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
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
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
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
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
Fostering Sustainable Behavior An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing (Third Edition) New Society Publishers	We are consuming resources and polluting our environment at a rate that is outstripping our planet’s ability to support us. To create a sustainable future, we must not only change our own …	Doug McKenzie-Mohr	184	2011	View
Getting to Zero Canada Confronts Global Warming James Lorimer and Company	In this book, long-time social and environmental activist Tony Clarke provides hard-to-find information and analysis about what Canada is and is not doing as of 2018 to get to zero emissions. He …	Tony Clarke	248	2018	View
Holocaust to Resistance My Journey Fernwood Publishing	Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis …	Suzanne Berliner Weiss	320	2019	View
Identity, Place, Knowledge Social Movements Contesting Globalization Fernwood Publishing	Grassroots organizations have long been involved in the education and mobilization of local populations. Through the development of coalition formation, broad-based campaign-organizing and …	Janet M. Conway	304	2004	View
Illusion or Opportunity Civil Society and the Quest for Social Change Fernwood Publishing	The failure of development strategies in the past few decades has given rise to a worldwide movement in the direction of “another development.” This is a form of development that is …	Henry Veltmeyer	142	2007	View