Activism & Social Movements
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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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In this preface, Ashe gives an overview of grassroots activism and municipal reform efforts in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He explains how activists, including those from the African Nova Scotian … | Robert Ashe | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() PrefaceFrom: "At the Barricades" |
Professor Borovoy describes how the memoir came to be written. | Alan Borovoy | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 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 ![]() PrefaceTeaching Peace From: Educating for Action |
In an age of endless war, when history is in perpetual mourning, groaning under the burden of class oppression, peace is a necessary practice. In a world redolent of George Orwell’s novel … | Peter McLaren | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() PrefaceFrom: Almost Feral |
Gemma Hickey | 3 | 2019 | $0.30 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! PrefaceFrom: Class Action |
The Preface reflects on the issues faced by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, or ETFO, in the 2019-2020 school year, as they fought against Doug Ford’s cuts to the … | Andy Hanson | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() PrefaceFrom: Fighting Dirty |
Poh-Gek Forkert | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! PrefaceFrom: Thinking While Black |
In this preface chapter the author detailed their own acedmic career in Canada, intentions for the book and exploring the rebel nation of the 1960s and 1970s. | Daniel McNeil | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! PrefaceFrom: Harvesting Freedom |
Included in the preface is the poem I Am Many Things as well as the details of Gabriel Allahdua’s early life in St.Lucia. The preface also discusses the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program … | Edward Dunsworth | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Preface and IntroductionWhy Do We Need a “People’s History” for the Planet? From: Humans |
In this introductory chapter, the author explains that most histories examine the course of events from the perspective of elites, whereas this book embraces the method of social historians and … | Alvin Finkel | 9 | 2024 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() PrEP Will Not Save UsThe Ghosts of AIDS and Suicide |
This chapter explores suicide among gay men, which has surpassed HIV as the leading cause of death of gay men in Canada. | Kody Muncaster | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Preparing the Ground and Building Your ProfilePart 3. Beginning Your Campaign From: Women Winning Office |
In Preparing the Ground and Building Your Profile Nash discusses how to become known and seen in your area. The chapter explores outreach to Community Leaders, framing ones self as a Community … | Peggy Nash | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() Prescription HeroinFrom: Fighting For Space |
The Downtown Eastside had accomplished a lot as a community. In 2004, Dr. Martin Schechter had secured funding to launch a heroin-maintenance program out of a small clinic in the Downtown … | Travis Lupick | 29 | 2017 | $0.58 Add |
![]() NEW! Pretty Dismal |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Five of Halifax’s 1970 "Encounter on Urban Environment," on tourism and health policy. Both were found to be seriously deficient. | Robert Ashe | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 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 |


















