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- 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.
- 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 Participate - An Action Guide for Public Issues.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Inclusion or exclusion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
- 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.
- John Kerry and Me
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Experiences in community organizing and electoral organizing.
- 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.
- Media obsession over young voters' apathy reflect neediness and self-absorption that make teenagers such exhausting company
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Coverage of voter apathy among teens reveals the Canadian media's advertiser driven content and desire to gain circulation in a desirable age bracket rather than a sincere desire to affect change and involve youth in the democratic process.
- OXFAM Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2008
- 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.
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