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Citizen Involvement AlterLinks Topic Index The Bomb won't go away on its own Resource Type: Article 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. Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival of American Community Resource Type: Book 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. Canadian Ethnocultural Council Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization Canadian Information Sharing Service Volume 1, Number 3 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1976 Canadian Institute of Planners Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization The Case for Grassroots Archives Resource Type: Article 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. Citizens Group Scores Success in Anti-lead Battle Resource Type: Article 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. A Citizen's Guide to City Politics Resource Type: Book Published: 1972 Citizens Participate - An Action Guide for Public Issues. Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 Connexions Archive seeks a new home Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home. Fighting Back Urban Renewal in Trefann Court Resource Type: Book 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. Good Accounting is M.I.A City budget system is obsolete: daycare is as much a capital item as bridges Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 The author calls on Toronto's city hall to recognize that environmental and social programs are a kind of infrastructure in that they create stakeholders in the community. He advocates that the municipal budget treat these as such and consider them an investment rather than an expenditure. The History of Democracy A Marxist Interpretation Resource Type: Book 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. Imagine Democracy Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 Rebick calls for the transformation of fundamental institutions in Canada: the economy, the media and the electoral system. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding? Sources News Release Resource Type: Article 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. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future? Resource Type: Article 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. The 1990 Prague Appeal: Let Us Found a Helsinki Citizens Assembly Resource Type: Article Published: 1990 The peaceful transition of Europe is unthinkable without the full observance of all human and civil rights. Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning. 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. 'What can I Do?' Citizen Strategies for Nuclear Disarmament Resource Type: Book Published: 1987

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