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Below are resources (books, articles, etc.) in the Connexions Library related to this topic. Clicking on an item's title takes you to its bibliographic page, which typically contains author, publisher, and cataloguing details, an abstract where available, and a link to the full text if available online, as well as links to related topics in the subject index. You can also search for materials through the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, Library of Congress, and Format indexes.
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  1. Activist's Handbook
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles for activists on organizing.
  2. Bain Co-op Meets Wages for Housework
    A political thriller
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    The story of the struggle that gave birth to a housing co-operative and destroyed the credibility of the 'Wages for Housework' sect.
  3. Beyond the Politics of Place: New Directions in Community Organizing
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    A look at community organizing and its evolution with a focus on groups comprised of people of colour.
  4. 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.
  5. Citizens Group Scores Success in Anti-lead Battle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1987
    Through self-education, out-reach, and activism, the Niagara Neighbourhood Lead Committee has successfully worked to reduce lead risks in their neighbourhood and throughout Canada.
  6. A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  7. Citizens Participate - An Action Guide for Public Issues.
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
  8. Community organizing
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A process by which people living in proximity to each other are brought together in an organization to act in their shared self-interest.
  9. Community Workshops for the Environment
    An Organizer's Manual
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A guide to organizing ecology workshops.
  10. 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.
  11. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  12. 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.
  13. Critical Paths
    Organizing on health Issues in the community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  14. The Fallacy of "Community Control"
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1971
  15. Grassroots Cells, Devil’s Architects Defend Communities
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1989
    Organizational principles and campaign tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
  16. Highrise and Superprofits
    An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  17. The Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression - Review
    A report on Britain's Government Machine
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1989
    Organizational tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
  18. The Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression.
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  19. How People Get Power
    Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. The Movable Airport
    The politics of government planning
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    An account of the manoeuvring and bureaucratic runaround that went into the planning of the Pickering airport, and of the resistance that it produced.
  23. 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.
  24. Organizing in a Small Town
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    Experiences in organizing in a small town in Ontario in the early 1970s.
  25. Organizing "The Poor" - Against The Working Class
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1971
  26. 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
  27. Putting Power in its Place
    Create Community Control!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Essays arguing for the devolution of government and putting forward workdable models, many of them tested in practice, of how we might restructure society to better represent the full diversity of its parts. Watershed stewartship, community forest boards, local currencies, and eco-constitutions are some of the ideas discussed.
  28. Reveille for Radicals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1969
    Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
  29. The Revolution Game
    The Short Unhappy Life of the Company of Young Canadians
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  30. 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.
  31. Some ideas about organizing from Citizens for Local Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Suggestions about starting a local group which will focus on issues of local democracy.
  32. Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An overview of contemporary organizing strategies and philosophies with case studies.
  33. 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.
  34. An Unauthorized Biography of the World
    Oral History on the Front Lines
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordan's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
  35. Up Against City Hall
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  36. The Uses of an Earthquake
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1987   Published: 1988
    The people of Tepito have proven themselves far more capable than the government both of responding to the dangers and of seizing the opportunities created by the earthquake. The earthquake crisis has brought into view a long existent but rarely recognized alternative: the ability and willingness of the people of Tepito, as well as those in many other barrios, to assert a different set of values: those of autonomy, self-activity, and the subordination of work to social needs. It is also embodied in their ability, as against governmental paralysis, to design and implement their own projects, thus elaborating those values in concrete practice.
  37. When Hate Groups Come to Town
    A Handbook of Model Community Responses
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1986
    A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.

Experts on Community Organizing in the Sources Directory

  1. Connexions Library
  2. Daily Bread Food Bank
  3. Food Banks Canada
  4. Michael Riordon


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