- Amid the Tumult in Durham
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Peter Gilbert (a rights attorney) and his wife Elena Everett,a non-profit organizer, had their house searched by Sheriff's officers in Durham when nobody was at home. It had to do with a demonstration of some 200 on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017.
- Australian government orders ASIO raids to suppress East Timor spying evidence
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The Abbott governmen ordered Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and Australian Federal Police (AFP) raids on the homes and offices of a lawyer and former intelligence agency whistleblower involved in an international legal challenge to Australia’s spying on the East Timor government during maritime border talks in 2004.
- #BrusselsLockdown - When a hashtag is hijacked
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
When police in Belgium asked Brussels locals to stop tweeting about police activities, they accidentally started a grassroots campaign that ended up destroying a hashtag. The culprit: cat pictures.
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- "Do Not Resist": The Police Militarization Documentary Everyone Should See
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
On a sunny afternoon last summer, Craig Atkinson, a New York City-based filmmaker, stood in a front yard in South Carolina surrounded by several heavily armed police officers. Inside, they found a terrified family of four, including an infant. As the family members were pulled outside, Atkinson's camera captured a scene that plays out with startling regularity in cities and towns across the country, one of many included in his new documentary, "Do Not Resist," an examination of police militarization in the United States.
- Drug War Winners and Losers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A review of Dawn Paley's book "Drug War Capitalism."
- Flaunting It!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
- Handcuffed and herded
My big Alpine adventure with Switzerland's police
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
A journalist at the World Economic Forum Summit is detained and intimidated along with protestors by Swiss police.
- Know Your Rights!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Your computer, your phone, and your other digital devices hold vast amounts of personal information about you and your family. This is sensitive data that's worth protecting from prying eyes - including those of the government.
- Long Way From Home
The story of the Sixties generation in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circumstances.
- Madrid barrio expels 'racist' police patrols
Jeering crowds chase away officers who try to detain immigrants
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Community protests police practice of racial profiling: the protests have been dubbed the "indignant" movement.
- Mayhem, Murder and Manipulation - Mexico in Turmoil
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Mexican police attacked activists and residents in the town of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico in early May, killing one, injuring scores, and jailing over 200. The police attack on Atenco followed a violent police assault on striking steelworkers in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán that left two dead and several severely injured. Local residents believe that the Fox government was taking revenge on Atenco activists for their success four years ago in blocking the construction of a new airport.
- New Zealand journalist harassed by police to name sources
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate the EPMU New Zealand in criticising the police harassment of an investigative journalist Nicky Hager and has called on police to abandon their harassment and investigation
- The 1981 Bathhouse Raids
Resource Type: Article
The protests after the bathouse raids had a galvanizing effect on gay Toronto --- our first realization of the power we actually held, and the beginnings of the explosive growth of the community.
- Palmer Raids
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The Palmer Raids were a series of raids by the United States Department of Justice intended to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the Red Scare, the term given to fear of and reaction against communist radicals in the U.S.
- Police raid silences Chiapas community radio station
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Police and judicial authorities in the southeastern state of Chiapas must explain a raid on Radio Proletaria, a community radio station in the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, in which arrests were made and the station was summarily dismantled.
- Police Raid Zunar's Office and Confiscate Books
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Malaysian cartoonist Zunar, on a speaking tour in England, got word in the early hours of Wednesday, January 28, that his office in Kuala Lumpur was being raided by police.
- Press Conference: First Hand Accounts of Mass Arrests and Intimidation in Toronto
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The Alternative Media Centre, Toronto Community Mobilization Network and Movement Defence Committee will hold a joint press conference to present first hand accounts of the events that have been taking place in recent hours.
- Queer Progress
From Homophobia to Homonationalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
- Raising the Workers' Flag
The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
- Rochdale
The Runaway Collage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Toronto's Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbpl of the flower-child Sixties, a financial and social controversy. Sharpe tells the story of the college's seven-year rise and fall.
- Seeds of Fire - January 2
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- The Sixties
Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- Social Movements/Social Change
The Politics and Practice of Organizing - Socialist Studies 4
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
This collection of essays covers movements related to labour, ecology, childcare, peace, disability, gay rights, and access to abortion.
- Stonewall riots
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
- Toronto's Finest
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1981
Too many cops seem to enjoy intimidating people and smashing things.
- Why I Represent the New Orleans Immigrant Workers Who Committed Civil Disobedience
An Honor to Defend Them
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
In the thirty six-years I have been a lawyer, I have seen many people take brave moral actions. I have represented hundreds in Louisiana and across our country who have been arrested for protesting for peace, civil rights, economic justice, and human rights for all. It is amazing to see people put their freedom on the line when they risk jail for justice.
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