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Civil Liberties
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  1. Activism Under Attack
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  2. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1982
  3. Canadian Civil Liberties Bibliography (Indexed)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
  4. Civil Liberties in the Fight Against Fascism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1945
    Fighting against an evil, like anti-Semitism or racial hatred, does not mean calling on the state to suppress the evil.
  5. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  6. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Socia
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  7. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  8. 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.
  9. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
  10. 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.
  11. Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
  12. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
  13. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
  14. Gag Rule
    On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation. A call to action in defense of one of the most important liberties, the right to raise our voices against the powers that be, and to have those voice heard.
  15. League on Rights and Freedom Information Sheet
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
  16. Liberties
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Aside from the subject of civil liberties itself, the book addresses the civil libertarian approach to such issues as censorship and freedom of speech, victimless crimes, and police powers. Specific articles target AIDS testing, legal aid, drug use, and psychological testing by employers.
  17. La Ligue Des Droits et Libertes
    Organization profile published 1979
    Resource Type: Organization
    Published: 1979
  18. Nobody's Business
    The Paradoxes of Privacy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  19. Online Rights for Online Workers - Privacy at Work
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Deals with workers' right to privacy in the face of online surveillance by employers.
  20. The police vs. the law
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1981
    One of the main differences between a democratic society and a police state is that in a democracy, the police have to obey the law. In a police state, they don't.
  21. Radical Digressions 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2006
  22. Rights and Freedoms State Fear The Global attack on rights
    New Internationalist March 2005
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2005
  23. Rights and Liberties
    Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
  24. '68: The Year of the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  25. The Threat of the Tag
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  26. Toolkit for a New Canada
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  27. Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  28. When Freedoms Collide
    The Case for Civil Liberties.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988

Experts on Civil Liberties in the Sources Directory

  1. Campaign Life Coalition
  2. Connexions Information Sharing Services
  3. Ontario Bar Association
  4. Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
  5. Royal Roads University

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