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  1. The Affirmations of Humanism: A Statement of Principles
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
    Principles of secular humanism.
  2. American Power and the New Mandarins
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
  3. Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
    Fredy Perlman tells how encounters with racism in Central Europe, Bolivia and the U.S. heightened his perception and prepared him to denounce "American cheerleaders of Israel." He is astounded that potential victims of Nazi extermination camps can accept, even support, Israeli massacres of Palestinian refugees.
  4. BBC defends reality show involving poor, dubbed 'Hunger Games'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Britain's Hardest Grafter will pit 25 of Britain's lowest-paid workers against each other for cash prize in series it claims is a 'serious social experiment'.
  5. The Body Hunters
    Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients

    Resource Type: Book
    This is a review on the rise of drug companies as well as the difficulties of medical research ethics. Shaw states that companies make more money developing drugs to treat American heatburn than malaria drugs. Attempts to expose drug companies have failed because of litigation. There is no mention of where and what pharmaceuticals test on the "poorest patients". Her recommendation is that medicines should be regarded as "social goods" and as such.
  6. Bound By Power
    Intended Consequences

    Resource Type: Book
    These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
  7. Brandon University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  8. Bringing the Economy Home from the Market
    Resource Type: Book
  9. Can the Sciences Help Us to Make Wise Ethical Judgments?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    Scientific knowledge has a vital, if limited, role to play in shaping our moral values and helping us to frame wiser judgments. Ethical values are natural and open to examination in the light of evidence and reason.
  10. Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  11. Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  12. Canadian Franchise Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  13. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  14. Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  15. The Careerists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colourless human beings.
  16. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Website
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  17. CMA Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  18. Confronting Injustice
    Social Activism in the Age of Individualism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2016
    Confronting Injustice is a call for collective action against the social causes of poverty and climate change, written by a socialist organizer for activists.
  19. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  20. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  21. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  22. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  23. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  24. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  25. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  26. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  27. The Ecology of Freedom
    The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
  28. Election Campaigns: Professionalism and Integrity or Pot-shots and Personal Attacks?
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Mayoralty candidates in the Ottawa election campaign will choose how they present their platforms and themselves. Is the strategy of personal attacks and nastiness working? What does it imply for the leader of the next council?
  29. Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
    Resource Type: Book
  30. Encyclopedia of Bioethics
    Resource Type: Book
  31. Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom, Brussels Declaration
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Brussels Declaraton on Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom.
  32. Fair Trade gold mining in the highlands of Peru
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Most gold mining in Peru causes serious environmental damage, but there is one exception - a Fair Trade certified mine close to the world-famous Nazca Lines. Now it's up to us to demand Fair Trade gold from the jewellery trade, rewarding responsible producers and expanding the market for new Fair Trade gold miners.
  33. Feminist Issues In Prostitution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
    The flawed reasoning behind the opposition to prostitution by (radical) feminists.
  34. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
  35. Golden Rule Chronology
    Resource Type: Article
    This chronology gives some important events about the golden rule ("Treat others as you want to be treated").
  36. How green are your ethics?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    The assumption that underlies much of the discussion on carbon neutrality is that any activity that emits CO2 - and that means virtually every human activity - is something to apologise for. All human activities must be judged by their carbon content, and the morality of an action gauged principally by its carbon count. Carbon calculators have become the moral barometers of our age.
  37. How Photography Can Destroy Reality
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    It may be that some of the great philosophical work of our time is taking place, hidden and unheralded, in the field of image forensics. Where but under the scrutiny of digital experts who draw a line separating false representations of the world from truthful ones are contemporary questions of perception and reality brought so keenly to bear? Who but these detectives of the real pursue as explicitly-- as intricately-- our crime wave of the fake, the contrived, the uncanny, the exponential image?
  38. Human Resources Professionals Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  39. I Love Sources! It's an Exceptional Resource
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
  40. IFJ Conference: Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    What is women's representation in the news management? How do women journalists make their way in today's media changes? What role can journalists unions play in promoting gender equality? How can media strengthen gender portrayal in the news?
  41. IFJ Launches Website to Promote Ethical Journalism Initiative Campaign
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today launched a new website to promote its Ethical Journalism Initiative (EJI) Campaign about making core values of journalism an integral part in today's media worldwide.
  42. An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
  43. Is Feminist Ethics Possible?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  44. Journalism: Truth or Dare?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the criticism thrown at journalism today by all sectors of society.
  45. Lincoln's Virtues
    An Ethical Biography

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    Miller traces the moral development of Abraham Lincoln.
  46. Man for Himself
    An Inguiry into the Psychology of Ethics

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Fromm reaffirms the validity of humanistic ethics, to show that our knowledge of human nature does not lead to ethical relativism but, on the contrary, to the conviction that the sources of norms for ethical conduct are to found found in human nature itself.
  47. Man's Search for Himself
    How we can find a centre of strength within ourselves

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    May examines the nueroses affliciting modern men and women in the age of anxiety.
  48. Margaret Somerville's yucky logic
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    This past week, on the twentieth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Morgentaler decision invalidating the existing abortion law, Dr. Somerville has offered up her thoughts on abortion, which she also opposes. Dr. Somerville claims that the 'yuck reaction' some people feel when contemplating abortion is evidence that abortion violates our innate "moral instinct".
  49. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  50. The Modern Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
  51. Morals and the Media
    Ethics in Canadian Journalism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Russell focuses on the fundamental moral questions and ethical dilemmas faced by journalists and discusses how the media both reflect and influence society.
  52. The Most Moral Army?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    War is the realm of killing and destroying. How is it possible to talk about a law of war when war itself breaks all laws? An army that trains its soldiers to kill, how can it demand from them to show mercy?
  53. Nature Heals
    The Psychological Essays of Paul Goodman

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
    Adolescent sexuality, the nature of aggression, ethics, Freud, the psychology of artists, Reich, homosexuality -- large, important, and controversial issues like these fascinated Paul Goodman, and in these essays he writes about them as if he absolutely had to, as if nothing were more important than the subject at hand.
  54. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 5, 2016
    International Women's Day

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    In this issue of Other Voices, we mark International Women's Day. An article written by Alexandra Kollontai in 1920 talks about the early history of this event, which grew out of a proposal put forward by Clara Zetkin at the 1910 International Conference of Working Women. A key focus at that time was winning the vote for women, with the slogan "The vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism". The link between women's rights and socialism became even clearer a few years later, in 1917, when a Women's Day march in St. Petersburg turned into a revolutionary uprising which led to the overthrow of the Czar and the Russian Revolution.
  55. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
    Secrecy and Power

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
  56. Passionate Declarations
    Essays on War and Justice

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Essays looking at American political ideology.
  57. Paying for It
    A Guide by Sex Workers for their Clients

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    A book of advice for sex work customers, written by sex workers and former sex workers, about how to treat sex workers so they like you more and give you better service.
  58. The Phenomenology of Mind
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1807
    The birthplace and essence of Hegel's dialectic.
  59. Philosophy & Ethics Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
    Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources

    Resource Type: Website
    A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to philosophy and ethics in the Sources directory for the media.
  60. The Philosophy of Social Ecology
    Essays on Dialectical Naturalism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Bookchin addresses questions such as 'What is nature?", "What is humanity's place in nature?", "What is the relationship of society to the natural world?"
  61. Population Growth, Resource Consumption, and the Environment
    Seeking a Common Vision for a Troubled World

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    This work looks at the problem of overpoplulation and the environment.
  62. Preservation or plunder? The battle over the British Museum's Indigenous Australian show
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Indigenous Australians are calling for the objects on show at the British Museum's new exhibition to be returned.
  63. Principles of Nuremberg
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1950
  64. Private Profits vs Public Policy
    The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Canadian State

    Resource Type: Book
    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."
  65. Psychologists' Collusion in Ongoing Illegal Detentions
    The Status Quo of Torture

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
  66. Questions for the APA Board Regarding Claims in James Risen's Book "Pay Any Price"
    Colluding With the CIA on Torture?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    In his new book Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, James Risen, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter, documents apparent collaboration between (American Psychological Association) APA leadership and the CIA to support psychologist participation in torture.
  67. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2006
  68. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2008
  69. Responsibility and Judgment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
  70. The Responsibility of Intellectuals
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1967
    It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and to expose lies.
  71. Rethinking The Idea Of 'Christian Europe'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Looking to the traditional, moral and identity platform of Christianity in Europe.
  72. Revealed: Pentagon's link to Iraqi torture centres
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents.
  73. Sex and Ethics
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1963
    In America, as it is at present, most behavior -- and this is not only in sexual matters -- has nothing to do with what one is or would normally desire or naturally desire, but what is pected of one or in order to provide something which has got nothing to do with the functioning of it.
  74. Simon Fraser University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  75. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  76. The Socialist Register 1989
    Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  77. Sources welcomes the Canadian Council on Animal Care
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The Canadian Council on Animal Care oversees the ethical care and use of animals in science across Canada through the work of veterinarians, scientists and the public.
  78. States of Denial
    Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  79. Strictly Legal
    The Caronia Decision and a Culture of Mercantile Nihilism

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The Caronia decision reveals an injustice system whose function is to provide legal cover for the excesses of the corporate elite. Caronia is a wake-up moment, announcing that the institutions and the philosophy that sustains it are broken, maybe beyond repair, and must be replaced now, while we’re still standing, by new social forms imbued with sane and humane values.
  80. Superunknown: Scientific Integrity Within the Academic and Media Industrial Complexes
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Mattis provides an analysis of the competing priorities of scientists, funders and the media that together, create a perfect storm of "unscientific science".
  81. Theory and Practice of Counselling and Psychotherapy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  82. Unequal Freedoms
    The Global Market as an Ethical System

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    McMurtry's central argument in this work is the global market can be an ethical thing if a civil commons is put into place. The civil commons is a economic system in which individuals, not a handful of corporations, take part in a equal opporutinity framework of supply and demand.
  83. The Ursula Franklin Reader
    Pacifism as a Map

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A prominent Canadian peace activist discusses peace, technology, justice and women's issues in a collection of essays, speeches and unpublished musings.
  84. What can you do if you feel your employers request is illegal, immoral , contrary to your conscience or religious beliefs
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Employment Lawyer Shelley Brown outlines what can you do if you feel your employers request is illegal, immoral, contrary to your conscience or religious belief.
  85. Wilfrid Laurier University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization


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