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Particularly recommended items are flagged with a red Connexions logo:

  1. Blocking Progress 
    Consensus Decision Making In The Anti-Nuclear Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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. 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."
  5. 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.
  6. How to Make Meetings Work
    The New Interaction Method
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
  7. It Ain’t the Meeting It’s The Motion
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A guide to conducting productive and inclusive meetings in the context of social change.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. A Manual for Group Facilitators
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  11. Meeting Collectively
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1983
    The Connexions collective describes its way of holding meetings and recent changes to its meeting process.
  12. On Organization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. Overcoming Male Oppression
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1982   Published: 1988
  16. Pragmatics Of Community Organization
    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
  17. 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.
  18. Response from Alexandra Devon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  19. Untying the Knot
    Resource Type: Book
  20. What is Consensus?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1984
  21. Working Collectively
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1985
  22. Working for Peace
    A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985


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