Activism & Social Movements

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
"At the Barricades" A Memoir Irwin Law Inc.	Best known as General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, a position he held for over 40 years, A. Alan Borovoy was at the centre of many of the most profound and difficult …	Alan Borovoy	395	2014	View
About Canada: Children & Youth Fernwood Publishing	Canada is a signatory on the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which guarantees the protection and care of children and youth. About Canada: Children and Youth examines each …	Bernard Schissel	122	2011	View
NEW! About Canada: Disability Rights 2nd Edition Fernwood Publishing	Including people with disabilities fully into Canadian society, with the rights enjoyed by non-disabled people, requires a fundamental social transformation, not simply “fixing” some …	Deborah Stienstra	168	2020	View
Activism That Works Fernwood Publishing	Activism That Works shares the stories of eight diverse social justice movements, from Oxfam Canada, to the Calgary Raging Grannies, to the Youth Project of Halifax, as they contemplate their own …	Elizabeth Whitmore; Maureen G. Wilson	192	2011	View
Almost Feral Breakwater Books	On July 2, 2015, influential social activist Gemma Hickey began a 908-kilometer walk across the island of Newfoundland to raise awareness and funds for survivors of religious institutional abuse. …	Gemma Hickey	264	2019	View
NEW! Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left Recasting the Leftist Imagination Fernwood Publishing	What does the future hold for the left? How does the left adapt to, and prepare for, the crises of our time? In moments of crisis it is always important to rethink longstanding assumptions, …	A.T. Kingsmith; Julian von Bargen; Niko Block; Robert Latham	272	2020	View
Clean Money Revolution Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism New Society Publishers	By 2050, $40 trillion will change hands in North America alone. From Boomers to Millennials, the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in history is underway and the ramifications will remake …	Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge	274	2017	View
[email protected] Fernwood Publishing	[email protected] addresses this deficit by systematically tackling the question of the impact of climate change on work and employment and by analyzing Canada’s conservative silence towards …	Carla Lipsig-Mummé	200	2013	View
Common Threads Weaving Community through Collaborative Eco-Art New Society Publishers	Common Threads is a unique guide to engaging community members in communal handwork for the greater good. Author Sharon Kallis provides a wealth of ideas for: * Working with unwanted natural …	Sharon Kallis	283	2014	View
Constructing Ecoterrorism Capitalism, Speciesism & Animal Rights Fernwood Publishing	Informed by both critical animal studies and critical terrorism studies, John Sorenson analyzes ecoterrorism as a social construction. He examines how corporations that profit from animal …	John Sorenson	278	2016	View
Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada Fernwood Publishing	The criminalization and penalization of poverty through increased surveillance and control of welfare recipients in recent years has led many poverty advocates to claim that “a war against …	Kiran Mirchandani; Wendy Chan	102	2007	View
Educating for Action Strategies to Ignite Social Justice New Society Publishers	The pursuit of freedom and justice is a timeless effort, but new activists may not know where to begin, while more experienced ones often become jaded or fatigued. The task of constructing a new …	Anthony J. Nocella II; Jason Del Gandio	259	2014	View
Emergent Agriculture Farming, Sustainability and the Return of the Local Economy New Society Publishers	Long embraced by corporations who are driven only by the desire for profit, industrial agriculture wastes precious resources and spews millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere …	Gary S. Kleppel	195	2014	View
Expose, Oppose, Propose Alternative Policy Groups and the Struggle for Global Justice Fernwood Publishing	Expose, Oppose, Propose explores the networks, discourses and practices through which transnational alternative policy groups exert political and cultural influence and assesses the challenges …	William K. Carroll	246	2016	View
NEW! Facing the Climate Emergency How to Transform Yourself With Climate Truth New Society Publishers	As the climate crisis accelerates toward the collapse of civilization and the natural world, people everywhere are feeling deep pain about ecological destruction and their role in it. Yet we are …	Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage	162	2020	View
Five Good Ideas Practical Strategies for Non-Profit Success Coach House Books	Non-profits are big business. According to a recent Johns Hopkins report, third-sector institutions in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Japan, the U. S. and Canada have been growing at an average …	Alan Broadbent; Ratna Omidvar	265	2011	View