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  1. Alternate Societies
    A brief survey on intentional community in European history
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1993
    A brief outline of the history of attempts in western society to create living arrangements which would complement, and in some cases further, efforts to become economically independent.
  2. Alternate Society
    Volume 2, Number 2 - November 1969
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1969
  3. Alternate Society
    Volume 2, Number 3 - July 1970
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
  4. Alternate Society
    Volume 3, Number 7 - October - November 1971
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1971
  5. Alternative Toronto: 1980 - 1995 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017   Published: 2018
    A community archive and historical map of Toronto’s alternative cultures, scenes and spaces of the 1980s and early 1990s.
  6. American Commune
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Sisters Rena and Nadine return to The Farm, the legendary hippie commune in Tennessee where they were raised, to tell the story of their alternative family and the rise and fall of America's largest utopian socialist experiment.
  7. Building Economic Alternatives
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    Moffatt outlines many currently practiced methods of creating an alternative economy.
  8. Building Economic Alternatives
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1992
    Moffatt outlines many currently practiced methods of creating an alternative economy.
  9. A Call to Community
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
    A proposed community.
  10. The Case for Grassroots Archives 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
  11. Commune (intentional community)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An intentional community of people living together, sharing common interests, property, possessions, resources, work and income.
  12. Commune (socialism)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Almost universally, communists, left-wing socialists, anarchists and others have seen the Commune as a model for the liberated society that will come after the masses are liberated from capitalism, a society based on participatory democracy from the grass roots up.
  13. Communes in America
    The Place Just Right
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    Traces the history of collective settlements in the United States and compares their organization and purpose with the communes of today.
  14. Communes USA
    A Personal Tour
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    An account of a variety of communes in the United States.
  15. Community
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    The time has come to start a community. The purpose of this article is to explain why and how.
  16. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  17. Dandelion Community
    Organization profile published 1983
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1983
  18. Diggers and Dreamers: The Guide to Communal Living
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
  19. Exploring Alternatives: Free Schools
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
    Since our schools and universities are unwilling to adopt basic, or even moderate, reform, the only way to achieve a worthwhile education is through free schools.
  20. Foundations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    Communes, communism, comradeship -- whatever you wish to call the mood of the young both in and out of communal homes -- will die without an understanding of our foundations, in history, where we have been, where we are going, what we are doing here.
  21. Freedomites
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Freedomites, also called Svobodniki or the Sons of Freedom, first appeared in 1902 in Saskatchewan, Canada, and later in the Kootenay and Boundary districts of British Columbia, as a Doukhobor group.
  22. 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?
  23. Icarians
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A French utopian movement, founded by Étienne Cabet, who led his followers to America where they established a group of egalitarian communes during the period from 1848 through 1898.
  24. Inside Rochdale
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    What Rochdale has done is to provide a meeting ground on which those disenchanted with the running of modern society can attempt to work out an alternative environment.
  25. 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.
  26. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
    Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
  27. Moffatt, Gary
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Canadian anarchist and activist.
  28. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2014
    Killings by Police
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
    Topic of the week is Killings by Police. Articles on the way the Ebola crisis illuminates the moral bankruptcy of capitalism; Responding the capitalist crisis, in 1914 and 2014; Globaling Gaza: Israel's leading role in undemining international law; and Marinaleda, a town in Spain attempting to create alternatives based on democracy, co-operation, and mutual aid. Group of the Week is Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.
  29. Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
    Nineteenth-Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
  30. Steal This Book
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    A guide to fighting government and corporations. The book is divided into three sections, "Survive!", "Fight!" and "Liberate!"
  31. Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
    Original title: History of American Socialisms
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1870   Published: 1966
    Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
  32. Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
    An Open Conspiracy for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
  33. Utopia in the Catskills
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Proyect talks about "Utopia in the Catskills," an article published on July 20, 1947, which is about refugees who wanted to be farmers and made Woodridge, N.Y., into a prosperous farm-resort town with five co-ops.
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