Activism & Social Movements
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From  NEW! Bodily AutonomyFrom: Abortion to Abolition |
Bodily autonomy is the first principle of reproductive rights. The stories in this first chapter speak to a conceptualization of bodily autonomy in Canada. The first section of this chapter … | Martha Paynter | 35 | 2022 | $3.50 Add |
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From  Building a Protest ConvergenceThe Toronto Community Mobilization Network From: Whose Streets? |
This chapter discusses how the Toronto Community Mobilization Network started preparing, months ahead of time, for oppositional events during the G20 meetings. | Tom Malleson | 14 | 2011 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Building Success in Social ActivismFrom: Activism That Works |
- | Avery Calhoun; Elizabeth Whitmore; Maureen G. Wilson | 18 | 2011 | $1.80 Add |
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From  ButcherFrom: Insurgent Love |
This chapter recounts the friendship between the author and a man convicted of killing his partner. | Ardath Whynacht | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Canadian Labour and COVID-19 |
Only by tearing down the false division between political and economic spheres and questioning the legitimacy of a capitalist economic system that continues to prioritize profits over people … | Larry Savage; Stephanie Ross | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Change for Good TodayChapter 1 From: Change for Good |
Chapter 1 focuses on why businesses today need to deliver value to consumers at the same time as helping to solve social problems. Based on Klein’s own experience helping businesses improve … | Paul Klein | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Changing Patterns in the Literature of Climate Change and Canadian WorkThe Research of Academics, Government and Social Actors From: Climate@Work |
- | Elizabeth Perry | 10 | 2013 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 1: “We Were Maybe Not Going to Save the World, but We Were Going to Save Each Other”: How Disabled Mutual Aid Is Different than Abled Mutual AidPART I: DISABILITY JUSTICE IN THE END TIME From: The Future is Disabled |
This chapter explores how disbaled people supported and kept each other alive during Covid-19. It reflects on the difficulties of the pandemic for disabled people, "crip skills," … | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 1: ArrivalPART I: RED HORIZONS From: Dinner on Mars |
In Chapter 1 the authors imagine what a Martian city would look like in the year 2080. Discussing the chosen location of the city, water access, resources and extraction, food, and how it would … | Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman | 7 | 2022 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Chapter 2Uses and Abuses of Rank From: Somebodies and Nobodies |
What rankism looks like and how pervasive it is in society. The psyche of bullying has its roots in rankism and creates an endless cycle of "kicking the dog." | Robert W. Fuller | 12 | 2004 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Constructing Public EducationFrom: Class Action |
In Constructing Public Education, Hanson provides a history of education in Canada, tracing the evolution of educational institutions and their systems and looking at how educators were trained … | Andy Hanson | 37 | 2021 | $3.70 Add |
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From  Existential Terrorism |
- | John Sorenson | 18 | 2016 | $1.62 Add |
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From  ForewordFrom: Five Good Ideas |
Discussion on non-profits by Craig Kielburger. | Craig Kielburger | 4 | 2011 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Freedom from Want |
- | Bernard Schissel | 16 | 2011 | $2.40 Add |
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From  From the Fur Trade to Big OilFrom: Organizing the 1% |
The Making of Corporate Power | J.P. Sapinski; William K. Carroll | 31 | 2018 | $3.10 Add |
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From  From the Lab to the TrenchesFrom: Fighting Dirty |
The author talks about how he came to join the fight between a small but determined group of rural folks and the biggest garbage company in the world, which happened when he agreed to work as a … | Poh-Gek Forkert | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
