critics
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Documents show plans to "pressure" pipeline critics by working with third parties and industry-funded grassroots advocacy groups in favour of Energy East.
17. Five Steps from D.C. to Jo'burg
    Against The Current vol. 87
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    1. Take Washington D.C. to Johannesburg. What the youth and other activists in the U.S.A. have done, must be repeated here in South Africa. Of course, it will not be parrot-like, it will have to take into account our specific situation and circumstances. We must target the World Bank and International Monetary Fund as agents of neoliberal economic policy in our country and our region. We must then find issues around which we can organize the people, for example, water, electricity, jobs, etc.
18. Fundraising For Social Change 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    
19. A Ginger Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Grassroots campaigns could break Britain's corrupt political system.
20. Global Thoughts, Local Actions
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1985
    A wealth of information for those seeking ways to link global problems to everyday life.
21. Grassroots Cells, Devil's Architects Defend Communities
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1989
    Organizational principles and campaign tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
22. Grassroots media relations 
    A short introduction to media relations strategies for activist groups
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2017
    A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
23. Grassroots Power vs. Police Brutality
    Against The Current vol. 84
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Widespread police abuse is a long-time, normally mainly secret side of life in capitalist America, especially for minority communities. Now, in a number of cities, outrageous cases of police murders of civilians and grassroots outrage are forcing the issue into the open.
24. Grassroots Power, Women and Transformation: An Interview with George Friday
    Against The Current vol. 85
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    George Friday is an organizer with the Independent Progressive Politics Network (IPPN)—a national network of organizations working to build alternatives to the two-party system. An African-American woman who grew up in the South, George is currently based in Rockwell, North Carolina, and focuses her work in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. She was interviewed by Stephanie Luce from the ATC editorial board.
25. Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
    Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
26. Having the Hard Conversations 
    Jane McAlevey on Fight for 15, labour's crisis of strategy, and the difference between organizing and mobilizing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    An interview with labour organizer Jane McAlevey on labour's crisis of strategy and the difference between organizing and mobilizing. McAlevey discusses what ails the labour movement, problem with the terms "public" and "private" sector, and why we need to stop ignoring the rank-and-file.
27. How Labour's Campaigns Attempted to Make the Political Personal 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The basic techniques of convincing people on the doorstep are not different to those of convincing friends or workmates. However, election canvassers have typically gone door-to-door telling voters what the party's policies are. The British Labour Party's new approach, developed by Momentum, emphasized listening to people and identifying their key issues.
28. How the Rural Poor Got Power: Narrative of a Grassroots Organizer
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    The author's experiences as an activist in rural Minnesota.
29. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
30. It Started in Wisconsin
    Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A collection of accounts of the first great wave of grassroots resistance to the corporate restructuring of the Great Recession in Wisconsin in the spring of 2011.
31. ‘It Was a Remarkably Successful Grassroots Campaign to Target Amazon’s Credibility’
    CounterSpin interview with Neil deMause on Amazon's retreat from New York
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Transcript of interview with Neil deMause about NY's bid for Amazon HQ. Included downloadable MP3 of interview.
32. It's Your Move
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1980
    
33. Killer Coke Exposed
    Against The Current vol. 135
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In their September-October 2006 Against the Current (ATC 124) article “The Real Life Side of Coke,” Camilo Romero and Leslie Gill documented the growing movement of students and labor organizations that developed as a response to calls for international solidarity by victims of torture and intimidation at Coke bottling plants in Colombia starting in the 1990s. Joe Zacune wrote in the same issue about a movement of communities in India fighting to preserve their water and their health from a series of infractions on Coke’s part.
34. Libya
    From Colony to Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Provides the background to the Libyan revolution by discussing its history from colonization up through the 2011 rebellion/foreign intervention that ousted Mu'ammar al-Qadafi.
35. Marxism and the Petition 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Many petitions operate only on the reformist appeal to authority (this is especially true of the many online petitions from sites like Change.org), which fits perfectly within the liberal democratic framework. But the petition can operate on more than one level. Its dual nature means that it is often an indispensable tool in building collective power for more radical ends.
36. The MegaCity Saga
    Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    
37. Michael Berg for U.S. Congress in Delaware: A Voice Against War
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    On June 8 Americans awoke to the news that the U.S. military in Iraq had killed Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, alleged leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. In the midst of press coverage that cravenly accepted government claims that this was, once again, a turning point in the war, one voice in the mass media dramatically countered government claims - that of Michael Berg, Green Party candidate for Delaware's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
38. My Year of Transition
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The year 1968 was a crucial transition for me, from the Black struggle against White Supremacy to the Chicano struggle against White Supremacy. The first struggle began in 1959, when I became involved in the Robert Willliams Defense Committee.
39. My Year of Transition
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The year 1968 was a crucial transition for me, from the Black struggle against White Supremacy to the Chicano struggle against White Supremacy. The first struggle began in 1959, when I became involved in the Robert Willliams Defense Committee.
40. Nader, Greens and Socialists
    Against The Current vol. 91
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    Blaming Ralph Nader for Bush is like blaming the abolitionists for slavery. The Greens ran Nader to end corporate oligarchy, not to support one wing of the oligarchy as a lesser evil against the other wing. Nevertheless, the Democrats, their liberal satellite organizations, and the corporate media are playing the blame game for all it is worth.
41. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
    Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
    
42. Our Generation
    Volume 20 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
43. Quotes about Activism
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    
44. Resisting the Bomb
    A History of World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Describes the gradual development of the worldwide movement for nuclear disarmament and research records from peace groups and government agencies.
45. Rethinking Camelot
    JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
    
46. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
    Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
47. Transition Initiatives Primer
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A comprehensive document about embarking on a transition journey. A Transition Initiative is a community (lots of examples here) working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question: "for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"
48. United in Anger
    A History of ACT UP
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2012
    Examines the birth and life of the AIDS activist movement from the perspective of the people in the trenches fighting the epidemic.
49. The Water Front
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2007
    Follows the heated struggle between residents, water workers and corporate managers in Highland Park, Michigan to spotlight what many of us take for granted - the right to affordable water.
50. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
    
51. Why Consensus Decision-making Won't Work for Grassroots Unionism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Wetzel contrasts consensus decision-making with democratic decision-making to explain why the latter is more suited to activist groups.
52. Wisconsin Uprising
    Labor Fights Back
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A collection of accounts from the early stages of the Wisconsin uprising against the corporate world in the of spring 2011.

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