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  1. An Action a Day
    Keeps Global Capitalism Away
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
  2. The Activist Cookbook 
    A Hands-on Manual for Organizers, Artists and Educators who want to get their message across in powerful, creative ways
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997   Published: 1999
    Spicy recipes for fighting economic injustice.
  3. The Activists' Handbook
    A Step-by-Step Guide to Participatory Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    A guide to grassroots activism.
  4. Ah-Hah! 
    A New Approach to Popular Education
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    AH-HAH seminars are designed to organize groups of comman interests, especially workers, to come to a common understanding.
  5. Another world is possible if... 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
  6. Beating Back the Corporate Attack 
    Socialism and the struggle for global justice
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
  7. Build It Now
    Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
  8. 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.
  9. Changing The Cogs
    Activists and the Politics of Technology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    What are the best ways to achieve beneficial change in society? Will widespread use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources bring about a good society? What technologies will be promoted by vested interests in government and big business?
  10. Children and Peacemaking
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A guide for parents and teachers interested in cultivating a peacemaking approach in children. Provides references to resources for children, parents and teachers to help develop a constructive attitude to societal problems.
  11. Choices
    A Family Global Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Choices is aimed particularly at parents who want to instil social awareness in their children, and who are looking for ideas, activities, and ways of initiating discussion.
  12. Citizens Participate - An Action Guide for Public Issues.
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  13. Community Workshops for the Environment
    An Organizer's Manual
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A guide to organizing ecology workshops.
  14. Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
  15. Critical Paths
    Organizing on health Issues in the community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  16. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
  17. Ecodefence: Disrupting Illegal Activities
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1985
    What to do when you witness environmental crimes.
  18. Ecodefense
    A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. Second Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985   Published: 1987
  19. Educating for a Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a truly participatory society. The books offers theory and practical tools for consciously applying the principles of democratic practice to daily work.
  20. Fighting for Hope 
    Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
  21. 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.
  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. The Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression - Review
    A report on Britain's Government Machine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1989
    Organizational tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
  24. The Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression.
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  25. How People Get Power
    Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
  26. How to Make Meetings Work
    The New Interaction Method
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
  27. How to Save the World
    Strategy for World Conservation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    "How To Save The World" discusses, "Why the world needs saving now and how it can be done". Allen breaks his work down into seven chapters, devoting each to an important aspect of the global predicament. Securing the food supply, saving forests, preserving wildlife and presenting a strategy for conservation are all discussed as methods to improve the relationship between mankind and nature.
  28. In Our Backyard
    A Greater Vancouver Environmental Guide...
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    In Our Backyard focuses on environmental problems that apply directly to Greater Vancouver. With detials on local garbage and recylcing facilities, water and energy consumption, sewage disposal, air quality, and more, it is designed to help ordinary people deal with the onslaught of information and value changes that will continue to surround the environmental movement.
  29. Managing Wastes
    A Guide to Citizens' Involvement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985   Published: 1992
    Second editon of booklet first published in 1984, outling how citizens can involve themselves in decision-making about waste management.
  30. Manual for Amnesty International, Canadian Section Members & Groups
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    The Canadian appendix of the Amnesty International manual.
  31. A Manual for Group Facilitators
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
  32. A Manual for Tenant Organizers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    This manual examines the problems of evictions, rent increases, reduction of services and lack of repairs encountered by Montrealers and provides information on possible recourses and action.
  33. A Manual on Nonviolence and Children
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977   Published: 1984
    The authors felt that an important way of building a peaceful world would be to develop a program for young children. It would help children and their caregivers develop non-violent attitudes and skills.
  34. Media Names & Numbers
    Your Connection to the Media
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000   Published: 2009
    A comprehensive directory of the Canadian news media, including television and radio stations and programs, daily, weekly, ethnic and campus newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and academic journals. Media Names & Numbers is indexed by subject, and is available in print and electronic formats. An annual subscription includes a print directory and access to the continuously updated online version.
  35. Money isn't Everything
    A Survival Manual for Non-Profit Organizations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    Addresses the problems affecting non-profit groups today, providing examples and practical solutions.
  36. Naming the Moment
    Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
  37. A New Weave
    Popular Education in Canada and Central America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1987
    A resource for educators working for social change in community groups, trade unions, churches, the peace movement, women's groups, international development organizations, Central America and other solidarity networks.
  38. A New Weave
    Popular Education in Canada and Central America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    A resource for educators working for social change in community groups, trade unions, churches, the peace movement, women's groups, international development organizations, Central American and other solidarity networks.
  39. Organising at work - some basic principles
    A list of what successful organisers say are the most important principles to remember
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Organising begins when people question authority. Someone asks, "What are they doing to us? Why are they doing it? Is it right?" Encourage people to ask, "Who is making the decisions, who is being forced to live with the decisions, and why should that be so?" People should not accept a rule or an answer simply because it comes from the authorities, whether that authority be the government, the boss, the union - or you. An effective organiser encourages their fellow workers to think for themselves.
  40. Organising at work - the basics
    A basic introduction on why we should organise at work, and a few tips on how to get started.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Almost everyone in this society is underpaid and over-worked. Many temps, contract and casual workers have very few rights, and permanent workers are still always under the threat of redundancy. Many people are massively exploited and ill-treated, and in Britain over 20,000 people are killed at or by their work each year*. Millions more suffer stress, depression, anxiety and are injured.
  41. Organising your workplace - getting started 
    You're working, or just started work somewhere where there is no active collective workers' organisation. What can you do to get organised?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Nowadays many workplaces have no active workers' organisation. Depending on whereabouts you are in the world and what sector you work in there may or may not be much of a trade union presence. And even if there is it may just be a skeleton organisation which only represents workers with individual problems, and is unable to win demands of management. Or worse, it could be actively in cahoots with management against the workers.
  42. The Organizer's Manual
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    Practical suggestions for small-group and grassroots organizing, political self-e4ducation, mass education and communications, alternate community services, mass actions, legal and medical self-defense. Strategies for organizing high schools, universities, racial groups, women, the military, labor, the professions.
  43. Peacemaking in Your Neighbourhood
    Reflections on an Experiment in Community Mediation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Describes ten years of work of the Community Dispute Settlement Program, an innovative program in a suburban area near Philadelphia, founded by the Society of Friends (Quakers). The program set out to try to help solve community disputes using the guidelines of nonviolence, alternatives, and empowerment.
  44. Pragmatics of Community Organization
    First Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization.
  45. Public Consultation: A Citizens Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A publication created to help you consult effectively; decide what you expect and want from any public consultation process; decide when to say no.
  46. Resource Manual for A Living Revolution 
    A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977   Published: 1985
    A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
  47. Reveille for Radicals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1969
    Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
  48. Rules for Radicals 
    A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    Alinsky's Rules for Radicals provides perspectives, principles and lessons for realistic radical organizers.
  49. Starting a Worker Co-operative
    An Introduction
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  50. Starting A Worker Co-operative: An Introduction
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  51. A Troublemaker's Handbook 
    How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 2005
    An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
  52. A Troublemaker's Handbook 2 
    Resource Type: Book
    A manual for workers who want to take control over their lives at work. In hundreds of first-person accounts, workers tell in their own words how they organized and struggled to do that.
  53. 'What can I Do?'
    Citizen Strategies for Nuclear Disarmament
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  54. Working Collectively
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1985
    A handbook for people wishing to form collectives, or established collectives seeking solutions to problems such as power imbalances, conflict meditation, and setting priorities.
  55. Working for Peace
    A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    A survey of the attitudes and tools that can be used in working for peace.
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