Political Activism
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From  AppendixWhere to Start? Practical Tips for Getting Involved Right Now From: Ecology for the 99% |
This appendix outlines a few simple principles to help get you started in activism. | Alain Savard; Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier; Charles Simard; Clément de Gaulejac; Frédéric Legault | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Armed StruggleFrom: Languages of the Unheard |
“Armed struggle” refers to intentionally using armed force to kill or injure people. Some groups, like Direct Action in Canada, injured people accidentally, but did not target them … | Stephen D'Arcy | 32 | 2013 | $3.20 Add |
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From  At the Parthenais Detention CentreFrom: In Defiance |
Actions of the police: protection or intimidation? | Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Bao Tong’s Fall |
This chapter begins with the story of Bao Tong, a former senior Chinese official who was arrested for supporting the Tiananmen Square protesters. The chapter goes on to explore Bao Tong’s … | Michael Cormier | 26 | 2013 | $2.60 Add |
 BerylThe Making of the Disability Activist |
A survivor of more than one hundred surgeries, a dangerous opioid addiction, and multiple suicide attempts, Beryl Potter devoted herself to bettering the lives of other people with disabilities … | Dustin Galer | 318 | 2023 | View |
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From  Bondage FreeFrom: Resist! |
Gian Mura | 2 | 2001 | $0.20 Add | |
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From  NEW! Breaking Barriers: My Journey as a Hard-of-Hearing Candidate in Toronto’s Municipal ElectionFrom: Living Disability |
Igor Samardzic writes about running for city council in Toronto in 2022 as a disabled person. He discusses his experience of hearing loss, his use of hearing aids, and how his relationship with … | Igor Samardzic | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Bucking a Losing TrendGlimpses of Grassroots Unionism From: Quiet No More |
Chapter three then studies the impact of grassroots activism in trade unions. Following a review of the debate on the “crisis” in working class politics, I bring in examples to … | Joel D. Harden | 48 | 2013 | $4.80 Add |
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From Buidling Sustainable Communities of ResistanceFrom: Resist! |
Sarah Lamble | 7 | 2001 | $0.70 Add | |
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From  Building a Protest ConvergenceThe Toronto Community Mobilization Network From: Whose Streets? |
This chapter discusses how the Toronto Community Mobilization Network started preparing, months ahead of time, for oppositional events during the G20 meetings. | Tom Malleson | 14 | 2011 | $1.40 Add |
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From “Canada Can’t Hide Genocide”Marching for Indigenous Rights From: Whose Streets? |
Lisa Currier | 4 | 2011 | $0.40 Add | |
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From Caught in the CrossfireFrom: Whose Streets? |
Elroy Yau | 3 | 2011 | $0.30 Add | |
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From  NEW! Chapter 15: Women’s Work and Capitalism’s Changing Employment Opportunities, 1910-29 |
This chapter outlines how women’s waged work expanded in the early decades of the twentieth century with employment in offices, banking, and retail. | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 19: Outcasts and Dissidents in the Early 1930s |
This chapter discusses the examines the 1930s hobo jungles emerged due to the unemployment crisis and militant groups such as the Communist Worker’s Unity League (WUL) and the 1935 … | Bryan D. Palmer | 16 | 2025 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 20: Communists, CCFers, Workers, and the Unemployed1937, a Year of Rebellion |
This chapter discusses the role played by the Popular Front united Canadian Communists and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in the anti-fascist cause. | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 22: Crisis, Politics, Colonized PeoplesFirst Nations and Métis in the 1930s |
This chapter examines how during the 1930s Indigenous Peoples suffered enormous poverty, disease and tuberculosis, coercive laws and intensified efforts at assimilation through institutions such … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
