Connexions Resource Centre
Oral History & Memoirs
Recent & Selected Articles
This is a small sampling of articles related to education and children in the Connexions Online Library. For more articles, books, films, and other resources, check the Connexions Library Subject Index, especially under topics such as
education,
children,
youth,
post-secondary education,
film,
and schools.
- Connexions Archive seeks a new home (November 18, 2009)
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
- Feeling Racism (October 26, 2009)
I have found that when a person has faced racism and discrimination, he can never forget it, it stays with him always. Seeing my mother treated with such disrespect and rudeness, only because of her race, was worse than being discriminated against myself. It burned into my soul, and it will never go away.
- "Solidarity, Not Charity" - Revolution in the Ninth Ward (April 7, 2006)
In New Orleans, the people have stopped being patient with false choices. They have stopped trusting in politicians who represent only themselves and their contributors. They have chosen the common good, and they have bypassed the system that failed them in order to reclaim their lives through direct and positive action.
- Revolutionary Optimist (January 15, 2000)
- Detroiters Remember the 1967 Rebellion (September 1, 1997)
An interview with Ed Vaughn, an eyewitness observer of the 1967 Detroit rebellion, on the event, its causes and its impact on history.
- How Our Lives Have Been Changed (1997)
You understand that there's a "common union" and "community," which of course is where "communion" comes from. That's better than what I had before. The best writers write with their own voice; and in this strike I've learned to speak with a voice I didn't know I had, the verbal rather than written voice.
- Locked Out! One Wife's Story of the Staley Struggle (1997)
- Memories of the Depression (November 2, 1979)
Daily life experiences during the Great Depression.
- Interview with J.J. Lebel 1975 (1975)
As every strike, demonstration, occupation or other kinds of anticapitalist activity which ignores the official labor organisations and escapes their controls, takes on the character of independent working class action, which determines its own organisation and procedures, may be regarded as a council movement; so, on a larger scale, the spontaneous organisation of revolutionary upheavals, such as occurred in Russia in 1905 and 1917, in Germany in 1918, and later – against the state-capitalist authorities -in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland, avail themselves of workers’ councils as the only form of working class actions possible under conditions in which all established institutions and organisations have become defenders of the status quo.
Selected Websites and Organizations
This is a small sampling of organizations and websites concerned with education and children in the Connexions Directory. For more organizations and websites, check the Connexions Directory Subject Index, especially under topics such as
education,
children,
youth,
post-secondary education,
film,
and schools.
Books, Films and Periodicals
This is a small sampling of books related to education and children in the
Connexions Online Library. For more books and other resources, check the Connexions Library
Subject Index, especially under topics such as
education,
children,
youth,
post-secondary education,
film,
and schools.
- Abortion: Stories from North and South
Author: Singer, Gail
Singer's film allows us to see abortions as a global phenomenon which transcends race, religion and boundary. Women from various parts of the world share their experiences. From Ireland where contraception and abortion are illegal, to urban Peru where backstreet abortions are commonplace to Japan where women bound by ancient traditions of formality, deference and silence cannot share their experience of abortion. One of the striking points of the film is that abortion continues to be practiced despite moral and legal constraints. This film is a testimony to the courage and determination of women.
Also available in French: L'Avortement - Histoire secrète.
- American Dreams: Lost and Found
Author: Terkel, Studs
Interviews with 100 Americans who relate their dreams, disappointments, aspirations and experiences.
- First Contract
Women and the Fight to Unionize
Author: Conde, Carol, Beveridge, Karl
Looks at the "personal side" of the struggle of working women to organize themselves into unions and win first contracts.
- Getting There
Producing Photostories With Immigrant Women
Author: Barndt, Deborah, Cristall, Ferne, Marino, Dian
Photostories about immigrant women surviving in and adapting to a new culture.
- Hard Times
An Oral History of The Great Depression
Author: Terkel, Studs
- The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
Author: Equiano, Olaudah
Olaudah Equiano's Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa at the age of eleven, his service as the slave of an officer in the British Navy, and his years of labour on slave ships until he was able to purchase his freedom in 1766. As a free man on a Central American plantation, he supervised slaves; increasingly disgusted by his co-workers, he returned to England in 177. In England he worked for the resettlement of blacks in Sierra Leone, married an Englishwoman, and became a leading and respected figure in the anti-slavery movement.
- Rank and File
Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
Author: Lynd, Alice; Lynd, Staughton (eds.)
A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers
- Street Fighting Years
An Autobiography of the Sixties
Author: Ali, Tariq
Tariq Ali takes readers through the fortunes of the British anti-war movement and the other political movements of the Sixties.
- An Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines
Author: Riordon, Michael
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 York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordan's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
- Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen
Author: Rudd, Mark
Mark Rudd recalls his personal journey from idealistic freshman to student radical to the Weather Underground. He says: "It's about good organizing (Columbia), leading to worse (Weatherman), leading to horrible (the Weather Underground). I hope it's useful to contemporary organizers, as they contemplate how to build the coming mass movement(s)."
- Working
Author: Terkel, Studs
People talk a bout what they do all day and how they feel about what they do.
- You, You and You!
The People Out of Step with World War II
Author: Grafton, Pete
First hand accounts of men, women and children living through World War II.
Resources for Activists
The Connexions Calendar - An event calendar for activists.
Media Names & Numbers - A comprehensive directory of Canada's print and broadcast media. (CX5857).
Sources - A directory that enables journalists to find spokespersons of organizations. Organizations that list themselves in Sources signficantly increase their odds of getting called by reporters when they are doing a story of their issues..
