Grassroots Activism
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  Police Violence and State Repression at the Toronto G20The Facts From: Whose Streets? |
The Movement Defence Committee | 11 | 2011 | $1.10 Add | |
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From  Poverty and Health“I’m One Stumble from the Street” From: Persistent Poverty |
Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 11 | 2010 | $1.10 Add | |
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From Poverty Makes Us SickFrom: Persistent Poverty |
Dennis Raphael | 11 | 2010 | $1.10 Add | |
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From Precarious WorkHow Lax Employment Standards Perpetuate Poverty From: Persistent Poverty |
Mary Gellatly | 10 | 2010 | $1.00 Add | |
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From  PrefaceHow This Book Came to Be From: Standing on High Ground |
Rosemary Cornell, Adrienne Robnies, and Tim Bray, discuss how this book came to be. First of their meeting while resisting the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) in 2018, and the work it … | Adrienne Drobnies; Rosemary Cornell; Tim Bray | 2 | 2024 | $0.20 Add |
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From  PrefaceWhy Write This Book? From: Quiet No More |
Outlines the authors history of Activism and how he came to the point of writing this book. His qualifications on the subject and the focus of the book | Joel D. Harden | 7 | 2013 | $0.70 Add |
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From Persistent Poverty IntroductionThe Work of Hundreds of People From: Persistent Poverty |
The Introduction describes the process by which the the Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition (ISARC) gathered the material for this book through a 2010 social audit process that engaged … | Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 5 | 2010 | $0.50 Add |
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From From: Whose Streets? |
In 2010 G20 leaders met in Toronto to pursue an agenda of bailouts and austerity measures. Unsurprisingly, thousands of people gathered in Toronto for ten days of action to oppose these … | David Wachsmuth; Tom Malleson | 15 | 2011 | $1.50 Add |
Quiet No MoreNew Political Activism in Canada and Around the Globe |
Spontaneous and creative protest movements have burst onto the political stage in Canada and around the world. Joel D. Harden, an activist, writer, and educator, offers a ground-level account of … | 264 | View | ||
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From  NEW! Rasta Cape TownFrom: Messy Cities |
Kofi Hope reflects on their experience living in Cape Town, South Africa, and how the Rastafarians they met there were messy urbanists: community builders, peacemakers, entrepreneurs, … | Dylan Reid | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Reasons for HopeFrom: Intrinsic Hope |
Life goes on whether we choose to show up for it or not. Living from a stance of hope is the only positive and constructive course of action. In my own life, I often feel overwhelmed and hopeless … | Kate Davies | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! RenegadesFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe explains how a key provincial government official sought economic revitalization via an invervention by a panel of outside experts. | Robert Ashe | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Criminalization of Protest |
Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines Indigenous activism in Canada with particular focus on Idle No More and Defenders of the Land and how the Canadian government’s strategy is to use … | Arthur Manuel | 5 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Rock ‘n’ Roll Revival in Toronto |
This chapter investigates the rest of the summer of 1967 following the Montreal Bed-in. It discusses John and Yoko’s travels throughout Canada, the notable Canadians who they met and the … | Greg Marquis | 46 | 2020 | $4.60 Add |
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From Rural PovertyHidden in the Country? From: Persistent Poverty |
Brice Balmer; Jamie Swift; Mira Dineen | 11 | 2010 | $1.10 Add | |
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From NEW! Satisfying Our Thirst for AgencyFrom: Messy Cities |
Colin Ellard argues that our desire for messy cities is connected to the desire human beings feel towards the complexity of the natural world. | Dylan Reid | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
