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  1. The Activist Cookbook 
    A Hands-on Manual for Organizers, Artists and Educators who want to get their message across in powerful, creative ways
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997   Published: 1999
    Spicy recipes for fighting economic injustice.
  2. Alternate Society
    Volume 2, Number 2 - November 1969
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1969
  3. Alternate Society
    Volume 2, Number 3 - July 1970
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
  4. Alternate Society
    Volume 3, Number 7 - October - November 1971
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1971
  5. Anarchism's Mid-Century Turn
    A Review & Response: Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century,
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    No matter how one feels about it, the current state of anarchism has represented something of a mystery: What was once a mass movement based mainly in working class immigrant communities is now an archipelago of subcultural scenes inhabited largely by disaffected young people from the white middle class.
  6. Bureau of Public Secrets 
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
  7. A Call to Community
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
    A proposed community.
  8. Can Free Schools Work?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1985
    Before starting on another round of alternative education projects, it might be helpful to try to understand why few of the last round's projects achieved long term success.
  9. Canada's 1960s 
    The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    A history of social movements of the 1960s, including student and anti-war movements, the rise of women's liberation, labour struggles, and Quebec nationalism.
  10. Carnival: Resistance Is the Secret of Joy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    Reinventing tactics of resistance has become a central preoccupation for the movement of movements. How do we make rebellion enjoyable, effective, and irresistible? Who wants the tedium of traditional demonstrations and protests - the ritual marches from point A to B, the permits and police escorts, the staged acts of civil disobedience, the verbose rallies and dull speeches by leaders?
  11. The Conquest of Cool
    Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
  12. Counter-Culture
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    An article on the history of the 1960s Counter-Culture in Toronto.
  13. Counterculture
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day.
  14. Counterculture of the 1960s
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A cultural movement that mainly developed in the North America and England and spread throughout much of the western world between 1960 and the mid-1970s as a reaction against the political conservatism and social repression of the 1950s.
  15. Do It
    Scenarios of the Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  16. Dream Tower
    The Life and Legacy of Rochdale College
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  17. Dream Tower
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1994
    Follows the history Rochdale College, a famous experiment in co-operative living and self-directed education in 1960's Toronto.
  18. Fantasy and the Counter-Culture
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    The purpose of this article is to evaluate the usefulness of speculative fiction in our search for an alternative way of life.
  19. Film as a Subversive Art
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify.
  20. Hippies
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A subculture which was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world.
  21. A History of Underground Comics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Examples of the work of the underground cartoonists of the 1960s, with accompanying text that sets the historical context and analyzes the works and their times.
  22. Inside Rochdale
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    What Rochdale has done is to provide a meeting ground on which those disenchanted with the running of modern society can attempt to work out an alternative environment.
  23. Learning for the Revolution
    A review of 'Schooling for "Good Rebels": Socialist Education for Children in the United States, 1900-1920'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Socialist sunday schools were part of a thriving radical culture which included daily newspapers, clubs, lectures, festivals and parades.
  24. Long Way From Home 
    The story of the Sixties generation in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
    An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circumstances.
  25. The Making of a Counter Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    Roszak examines some of the leading influences on the youthful counter culture of the late 1960s - Herbert Marcuse and Norman Brown, Allen Ginsberg and Alan Watts, Timothy Leary and Paul Goodman -- and shows how each has helped call into question the conventional scientific world view and in so doing has set about undermining the foundations of the technocracy.
  26. 1960s CounterCulture in Toronto
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Amidst the overt political developments of the late 1950s and early 1960s, a small but significant portion of youth became attracted to Beat or bohemian culture.
  27. Our Generation
    Volume 7 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1970
  28. The Party of Eros
    Radical Social Thought and the Realm of Freedom
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    King looks at radical theorists -- Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Paul Goodman, Herbert Marcuse, and Norman O. Brown -- who have attempted to deal with the intersections of eros and power.
  29. Rebel Sell
    Why the Culture Can't be Jammed
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Released in the U.S. under the title Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, the book is a critique of the underlying theory of counterculture Heath and Potter note that the capitalist system thrives not on conformity -- as so many 'culture jammers' believe -- but rather on individualism and a quest for distinction.
  30. Revolution for the Hell of It
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
  31. Schooling for "Good Rebels"
    Socialist Education for Children in the United States, 1900-1920
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Teitelbaum captures in detail the spirited devotion and revolutionary fervor of the Socialist Sunday School movement whose themes of solidarity, cooperation, and concern for others are badly needed today. Socialist Sunday Schools were part of a thriving radical culture which included daily newspapers, clubs, lectures, festivals and parades.
  32. The Sixties 
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
  33. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
  34. Smoking Typewriters
    The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Describes the emergence of an underground press in the 1960s. Writers and participants reflected the spirit of cultural and political protest and encouraged the development of the New Left's highly democratic "movement culture".
  35. Steal This Book
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    A guide to fighting government and corporations. The book is divided into three sections, "Survive!", "Fight!" and "Liberate!"
  36. The Uncomfortable Pew: Christianity, the New Left, and the Hip counterculture in Toronto, 1965-1975
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011   Published: 2021
  37. Uncovering the Sixties
    Life and Times of the Undergound Press
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    A book about the Sixties and how they were recorded by radical participants. It traces how movements and communities convinced that their news did not fit into the agenda of mainstream media covered themselves in print.
  38. We Are Everywhere
    Resource Type: Book
  39. Woodstock
    The Oral History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  40. The Youth Communes
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A short survey of American youth communes of the late 1960s.
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