Activism & Social Movements
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From  NEW! Police Use of Force in CanadaDispelling the Myth of Difference |
In Police Use of Force in Canada author Julius Haag examines the myth that police violence is a primarily American problem rooted in a deeply ingrained systemic and structural racism that is not … | Julius Haag | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Police Violence and State Repression at the Toronto G20The Facts From: Whose Streets? |
From Whose Streets?: The Toronto G20 and the Challenges of Summit Protest | The Movement Defence Committee | 11 | 2011 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Policing the Window: The Case of the Indigo 11From: Razing Palestine |
In this chapter, King examines the November 2023 postering of an Indigo bookstore window in Toronto and the disproportionate police response that followed. | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add | |
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From  Politics of Fear |
John Sorenson | 25 | 2016 | $2.25 Add | |
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From  Politics versus PeopleFrom: Hope Is a Woman's Name |
In this chapter, Alh’jooj describes her experiences navigating daily encounters that challenge the boundaries between ethnic identity and shared humanity. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Popular Reaction to the First World War and the 1930s Great DepressionFrom: Humans |
This chapter examines popular resistance during the First World War and its aftermath. It also reviews the efforts to find a more humane alternative to the capitalist economic system, … | Alvin Finkel | 48 | 2024 | $4.80 Add |
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From  PortapiqueFrom: Insurgent Love |
This chapter explores the mass murders in Portapique, Nova Scotia, in 2020. | Ardath Whynacht | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Portents and prophecies |
In a central paradox, the one we’re running out of time to resolve, the consequences of burning fossil fuels are poised to demolish two centuries of benefit. So how do we make the fight … | Arno Kopecky | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Postcolonial and Transformative Education in the University of the Phillipines |
Karlo Mikhail I. Mongaya; Sarah Raymundo | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add | |
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From  Postwar FalloutFrom: The Einstein File |
This chapter explores Einstein’s reaction to– as well as broader conversations during the period surrounding– the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and developments in nuclear … | Fred Jerome | 62 | 2018 | $6.20 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  NEW! Power Protects ItselfPart 1. Who Gets to Lead? From: Women Winning Office |
In Power Protects Itself Nash explores some of the many barriers women face when entering politics. A few of the barriers examined in the chapter include systemic biases, Westminster … | Peggy Nash | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Power Sharing, Community Leadership and Dynamic Governance at the SHIFT Centre for Social TransformationFrom: Interrupting Innovation |
In this chapter, the authors examine how the SHIFT Centre at Concordia University in Montreal employs shared power and community governance to drive social justice since its 2019 founding. | Cheryl Gladu; Stephanie Childs | 24 | 2025 | $2.40 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 |
