1. Against All Odds
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First 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. Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1984
   
3. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
   Resource Type: Book
   
4. Alternatives Information
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Online social change library.
5. Another World is Possible
   Globalization and anti-capitalism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2002   Published: 2006
   A polemic call-to-arms for all progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
6. Beyond Voting
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   By all means vote if you feel like it. But don’t stop there. Real social change requires participation, not representation.
   
7. Challenging McWorld
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2001
   
8. Changing The Cogs
   Activists and the Politics of Technology
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1979
   What are the best ways to achieve beneficial change in society? Will widespread use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources bring about a good society? What technologies will be promoted by vested interests in government and big business?
   
9. The Children's Crusade
   The Story of the Company of Young Canadians
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1970
   
10. Class Warfare
    Interviews with David Barsamian
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    
11. A Coal Miner's Call for Revolution
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    I invite you to join with me in dedicating a portion of our lives to the task of bringing about political revolution. In the words of a great lady, Mother Jones: Let us pray for the dead but fight like hell for the living.
12. Coming Back to Life
    Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    A guidebook for dealing with the despair that stands in the way our our changing the world.
    
13. Communication for and Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
14. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
15. The Connexions Annual 1989: A Social Change Sourcebook
    Information and Ideas About Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
    The 1989 edition of the Canadian directory of grassroots groups working for social and environmental alternatives.
    
16. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First 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.
    
17. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    
18. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   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.
19. 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."
20. Defiant Publics
    The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Drache says that the new communications technologies of the contemporary information revolution are permitting new forms of transnational communication that are creating global consciousness and global citizenship.
21. Diagnosis, Goals and Methods of Social Change
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    Outline of several diagnoses of the state of social systems and institutions.
22. Directory of Progressive Organizations
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A list of activist organizations which are members of IGC.
23. Doom and Gloom 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Jermey Brecher says that the social roots of doom are part of a common pattern that we can observe repeatedly in history. People live their lives and pursue their goals by means of strategies that have been developed over time. But sometimes they discover their established strategies aren't working. No matter how hard they try, their problems remain intractable. The natural result is despair. But the awareness that other people are experiencing the same despair changes the context in which it is experienced. It opens up new possibilities. Perhaps the problems that we despair of solving as individuals can be addressed through some kind of collective action. When people begin to explore that possibility, the result may be a social movement.
24. Drawing the Line 
    The Political Essays of Paul Goodman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977   Published: 1979
    
25. Educating for a Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    For the authors of Ecuating for a Change, genuine democracy does not happen solely through our political and educational work. Democratic processes and practices are essential elements in achieving a truly participatory society. The books offers theory and practical tools for consciously applying the principles of democratic practice to daily work.
    
26. Everyday Life in the Modern World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1971
    
27. The Extraordinary Myles Horton
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
28. The fight for a different world
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    For some, Genoa will become synonymous with violence – and this is certainly the line that many mainstream newspapers adopted. Unfortunately, so have some nongovernmental organizations. But there are two separate questions here. The first has to do with the violence of the state directed against the movement; the other is a question of how the movement deals with a small minority of self-selected individuals who choose to engage in a set of tactics that are detrimental to the movement as a whole. The presence of the black bloc (or of agent provocateurs posing as black bloc members) should not be allowed to hide the real purveyors of violence in Genoa.
29. Frequently Asked Questions about Sources
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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, companies, and individuals who want to share their expertise and points of view with the media. The SOURCES directory is used by thousands of reporters and researchers who need to find quotable sources and reliable information for their news stories or research.
30. Helping you reach the media 
    How Sources can help you get more and better media coverage
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 like advertising. SOURCES makes it possible for organizations, institutions, companies, and individuals to reach the media effectively, consistently, and inexpensively. SOURCES has been helping organizations, companies, institutions, and individuals get media attention for over 30 years.
31. Idealist
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    International directory, organized by country, of thousands of non-profit activist organizations, designed to help people "think globally and act locally". Features an events calendar of mostly US events.
    
32. Interview with Ulli Diemer
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
33. Introduction to the Media Guide
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An introduction to "Media for Social Change."
34. Land and Community 
    Crisis in Canada's Countryside
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Sim's thesis is that rural society is overlooked due to urban dependence upon "great associations," economies of scale, and other socio-cultural institutions of unmanageable size.
    
35. Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
36. Macrocosm USA
    Possibilities for a New Progressive Era
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    An environmental, political and social solutions handbook and directory.
37. 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.
38. Media for Social Change
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1983
    
39. Naming the Moment
    Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
40. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
41. The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Ths book explores how democracy is constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class.
42. One Vote for Democracy 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1986
    Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
43. Ordinary People
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    When we talk about revolution, we aren't talking about pie in the sky or something that's never existed. We're talking about reshaping the world with the very best values that we practice now, today, in our families, with our friends and co-workers, with our students and patients. We believe that the smallest acts of kindness and the most public, collective acts of revolution are on a continuum of struggle to make the world the way we believe it should be.
44. Organize! Organizing for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996   Published: 2001
    A guide on community organizing with with attention to specific tasks such as hosting meetings, public speaking and making partnerships with other activist groups.
45. People, Get Ready
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    There is nothing more necessary for the success of popular struggle in the coming years than a worthy revolutionary alternative to aim for. This alternative must inspire confidence that we can create a truly democratic, humanly fulfilling, successfully functioning new society.
46. Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
47. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    
48. Radical Newspapers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    A radical newspaper succeeds to the extent that in engages in dialogue with its readers and community, rather than in preaching.
49. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
    
50. Resource Manual for A Living Revolution 
    A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977   Published: 1985
    A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effet for change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
    
51. Resources For Radicals
    An Annual Review of Books and Publications for Those Active in Movements for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    
52. The Revolution Game
    The Short Unhappy Life of the Company of Young Canadians
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    
53. The Revolution of Hope
    Toward a Humanized Technology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    
54. Roots of Empathy 
    Changing the World Child by Child
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Roots of Empathy looks at eliminating crime and changing the world by starting with a compassionate environment for children.
55. Rules for Radicals
    A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    Alinsky's Rules for Radicals provides perspectives, principles and lessons for realistic radical organizers.
    
56. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in Toronto's Ward 7 from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but some articles and other background are available on this Web site.
57. Social Movements/Social Change
    The Politics and Practice of Organizing - Socialist Studies 4
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    This collection of essays covers movements related to labour, ecology, childcare, peace, disability, gay rights, and access to abortion.
58. Socialism and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1973
    Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
    
59. Socialism and the New Life
    The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    
60. Socialism in Crisis?
    Canadian Perspectives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    
61. A Socialist Alternative For Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    
62. Toolkit for a New Canada
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    A pamphlet providing a snapshot of what the contributors, brought together by Canadian Dimension magazine, believe are the big issues facing Canada in the first decade of the 21st century. The articles are all short and offer concrete suggestions for the way forward.
    
63. Transforming Apathy and Denial
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    
64. Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
    An Open Conspiracy for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
65. Transition Initiatives Primer
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    A comprehensive document about embarking on a transition journey. A Transition Initiative is a community (lots of examples here) working together to look Peak Oil and Climate Change squarely in the eye and address this BIG question: "for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?"
66. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1962
    
67. The Wandering of Humanity
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1975
    
68. Ways and Means
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1983
    Connexions attempts to stimulate practical and theoretical sharing through the Ways and Means section.
69. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
70. Whom Should We Support in Iran?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The people we should support in Iran are those who are trying to make Iran more equal, more democratic and more friendly to the principle of solidarity--concern for one another. Since we want the world to move in this direction, we should support those who are pushing it in that direction. The people doing this are working class Iranians.
71. The Working Class and Social Change
    Four Essays on the Working Class
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    A study of "The Working Class," and the complexities of its definition as economic categories diffused from profound bases of social demarcation during the 1960's.
72. Working Harder Isn't Working
    A Detailed Plan for Implementing a Four-day Workweek in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    O'Hara details how the overworked can job share with the unemployed for economic, social, and psychological benefits for all.
73. Worldchanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century
    A User's Guide for the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A User's Guide to the 21st Century is a compendium of everything a generation of environmental activists has to offer.

Experts on Social Change in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Information Sharing Services
2. Daily Bread Food Bank
3. Marxists Internet Archive
4. The Preservation Institute
5. Radical Digressions
6. The Straight Goods