- After the Crash
The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy
Resource Type: Book
- 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.
- Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
Resource Type: Book
- Another World is Possible
Globalization and Anti-capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
- Beyond Voting
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
By all means vote if you feel like it. But don't stop there. Real social change requires participation, not representation.
- Bound By Power
Intended Consequences
Resource Type: Book
These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- 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.
- Challenging McWorld
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
- Changing The Cogs
Activists and the Politics of Technology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
What are the best ways to achieve beneficial change in society? Will widespread use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources bring about a good society? What technologies will be promoted by vested interests in government and big business?
- The Children's Crusade
The Story of the Company of Young Canadians
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Class Warfare
Interviews with David Barsamian
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- Coming Back to Life
Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
A guidebook for dealing with the despair that stands in the way our our changing the world.
- Communication for and Against Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
- Community Switchboard
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Weekly newsletter offering a forum for those interested in social change. The newsletter was put together by the Communications Collective. Community Switchboard maintained an office in Toronto to provide research facilities to the public.
- Commuto Inc.
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1987
- 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
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Counter Power
Making Change Happen
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
Argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "have-nots" can use to remove the power of the "haves." This book sets out to demystify the power dynamics of social change.
- Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
- Crossing a chasm slowly, in ten small steps? Sustainable living demands big changes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A call to re-engineer our infrastructure, re-imagine society and re-think the ways we live for disruptive, transformative change - rather than tinkering at the margins of 'normality'. Transitioning to sustainability will require profound changes in our everyday ways of living, particularly in westernised countries. It requires changes that are much more significant than simply doing the things that we currently do, but more efficiently.
- Daily Bread Food Bank
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Deep Ecology
Living as if Nature Mattered
Resource Type: Book
- Defiant Publics
The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Drache says that the new communications technologies of the contemporary information revolution are permitting new forms of transnational communication that are creating global consciousness and global citizenship.
- Diagnosis, Goals and Methods of Social Change
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
Outline of several diagnoses of the state of social systems and institutions.
- Directory of the American Left
Resource Type: Book
1775 listings. Also publish Directory of the American Right, 2160 listsings, $9.95.
- Drawing the Line
The Political Essays of Paul Goodman
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
Goodman stresses that massive, uncentered governments and huge, sprawling communities alientate the individual and force people to conform to the status quo rather than to what they are or might become.
- Educating for a Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a truly participatory society. The books offers theory and practical tools for consciously applying the principles of democratic practice to daily work.
- Everyday Life in the Modern World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Everyday life is non-philosophical in relation to philosophy and represents reality in relation to ideality.
- The Extraordinary Myles Horton
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1988
Myles Horton is the founder of the Highlander Folk School, a centre for leadership training in Tennessee. The Highlander trains organizers for unions, civil rights organizations and local citizens' groups. In this article, Ellen Gould and Murray Dobbin talk to Horton to find out what his experience has taught him about organizing for social change.
- Ferguson and After: Where Is This Movement Going?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The movement that has erupted after non-indictments of the cop killers of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and of Eric Garner in New York City, one further fed by relentless continued police killings of black and brown youth on a weekly basis around the country, is without doubt the deepest social movement to emerge in the United States in more than forty years.
- 'Follow Your Bliss' - The Tweet That Brought Corporate Journalism To The Brink Of A Nervous Breakthrough
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Don't write for the "mainstream". Don't write for money. Don't write for prestige. Just "follow your bliss" by writing what you absolutely love to write to inspire and enlighten other people. Write what seems interesting, important and true, and give it away for free.'
- Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
- Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
Third Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
See also CX2933.
- Getting your story into the media
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Stories are the heart and soul of the media. Journalism is about telling stories, and good stories require sources # human contacts, the people who provide informed comment and expertise, the people who make stories interesting and informative.
For more than 30 years, SOURCES has provided a vital networking service connecting journalists with the sources they need # the experts and spokespersons without whom the media would have no stories to tell.
- The Global Gang Thang
A World of Change: Armed Young Men and Gansta Culture (Globalization and Community)
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
- The Great Transformation
The political and economic origins of our time
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
- Helping you reach the media
How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
- How Social Movements Can Win More Victories Like Same-Sex Marriage
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The rapidly expanding victory around same-sex marriage defies many of our common ideas about how social change happens. This was not a win that came in measured doses, but rather a situation in which the floodgates of progress were opened after years of half-steps and seemingly devastating reversals. It came about through the efforts of a broad-based movement, pushing for increased acceptance of LGBT rights within a wide range of constituencies.
- How the Left has Won
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Capitalism was the unintended consequence of bourgeois revolutions, whereas socialism has been the avowed purpose, or at least a crucial component, of every revolution since 1911. This difference has become so important that when we think about the transition from capitalism to socialism, we take the short view: we look for ideological extremes, social movements, vanguard parties, self-conscious revolutionaries, radical dissenters, armed struggles, extra-legal methods, political convulsions – as if the coming of socialism requires the abolition of capitalism by cataclysm, by insurgent, militant mass movements dedicated to that purpose.
- How to Change Everything
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything is a vital book whose limitations should spark discussion about where we go from here.
- In the Tiger's Mouth
An empowerment guide for social action
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Information for ordinary people to become activists for social change.
- Interview with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
- Introduction to the Media Guide
Resource Type: Article
An introduction to "Media for Social Change."
- 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.
- Land and Community
Crisis in Canada's Countryside
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Sim's thesis is that rural society is overlooked due to urban dependence upon "great associations," economies of scale, and other socio-cultural institutions of unmanageable size.
- Laura Flanders talks to Gar Alperovitz about What Then Must We Do?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Alperovitz says we may be witnessing the prehistory of the next American Revolution.
- Leftwords Festival of Books and Ideas
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
LeftWords is a free public event that celebrates and promotes the work of progressive Canadian and international writers and thinkers whose works appear in books and magazines by Canadian independent publishers.
- Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
- Making A World of Difference
A Directory of Women in Canada specializing in Global Issues
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
The directory provides in-depth profiles of over 250 women from across Canada, representing a cross section of the available expertise in issues related to development, environment, peace and social justice.
- Manifestations And Declarations
Of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
This collection of original documents describes what significance they had for the social change and political movements of the twentieth century.
- A Marxist History of the World part 5: The Rise of the Specialists
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The Early Neolithic economy was doomed by insoluble contradictions. Technique was primitive and wasteful. Society lacked reserves against natural disaster and hard times. Virgin land ran out as old fields were exhausted and populations grew.
- A Marxist History of the World part 50: The Industrial Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Frederick Engels was sent to Manchester, centre of the Industrial Revolution, to dispel his radicalism. Instead it made him the revolutionary he is remembered as today, Neil Faulkner explains.
- A Marxist History of the World part 54: What is Capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
In this critical chapter of his world history, Neil Faulkner explores capitalism and what it means from the Industrial Revolution to the present day.
- A Marxist History of the World part 77 World Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In the five years after the First World War, revolutionary contagion spread around the world. It showed the extraordinary possibilities that arise when the masses become active in making their own history.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- Media for Social Change
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
- 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 Modern Crisis
Resource Type: Book
- A Modest Proposal for How the Bad Old Days Will End
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
A brief explanation of capitalism and an optimistic manifesto for stateless communism.
- Naming the Moment
Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
- Naming the Moment: Book Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
A review of Naming the Moment: Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups.
- Needed: 5% Participation to Overthrow Crony Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Erica Chenoweth, author of Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, explains how to overthrow U.S. crony capitalism: “In raw numbers, movements generally achieve systematic change (i.e., in the +80% likelihood category) when they mobilize over 5 percent of the population. The Iranian Revolution, among the largest popular uprisings, achieved about 10 percent mobilization. In the US with 311 million people, this would mean between 15.5 million and 31.1 million people.”
- New Hogtown Press - Spanish Wikipedia Article
Wikipedia article - Spanish
Resource Type: Article
- The new socialist revolution
An introduction to its theory and strategy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
Chapter 6 - Strategy and Tactics. The first task of the revolutionary movement, its most important task within the next few years, is to destroy bourgeois hegemony and develop a radical consciousness among each of the potential constituencies for revolutionary action.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- The Next Liberation Struggle
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Ths book explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class.
- One Fine Day
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
The documentary One Fine Day, shows six people from different cultures and religions who all, through a small nonviolent act, have had a significant and positive influence on society. Director Klaas Bense investigates how frustration can be turned into positive actions. He looks at what one single individual can achieve, and the often severe, personal consequences.
- One Vote for Democracy
Consensus vs. democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
- Our Generation
Volume 2 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1963
- Our Generation
Volume 2 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1963
- Our Generation
Volume 3 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1964
- Our Generation
Volume 3 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1965
Special Issue on Unilateralism
- Our Generation
Volume 6 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1969
- Our Generation
Volume 6 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1969
- Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
- Our Generation
Volume 8 Number 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1972
- Our Generation
Volume 9 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- Our Generation
Volume 15 Number 3 & 4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
- Our Generation
Volume 17 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Our Generation
Volume 18 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1987
- Our Generation
Volume 19 number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Our Generation
Volume 20 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Our Generation
Volume 22 Nomber 1 & 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Our Generation
Volume 23 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Our Generation
Volume 23 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Our Generation
Volume 24 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1994
- 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.
- Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
- The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
Communications & Cultural Transformation in Early-Modern Europe
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
The effect of the advent of printing on Western culture. Two volumes.
- The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Resource Type: Book
- The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
- Radical Newspapers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
- The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
- 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.
- Resources For Radicals
An Annual Review of Books and Publications for Those Active in Movements for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
An annotated list of resources -- books and periodicals -- for people working for non-violent social change.
- Review: Accompanying: Pathways to Social Change
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Review of Staughton Lynd's "Accompanying: Pathways to Social Change", a book that by and large uses a story-based pedagogy rather than an analysis-based one. It walks through struggles that Lynd and his wife Alice have been involved in directly.
- The Revolution Game
The Short Unhappy Life of the Company of Young Canadians
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A historical overview of the Company of Young Canadians.
- The Revolution of Hope
Toward a Humanized Technology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Froom argues for the urgent necessity of shfiting our priorities from things and death to the priorities of life and human beings.
- Roots of Empathy
Changing the World Child by Child
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Roots of Empathy looks at eliminating crime and changing the world by starting with a compassionate environment for children.
- Rules for Radicals
A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Alinsky's Rules for Radicals provides perspectives, principles and lessons for realistic radical organizers.
- Saving the Countryside
Conserving Rural Character in the Countryside of Southern Ontario
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
An overview of the issues and politics of preserving the rural nature of the countryside. Byrne outlines the problems facing rural communities: rapid pace of changge, not having access to the information necessary to cope with change and thirdly the failure to believe that individuals can make a difference. Includes has an extenisve list of resources including newsletters, government publications and academic papers to help promote community discussion.
- 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.
- 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.
- Social Change & Alternatives Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to alternatives and social change in the Sources directory for the media.
- 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.
- Socialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
- Socialism and the New Life
The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
- Socialism in Crisis?
Canadian Perspectives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
Essays addressing questions such as What is the nature of socialism? How do gender and activism determine the socialist agenda? What is the essence of democracy under socialism?
- A Socialist Alternative For Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A discussion on the future of the sociliast left in Canada and its relationship to the New Democratic Party.
- The Socialist Register 1978
Volume 15: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- The Socialist Register 1983
Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- The Socialist Register 1985/1986
Volume 22: Social Democracy and After
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Socialist Register 1993
Volume 29: Real Problems False Solutions
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1993
- The Soft Revolution
Resource Type: Book
- Sources gives you powerful tools to help you stand out from the crowd
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
An overview of how you can use SOURCES to amplify your message.
SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, writers, producers and researchers with the sources they need for their work. Being included in SOURCES positions you as a media source and puts you in line to receive more media calls and more media coverage.
- Sources welcomes Commuto Inc.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Commuto is an online social bartering network where members trade in person with other members in their cities, schools, workplaces or any other communities they create.
- The Spectre of Capitalism
The Future of the World Economy After the Fall of Communism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- The Straight Goods
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Ten Tactics of Social Innovation
Ways for individuals to facilitate change -- both in their own lives and on the societal leve.
Resource Type: Article
- Toolkit for a New Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimension magazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the first decade of the 21st century. The articles are all short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
- Toward Unity Among Environmentalists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Transforming Apathy and Denial
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
Assisting others to face militarism and ecocatastrophe and become motivated and capable of working to reverse these threats is a substantial challenge for educators in all setting.
- Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
An Open Conspiracy for Social Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
- 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.
- Visionaries
People and Ideas to Change Your Life
Resource Type: Book
- The Wandering of Humanity
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
Humans are subjugated by Capital. The logic of production removes decision-making from human control. Capital is anthropomorphized. Technology has no borders or limits. Nature is ravaged as humanity wanders.
- Ways and Means
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
Connexions attempts to stimulate practical and theoretical sharing through the Ways and Means section.
- What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
- What Then Must We Do?
Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Gar Alperovitzexplains why that the time is right for a revolutionary new economy movement, what it means to democratize the ownership of wealth, what it will take to build a new system to replace the decaying one — and how to strengthen our communities through cooperatives, worker-owned companies, neighborhood corporations, small and medium-size independent businesses, and publicly owned enterprises.
- Workers Hold the Keys
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In a discussion of the history and practice of socialist ideas, Chibber and Farbman discuss precarity and the changing composition of the working class, how socialists should think about unions, and how the Left can get off the college campuses and into the workplaces and streets.
- The Working Class and Social Change
Four Essays on the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
A study of "The Working Class," and the complexities of its definition as economic categories diffused from profound bases of social demarcation during the 1960's.
- Working Harder Isn't Working
A Detailed Plan for Implementing a Four-day Workweek in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
O'Hara details how the overworked can job share with the unemployed for economic, social, and psychological benefits for all.
- A Zapatista 'Seminar' in Chiapas
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
On the outskirts of San Cristobal de las Casas, famed colonial center of the southern state of Chiapas, over a thousand people from all over Mexico and beyond are attending a weeklong seminar "Critical Thinking Confronting the Capitalist Hydra." It was conceived and organized by the Zapatistas, the Chiapas-based armed insurgency.
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