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- Calling All Radicals
How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
- The Canada Metals story: A chronology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
The ongoing struggle against lead pollution in South Riverdale.
- Citizens Group Scores Success in Anti-lead Battle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1987
Through self-education, out-reach, and activism, the Niagara Neighbourhood Lead Committee has successfully worked to reduce lead risks in their neighbourhood and throughout Canada.
- The Citizen's Guide To Lead
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
The authors of A CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO LEAD accuse governments in Canada of dragging their feet in regulating lead, one of the most common, well-known, extensively studied, and dangerous pollutants in our environment.
- The Citizen's Guide to Lead: Uncovering a Health Hazard
Resource Type: Book
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1987
- EnvironmentSources.com
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
Third Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
See also CX2933.
- Kenya's 'Erin Brockovich' defies harassment to bring anti-pollution case to courts
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Phyllis Omido is leading a landmark class action demanding a clean-up and compensation from a lead-smelting factory accused of poisoning local residents - including her own son.
- Lead poisoning - fighting industrial pollution in Kenya is a dangerous business
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Lead poisoning from industrial pollution has imposed a terrible toll on Kenyans, and single mother Phyllis Omido is no exception -- lead from a nearby metal refinery badly damaged her own son's health. But it was when she decided to fight back against the polluters that a whole new realm of threats and dangers opened up.
- Mercury poison: Grassy Narrows to release new report on devastating health impacts
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
50 years after dumping began governments refuse to acknowledge Minamata Disease.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
- Retired GM worker speaks on three years of the Flint water crisis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The poisoning of the city of Flint continues three long years after the decision was made by politicians and financial speculators to switch city residents to Flint River water. As the world now knows, the corrosive Flint River water leached lead from the antiquated piping system into the homes of residents. Lead is a deadly neurotoxin. Because next to nothing has yet been done to fix the city’s infrastructure, even after the switch back to Detroit water, there is no safe water supply for thousands of residents.
- 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.
- Soil removal a possibility
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
The soil in the South Riverdale area is so contaminated with lead that it may be necessary to remove it.
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