1. Milton-Born-with-a-Tooth
   Connexipedia article
   Resource Type: Article
   Milton Born-With-A-Tooth is a Peigan-Blackfoot political activist.
2. Borneo's Killer Dams
   Mega-Dams in Sarawak Threaten Indigenous Tribes with Ethnocide
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   Sarawak, Malaysia, is home to thousands of endemic species, forty indigenous groups, and one of the largest transboundary rainforests remaining in the world. The state is also suffering from one of the world's highest rates of deforestation; only 5% of its primary forests remain. Now, Sarawak's forests and their inhabitants face another threat: the damming of its rivers for hydroelectric power.
3. Cambodia: indigenous protests repel dam builders - so far
   We don't need any compensation because we are staying here on the lands of our ancestors. Our children will never forgive us if we move.
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   Since the 1980s Cambodia has lost 84% of its primary forests, and the remote Cardamom mountains are the country's last great natural treasure. Just the place for grandiose dam projects? 'No way!" say indigenous people and young eco-activists.
4. The Canadian Environmental Education Catalogue
   A Guide to Selected Resources
   Resource Type: Article
   
5. Civil Society in Question 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1999
   Civil Society ranks as flavour of the month among community volunteers, academics and policy makers. Many view it as a key concept in the struggle against poverty and for social justice and democracy. Is civil society anything more than a projection of our desires, a chameleon concept that can mean all things to all people? Does it risk being co-opted beyond recognition and usefulness?
6. Connexions
   Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1979
   
7. Connexions
   Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1982
   
8. 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
   
9. Connexions
   Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1987
   
10. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
    
11. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
12. The Cost of Living 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Roy takes on two of the great illusions of India's progress: the massive dam projects that have displaced millions, and the development of India's nuclear weapons. Roy peels away the mask of democracy and prosperity to show the true costs hidden beneath.
13. Dam it all: More than half of the world's long rivers are blocked by infrastucture
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    But with the increasing demand for more water, energy generation, and flood management, the construction of dams, levees, reservoirs, and other river-obstructive infrastructures is becoming ubiquitous.
14. Dam the Rivers, Damn the People
    Development and Resistance in Amazonian Brazil
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Cummings describes Amazonia as a colony whose resources are exploited by and 'exported' to the country's industrial south. As a result of the encroachment on their rainforest land, the peoples of Amazonia, particularly the Amazonia Indians, have suffered death, displacement, loss of self-sufficiency and exposure to disease.
15. Damming Magdalena: Emgesa Threatens Colombian Communities
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Local people protest a project that attacks the region's biodiversity and communities.
16. Dams and the Green New Deal: Why the Silence?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the backup for energy if it proves impossible to get off of fossil fuels fast enough.
17. Defending the Oldman River
    A conversation with Milton-Born-With-A-Tooth
    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1992
    An interview with Milton-Born-With-A-Tooth about the struggle to defend the Oldman River in Alberta.
18. Do or Die: The people versus development in the Narmada Valley
    New Internationalist July 2001 - #336
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    A look at the case the Supreme Court of India against The People regarding the Narmada Dam.
19. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
20. Environmental Impacts of Dams
    Resource Type: Article
    The environmental consequences of large dams are numerous and varied, and includes direct impacts to the biological, chemical and physical properties of rivers and riparian (or "stream-side") environments.
21. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
22. From Ecological Disaster to Constitutional Crisis
    The Long Struggle Over the Xingú Dams Comes to a Climax at Belo Monte
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The master plan for damming the Amazon river system, which includes Belo Monte and the Xingú dams, was originally created in the 1970s by the military dictatorship then in power. It essentially treats the Amazon as a reservoir of natural resources to be extracted without regard for the destruction of its riverine and forest environment or the displacement and pauperization of its indigenous and local Brazilian inhabitants.
23. The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Entries on indigenous peoples from around the globe, focusing on three main areas: their way of life, the present crisis, and the future.
24. In Brazil, thousands of people are still living under the threat of bursting mining dams
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is home to several large dams many of which have burst causing death and environment damage. There is evidence that some of these disasters were predictable.
25. The Inter-Church Task Force on the Churchill River Diversion
    Organization profile published 1976
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1976
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
    Task Force formed to assist the Northern Flood Committee.
26. James Bay Development Will Cause Cultural Genocide, Cree Chief Says
    Resource Type: Article
    Quebec's James Bay hydroelectric plant construction could be disastrous for the Cree.
27. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2015
    SYRIZA
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This week we're featuring the 40-point program which SYRIZA, the Greek coalition of the radical left, put forward to win the Greek election. Oliver Tickell writes about the mass media's latest campaign of pro-war propaganda, this time revolving around supposed "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, while Paul Edwards looks at another form of war propaganda, Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper'. The Topic of the Week is Water Rights. Related items include the film "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," the featured website International Rivers, and articles on water-related struggles, past and present, including articles on the Walkerton water disaster and the Cochabamba water war.
28. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016
    Forests and trees
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-making, or obstacles in the way of 'development.' In this issue, we look at some of the threats to forests worldwide, and the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
29. Paddle River Agricultural Protection Society
    Organization profile published 1979
    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1979
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
    Paddle River Agricultural Protection Society (PRAPS) s a community organization of both small town residents and local farmers - dairy, mixed and grain - fighting the Paddle River Dam proposals.
30. Problems With Big Dams
    Resource Type: Article
    The world's large dams have wiped out species; flooded huge areas of wetlands, forests and farmlands; and displaced tens of millions of people.
31. Rafferty-Alameda: The American Connection
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    The Rafferty, along with the Oldman River Dam under construction in Alberta, only make sense as part of a water diversion to the United States. Because 90 per cent of Canadians, according to federal government study, are opposed to the export of Canadian water, this aspect of the project has not been made public and the Devine government is using the front of a purely localized development to "save" precious water for the dry prairies.
32. Synthesis: A review of events reported in the Canadian press
    Volume V Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    Synthesis is the journal of the Canadian News Synthesis Project. Previously known as the Canadian News Synthesis Project (1974 - 1976), Synthesis analyzes and presents current news coverage of the most important economic, political and cultural forces in Canadian Society, using major newspapers from across the country.
    February 1977 issue.
33. Tear Down the Dam; Restore the Commons
    Temacapulin Fights for Its Survival
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Over 47,000 large dams around the world have displaced some 40,000,000 people. The World Bank has invested more than $60 billion in 600 dams.
34. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
    

Experts on Barrages in the Sources Directory

1. World Bank