- Against All Odds
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1985
The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
- Bi Any Other Name
Bisexual People Speak Out
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
A collection of essays by 75 authors on bisexual identity.
- Breaking the Bonds
The Realities of Sexually Open Relationships
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
An examination of the lives of (American) people involved in socially and/or sexually open relationships.
- 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.
- Circles of Strength
Community Alternatives to Alienation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Forsey, an activist and writer who works with the Federation of Egalitarian Communites has put together a collection of essays, and interviews with First Nations, religious orders and rural intentional communities giving their views and experiences as communities.
- Common Sense for Hard Times
The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
- Communes in America
The Place Just Right
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Traces the history of collective settlements in the United States and compares their organization and purpose with the communes of today.
- Communes USA
A Personal Tour
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
An account of a variety of communes in the United States.
- The Communistic Societies of the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
- Communitas
Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1960
Visions of urban life.
- Community Dreams
Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Annual 1989
A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
- Connexions Annual 1994
A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1994
Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
- The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems.
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
- Connexions Archive seeks a new home
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Dream Tower
The Life and Legacy of Rochdale College
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Fighting for Hope
Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
- Global Visions
Beyond the News World Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below.
- Goodman, Paul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
- Group Marriage
A Study of Contemporary Multilateral Marriage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A study of more than 100 group marriages in the United States, exploring the psychology and sociology of this form of marital relationship. The study looks at how group marriages are established, who enters into such relationships, how they communicate, how children and adults relate, how conflicts are resolved.
- High Weirdness by Mail
A Directory of The Fringe: Mad Prophets, Crackpots, Kooks & True Visionaries
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Interview with Ralph Borsodi
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
- 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.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
- The Need for Alternative Employment
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
- New Options for America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- The New Radicals
A Report with Documents
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
An analytical portrait of the young radical activists who have repudiated traditional liberalsim and who seek a new vision of American through civil rights, university reform, and anti-war and anti-poverty activities.
- New Reformation
Notes of a Neolithic Conservative
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Goodman says: "For green grass and clean rivers, children with bright eyes and good color whatever the color, people safe from being pushed around so they can be themselves -- for a few things like these, I find I am pretty ready to think away all other political economic, and technological advantages."
- People or Personnel and Like a Conquered Province
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Goodman offers his analysis of what is wrong with American society, and what could be done about it.
- People Power
Applying Nonviolence Theory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
Explores the theory of power on which all successful nonviolent action is based, the blocks which keep people from acting when confronted with injustice, and the roles played in any nonviolent campaign by allies, neutrals, and opponents. Numerous case histories illustrate the dynamics of nonviolent action.
- The People's Report
A Social and Economic Alternative for B.C.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- Seventeen Problems of Man and Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Ralph Borsodi's magnum opus, outlining his philosophy of society and the practical implications that flow from it.
- Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
Nineteenth-Century America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
- Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
Original title: History of American Socialisms
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
- To Have or To Be?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Fromm calls for a social and psychological revolution. He argues that two modes of existence are in fierce conflict: the Having Mode, dedicated to material possession and property, agressiveness, personal gain, and war, and the Being Mode, sufused with love, the spirit of caring and a regard for humanity, which means contentment, a pleasant sufficiency of the mean to life (but no more) and a profound kinship with nature.
- The Uses of Disorder
Personal Identity and City Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
An examination of the ways the modern city has failed, and an exploration of new modes of urban organization through which city life can become richer and more life-affirming.
- Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
- Utopias
Introduction to the December 19, 2015 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical.
- Visionaries
People and Ideas to Change Your Life
Resource Type: Book
- The Youth Communes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A short survey of American youth communes of the late 1960s.
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