Activism & Social Movements
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From NEW! The Provinces and Territories Amend Their Family LawsPart Two — Provincial Legislation: Assisted Human Reproduction and the Changing Definitions of Family From: Fertility |
In The Provinces and Territories Amend Their Family Laws McTeer examines how the legislatures across Canada developed surprisingly similar rules for parentage in situations of assisted … | Maureen McTeer | 47 | 2022 | $4.70 Add |
From NEW! What Difference Does It Make? |
This chapter describes the efforts of cyclists in Amsterdam to resist the encroachment of cars and keep that city bike-centric. He uses their efforts as a model for how change has to take place … | Sami Grover | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
From NEW! Winning the NominationPart 3. Beginning Your Campaign From: Women Winning Office |
In Winning the Nomination Nash explores how to secure the nomination process. Nash discusses electability, constructing a public narrative, endorsers, communications, and Nash’s own … | Peggy Nash | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
From Xi Jingping’s ChinaFrom: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square Collection: The Rise of 21st Century Fascism |
The book ends with an exploration of Xi Jingping’s China, including a brief overview of the country’s current conflicts, and looks at the future of democracy in China in the context … | Michael Cormier | 17 | 2013 | $1.70 Add |
From Activism That WorksEmergent Themes From: Activism That Works |
- | Avery Calhoun; Elizabeth Whitmore; Maureen G. Wilson | 20 | 2011 | $2.00 Add |
From NEW! Building Your TeamPart 3. Beginning Your Campaign From: Women Winning Office |
In Building Your Team Nash explains how to build a campaign team. The chapter discusses politics as a team sport, forming your inner circle, diversity in your team, payment, and the key team … | Peggy Nash | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
From NEW! Campus Palestine Activism in Ottawa from the 1970s to the 2010sPart III: Close-Ups — Media, Non-Profits, Campuses |
In Chapter 9, Hassan Husseini examines the history of Palestinian Activism on University campuses in Ottawa from the 1970s to the 2010s. Husseini focuses on the work of Palestine solidarity … | Hassan Husseini | 26 | 2022 | $2.60 Add |
From Canadian Labour and the EnvironmentAddressing the Value-Action Gap |
Many of the most valuable things that labour can contribute to the quest for environmental sustainability go beyond its own environmental activities per se, spilling over into the broader … | Dennis Soron | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
From NEW! Change for Good. Good for Change.Chapter 10 From: Change for Good |
Chapter 10 features a discussion about why four globally significant turning points — the Great Recession, the Trump presidency, Black Lives Matter, and COVID-19 — have led to a … | Paul Klein | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 10: Ballrooms of MarsPART IV: RED DAWN From: Dinner on Mars |
Chapter 10 offers a reflection on what a night out would look like for both the authors in the Martian city in 2080. Discussion recreation, work life, pubs, music and dancing, first and second … | Evan D. G. Fraser; Lenore Newman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
From Chapter 9Canada's International Mining Presence From: Unearthing Justice |
This chapter examines the international operations of Canadian mining companies, including some of their exploitative practices and how they are able to avoid being held accountable for their actions. | Joan Kuyek | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
From NEW! Climate Hyprocrites Unite! |
In this chapter Grover ties together the themes of the book, and suggests how climate activists can best accomplish their goals. | Sami Grover | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
From NEW! ConclusionWorlds at Stake From: Worlds at Stake |
The Conclusion offers the author Saad’s final thoughts on where we might find ourselves in the struggle against climate change and what role or roles we may play in the fight against it. | Aaron Saad | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
From ConclusionPandora's Gift From: Intrinsic Hope |
Intrinsic hope is a choice we can each make every moment of our lives. We can’t choose the circumstances of our birth and we may not have much choice about the circumstances of our death, … | Kate Davies | 5 | 2018 | $0.50 Add |
From Designing Group ProjectsFrom: Common Threads |
When I am building a project I try to have entry points for all three (head, heart, hand) so that people can enter from whichever is their comfort zone: • Someone comes into the project … | Sharon Kallis | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
From Diversity and Inequality |
- | John Kearney; Patrick Kerans | 16 | 2006 | $1.60 Add |