- After the Crash
The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy
Resource Type: Book
- Building Safer Communities
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
November is National Crime Prevention and Community Safety month, and the Canada Safety Council advises you, and all Canadians to get to know your neighbours better. By building stronger communities, we build safer communities.
- 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.
- Cohousing and Sustainabliity
Resource Type: Article
How co-housing promotes social, economic and ecological sustainability.
- Cohousing Characteristics
Resource Type: Article
The main characteristics of cohousing.
- Cohousing FAQs
Resource Type: Article
Frequently asked questions about cohousing.
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
- Emmanuel International Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
Emmanuel International Canada is one of seven affiliates of Emmanuel Relief and Rehabilitation International. EICanada's programs aim to build the self-reliance and dignity of those involved in developing world.
Emmanuel International Canada is currently operating in Brazil, Haiti, Malawi, the Philippines, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
- Happy Activism
Six ways to make our movement strong and feed our spirit.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
How do we make environmental organizations attractive to large numbers of people? And how do we keep these folks engaged for the years, even decades that it will take to create a sustainable society? My interest here is not to enumerate people’s reasons for activism but rather, based on these reasons, to articulate principles that movement organizers should follow to bring people to the cause.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016
Depression and Joy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence that this is a social problem, and not merely an individual misfortune, the solutions and escapes on offer are almost all individual: pharmaceuticals and therapy, on the one hand; self-medication with alcohol, streets drugs, television, etc., on the other. Certainly there are individual circumstances and individual causes, but when millions of people are experiencing the same thing, we need to be looking not only at the individual, but also at the society.
- A Paradise Built in Hell
The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
The most startling thing about disasters, according to Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides.
- Peacemaking in Your Neighbourhood
Reflections on an Experiment in Community Mediation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Describes ten years of work of the Community Dispute Settlement Program, an innovative program in a suburban area near Philadelphia, founded by the Society of Friends (Quakers). The program set out to try to help solve community disputes using the guidelines of nonviolence, alternatives, and empowerment.
- Resource Manual for A Living Revolution
A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
- Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
- Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Richard Sennett contends that "living with people who differ -- racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically -- is the most urgent challenge facing civil society today. We tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves, and modern politics encourages the politics of the tribe rather than of the city."
- Why Do Communities Fail?
Resource Type: Article
The strains that take their toll on community groups.
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