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From  1928-1936: Communists Build a Foundation |
In this chapter, Leah traces Communist efforts to organize auto workers across Canada from 1928 to 1936, building toward the landmark 1937 Oshawa strike at General Motors. | Tony Leah | 21 | 2024 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! A Brief Introduction to Anti-colonial Abolition |
In A Brief Introduction to Anti-colonial Abolition the Free Lands Free People group discusses how two facets of the Canadian penal system– policing and prisons– function to maintain … | Free Lands Free Peoples | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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From  A Drug Dealer Finds ActivismFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on the life of Dean Wilson who was dubbed “Canada’s most famous junkie”. Wilson joined the burgeoning team at PHS and worked alongside Livingston and … | Travis Lupick | 22 | 2017 | $0.44 Add |
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From NEW! A History of Toronto Activism against Anti-Blackness |
In A History of Toronto Activism against Anti-Blackness author Ruth Nortey examines the history of anti-black racism in Toronto policing over the past 40 years. The chapter discusses topics … | Ruth Nortey | 12 | 2022 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! A Just Fossil Fuel Phase-OutFrom: The End of This World |
Chapter 3 focuses on the oil and gas industry, as it represents a much larger share of fossil fuel production by emissions than coal and has a stronger political influence, and because the … | Angele Alook; Bronwen Tucker; Crystal Lameman; David Gray-Donald; Emily Eaton; Joël Laforest | 21 | 2023 | $2.10 Add |
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From  A Mountain of GarbageFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter traces developments in this case, and the work of citizens to fight against the landfill expansion. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 7 | 2017 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! A Sudan and Palestine: Resisting Erasure in the Attention EconomyFrom: Razing Palestine |
In this chapter, Elmardi examines violence in Sudan and Palestine, tracing how colonial legacies, capital interests, and the global attention economy conspire to render both crises invisible. | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add | |
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From NEW! Abolishing Carceral Social Work |
In Abolishing Carceral Social Work the authors argue against the idea of professional social work as a desirable alternative to policing and instead use ideas from radical social workers, mental … | Craig Fortier; Edward Hon-Sing Wong; MJ Rwigema; Nicole Penak | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
 NEW! 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 … | 168 | 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 … | Avery Calhoun; Elizabeth Whitmore; Maureen G. Wilson | 192 | 2011 | View |
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From Activism That Works: Emergent ThemesFrom: Activism That Works |
From Activism That Works: | Avery Calhoun; Elizabeth Whitmore; Maureen G. Wilson | 20 | 2011 | $2.00 Add |
 Advocating for Palestine in CanadaHistories, Movements, Action |
Why is it so difficult to advocate for Palestine in Canada and what can we learn from the movement’s successes? This account of Palestine solidarity activism in Canada grapples with these … | Emily Regan Wills; Jeremy Wildemen; Michael Bueckert; Nadia Abu-Zahra | 241 | 2022 | View |
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From NEW! Against the Social Harms of Policing |
In Against the Social Harms of Policing author Kevin Walby examines how police abolition is an ethic for diminishing reliance on police by using community development to reduce the conflicts and … | Kevin Walby | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From Alberta College of Social Workers: Doing the Right ThingFrom: Activism That Works |
From Activism That Works: | Rod Adachi | 9 | 2011 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Alternative Knowledge Projects and Cognitive PraxisFrom: Expose, Oppose, Propose |
Elaine Coburn; William K. Carroll | 25 | 2016 | $2.50 Add | |
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From  Amending and Enforcing the LawFrom: "At the Barricades" |
Campaign to enact legislation against housing discrimination, and the early years of the Ontario Human Rights Commission. | Alan Borovoy | 21 | 2014 | $2.10 Add |
