Activism & Social Movements
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() "At the Barricades"A Memoir |
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 |
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 |
![]() About Canada: Disability Rights2nd Edition |
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 |
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 |
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 |
![]() Challenging the Right, Augmenting the LeftRecasting the Leftist Imagination |
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 RevolutionReinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism |
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] |
[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 ThreadsWeaving Community through Collaborative Eco-Art |
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 EcoterrorismCapitalism, Speciesism & Animal Rights |
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 ActionStrategies to Ignite Social Justice |
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 AgricultureFarming, Sustainability and the Return of the Local Economy |
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, ProposeAlternative Policy Groups and the Struggle for Global Justice |
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 |
![]() Facing the Climate EmergencyHow to Transform Yourself With Climate Truth |
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 IdeasPractical Strategies for Non-Profit Success |
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 BehaviorAn Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing (Third Edition) |
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 |