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  1. Against All Odds
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1985
    The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
  2. Bi Any Other Name
    Bisexual People Speak Out
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  3. Breaking the Bonds
    The Realities of Sexually Open Relationships
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
  4. Circles of Strength
    Community Alternatives to Alienation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Forsey, an activist and writer who works with the Federation of Egalitarian Communites has put together a collection of essays, and interviews with First Nations, religious orders and rural intentional communities giving their views and experiences as communities.
  5. Common Sense for Hard Times
    The Power of the Powerless with Everyday Life and Transform Society in the 1970s
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
  6. Communes in America
    The Place Just Right
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  7. Communes U.S.A.
    A Personal Tour
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  8. Community Dreams
    Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  9. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  10. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 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 of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  11. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
  12. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  13. Fighting for Hope
    Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  14. Global Visions
    Beyond the News World Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  15. Group Marriage
    A Study of Contemporary Multilateral Marriage
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  16. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  17. The Need for Alternative Employment
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
  18. New Options for America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  19. The New Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
  20. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
  21. The People's Report
    A Social and Economic Alternative for B.C.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  22. The Preservation Institute
    The Natural Environment : The Social Environment
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Today, most people recognize that modernization and growth can harm the natural environment. The Preservation Institute believes that modernization also damages the social environment - that many of our social problems are side-effects of modernization and economic growth. To preserve the natural environment and the social environment, we must modernize selectively. Factory mass production is an efficient way of producing most goods that used to be made by hand. But we are in danger of using the same centralized, standardized methods for every aspect of life, from housing to retail shopping to child care.
  23. Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  24. Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
  25. To Have or To Be?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  26. The Uses of Disorder
    Resource Type: Book
  27. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1962
  28. The Youth Communes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
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