The Long Sixties
Stories from the New Left
Harding, Jim
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Year Published: 2026
Pages: 256pp ISBN: 9781773638034
Library of Congress Number: HN107.L65 2026 Dewey: 303.48/40971
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX25488
In The Long Sixties, seven veteran political activists from the 1960s, all still engaged in campaigns and organizations across Canada, tell their stories of transformational activism. What could veteran activists from the Sixties teach about activism? In addition to telling their stories — how they got involved, why they stay involved, how they have persevered into their twilight years — they also critically reflect on their victories and defeats, their personal and political challenges, what they learned, and how their perspectives deepened and changed along the way.
With contributions from Bob Bossin, Joan Kuyek, Dimitri Roussopoulos, Lib Spry, Cathy Walker, Peter Warrian and Jim Harding.
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Contents:
Chapter 1: Coming Out of the Sixties (Jim Harding)
Chapter 2: Local Organizing, Global Networking and Everything in Between (Jim Harding)
Chapter 3: A Brief History of the Brief History of Rochdale College (Bob Bossin)
Chapter 4: Learning to Organize (Joan Newman Kuyek)
Chapter 5: Politics, Performance, Play (Lib Spry)
Chapter 6: Working Women, Occupational Health and the Creation of Canadian Unions (Cathy Walker)
Chapter 7: Politics, Spirituality and Resilience (Peter Warrian)
Chapter 8: It Started with the Anti-Nuclear Arms Movement (Dimitrios Roussopoulos)
Chapter 9: And Here We Are (Jim Harding)
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