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  1. An Action a Day
    Keeps Global Capitalism Away

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
  2. Asian American Activism Stirring
    Against The Current vol. 91

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    For a brief but wonderful moment in 2000, the Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke Presidential campaign drew widespread public attention to its central theme of restoring democracy by challenging corporate power. Speaking to thousands of supporters at “super rallies” and millions of television viewers, Nader hammered home the three general points that corporate power has:
  3. The Battle of the Titans
    Who is Pulling the Strings?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    This is not merely a fight between Israel and the US. Nor is it only a fight between the White House and Congress. It is also a battle between intellectual titans. Intellectual theories can seldom be put to a laboratory test. But this one can. It is happening now. Between Israel and the US a crisis has developed, and it has come into the open.
  4. The Brussels lobbyists
    Major firms seek to influence EU laws for thire own advantage long before they reach the European Parlament

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A look at the lobbyists who target the bureaucrats who control research budgets and make decisions for the EU's technical agencies.
  5. Cascadia Rising to Save the Forest
    Against The Current vol. 110

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Protests in nine cities across California, Oregon and Washington took place February 23rd, coordinated by the Cascadia Rising Project, in response to the Bush Administration's removal of protections on federal lands for over 100 rare and uncommon species associated with the old growth forests of the Pacific Northwest.
  6. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
  7. The Corporate Consensus
    A Guide to the Institutions of Global Power

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    A detailed guide to the institutions and corporations which occupy the commanding heights of corporate power in the world today.
  8. The Corporate Web
    Resource Type: Website
    Information about the corporations which make political contributions to, and benefit from, the Harris Conservative government in Ontario.
  9. Democracy for the Few 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
  10. The Empire God Built
    Inside Pat Robertson's media machine

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
  11. Fight to Defend Trans Fats Funded With Dark Money
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A conservative Washington think tank that opposed a federal ban of trans fats has also actively campaigned against climate science and environmental regulation, and is funded by secret donors.
  12. Follow the Money, Part 5 - The Tobacco Papers Revisited
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Michael Walker, former executive director of the Fraser Institute, long denied that institute directors — the people who fund the institute’s work — can tell researchers what to do.
    According to this rosy view of the think tank’s mission, Big Oil directors from Calgary, for instance, don’t tell Fraser Institute researcher Kenneth Green to produce studies denying global warming or proving that the Keystone and Northern Gateway pipelines are crucial for Canada’s economic survival. Green does these on his own because that’s what his research indicates.
  13. Follow the Money, Part 6 - Obesity: A new role for second-hand-smoke-causes-cancer deniers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The tobacco industry has shifted its doubt-manufacturing operations to countries like Russia, Indonesia and China, where the incidence of smoking — and cancer — continues to rise. But other industries with deep pockets need to manufacture doubt about the health risks of their products.
  14. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
  15. Gute Argumente: Verkehr
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Informiert anschaulich and sachlich über die Grundlagen des Verkehrssystems, über the Hintergründe der auto-orientierten Gesleeschaft und uber unweltschonende und wirtschaflich vorteilhafte Alternativen.
  16. Helping you reach the media 
    How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
  17. Here's how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP bill
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Documenting the corruption of the U.S. political system.
  18. How Private Prisons Game the Immigration System
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    With huge profits at stake, CCA and the Geo Group are pushing discreetly for enforcement-heavy immigration reform.
  19. How to Lobby Like a Pro
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    To reach government with your message you need to lobby like the professionals do.
  20. The Israel Lobby and the Left: Uneasy Questions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
  21. Lobbying, Capitalism And The State
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Lobbies pose a threat to a modern democracy and alienate the majority of the people outside the services of lobbyists who have become a fixture in politics.
  22. Lobbying for Your Cause
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
  23. Lobbyists for the havens: ICIJ's guide to the offshore system's defenders
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Across the world, tax havens are under attack. Leading global organizations like the G20 and OECD have put cracking down on offshore tax avoidance at the top of their agendas. Ambitious plans for automatic sharing of tax data between countries are in the works.
  24. Organising Things
    A Guide to Successful Political Action

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    A comprehensive guide to practical political action, packed with information and handy checklists.
  25. Parliamentary Names & Numbers Online
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Lists all federal Members of Parliament and Senators, all provincial legislators, federal ministries, federal agencies and Crown corporations, Canadian embassies abroad, provincial and territorial ministries, direct phone and fax numbers, E-mail addresses, World Wide Web addresses, all indexed by subject. Available in print and online at $75/year.
  26. The Polluters
    The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    Provides an account of the American chemical industry and its effect on the environment.
  27. The Power of the Israel Lobby
    Two knights and a dragon

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
  28. Pressure Group
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    An organization formed by like-minded people who seek to influence public policy to promote an interest.
  29. Private Profits vs Public Policy
    The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian State

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    According to Joel Lexchin, "Given the central role that medicines play in keeping us healthy, it is essential that we understand the policy environment that governs drug development, from the initial basic research to the sale of the manufactured produces to the patients that use them."
  30. Pro-Israel Group's Money Trail Veers Hard Right
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    An IPS investigation into the tax records of the donors to StandWithUs, which professes to be ideologically neutral, found a web of funders who support organisations that have been accused of anti-Muslim propaganda and encouraging a militant Israeli and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
  31. The Profits of War: Planning to Bomb Iran
    Against The Current vol. 125

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    It is no longer a secret that the Bush administration has been methodically paving the way toward a bombing strike against Iran. The administration’s plans of an aerial military attack against that country have recently been exposed by a number of reliable sources.
  32. PublicitySources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring publicity and PR resources, including 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.
  33. The Socialist Register 1987
    Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  34. Sources.com 
    Portal for Journalists and Writers - The directory for reporters, writers, editors and researchers

    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1977   Published: 2009
    Sources is an information portal for journalists, freelance writers, news editors, authors, researchers and journalism students -- and a resource for organizations, institutions, businesses, and individuals who want to get media coverage of their expertise and their views on newsworthy topics.
    Journalists: Use Sources to find experts, media contacts, spokespersons, scientists, lobbyists, officials, speakers, university professors, researchers, newsmakers, CEOs, executive directors, media relations contacts, spokespeople, talk show guests, PR representatives, Canadian sources, story ideas, research studies, databases, universities, colleges, associations, businesses, government, research institutions, lobby groups, non-government organizations (NGOs), in Canada and internationally.
    Newsmakers: Use Sources to raise your profile and get media coverage. Sources is a powerful tool which complements and magnifies your other efforts to publicize yourself. See www.sources.com/Profile.htm, fill out the membership form, or call 416-964-7799.
  35. The Sources HotLink 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1996   Published: 2009
    A website and newsletter dealing with media relations strategies.
  36. The Write Stuff
    All you ever wanted to know about letter writing

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    The basics to effective letter writing lies in a little research on the writer's part and their ability to point out weakness in their targets.

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