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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
    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. Citizens Group Scores Success in Anti-lead Battle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1987
  4. Citizens Participation - An Action Guide for Public Issues.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  5. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  6. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
  7. 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.
  8. Critical Paths
    Organizing on health Issues in the community
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  9. Grassroots Cells, Devil’s Architects Defend Communities
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    Organizational principles and campaign tactics communities can use to fight projects or developments being foisted on them.
  10. Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  11. How People Get Power
    Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  12. The Movable Airport
    The politics of government planning
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  13. Organizing in a Small Town
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    Experiences in organizing in a small town in Ontario in the early 1970s.
  14. Reveille for Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
  15. Rules for Radicals
    A Practical Guide for Realistic Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  16. 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.
  17. Up Against City Hall
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  18. The Uses of an Earthquake
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
  19. When Hate Groups Come to Town
    A Handbook of Model Community Responses
    Resource Type: Binder

Experts on Community Organizing in the Sources Directory

  1. Canadian Association of Food Banks
  2. Daily Bread Food Bank
  3. Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

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