- An Action a Day
Keeps Global Capitalism Away
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
- Action Will Be Taken
Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2004
Marxism's decline isn't just an intellectual concern -- it too has practical effects. If you lack any serious understanding of how capitalism works, then it's easy to delude yourself into thinking that moral appeals to the consciences of CEOs and finance ministers will have some effect. You might think that central banks' habit of provoking recessions when the unemployment rate gets too low is a policy based on a mere misunderstanding. You might think that structural adjustment and imperial war are just bad lifestyle choices.
- The Activists' Handbook
A Step-by-Step Guide to Participatory Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A guide to grassroots activism.
- Another day of violence against journalists covering protests
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the fact that, although clearly identified, many journalists were attacked by police officers while covering yesterday’s anti-austerity protests and strikes in Athens.
- 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.
- An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
- Arctic Wars, Animal Rights, Endangered People
Resource Type: Book
- As Trudeau cracks down, the left drives protesters into the right's arms again
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
Divide and rule, the cultivation of tribalism, is an insurance policy against successful dissent and the threat of revolution.
- Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An organization that came together in response to the political situation in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, first meeting in June 2006.
- Athenians Teach a New Lesson in (Workers) Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The Popular Assembly at Syntagma has been able to go beyond democratic discussion to democratic decisions but the construction of real workers democracy is still under way. While thousands take part in the assembly, there are five million living in Athens and millions more in the rest of Greece. To democratically include all these millions requires a system of delegation, in which delegates from neighborhoods and workplaces attend city-wide assemblies and delegates from these attend a nationwide assembly.
- Berlin's oldest squatters in town defend threatened community centre
Pensioners take a stand against development of their comunity centre
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Dozen of pensioners took over a community centre in the east Berlin suburb of Pankow last month after the local council said the building they had used as a community centre for 15 years had to make way for real estate development.
- The black bloc and the Battle of Seattle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
- Bob Rae to Visit ClimateFast
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In the final hours of their 12 day Fast, Climate Fasters welcome more MP's, bringing the total to 18 so far to sign the pledge board. Bob Rae and Nathan Cullen expected later today.
- Burdened with Debt Reloaded: The Politics ofr Devaluation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A series of defensive and sectional struggles at workplaces in the private sector reveal that the Greek industrial capital has already taken advantage of the new institutional framework of the “state of emergency” now ruling in Greece to prop up its profitability or just transfer its own debts and losses onto the workers.
- Canadian First Nations, US-based Tribal Governments and Indigenous Advocacy Groups Endorse Mass Civil Disobedience Action to Protest Canadian Tar Sand
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Canadian First Nations, American Indian Tribes, Territorial, Provincial and Federal First Nations Governments and Advocacy groups have added their support for a rally featuring a civil disobedience sit-in against the tar sands on Sept 26 in Ottawa.
- Canadian writers protest the detention of Liu Xiaobo
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje and Nino Ricci and more than 40 members of PEN Canada, the writers' association, have signed a petition on behalf of prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
- Catalonia 'separatists' bad, HK 'pro-democracy protesters' good: Orwell's 1984 becomes user's manual for Western 'free media'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
When supporters of Catalan leaders jailed for organizing a democratic vote advance on Barcelona airport, media make a fuss over 'separatists' causing chaos. When the same tactic is used in Hong Kong, it's a 'pro-democracy' protest. In George Orwell’s 1984, The War Ministry was renamed the Ministry of Peace. Truth was Lies, Hate was Love. But author Lewis Carroll got there first.
- Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of Non-Violent Resistance in Bil'in in the West Bank
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Come to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the non-violent resistance in Bil'in in the occupied West Bank. February 5th from 5 until 6pm at the Iisraeli Consulate 180 Bloor St. W. Toronto.
- Climate Fast News from The Hill
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
On DAY 10 of the Fast, climate activists, maintain their presence on Parliament Hill to call on the Government to take immediate action to confront the Climate crisis and ask for public to pledge their support.
- Climate Fast: Rae Signs, Will Mulcair Sign? Environment Minister Kent is a No Show
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Climate Fasters end their 12 day fast, tired but elated as pledges of support continue to flow in. Solidarity vigils held in Toronto, Halifax and Salt Springs.
- Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- 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 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
- Coxey's Army
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A protest march by unemployed workers from the United States.
- Cryptome Protest Photos Series
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2012
- Day 12 of the Fast - Still Hungry for Climate Change
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Fasters Enter Day 12 of Climate Fast hungry, tired, but jubilant as pledges begin to roll in. Solidarity is growing all across Canada, with vigils in Halifax, Toronto, and Salt Spring Island, BC.
- Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Document accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011.
- Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 201.
- Direct Action for Democracy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
Direct action protests are about people taking power for themselves, instead of leaving politics to professional politicians.
- Do the Greeks get it?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A word has to be said about the somewhat depressing character of the clash between reformism and ultraleftism in Greece. Radical youth might have a natural prejudice against the KKE and PAME because it is so compromised with class-collaborationist coalition building. But instead of trying to figure out a way to win the ranks of the CP to the revolutionary cause, it sees its membership as part of the problem and not part of the solution.
- Documents from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
- Dorothy Day Refuses To Duck-And-Cover
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
On June 15th, 1955, Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day joined a group of pacifists in refusing to participate in the civilian defense drills scheduled on that day. These drills were to prepare the citizenry in the event of a nuclear attack, and involved evacuations of city centers, taking shelter in subway tunnels, and, for schoolchildren, "duck-and-cover" to hide under their school desks. Such actions would be futile if a nuclear attack were underway, but the drills were part of a government propaganda program to convince Americans that nuclear weapons were a necessary part of the US arsenal, and that it would be possible to survive a nuclear war.
- A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.
- 84-year-old ex-librarian arrested protesting Kinder Morgan, calls NEB a "sham"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Barbara Grant criticized the NEB hearings of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion as a "sham" and spoke out about the danger before crossing the police line to be arrested. At 84, she's the oldest person arrested on Burnaby Mountain so far.
- Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
- Enbridge Line 9 Work Disrupted as Demonstrators Demand an End to Tar Sands, Fracking
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Opponents of Enbridge's Line 9 Tar Sands and fracking pipeline are in Port Hope at the site of testing operations of the controversial pipeline.
- Facebook Is Collaborating With the Israeli Government to Determine What Should Be Censored
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Last week, a major censorship controversy erupted when Facebook began deleting all posts containing the iconic photograph of the Vietnamese "Napalm Girl" on the ground that it violated the company's ban on "child nudity." Facebook even deleted a post from the prime minister of Norway, who posted the photograph in protest of the censorship. As outrage spread, Facebook ultimately reversed itself - acknowledging "the history and global importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time" - but this episode illustrated many of the dangers I've previously highlighted in having private tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google become the arbiters of what we can and cannot see.
Having just resolved that censorship effort, Facebook seems to be vigorously courting another. The Associated Press reports today from Jerusalem that the Israeli government and Facebook have agreed to work together to determine how to tackle incitement on the social media network.
- Failure To Quit
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Zinn argues that pessimism over the so-called 'me generation' apparent apathy was unfounded, and that activist ideals do consistently carry over across generations.
- Fasters Head to Court
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Day 11 of Fast - Three "Hungry for Climate Leadership" Fasters in Court - Climate Change Trial Begins in Ottawa Courtroom - Harper Government Accused of Dividing Canadians With Oil-Dominated Energy and Climate Change Policy.
- Fight the Power!
A Visual History of Protest Among the English-Speaking Peoples
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Throughout history, ordinary people have risen up against oppression and injustice. Fight the Power visualizes 14 key moments in the last 200 years when people across the English-speaking world stood up and fought for a better life for all.
- The First Rays of Protest in the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Audio
- Five Days in Seattle: A View from the Ground
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
About the 1999 protests in Seattle.
- France's Yellow Vests: Western Repression of the West's Best Values
Resource Type: Book
- Freedom Now Vision Unfinished
Book Review of LeBlanc and Yates's "A Freedom Budget for All Americans"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Miah critiques LeBlanc and Yates' analysis of the Civil Rights Revolution, in light of the fact that the Freedom Budget issued during this time remains unfulfilled.
- The futility of activism using violence as catharsis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The anarchist practitioners of violence are fundamentally elitist. They do violence because it makes them feel good, and they don't care about the fact that it undermines the real work for social change that movement activists are doing.
- Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois and Quebec Student Group Classe to Tour Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, former spokesperson for Quebec student group CLASSE, will be embarking on a whistle-stop national speaking tour from the 29th of September to the 5th of October.
- Herman's House
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
'What kind of house does a man who has been imprisoned in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?' This film captures the remarkable creative journey and friendship of Herman Wallace, one of the Angola 3, and artist Jackie Sumell while examining the injustice of prolonged solitary confinement.
- How Labor and Climate United Can Trump Trump
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Co-operation between labour and climate groups may be possible in the Trump era.
- How the 'black bloc' protected the G20
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The black-clad mob in Toronto has left a lot of people not only in the general public but in the wider nonviolent social/global justice movements in Canada feeling disgusted, demoralized and dispirited. Just the result you want if your goal is to marginalize and stifle dissent. The blocistes, in other words, are the most effective tool on the ground for silencing the valid concerns of the broad social movements.
- How the Left betrayed the Truckers
The convoy is despised by those who should support it
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
Ottawa's truckers are a symptom of the massive class divide that is opening up across the West. Marxists are sticking their heads in the sand about this generational moment, or papering it over with absurd topsy-turvy leaps.
- How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Learning to fight in a world on fire
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2021
- Hundreds of engineering students to 'freeze' in Toronto to advance fair trade
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Hundreds of socially-active engineering students from across Canada, including the University of Waterloo, will raise public awareness about the fair trade movement at a special event in downtown
Toronto as part of the Engineers Without Borders Nati
- Hungry for Climate Leadership - Day 9 of Fast for Climate Justice on the Hill
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
It's Day 9 and the Fasters are hungry, but determined to convey the urgency of the crisis to our elected officials and asks them to end fossil fuel subsidies, put a price on carbon and develop a National Renewable Energy Plan.
- If I Can't Dance ....
Why is the Left So Boring?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Rovics asks, why is so much of the left in the US so attached to being so dreadfully boring? Why do so many people on the left apparently have no appreciation for the power and importance of culture? And when organizers, progressive media and others on the left do acknowledge culture, why is it usually kept on the sidelines?
- IFJ and EFJ ask for a full investigation into attacks on media workers by Police at a demonstration in Armenia
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional organisation the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have together condemned the actions of Armenian police who attacked and briefly detained at least 10 media workers
- IFJ backs red-armband campaign after Tunisian journalists attacked
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The IFJ has strongly condemned the Tunisian government following the physical assault of at least 14 journalists in two separate incidents this week.
- IFJ Congress Holds Commemoration and Freedom Walk for Killed Journalists Across the World
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
A special Freedom Walk to commemorate the 408 journalists across the world who have died in the service of their profession in the last three years was held in Dublin this evening.
- I'm not sure I trust my 'rational' view of the trucker protest anymore
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
Our reaction to the protest was narrative construction in real-time
- In Spain they are all indignados nowadays
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The indignado protests that flared up two years ago have become a Spanish state of mind.
- In the Aftermath of the G20: Reflections on Strategy, Tactics and Militancy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The tactics of the Black Bloc make it clear that, for them, it is more important to smash windows than to try and march with thousands of workers and engage them in arguments about how to move struggles forward or that the problem is capitalism. How radical is it to trash a few windows? For us, radical is about workers gaining confidence and consciousness to fight back, not just at work, but in solidarity with others. Radical is about developing a sense of mass power, organising based on moving others into struggle, winning others to challenge the power in their workplace or community collectively, beyond the individualization of our society. Radical is about going to the roots of the system - not trashing its symbols.
- Inside 15M: 48h with the indignants
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
- Inventing Reality
The Politics of News Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
- 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.
- Island nurses to rally at VIHA Board meeting
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
They want a halt to a scheme to reduce the number of nurses at Vancouver Island Hospitals, pending an independent review.
- Israeli army raids on Bil'in village
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Israeli army forces are launching night-time military raids on Bil'in village in Palestine. Military raids launched by Israeli forces in Palestine in parallel to court case in Canada.
- Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
A diverse group of Jewish Canadian women are currently occupying the Israeli consulate at 180 Bloor Street West in Toronto. This action is in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
- June 8, 2013: Sex Workers' National Day of Action
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
On June 8th sex workers and allies across Canada will hold actions in 6 cities across Canada in support of repealing prostitution laws currently being challenged.
- Kavita Krishnan: 'Women's Liberation, Everyone's Liberation'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Kavita Krishnan, a socialist organizer and a well-known international spokesperson for the movement against sexual violence in India, speaks on sexual violence, everyday sexism, protest, solidarity, and public space in India.
- Keystone Cops
TransCanada Cultivates Close Ties With Nebraska Police Agencies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Since August 2011, the Nebraska Information Analysis Center (NIAC) – one of more than 70 Department of Homeland Security “fusion centers” – and TransCanada Corporation, the company behind the Keystone XL Pipeline, have shared information about anti-pipeline protesters, Nebraska landowners, and opposition to the project.
- The Labadie Collection
Resource Type: Website
The Labadie Collection was established in 1911 when Joseph Labadie, a prominent Detroit anarchist, donated his library to the University of Michigan. Although the Collection was originally concerned mainly with anarchist materials (the field in which it remains strongest), its scope was later widened considerably to include a great variety of social protest literature together with political views from both the extreme left and the extreme right. Materials are now collected from all parts of the world. In addition to anarchism, the Collection's strengths include: civil liberties (with an emphases on racial minorities), socialism, communism, colonialism and imperialism, American labor history through the 1930s, the IWW, the Spanish Civil War, sexual freedom, women's liberation, gay liberation, the underground press, and student protest.
- Labour's Day of Protest -- The Issues and the Press
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
An issue sheet examining the biases of the Canadian Press in its coverage of the Oct 14th national Day of Protest against wage and price control policies.
- Lakota vow: dead or in prison before we allow the KXL pipeline
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
On February 2,7 2014 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement activists joined in a four-directions walk to commemorate Liberation Day, an event to mark the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. As they do each year, four groups gather to the north, south, east and west and then walk eight miles until converging on top of Wounded Knee, where they honour the fallen warriors and the tribe’s rich history of resistance.
- The language of the unheard
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A book review of "A People's History of Riots, Protest and the Law: The Sound of the Crowd" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) by author Matt Clement.
- Make Sure You Don't Fall: Perspectives on the Recent Social Agitation in Chile, Part One
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Discontent and rage have always been there, but while Social Democracy was in power, the supporters of the regime -- well placed in the open spaces for action and thought in high schools, universities and companies -- were able to use them to channel protests into directions that did not endanger the political credibility of the ruling parties.
- The Making of Jericho Road
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
- A Marxist History of the World part 100: 1968-1975: the workers' revolt
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
As the crisis of capitalism spread around the world, the working class took centre stage – but the revolt did not result in successful revolution anywhere.
- A Marxist History of the World part 99: 1968 - the long sleep ends
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The long sleep of the post-war period was brought to an end in 1968, as revolts erupted across the developed world.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- Master's student earns top marks for dissent
University of Toronto rabble rouser graduates in a gown of protest- but still faces criminal charges from a sit in gone wrong
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
- Meet the truckers: The men and women of the Freedom Convoy 2022
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
The National Post spoke to truck drivers and supporters as they were driving to Ottawa for this weekend's "Freedom Convoy 2022" to protest vaccine mandates. Here is what they said about their jobs, their frustrations with government measures during the pandemic, and the rule that could kill their livelihoods.
- Militant Hope in the Age of Trump
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Debates over whether Donald Trump was a fascist or Hillary Clinton was a right-wing warmonger and tool of Wall Street were a tactical diversion. The real questions that should have been debated include: What measures could have been taken to prevent the United States from sliding further into a distinctive form of authoritarianism?
- Morrison, Norman
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Baltimore Quaker best known for committing suicide in an act of self-immolation to protest United States involvement in the Vietnam War. (1933-1965).
- The Myth of Peaceful Protest
The Patronizing Intransigence of Power
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Johnson discusses how peaceful protest is depicted as the way to speak out, and any kind of disorder or defiance of authority is presented not only unacceptable, but unnecessary.
- The New Student Left
An Anthology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
A collection of essays by active participants in the 1960s student movement on American college campuses.
- A New Wave of Climate Insurgents Defines Itself as Law-Enforcers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Grassroots movement organizations from every continent will hold a global week of action called Break Free From Fossil Fuels in May 2016. They envision tens of thousands of people mobilizing worldwide to demand a rapid transition to renewable energy. Events will include nonviolent direct actions targeting extraction sites or infrastructure; pressure on political targets to shift policies around fossil fuel development; and support for clean energy alternatives.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- No Heroes in Montreal -- Why Endless Protest Does Not a Movement Make
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
No matter what you've taken to the streets to oppose - no matter how just your cause - your message gets lost when you don’t engage the community, you don't exercise discipline, or you just start acting like assholes.
- No to nuclear energy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
For over 50 years Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW) has asked for the guaranteeing of the rights of future generations to a world free of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. VOW is concerned about nuclear energy being presented as safe.
- Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Noam Chomsky is one of the world's most controversial thinkers. Now 84, he reflects on his life's work, on current events in Syria and Israel, and on the love of his life – his wife.
- NSW protesters: 'We will break these laws'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
"This is a law to protect the rich. We will need to break these laws to protect our democratic rights," Aboriginal activist and lead NSW Senate candidate for the Socialist Alliance team in the federal elections Ken Canning, said on March 15, 2016. Canning was addressing protesters who had occupied the road outside State Parliament following a rally, called by Greens MLC David Shoebridge, against the state government's new laws attacking the right to protest.
- Oaxaca protests 2006
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least seventeen deaths and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).
- Obsolete Communism
The Left-Wing Alternative
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An account of the May 1968 uprising in Paris, positing a left radical alternative to the encrusted beliefs of the old left and the right. A comment on power, on bureaucracy, and on the paths to liberation.
- Occupation of Anicinabe park
The Occupation of Anicinabe Park 1974; Two Interviews
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
These interviews with Lyle Ironstand and Louis Cameron have been reprinted from Paper Tomahawks: From Red Tape to Red Power by James Burke, published in 1976 by Queenston House Publishing.
- Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
An unofficial record of the New York branch of the Occupy movement, Occupy! combines adrenalin-fueled first-hand accounts of the early days and weeks of Occupy Wall Street with contentious debates and thoughtful reflections.
- Occupy Wall Street vs. Kingian Methods
Where are the Demands?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The students, the labour unions, the working poor, the immigrants, the activists all over the country should come up with the solutions and make the demands. There can be dangerous consequences in organizing efforts when there is no clarity. It’s often a matter of life and death.
- On to Ottawa Trek
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
In 1935, 1500 residents of federal unemployment relief camps in BC went on strike and moved by train and truck to Vancouver, spurred by angry concern for improved conditions and benefits in the camps. They then began a trek to Ottawa, but were stopped by police in Regina.
- On-to-Ottawa Trek
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A 1935 social movement of unemployed men protesting the dismal conditions in federal relief camps scattered in remote areas across Western Canada.
- 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.
- Organizing that Changed Mississippi
Book Review of Salter Jr.'s "Jackson Mississippi" and Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A review of two books about the Mississippi's civil rights movement in 1965 from the perspectives of an African-American female student and a Native American male professor.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 19 2014
Spying, terrorism, and protest
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
Coverage of spying, terrorism, and protest. Articles on how the ISIS (Islamic State group) comes to be using American weapons; the U.S. government's secret plans to spy for American corporations; the insidious power of propaganda; how to spot and defeat disruption on the Internet, and steps to sustainable livestock production. Topic of the week is War Crimes; book for the week is Berkeley: The New Student Revolt, and website of the week is LabourStart.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
A Healthier Planet
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 30, 2016
Conflict of interest
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices shines a light on the murky world of conflict of interest, the hidden reality that often underlies appearances of neutrality, objectivity, and due process. Conflicts of interest are inherent in capitalism, a system founded on the premise that the state and society should be subordinated to economic self-interest and the accumulation of private wealth. Scientists who are supposed to be studying the effects of GMOs are funded by agribusiness corporations. Doctors who receive money from pharmaceutical companies write articles promoting the drugs produced by those companies. Decisions about pipelines are made by regulators who have spent years working in the oil industry, and who will be heading back to jobs in the industry after their stint 'regulating' it. Politicians receive campaign funds from corporate lobbyists.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 13, 2016
Sports and Politics
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Sports and politics have always been intertwined, though perhaps never as much so as in the current era. In the modern sports era, survival and success depend largely on the favour of corporations, whose power to provide or withhold funding and sponsorships now shape every aspect of sport, including athletes' incomes and lifestyles. It is now difficult to remember that only a few decades ago, corporate logos were strictly forbidden at Olympic events, while athletes were prohibited from accepting any kind of payment for their involvement in sports. The corporate conquest of sports closely parallels the corporate colonization of nearly all aspects of modern life. Accompanying this in recent years has been the increasing injection of militaristic content into sports spectacles. In Canada, hockey games are now commonly preceded by rituals honouring militarism. In the United States, similar spectacles have been staged for years. In this issue, we feature resources which remind us that resistance to the commercialization, corporatization, and militarization of sports is also part of our heritage.
- The Ottawa Trucker Protest Was Disruptive. The Hysterical Reaction to It Was Worse
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
- Our Generation
Volume 1 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1962
- Our Generation
Volume 10 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
- Our Generation
Volume 19 Number 1
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1987
- Outrage!
The Ordeal of Greenpeace
Resource Type: Book
- Palestinians who see nonviolence as their weapon
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Mohammed Khatib and his West Bank supporters hope to rally others to a peaceful campaign for statehood.
- Paris and London in the 18th Century
Studies in Popular Protest
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Articles relating to popular protests and revolts breaking out in Paris and London during the eighteenth century.
- Please Stop Chanting That 'We' Won the Popular Vote!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
"We" didn’t win the popular vote, because we weren't on the ballot. We are the ninety-nine percent.
- Police Unions Sustain Police Violence Epidemic
Since when did we decide that police officers should be above the law?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Two of the biggest police unions in the country are now on record in opposition to free speech. They are on record against constitutionally protected free speech that opposes the epidemic of police violence across America (more than 900 killed by police so far in 2015).
- Political Protest
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Political protest is the kind of political activity, eg, demonstrations, strikes and even violence, usually but not always undertaken by those who lack access to the resources of organized pressure groups, or by those whose values conflict sharply with those of the dominant elite.
- The Politics (and Anti-Politics) of Occupy Wall Street
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
At present, the occupation reveals a lot about where people's politicization begins in the United States.
- 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.
- Prisoners of the Good Fight
The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
Resource Type: Book
This book tells of the hope young Americans had to stop Hitler and Mussolini in Spain, how they were captured, and what happened to them after their capture. It reveals the amazing breaks which allowed some to survive, and how the survivors organized in the concentration camps and prisons to resist fascist brutality and indoctrinization and to maintain their morale and health.
- Protest song
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A song which is associated with a movement for social change.
- Protests of 1968
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The Protests of 1968 consisted of a worldwide series of protests, largely led by students and workers.
- Push Comes to Shove
The Escalation of Student Protest
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Diary of Kelman's undergraduate years at Harvard during times of SDS-led student protest.
- Que se vayan todos! Krise und Widerstand in Argentinien
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
A collection of essays studying noncapitalist collectivism.
- Quebecers' right to protest restricted after 2012 "Maple Spring" in Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
In 2012, a massive student strike over tuition fee increases rocked Quebec and thousands took to the streets, marching in protest. In the aftermath, Montreal residents find that their ability to protest has been restricted, as the police employ increased powers to arrest and fine demonstrators.
- Quotes about Activism
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Reclaim the Power! Climate protestors rout security with UK-wide fossil fuel strikes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The fossil fuel industry and its political backers have been left reeling by an unprecedented series of direct action strikes against targets across the country to protest at continuing investment in and official support for fossil fuels, inaction over fuel poverty and the systematic neglect of renewable energy despite the global climate emergency.
- 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.
- Reflections on DC: Promises and Pitfalls in the Anti-Trump Uprising
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The first mass protests of President Donald Trump represent a historic moment – one worth reflecting on so we can understand where we are and where we're going as a nation.
- Remembering the Earth Day Wall Street Action
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In 1989 the Greens held their national gathering in Eugene, Oregon. That was before they had entered national electoral politics, when they still focused on grassroots organizing, and what we now call 'movement from below.'
- Repeat after me, protests in Venezuela good, protests in France bad!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Anti-government protests in Venezuela and France are treated differently because of the interests the respective presidents - and their opposition - represent.
- The Repression Strengthened Us!
Letter From Bolivia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- Resist
A grassroots collection of stories, poetry, photos and analyses from the Quebec City FTAA protetst and beyond
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
A dynamic collection of personal accounts, creative works, reflections, images and analyses about the protests against the FTAA summit that took place in April 2001 in Quebec City.
- Resistance in China Today
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Cases of Resistance in China continue to grow. Protests both large and small are extremely frequent. These range from workers’ protests against unpaid wages and demands for labor rights to protests against corrupt officials and environmental abuses. While these struggles have often been brought to a swift end through repression, they have also frequently led to protestors being granted concessions.
- Rio fare protesters seize main station and let commuters travel free
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Watts discusses the economic and political impetus for the seizure of Rio de Janeiro's transit stations by the public in a protest against rising fare prices.
- Riot police deliberately attack journalists covering street demonstrations
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Reporters Without Borders roundly condemns a new wave of deliberate attacks on reporters and photographers in Athens and calls on the security forces to immediately identify those persons within their ranks who were responsible.
- Rise of the naked female warriors
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Known for its topless protesters, Femen is a worldwide movement against patriarchy. But are the activists' breasts obscuring the message?
- Russian Censors Falsify Evidence Against Newspaper to Uphold Ban on Political Coverage
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Almost a year ago, the Kremlin's media watchdog agency, Roskomnadzor, warned a series of news outlets against publishing reports about a protest that took place in Siberia on August 17, 2014. Last weekend, in an appeals case by one newspaper against the government, state censors finally revealed specifically why they banned several news stories last year about the rally in Siberia.
- Sacred fire at Queen's Park marks 10 years of the Grassy Narrows logging blockade
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Grassy Narrows Blockaders and their supporters are celebrating the 10 year anniversary of what is now the longest running Indigenous logging blockade in Canada.
- Second Nature
The Animal-Rights Controversy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
Animal-rights advocates argue that humans have no right to kill any animal, whether by hunting or farming or for medical research. Is this a cure for our ecological ills or is it a symptom of the disease? What is irrefutably logical
- Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
- Self-censorship concerns in Hong Kong after bashing of journalist and protesters
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply concerned that Hong Kong police beat up a journalist and brutally attacked a pro-democracy protester while breaking up a demonstration. With pressure mounting on media in its coverage
- Selma to Montgomery marches
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Three marches in 1965 that marked the culmination of the voting rights movement of the American civil rights movement.
- Should You March Against Trump?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Yasmin Nair addresses the issue of whether or not to march against Donald Trump this week, or in the months and years following.
- Smearing an Entire Protest Movement as Fascistic Will Come Back to Haunt My Fellow Leftists
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
Canadians as a whole, and especially centre-left voters, have come to believe that the legitimacy of a movement inheres not in its size or the diversity of people and views it represents, but rather in its ability to discipline and control its supporters.
- State Department Condemns Attacks on Russian Peaceful Protests, Ignores Those in America
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
On March 26, the State Department tweeted, "U.S. condemns detention of 100s of peaceful protesters in Russia today. Detaining peaceful protesters is an affront to democratic values."
- The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- Strategic Thinking and Organizing Resistance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Argues the need for strategy and vision, and effective organizing, in forming a resistance movement to the Trump presidency, and provides several suggestions for organizers.
- Student Power and the Canadian Campus
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A collection of articles about student activism in Canada in the lates 1960s.
- Student Protest
The Student Radical in Search of issues....or, please don't shoot the Piano Player
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- SUPA, Selma, and Stevenson
The Politics of Solidarity in mid-1960s Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Published in Journal of Canadian Studies, 41 (Spring 2010)
- The Sussex University Occupation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Interview with Maia Pal during and immediately following the campus occupation against outsoursing at Sussex, England, which was broken up by the police on April 2, 2013.
- Swamp Line 9! Stopping the Expansion of Enbridge’s Line 9
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
We are digging in and occupying Enbridge’s North Westover Pump Station in the Beverly Swamp. We have done this to stop construction in preparation for the reversal of their Line 9 Pipeline to carry toxic diluted bitummen from the Alberta Tar Sands
- Targeted violence against journalists by police dispersing protest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders condemns targeted Armenian police violence against journalists at dawn yesterday in Yerevan, when the authorities used force to disperse a sit-in by large crowd of demonstrators protesting against electricity price hikes.
- Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser: Silence Tastes Badâ## Put Free Speech on the Menu.
Artists and supporters speak out for freedom of association at the launch of the Koffler Gallery fundraiser, ARTFUL DISH, Thursday, June 4, 10 AM.
- Toronto Joins in Solidarity with Ottawa Climate Fast
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Join with us on Oct. 2nd, in solidarity with the Ottawa Fasters to mark the final day of the Climatefast, Int'l Day of Non-Violence & Gandhi's birthday in a peaceful demonstration for action on Climate Change. 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM, Queen & John Sts.
- Toyi-toyi
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A dance that became famous for its use in political protests in the apartheid-era South Africa.
- Tree sitting
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A form of environmentalist civil disobedience in which a protester sits in a tree, usually on a small platform built for the purpose, to protect it from being cut down.
- The truckers have changed Canada forever
The Freedom Convoy has shaken Canadian politics to its core
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
- The truckers' revolt has exposed the left's class hatred
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
- The Truth About Kent State
A Challenge to the American Conscience
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An account of the murder of four students at Kent State University by National Guard troops.
- Two foreign journalists arrested while covering Greenpeace operation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders deplores yesterday#s arrest of two foreign journalists # Kumkum Dasgupta of India and Raimondo Bultrini of Italy # while covering a Greenpeace protest against uncontrolled deforestation on Sumatra Island.
- 2011 Spanish protests
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
A series of ongoing demonstrations in Spain.
- 2004 Republican National Convention protest activity
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Marches, rallies, performances, demonstrations, exhibits, and acts of civil disobedience in New York City to protest the 2004 Republican National Convention and the nomination of President George W. Bush for the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
- Ukraine's Protest Movement
Is a 'Left Sector' Possible?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A conversation about the necessity and possibility of a "Left Sector" and its struggle for hegemony in the 2013-2014 Ukrainian protests is important not only in the contemporary Ukrainian context, but also for the future.
- US J20 defendants: 'Waiting is part of the punishment'
The first six people have been acquitted, but the 188 remaining Inauguration Day defendants have yet to go to trial.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Alleged anti-fascist protestors, controversially arrested at the 2017 US presidential inauguration, await trial and or sentencing in 2018.
- Vancouver Commemorates the Nakba, Calls for End to 64 Years of Israeli Ethnic Cleansing
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
A free community supper at a Vancouver church and a march are planned for May 15 and 19 to commemorate the Nakba and to call for Canada to support the right of refugees to return to their homes, and the end to Israel's displacement of Palestinians.
- Want to Stop Trump? Take a Page From These Dockworkers, and Stop Work
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
On the day of Donald Trump's inauguration, many Americans wrung their hands. Some took to social media to express their discontent while others protested. But, perhaps, the most dramatic and important action was taken by dockworkers in Oakland, California: They stopped working. Their strike demonstrated the potential power ordinary people have on the job, when organized.
- What Makes a Protest Violent?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The conversation about protest violence has changed but the essential reality remains: the State and its enforcers (public and private) determine what acceptable violence is and what isn’t. This determination is not arrived at according to the nature or degree of the violent acts; it is arrived at according to who is perpetrating said act.
- What the Left can learn from the 'Freedom Convoy'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2022
- The Whole World is Watching
Chinese Diggers?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Thousands of villagers at Wukan, in China’s Guangdong province, are protesting the theft of their communal land by a corrupt local government in collusion with developers.
- Why is the New York Times promoting the "black bloc"?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A New York Times article, which ran across four columns of the newspaper's front page under a huge photo of a black-masked individual preparing to break an office building window with an iron bar during Wednesday night's protests at the University of California, Berkeley, amounted to free publicity and promotion of the violent protests organized by elements identifying themselves as the "black bloc," anti-fascists and anarchists.
- Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere
The New Global Revolutions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
From London to Cairo, Wisconsin to Tehran, Paul Mason charts new forms of collective action: fluid networks of agile, Twitter- and Facebook-savvy networks of youthful protesters. The events, says Mason, reflect the expanding power of the individual and call for new ways of thinking about political alternatives, elite rule and global poverty.
- The women of Greenham Common taught a generation how to protest
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The women of Greenham Common taught a generation how to protest. Thirty years on, the lessons of their occupation are as relevant as ever.
- The Women's March Was a Dismal Failure and a Hopeful Sign
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Despite what pundits said, the Women’s March was not a movement. Nor was it the beginning of a movement. It was a moment: a show of hands: "I'm against Trump," these women (and men) told the world. Question was, who/what do they want to replace him?
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