Social Movements
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From  Part 2: OrganizingOn the Line: Pickets and Protests at Gainers From: Roles of Resistance |
This section presents a lesson plan using the historic context of the Gainers Strike in Alberta. Participants learn about organizing, strikes, picket lines, and the power of solidarity. It … | John-Henry Harter; Mark Leier | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From Part 2: OrganizingGreenpeace, Class, and Sealing From: Roles of Resistance |
This section presents a lesson plan using Greanpeace Canada’s anti-stealing campaign to explore the historic divide between the labour and environmental movements. It includes required … | John-Henry Harter; Mark Leier | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Part ThreeFrom: The Mantle of Struggle |
Part three describes Douglas’ life after his return to Dominica in 1976 and leading up to the general election in 2000. It explores his contributions to Domica’s political … | Irving Andre | 76 | 2023 | $7.60 Add |
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From NEW! Part TwoFrom: The Mantle of Struggle |
Part two explores Douglas’ move to Canada to attend Sir George Williams University in Montreal during the 1960s. These chapters detail his life during this time; his civil rights activism … | Irving Andre | 102 | 2023 | $10.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Polished ApplesFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Five of Halifax’s 1970 "Encounter on Urban Environment," on sessions schools. He examines how Halifax school administrators … | Robert Ashe | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! PrefaceFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this preface, Ashe gives an overview of grassroots activism and municipal reform efforts in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He explains how activists, including those from the African Nova Scotian … | Robert Ashe | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Protest’s Changing Contours, 1960–2000: Class Struggles and Indigenous Oppositions |
This chapter provides an overview of the resistance to capitalism and its practices from Indigenous peoples, workers, students and others during the period 1960-2000. Palmer describes how 1960s … | Bryan D. Palmer | 9 | 2026 | $0.90 Add |
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From  NEW! “Quo Vadis?” |
This chapter traces the formation of the Brandon Union Group, a coalition of Italian-Canadian construction workers organizing for fair labour conditions in Toronto during the late 1950s and early … | Gilberto Fernandes | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
Roles of ResistanceGame Plans for Teachers and Troublemakers |
This book outlines lesson plans on how to fight the power with people power. The thirteen lesson plans in this book created by John-Henry Harter and Mark Leier can be used independently or … | John-Henry Harter; Mark Leier | 136 | 2024 | View |
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From  Section FiveFrom: Beryl |
In this section the author describes Beryl’s later stages of life and her reflections on her work, her frustration with current government, and her legacy in the eyes of the public as well … | Dustin Galer | 43 | 2023 | $4.30 Add |
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From Section FourFrom: Beryl |
This section provides a look into Beryl’s fight for accessible public transport, her recognition by the Ontario government her command of storytelling to pursuade, and the beginning of her … | Dustin Galer | 42 | 2023 | $4.20 Add |
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From Section OneFrom: Beryl |
In this section, the author provides context to Beryl’s upbringing, and recounts her arrival to Canada, as well as her starting a family and suffering a tragic accident which alters her … | Dustin Galer | 58 | 2023 | $5.80 Add |
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From Section ThreeFrom: Beryl |
This section continues Beryl’s journey from life-changing accident to becoming a well known disability rights advocate, discussing the impact she was able to have and the struggles she … | Dustin Galer | 62 | 2023 | $6.20 Add |
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From Section TwoFrom: Beryl |
In this section the author details the aftermath of Beryl’s accident and her subsequent problems with addiction, and her resilience and the start of her advocacy and activism. This section … | Dustin Galer | 54 | 2023 | $5.40 Add |
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From  Setting the Stage |
In this chapter, Leah traces the transformation of Canadian auto industry labour organizing from 1934 to the 1937 General Motors strike in Oshawa, Ontario. | Tony Leah | 27 | 2024 | $2.70 Add |
Seven Days in HalifaxWhen citizens confronted the racists, liars and incompetents who ran their city |
Halifax today lives with the results of bad decisions made decades ago. A container port accessible only through narrow downtown streets. A park, bridge and port on the spot where Africville was … | Robert Ashe | 338 | 2025 | View |
