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  1. Canadian Polar Commission
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  2. The Cancer in Occupy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists — so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical confrontations with police and destroy property — is a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state.
  3. Connexions Library: Science Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on science.
  4. The fruits of protest
    Russia has shelved plans to break up the historic Pavlovsk seed bank

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The Pavlovsk open air seedbank in St. Petersburg maintains 12,000 species of fruit trees, berries, and flowers. Plans to auction off the land have been placed on hold after protests.
  5. Kill The Messengers
    Stephen Harper's Assault on Your Right to Know

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    Ottawa has become a place where the nation's business is done in secret, and access to information - the lifeblood of democracy in Canada - is under attack.
  6. Merchants of Doubt
    How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Investigative reportage on how private interests and lobbies in America use hired gun scientists to spread doubt and misinformation. The media's binary understanding of balanced repoting has given these individuals a soapbox and allowed the public to believe there are divisions in the mainstream scientific opinion on global warming where none exist.
  7. Ontario Water Works Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  8. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  9. Science for the People with the EZLN
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The Zapatistas have been extremely clever in responding to the continual challenges (not without serious setbacks), both militarily and politically. They have not only survived over the past 23 years but prospered, in their own terms, and gained considerable popular appeal.
  10. Science and liberation
    Science as human curiosity, as authority, and as business

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The conservative movement’s attack on science has several prongs. Where they can attain government office, as in Canada, they use the highly effective tools of funding and de-funding, and regulation and de-regulation, to control government scientists and embolden private interests. The goal is to transfer power and resources from public services and public science to private institutions, while often appealing to moral and religious doctrines in the process.
  11. 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".

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