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  1. The Age of Outrage
    Values-based Action and the positive power of public protest
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Based on direct experience and extensive research including law enforcement reports, public opinion surveys, and ongoing scanning and anaylysis of news and Internet sources, this book reveals the six key values-symbols that trigger public fear and create political and corporate change.
  2. The Bomb won't go away on its own
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1982
    Our task is to break out of this closed self-justifying system by depriving governments of the passive populations they need, by refusing to accept the choices we are offered and instead becoming active participants pressuring them to accept our proposals.
  3. Bowling Alone
    The Collapse and Revival of American Community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
  4. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
  5. 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.
  6. Citizens Group Scores Success in Anti-lead Battle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1987
    Through self-education, out-reach, and activism, the Niagara Neighbourhood Lead Committee has successfully worked to reduce lead risks in their neighbourhood and throughout Canada.
  7. A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  8. Citizens Participate - An Action Guide for Public Issues.
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  9. The End of Politics
    Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    From the events of privatization, economic globalization, spread of violence and gun culture, and the end of the cold war, Boggs explores the depoliticization process in the United States.
  10. Fighting Back
    Urban Renewal in Trefann Court
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A detailed report on the conflict between city bureaucrats and residents of Trefann Court, a five-block area just east of downtown Toronto. Bent on tearing down as a step towards urban renewal, the planners and government officials met organized resistance by homeowners, landlords and tenants for over six years.
  11. Global Showdown
    How the New Activists are Fighting Global Corporate Rule
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Documents the new forces of resistance and invitates readers to join the struggle for alternatives.
  12. The History of Democracy 
    A Marxist Interpretation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
  13. Imagine Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. The 1990 Prague Appeal: Let Us Found a Helsinki Citizens Assembly
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    The peaceful transition of Europe is unthinkable without the full observance of all human and civil rights.
  17. Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
  18. Urban Citizen Movements
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Community groups that are often organized around concerns about land use and the way planning decisions are made in local government.
  19. We Make the Road By Walking 
    Conversations on education and social change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Horton, the founder of the Highlander Folk School, and Freire, a Brazilian education leader, are from two different backgrounds, but their shared views on the use of participatory education in bringing about social change are the basis for this thought-provoking book.
  20. 'What can I Do?'
    Citizen Strategies for Nuclear Disarmament
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
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