1. Addressing the Violence: My Roadmap to Peace 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2007
   In order for peace to set sail there should be some guiding principles. The most important is equality. This is not to say that the conflict is between two equals. Overwhelming Israeli power and unconditional United States support has no comparison on the Palestinian side, other than the tragic balance of terror that has been reached with Israel through suicide bombing. But neither side should be treated differently from the other.
2. Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1984
   
3. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
   Resource Type: Book
   
4. The Amazon: Thirst for justice
   New Internationalist May 1991
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1991
   A look at the people who inhabit the Amazon rainforest, mainly focused on Brazil. Discussion of how the locals manage their environment and why many are migrating to urban centres.
5. The Anarchists
   The men who shocked an era
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1971
   The history and ideology of anarchism.
6. Another world is possible if... 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2004
   Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
7. Anti-abortion violence
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Violence committed against individuals and organizations that provide abortion.
8. Avenge But One of My Two Eyes
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   First Published: 2006
   Israeli director Avi Mograbi documents what he calls the "culture of death" in the psychology of Israel the occupier.
9. Buda's Wagon
   A Brief History of the Car Bomb
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development. In his analysis, he also exposes the role of state intelligence agencies — particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan — in globalizing urban terrorist techniques
10. Canada, Politics and Direct Action
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1983
    Editorial regarding activities of group calling itself 'Direct Action'.
11. The Challenge to Violence
    New Internationalist August 2005 - #381
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2005
    Stories which explain the power of nonviolent actions and how they have made a difference in the world.
12. The Chicago Anarchists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1887
    The working-class are up in arms about this matter. Anarchist, Socialist, anti-Anarchist, anti-Socialist alike are astonished, indignant, thoroughly aroused. Everywhere, except in Chicago, meetings are being held, resolution condemnatory of this judicial murder are being passed.
13. A climate of fear endangers press freedom
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Today, the greatest threats to freedom of the press are more insidious than a generation ago because they are intended to induce a climate of fear and self-censorship through systematic violence and emblematic arrest aimed at those who would practice real, independent journalism.
14. Color of Violence
    The INCITE! Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    
15. Critique of Nonviolent Politics 
    From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 2002
    Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
16. Dances with Guilt: Looking at Men Looking at Violence 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    Why are some men violent?
17. Designing Pacifist Films 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1961
    
18. Disaster and Mental Health
    The Palestinian Experience
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    The continuing Israeli military occupation of Gaza is the cause of deep and widespread trauma for Palestinian children and adults.
19. 'Diversity of tactics' as a justification for violent tactics - a debate, part 1
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    
20. Drawing the Line 
    The Political Essays of Paul Goodman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977   Published: 1979
    
21. Ethnicity and Politics in South Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    
22. The Everyday Activist
    365 Ways to Change the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
23. Fighting for Hope 
    Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
24. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    
25. The futility of activism using violence as catharsis
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The anarchist practitioners of violence are fundamentally elitist. They do violence because it makes them feel good, and they don't care about the fact that it undermines the real work for social change that movement activists are doing.
26. Gandhi's Truth
    On the origins of militant nonviolence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
27. The Global Gang Thang
    A World of Change: Armed Young Men and Gansta Culture (Globalization and Community)
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    
28. History of union busting in the United States
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Union Busting is a term used by labor organizations and trade unions to describe the activities that may be undertaken by employers, their proxies, workers and in certain instances states and governments usually triggered by events such as picketing, card check, organizing, and strike actions.
29. How Islamist gangs use internet to track, torture and kill Iraqi gays
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Iraqi militias infiltrate internet gay chatrooms to hunt their quarry – and hundreds are feared to be victims.
30. How they shot those campus bums
    Review of The Truth About Kent State
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    How Ohio National Guard troops out to "get" campus radicals and teach them "what law and order is all about" shot down students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four and wounding nine others.
31. The Illegals
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1908
    For the anarchist, if he doesn’t care about bourgeois legality and honesty, must above all aim at preserving himself as long as possible for action and realizing to the greatest extent possible for himself the life he desires . His work, rather than appearing harmful and destructive, should be a work of life, a long apostolate of stubborn labor, of goodness, of love.
32. In the name of GOD The abuses of religion
    New Internationalist August 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    Discusses the relationship between religion. The role of religion within political issues.
33. Inventing Reality 
    The Politics of News Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
34. Islamic Peril
    Media And Global Violence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    
35. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
36. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
    
37. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
38. Men's Work
    How to Stop the Violence that Tears Our Lives Apart
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    
39. Moral Panic
    Biopolitics Rising
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Biopolitics, politics based on the grievances of sex and race, is said to distort facts especially with respect to violence against women.
40. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
41. On Cowardice and Violence
    Reflections by a Former US Marine on the Mavi Marmara
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    On the morning of the attack I was directly involved in the disarming of two Israeli Commandos. This was a forcible, non-negotiable, separation of weapons from commandos who had already murdered two brothers that I had seen that day.
42. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
43. The Psychology of Political Violence
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1917
    Compared with the wholesale violence of capital and government, political acts of violence are but a drop in the ocean. That so few resist is the strongest proof how terrible must be the conflict between their souls and unbearable social iniquities.
44. Red Emma Speaks
    Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
45. Reporting Gender Based Violence
    A Handbook for Journalists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Violence Against Women has presented particular challenges to the media and to society because of the way it has been consigned to the "private" sphere -- dampening public discussion and stifling media debate. Yet, the media has the potential to play a lead role in changing perceptions that, in turn, can help galvanize a movement for change. This toolkit seeks to help reporters and news managers grapple with the challenge of reporting gender based violence is a way that doe snot perpetuate gender stereotypes but informs and encourages public debate.
46. Revolution in the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    
47. The Role of Force in History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1887
    
48. The Seventh Fire
    The Struggle for Aboriginal Government
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Describes the struggles of aboriginal people to run their own affairs.
49. The Sixties 
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
    
50. The Social Organization of Family Violence:
    An Ethnography of Immigrant Experience in Vancouver
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    
51. States of Denial
    Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    
52. Strike! 
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
53. Strikebreaker
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A strikebreaker or scab is a person who works despite an ongoing strike. Strikebreakers are usually individuals who are not employed by the company prior to the trade union dispute, but rather hired prior to or during the strike to keep production or services going. "Strikebreakers" may also refer to workers (union members or not) who cross picket lines to work.
54. Student Power and the Canadian Campus
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    
55. The Throes of Democracy
    Brazil since 1989
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    
56. Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    How to push for social change without breaking the law.
57. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
58. Union busting
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A wide range of activities undertaken by employers, their proxies, and governments, which hinder workers from freely organizing, joining and maintaining trade unions.
59. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1962
    Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
60. Violence and the Newspaper Strike
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    To those who still allow their anti-union biases and their exposure to employer misinformation to cloud their perception of reality, I would pose the following question: If the employer and its supporters are really the victimized peace-loving martyrs that they pretend to be, why are the union members the ones who always end up in the hospital?
61. Violence Today
    Actually Existing Barbarism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Looks at violence in many contexts: violence by men against women, violence by the state in inner cities, prisons, politically motivated violence and terror and the superabundance of weapons. Reflection is given to the sources of imperialism and globalized capitalism. The opening essay offers an overview of the scale and variety of contemporary violence while also taking up once again the question of socialism versus barbarism. Other essays analyze the nature and roots of paradigmatic cases and types of violence today around the world. Several essays deal from various different standpoints, with the still important question of whether violence has any place in socialist strategy in the context of today’s actually-existing barbarism.
62. The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
    Will the Wall Bring Down Israel?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    During his years of struggle in South Africa, Nelson Mandela offered ideas worth examining closely, especially when considering that he and his followers defeated the very condition that Palestinians face today, Apartheid.
63. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
    
64. Weatherman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    A history of the Weatherman organization.
65. Web of Hate
    Inside Canada's Far Right Network
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Kinsella asserts that some 40 groups are more dangerous than commonly perceived because of their violence and aggressive recruitment.
66. When Hate Groups Come to Town
    A Handbook of Model Community Responses
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1986
    A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
67. Wobblies & Zapatistas 
    Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
68. Women's rights: What have men got to do with it?
    New Internationalist November 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    A look at the relations between men and women dealing with equality.

Experts on Violence in the Sources Directory

1. ARETE safety and protection inc.
2. The Canadian Initiative on Workplace Violence
3. The Canadian Safe School Network (CSSN)
4. Central American Integration System
5. International Development Law Organization
6. Ontario Public Health Association
7. Simon Fraser University
8. University of Winnipeg