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  1. Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  2. The Anglican Church of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  3. Basta! No Mandate for War
    A Pledge of Resistance Handbook

    Resource Type: Book
    More than 65,000 Americans have now pledged to protest any escalation in U.S. foreign and/or military intervention in Central America. This handbook offers a brief guide to the situation in Nicaragua and El Salvador, information about the Pledge of Resistance campaign, selections on nonviolent resistance, and preparation and training materials for nonviolent action. Includes agenda, resources, and checklists for planning and working locally.
  4. Building Bridges to Central America
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
  5. Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  6. Central American Women Put their Lives on the Line for Human Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Solidarity is at the heart of an initiative that seeks to protect women activists facing harassment, death threats and violence.
  7. Central American Women Speak for Themselves
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    A dossier focusing on the participation of women in the popular movements and revolutionary organizations in Central America. Contains transations from newspapers, pamphlets, documents, interviews and reprints of already-published material.
  8. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Website
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  9. Christopher Who? -- Discovering the Americas
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1990
    Columbus seen as a conqueror.
  10. Columbus: His Enterprise
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    The traditional view of Christopher Columbus was as a single-minded, courageous visionary whose navigational skills led him to "discover" the Americas. Hans Koning gives us a different history of Columbus' life and voyages.
  11. 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.
  12. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  13. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  14. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  15. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  16. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  17. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  18. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  19. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  20. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  21. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  22. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  23. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  24. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  25. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  26. Connexions Library: Central America and the Caribbean Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Central America and the Caribbean.
  27. CUSO-VSO
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  28. Deforestation of Central America Rises as Mexico's War on Drugs Moves South
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Swaths of Central American rainforest are affected by 'narco-deforestation', caused by landing strips and roads built by and for drug traffickers.
  29. El Salvador
    People in Struggle

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
  30. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
  31. Focus on Honduran crisis, Haiti and more in the July-August issue of FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    This edition draws together analysts, policy-makers and development practitioners to look into current issues in Honduras, Haiti and Central America among others on themes such as democracy, energy, trade and multilateralism.
  32. Forced Native Labor in Sixteenth-Century Central America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Presents a comprehensive investigation of the primary issue of the first century of Spanish American colonization: the massive system of Indian forced labour, ranging from outright slavery to the encomienda, upon which Spanish colonial society rested. This book traces the rupturing of Indian traditions and the fate that befell the Indian people.
  33. 1491
    New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
  34. 1493
    Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    Alternate title in the United Kingdom: 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World. A study of the Colombian Exchange -- the biological cross-proliferation between the eastern and western hemispheres and its ripple effects through history.
  35. Frommer's Costa Rica 2009
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
  36. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
  37. Hegemony or Survival
    America's Quest for Global Dominance

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
  38. Help or Hindrance?
    United States Economic Aid in Central America

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Help or Hindrance? uncovers why the economic crisis in Central America has worsened as U.S. aid has skyrocketed in the 1980s. This report shows how security and military related aid, hidden under the rubric "economic aid," has far surpassed assistance for economic development, and argues that the positions of the fiscal conservatives, seeking to save U.S. taxpayers' money, and humanitarians, seeking to help the poor, are not necessarily in opposition.
  39. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
  40. Honduras: Rule of law and civil liberties founder in year since coup
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Joint statement on the first anniversary of the 28 June 2009 coup d#état in Honduras.
  41. International Historical Statistics: The Americas and Australia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  42. Latest FOCALPoint is out! Focus on the Brazilian presidential elections, crime in Jamaica and youth violence in Central America.
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The September edition of FOCALPoint focuses on the Brazilian presidential elections, crime in Jamaica, youth violence in Central America and mining in Peru, among other issues.
  43. Living with the Land
    Communities Restoring the Earth

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
  44. A Long and Terrible Shadow
    White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
  45. Making Their Voices Heard
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1987
    An account of international solidarity work in El Salvador.
  46. Memory of Fire: Genesis
    Part One of a Triology

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    A meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New, and an an attempt "to rescue the kidnapped memory of all America." A fierce, impassioned, and kaleidoscopic historical experience that takes us from the creation myths of the Makiritare Indians of the Yukatan to Columbus's first joyous moments in the New World to the English capture of New York.
  47. Memory of Fire: Faces & Masks
    Part Two of a Trilogy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    A view of the 'New World' in the making, from the 1700s to the end of the nineteenth century.
  48. Memory of Fire: Century of the Wind
    Part Three of a Trilogy

    Resource Type: Book
  49. The Narco News Bulletin
    Resource Type: Website
    Reporting on the drug war and democracy. Fostering authentic journalism.
  50. A New Weave
    Popular Education in Canada and Central America

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    A resource for educators working for social change in community groups, trade unions, churches, the peace movement, women's groups, international development organizations, Central America and other solidarity networks.
  51. A New Weave
    Popular Education in Canada and Central America

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    A resource for educators working for social change in community groups, trade unions, churches, the peace movement, women's groups, international development organizations, Central American and other solidarity networks.
  52. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
  53. On Power and Ideology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Five lectures on U.S. international and security policy.
  54. Open Veins of Latin America
    Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
  55. OXFAM Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  56. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
  57. Que es Sources?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    SOURCES (Fuentes) es el medio interactivo que conecta a los periodistas, editores, autores e investigadores, con las Fuentes de información que necesitan para hacer efectivamente su trabajo.
  58. The Real Terror Network
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
  59. Rescuing Memory: the Humanist Interview with Noam Chomsky
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
  60. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Restall explodes myths that were long taken for historical truth and points to a larger and more complex interaction between the indigenous people and the Europeans. He shows how Indian culture adapted and displayed post conquest vitality.
  61. A Short History of Progress
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
  62. The Socialist Register 1983
    Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  63. The Socialist Register 1984
    Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  64. Socialist Register 1991
    Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  65. Society of Citizens of the World
    Resource Type: Book
  66. Sources welcomes Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to strengthening Canadian relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.
  67. teleSUR
    Resource Type: Website
    Venezuelan broadcaster.
  68. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
  69. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
  70. Wobblies & Zapatistas
    Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
  71. World Human Rights Guide, Third Edition
    A Comprehensive, Up-to-date Survey of the Human Rights Records of 104 Major Countries

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  72. Year 501
    The Conquest Continues

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.

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