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  1. Blocking Progress 
    Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1983
    Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."
  2. Calling All Radicals 
    How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
  3. Clearness
    Processes for Supporting Individuals and Groups in Decision-Making
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
  4. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  5. Consensus decision-making
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Article about the group decision making process known as consensus decision-making.
  6. 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."
  7. 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.
  8. How to Make Meetings Work
    The New Interaction Method
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
  9. It Ain't the Meeting Its The Motion
    Resource Type: Article
    A guide to conducting productive and inclusive meetings in the context of social change.
  10. Let the People Decide: Neighbourhood Organizing in America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    A history of neighbourhood-based community organizing in the United States.
  11. Managing Wastes
    A Guide to Citizens' Involvement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985   Published: 1992
    Second editon of booklet first published in 1984, outling how citizens can involve themselves in decision-making about waste management.
  12. A Manual for Group Facilitators
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  13. Meeting Collectively
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1983
    The Connexions collective describes its way of holding meetings and recent changes to its meeting process.
  14. On Organization 
    Resource Type: Article
    Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
  15. One Vote for Democracy 
    Consensus vs. democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    Makes the case that the democratic model is better than the consensus model for activist group decision-making.
  16. Organize! Organizing for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996   Published: 2001
    A guide to community organizing with attention to specific tasks such as hosting meetings, public speaking and making partnerships with other activist groups.
  17. Overcoming Male Oppression
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1982   Published: 1988
    People join a social change movement in order to alleviate an external problem. Too often we are confronted with the same kind of behaviour we find in our everyday lives. We are all too often stifled by heavy handed authority: bosses at work, parents or spouse at home and teachers at school.
  18. Pragmatics Of Community Organization - First Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Information on how to plan action, how to organize meetings, how to train participants for action, how to negotiate, and how to end a particular exercise in community organization.
  19. 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.
  20. The Tyranny of Structurelessness 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1970
    Unstructured groups may be very effective in getting women to talk about their lives; they aren't very good for getting things done. It is when people get tired of 'just talking' and want to do something more that the groups flounder, unless they change the nature of their operation.
  21. Untying the Knot
    Resource Type: Book
  22. What is Consensus?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1984
    Consensus evolved from the meeting process of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It is a non-violent way for people to relate to each other as and in a group. Successful use of a consensus process depends on people understanding the idea and wanting to use it.
  23. Working Collectively
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1985
    A handbook for people wishing to form collectives, or established collectives seeking solutions to problems such as power imbalances, conflict meditation, and setting priorities.
  24. Working for Peace
    A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    A survey of the attitudes and tools that can be used in working for peace.
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