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  1. Ageism
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Also called age discrimination, is stereotyping of and discrimination against individuals or groups because of their age.
  2. Alternative Press Annual 1984, The
    Resource Type: Book
  3. Combatting Caste
    New Internationalist July 2005

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2005
    A look at the caste system in South Asia and Africa. Discussion of the Dalit system in India.
  4. Combatting Racism in the Workplace
    A Course for Workers

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  5. Common Sense for Hard Times 
    The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
  6. Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
  7. Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  8. Democracy for the Few
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
  9. Discrimination: How Human Rights Laws Protect You
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
  10. Double Standard
    The Secret History of Canadian Immigration

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    A focused examination of the right-wing political bias and dishonesty that has charecterized Canada's post-war immigration and refugee policies. Policies were profoundly influenced by the Cold War. The RCMP served as the chief screening instrument, relying heavily on the American-Counter Intelligence Corps which was cooperating closely with the Gehlen group staffed by ex-Nazis. While belonging to a Communist party was grounds for exclusion being an ex-Nazi as early as 1950 was no longer regarded as such. The acceptance of 60,000 "boat" people was applauded by Canadians because they were fleeing Communist opression but the efforts of a few thousand Central Americans were stymied by two repressive refugee bills because they were fleeing the "oppression of our side". Whitacker grants that Canada is a safe haven of peace and freedom but only to those who are ideologically correct.
  11. Education gap divides Jerusalem
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A recent report by an Israeli non-governmental organisation says 5,000 Palestinian children in East Jerusalem will not be able to attend classes this year because there are not enough classrooms.
  12. Feeling Racism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    I have found that when a person has faced racism and discrimination, he can never forget it, it stays with him always. Seeing my mother treated with such disrespect and rudeness, only because of her race, was worse than being discriminated against myself. It burned into my soul, and it will never go away.
  13. Gandhi's Truth
    On the origins of militant nonviolence

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
  14. Getting the Balance Right
    Gender Equality in Journalism

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Gender equality in journalism.
  15. A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Starting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.
  16. How People Get Power
    Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
  17. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
  18. Israel's approved ethnic cleansing
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    Israel's treatment of the Palestinians has always presented a moral problem to the West, as that treatment has violated every law and moral standard on the books.
  19. Israel’s School Apartheid Highlighted By Court Case
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Instances of Arab children being denied places at kindergartens and junior schools have become more common in recent years. Now, an Arab couple whose daughter was expelled from an Israeli daycare centre on her first day because she was Arab is taking the case to court.
  20. The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
  21. Looking at Israel from the other side
    Book Review

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    A review of two books: Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries, by Suad Amiry, and The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide.
  22. The Los Angeles Bus Riders Union
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    The Bus Riders Union began as an outgrowth of the Labor/Community Strategy Center's "Equity in Transportation Project," a policy analysis group which to study the transportation problems of the urban poor. What they discovered was an increasingly polarized allocation of public resources based on race.
  23. Malcolm X Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
  24. Module on Combatting Discrimination: Face to Face: The Self and Others
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1980
  25. Move along
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A personal story of racism.
  26. The Other Side of Israel
    My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Explores the unequal treatment of Palestinians living in Israel as "citizens", but as second-class citizens in a theocratic state that discriminates against Arabs in many ways.
  27. Racism and Cultural Discrimination in B.C.
    Resource Type: Slide Show
  28. Radical Digressions 6
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2009
  29. Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  30. Red Emma Speaks
    Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
  31. A Reply to B’nai Brith’s Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario’s Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
  32. Rights and Realities: Discrimination and the Gay Women and Men of British Columbia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1981
  33. Rights on Condition: Association for Civil Rights in Israel State of Human Rights Report 2009
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    In Israel, the entire spectrum of rights is dependent on what we say or believe, what ethnic group we belong to, how much money we have, and more.
  34. SNCC
    The New Abolitionists

    Resource Type: Book
  35. Strange Fruit 
    Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the differences to biology, anti-racists attribute them to deep-rooted cultural traditions which are typically seen as inherent in the group. Malik argues that these positions are actually quite similar, and makes the case that racism and racial inequality are best combatted by focusing not on our differences but on what unites us. Malik also strongly criticizes the cultural relativism of many anti-racists, and their increasing tendency to reject science as some kind of western imperialist conspiracy to oppress the rest of the world.
  36. Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    How to push for social change without breaking the law.
  37. Victims of the European revolutions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    European gypsy communities have historically been, and remain, the most marginalized social group.
  38. What Is a Liberal to Do?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    Seventy percent of African-American voters in California voted for Proposition 8 to ban same-sex marriage. Liberals, however, say that opposing same-sex marriage is a form of bigotry no better than the racism of those who wanted inter-racial marriage to be illegal and Jim Crow laws to remain. How, liberals wonder, can African-Americans--the victims of racism-- switch from being champions of equality to champions of bigotry? It is a true paradox. Liberals, by definition, support the victims of racism. But how can they do that when those very same victims are bigoted against gays? Oh dear! What is a liberal to do?
  39. When in Doubt, Do Both
    The Times of My Life

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Macpherson chronicles the stirrings that led to the modern women's movement in Canada, including the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1967.
  40. Who Gets The Work: A Test Of Racial Discrimination In Employment
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1986
  41. Why Israel? 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    A routine strategy of Israel’s defenders is to continually redirect attention to the human rights failings of countries hostile to Israel, or to catastrophes like Darfur that are used to argue the ongoing need for the sort of “humanitarian interventions” that provide cover for the advancement of U.S. interests. Yet the question of why Israel is being targeted and not some other country assumes, erroneously, that other countries are not being targeted. The reverse, in fact, is usually the case. Often, countries deemed acceptable for criticism by supporters of Israel are already subject to political and diplomatic sanctions by the U.S. and its tool, the UN Security Council – sometimes for acting in ways identical to Israel.
  42. Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT “recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state” 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.

Experts on Discrimination in the Sources Directory

  1. Article 19
  2. B.C. Human Rights Coalition
  3. Canadian Race Relations Foundation
  4. Citizens for Public Justice
  5. Connexions Library/Archive
  6. Family Service Toronto



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