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Connexions 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.
Peace Activist Spends Last Days Resisting War, Supporting Kim Rivera2012-09-13
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
In the last days of her life, wheelchair bound and terminally ill, peace activist and author Shirley Farlinger will be in Nathan Phillips Square to hold a sign in support of Kim Rivera, the Iraq war r...
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Canadian group not dealing with major free expression issueCelebrating World Press Freedom Day
Fillmore, Nick
Article
2014
We need to address how corporate-owned mainstream news organizations restrict the freedom of journalists and prevent the public from having access to a wide variety of important news and opinion artic...
Egypt's civil society facing renewed government crackdownHuman Rights Watch
Article
2015
IFEX
If the Egyptian authorities are successful in their attempt to prevent non-governmental organisations from working, independent civil society in Egypt risks being wiped out.
The Environmental Movement at the CrossroadsGang Green or New Green?
Zeese, Kevin; Flowers, Margaret
Article
2013
CounterPunch
There is a growing culture of resistance in the environment movement
Frequently Asked Questions about SourcesArticle
2009
Sources
SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, authors and researchers with the sources they need for their work. SOURCES spotlights organizations, institutions, government agencies, c...
Getting your story into the mediaArticle
2009
Sources
Stories are the heart and soul of the media. Journalism is about telling stories, and good stories require sources # human contacts, the people who provide informed comment and expertise, the people w...
He who pays the piper...Diemer, Ulli
Article
1977
Seven News
Community groups have become dependent on government money resulting in an erosion of their community base and their independence.
Helping you reach the mediaHow Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
Article
2009
Sources
Media coverage is the most valuable kind of publicity there is because it is based on the news value or information value of what you do or say, and is therefore far more credible than paid publicity ...
NGOs Are CagesHow Capitalists Control Mass Movements
McMillan, Stephanie
Article
2014
CounterPunch
We really need to understand the methods used by NGOs to undermine radical political organizing efforts and divert us into political dead ends.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 2, 2014Climate Change
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2014
Connexions
This issue of Other Voices looks at why so many people deny or ignore the very real and very near threat of climate change. We also look into the ways on how NGOs tame and undermine grassroots movemen...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urb...
Saudi Warplanes Destroy MSF Hospital in YemenAt Least Two Staff Hurt in Attacks
Ditz, Jason
Article
2015
Antiwar.com
Adding to concerns about Saudi attacks on civilians in Yemen, an overnight air raid against the capital city of Sanaa pounded a residential district, hitting several homes, a girl's school, and destro...
Save the corporations… I mean childrenFuller, Roslyn
Article
2014
RT.com
When Save the Children chose to bestow the Global Legacy Award on Tony Blair, the charity inadvertently revealed the dark underbelly of NGO activity.
Save the Fat CatsMurray, Craig
Article
2014
Craig Murray
Very few charities are in any sense independent any more. Save the Children Fund gets 176 million pounds – over half its income - in grants from various governments, including over 80 million from the...
Sick Sophistry: BBC News On Afghan Hospital "Mistakenly" Bombed by United StatesMedia Lens
Article
2015
Dissident Voice
One of the defining features of the corporate media is that Western crimes are ignored or downplayed. The US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on the night of Octo...
Silence in NGO DiscourseBarker, Micheal
Article
2017
CounterPunch
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) maintain a ubiquitous presence in most peoples lives (whether they realize it or not). It therefore should be a commonsense act that we scrutinize NGO activities ...
Sources gives you powerful tools to help you stand out from the crowdArticle
2009
Sources
An overview of how you can use SOURCES to amplify your message.
SOURCES is a media service that connects journalists, editors, writers, producers and researchers with the sources they need for their ...
US Lies and Excuses for Bombing HospitalCook, Jonathan
Article
2015
Dissident Voice
Here is the US changing its story for the FOURTH time of why it launched an air strike on the Doctors without Borders hospital in the Afghan town of Kunduz at the weekend, massacring at least 22 patie...
The Useful Altruists: How NGOs Serve Capitalism and ImperialismMcMillan, Stephanie; Kelley, Vincent
Article
2015
CounterPunch
NGOs are far from revolutionary organizations, but many of us would think that their work still seems more helpful than not. Political differences with them aside, it seems dogmatic to denounce free h...
Why are our environmental groups supporting weak climate targets?Fillmore, Nick
Article
2016
A Different Point of View (Nick Fillmore Blog)
The federal government's recently announced that all Canadian jurisdictions must adopt a carbon pricing scheme by 2018 with a minimum price of $10 per tonne. The price must rise to reach $50 per tonne...
Sources Bookshelf
Connexions 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...
The Connexions DirectoryA Directory of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Serial Publication (Periodical)
An electronic directory of Canadian non-profit advocacy organizations concerned with social and environmental issues; indexed by subject.
Press for Conversion #62May 2008
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2008
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) helped overthrow the democratically-elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide in 2004. In the years prior to this US-led regime change, although...
Press for Conversion #63November 2008
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2008
CIDA-funded "NGOs" in Canada rationalized the destabilization and overthrow of Haitian democracy and then covered up the atrocities of the Canadian-backed dictatorship after the coup. This issue exami...
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