- Allow the Water
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
The author shares his Christian vision of radical social transformation to develop a society based on the gospels of Jesus. Included are the stories of famous others who have also gone through social transformation, such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., J.S. Woodsworth, Jim and Shirley Douglas and members of the White Rose Movement.
- 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.
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Despair is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Brockman lists various methods to prevent feelings of cynicism, frustration, and grief for social activists and to inspire renewed hope in their efforts.
- 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.
- In India Any Social Activist Can Be Arrested, Charged And Tried - Sans Evidence - For Terrorism: Kobad Ghandy's Case
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In 2009, the Government of India announced a new nation-wide initiative viz. "Integrated Action Plan" (IAP) for broad coordinated operations to deal with the 'Naxalite' problem. This plan included increased funding for special police for better containment and reduction of Naxalite influence. Kobad Ghandy’s arrest in September 2009 was a direct fall out of this IAP.
- In India Any Social Activist Can Be Arrested, Charged And Tried - Sans Evidence - For Terrorism: Kobad Ghandy's Case - Part II - The Punjab Trial
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In a follow-up to an article detailing how Delhi's legal system was able to detain Kobad Ghandy in Tihar Jail for engaging in supposedly communist activities, this article discusses a separate attempt to prosecute Ghandy for his social activism.
- Indicting the System with Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
In this interview Noam Chomsky brings once more to bear on current and historical events his eviscerating analysis of power systems.
- 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.
- Literature as Pulpit
The Christian Social Activism of Nellie McClung
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- London, Jack - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Jack London (1876-1916).
- 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 New "Politics from Below"
Book review of Raul Zibechi's "Territories in Resistance: A Cartography of Latin American Social Movements"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Zibechi's "Territories in Resistance" centres on the practices in Latin American movements, such as the Zapatistas and the Landless Workers Movement, analysing their strengths and weaknesses over time vis-à-vis the central governments that they helped bring to power.
- 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.
- Our Generation
Volume 1 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1962
Special Supplement on the Berlin & German Question
- 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 2 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1963
- Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
- Our Generation
Volume 9 number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- Our Generation
Volume 17 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1985
- Our Generation
Volume 17 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- 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 Politics of Nonviolent Action
Part Two: The Methods of Nonviolent Action
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An encyclopedic treatment of the theory and practice of nonviolence, with a detailed examination of 198 specific methods of the technique — illustrated with actual cases — within the broad classes of nonviolent protest and persuasion, non-cooperation (social, economic and political) and nonviolent intervention.
- Radical America - Volume 2, Number 4 - July-August 1968
Historical Roots of Black Liberation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1968
- Reed, John - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of John Reed (1887-1920).
- Remembering Rosalyn Baxandall
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall was a pioneering figure of socialist feminism in the United States.
- 10 Questions for William Blum
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
"God forbid we should not have a Revolution every 20 years," Jefferson wrote. "The world belongs to the living," he believed, and each generation holds the world in "usufruct." In the United States in 2017, in this whirling age of instantaneous communication, gratification and frustration, TJ would probably Twitter something like: "Make that every 10 years!"
- 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.
- The Young Lords' Legacy of Puerto Rican Activism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
A short history of the Young Lords, a group that used confrontational tactics to bring services and attention to the residents of East Harlem, or El Barrio, and beyond.
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