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. Bowling Alone
   The Collapse and Revival of American Community
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2000
   Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
   
3. Center for Democracy and Technology
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Addresses issues of Internet censorhip and privacy.
4. Changing The Cogs
   Activists and the Politics of Technology
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1979
   What are the best ways to achieve beneficial change in society? Will widespread use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources bring about a good society? What technologies will be promoted by vested interests in government and big business?
   
5. Chomsky on MisEducation
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2000
   Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
6. Chomsky.Info 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
7. A Citizen Legislature
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1985
   
8. Communication for and Against Democracy
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1989
   
9. Consensus decision-making
   Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Article about the group decision making process known as consensus decision-making.
10. Democracy Against Capitalism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995
    Wood provides a brilliant explication and defense of the key theoretical concepts relevant to socialism, understood to be the most radical social and economic democracy.
    For a review, see http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/2198.
11. The Demos Versus 'We, the People': from Ancient to Modern Conceptions of Citizenship
    From Democracy Against Capitalism, Chapter 7
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    
12. A Different Sort of Democracy 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    We do not want to suggest that the democracy of ancient Greece was perfect or that it can be easily be copied in the modern world. Greece was burdened by the dual crimes of slavery and the inferior status of women, as were all ancient societies in the Mediterranean basin and in Asia. What distinguished ancient Athens was that, in that society, human beings began to break out to produce new forms of self-government. That they could not solve all the evils of that time should not be surprising.
13. Direct democracy
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A form of democracy wherein sovereignty is lodged in the assembly of all citizens who choose to participate.
14. 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.
    
15. Everything under control, Life in a managed society
    New Internationalist April 1985
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1985
    A deluge of commercial messages are subtly undermining the consumer's ability to make autonomous decisions. Discussion of why, and how, social control is becoming the norm in Western societies.
16. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression – they are for it ‘in principle’, but only so long as it isn’t used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
    
17. Funeral Oration for the Athenian War Dead
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: -430
    Speech was given by the Athenian leader Pericles after the first battles of the Peloponnesian war.
18. Global Showdown
    How the New Activists are Fighting Global Corporate Rule
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Documents the new forces of resistance and invitates readers to join the struggle for alternatives.
19. Intellectual Self-Defense
    Find Your Inner Chomsky
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2008
    What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through everyday spin and jargon -- from politics to advertising, from mysticism to news reporting.
20. Inventing the People
    The Rise of Popular Sovereignity in England and America
    Resource Type: Book
    
21. Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
22. The Joy of Revolution 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997   Published: 2007
    Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I’m afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
23. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
    
24. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
25. The Meaning of Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Our democratic system: a safe election every four years or so in which voters choose between corporate-dominated parties whose policies are virtually indistinguishable on all fundamental issues.
26. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
27. No Platform Won't Work
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    It is ridiculous for anyone to think that you can defeat the BNP by silencing them. A sinister thought, when silenced, only gets wider currency in the subterranean world where everything “establishment” is viewed as a conspiracy. Sunlight is the best disinfectant
28. On Organization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
    
29. One Market Under God
    Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    
30. 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.
31. Participatory Democracy
    Prospects for Democratizing Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Twenty or more arguments for participatory democracy written contributors including Goerge Woodcock, Murray Bookchin, Gerry Hunnius, Colin Ward, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Don Calhoun.
32. Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
33. 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
34. The Real World of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    
35. Reveille for Radicals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1969
    Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
36. Rights and Liberties
    Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
37. Sustaining Democracy?
    Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Tthe authors argue that "the regime of objectivity" should give way to a journalism aimed at sustaining democracy.
38. Taking the Risk Out of Democracy 
    Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 1997
    The twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda practiced by U.S. businesses and the ways in which such corporate propaganda was exported to, and adopted by, other western democracies especially the United Kingdom and Australia.
39. The Two Souls of Socialism 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1960   Published: 1970
    Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below.
40. Untying the Knot
    Resource Type: Book
    
41. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989
    We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.

Experts on Democratic Values in the Sources Directory

1. Article 19
2. Connexions Information Sharing Services
3. International Forum on Globalization
4. The Mackenzie Institute
5. Radical Digressions
6. The Straight Goods
7. United Nations Human Rights Council