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Sources Experts & SpokespersonsNews ReleasesConnexions Archive seeks a new home2009-11-18 Connexions Information Sharing Services The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home. Grassroots Archives: Preservation as subversion?2012-10-08 Ulli Diemer of Connexions, a social justice library and archive - www.connexions.org - discusses problems facing grassroots archives at a talk sponsored by the Humanist Association of Toronto (HAT). Sources welcomes Michael Riordon2010-04-14 Michael Riordon Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio a... Sources Select ResourcesThe Case for Grassroots ArchivesDiemer, Ulli Article 2012 Connexions Information Sharing Services Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden historie... Community Organising - A New Part of the UnionGoulding, Richard Article 2012 Red Pepper A look at Unite’s community union organizing. Connexions Library: Organizing Focus PageWebsite Connexions Information Sharing Services Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library. Dignity of the NobodiesLa dignidad de los nadies Solanas, Fernando E. Film/Video 2005 The degraded socio-economic condition of Argentina leading to the December 2001 rebellions, and its consequent social chaos analyzed by focusing on real people from Buenos Aires' poorest shantytowns, ... Disputed TerritoryThe green economy versus community-based economies Overbeek, Winnie; Pazos, Flavio Film/Video 2012 World Rainforest Movement A story of the peoples of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil, looking at what happens when so-called "green economy" projects move into the area, clearning the forest, and taking over the land. Film Review: Revolutionary Medicine - A Story of the First Garifuna HospitalSugiyama, Jim Article 2014 Upside Down World A review of the provocative documentary Revolutionary Medicine, which tells the story of the first Garifuna hospital, in Honduras. Greece's solidarity movement: 'it's a whole new model - and it's working'Henley, Jon Article 2015 The Guardian Citizen-run health clinics, food centres, kitchens and legal aid hubs have sprung up to fill the gaps left by austerity – and now look set to play a bigger role under a Syriza government. An Interracial Movement of the PoorCommunity Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s Frost, Jennifer Article 2001 New York University Press John Kerry and MeGiordane, Al Article 2012 Narco News Experiences in community organizing and electoral organizing. Madrid barrio expels 'racist' police patrolsJeering crowds chase away officers who try to detain immigrants Tremlett, Giles Article 2011 The Guardian Community protests police practice of racial profiling: the protests have been dubbed the "indignant" movement. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of MemoryPreservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future? Article 2012 Connexions and Beit Zatoun CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). G... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015Organizing Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 Connexions The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work ... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015Elections Diemer, Ulli (editor); Richwood, Darien Yawching (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 connexions Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about ch... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015Climate Change and Social Change Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 Connexions This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a produ... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016Working class organizing Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 Connexions Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. I... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016Tax Evasion Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 Connexions Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation the... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 2, 2016Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Article 2016 Connexions Brexit, the British vote to leave the European Union, has thrown the political elites into turmoil and confusion. The referendum was supposed to be a safe political manoeuvre, a way to produce an appe... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017Public Transit Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2017 Connexions Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018Hearts and Minds: How do People Change? Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2018 Connexions How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental soc... Place-Based Imagination: Globalism and the Politics of PlaceDirlik, Arif Article 1999 Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center Place-consciousness, according to Duke University historian Arif Dirlik, is the "radical other" of global capitalism. Red Menace #1Volume 1, Number 1 - February 1976 Article 1976 Toronto Liberation School The first issue of The Red Menace, a libertarian socialist newsletter. Seven NewsSerial Publication (Periodical) 1970 Seven News Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no long... Seven News: The Story of a Community NewspaperHorrocks, Lisa Article 1984 An essay about the Toronto community newspaper Seven News, written in 1984 by Lisa Horrocks, who was part of Seven News as a staff or board member for a number of years. Social Activist Grace Lee Boggs on Shaking Up the Status Quo in AmericaFilm/Video 2007 Moyers & company Grace Lee Boggs has been a part of almost every major movement in the United States in the last 75 years, including: Labor, Civil Rights, Black Power, Women’s Rights and Environmental Justice. Sources BookshelfConnexions Annual 1994A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 1994 Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series... An Unauthorized Biography of the WorldOral History on the Front Lines Riordon, Michael Book 2004 This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New ... |
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