BOOKS:

Ackerman, Peter and Jack DuVall.  A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict.  New York: St. Martin’s, 2000.               
Notes: There are chapters about nonviolent revolution in Russia, India, Poland, El Salvador, The American south, South Africa, China and many more.


Albert, Michael.  The Trajectory of Change: Activist Strategies for Social Transformation.  Cambridge: South End, 2002.
Notes:  The Trajectory of Change charts a course for the growing, international movement against corporate globalization. Michael Albert, a longtime activist and analyst of popular struggles, challenges us to build a broad-based and effective movement for social change.


Clark, Tony and Sarah Dopp.  Challenging McWorld: A Workbook for Activists.  Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2001.
Notes:  Challenging McWorld is designed to provide some tools to enable concerned youth to develop skills required for confronting globalization in their daily lives on several fronts. This workbook emerges out of the work experience of the authors over the past three years.  The various tools developed for use in workshops, conferences and teach-ins have been refined and expanded here for a broader audience of concerned young people and their allies.
 

Klein, Naomi.  No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies.  New York: Picador, 2000.
Notes: No Logo is an excellent resource for information on mass marketing, social justice initiatives, popular culture, workplace issues, international campaigns for justice and much more.


McMurtry, John.  The Cancer Stage of Capitalism.  Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 1999.
Notes:  McMurtry depicts capitalism as a cancer that is attacking our immune system and disabling our host (the world).  McMurtry is a real dreamer, not only does he accurately describe the crises we are facing but he also presents an alternative way for the future.


Rahnema, Majid and Victoria Bawtree. eds.  The Post-Development Reader.  Halifax: Fernwood, 1997.
Notes: The Post-Development Reader is a collection of essays from a number of people who present alternatives to ideas of ‘development.’  This anthology includes authors such as: Vandana Shiva, Wolfgang Sachs, Ashis Nandy, Sub-Commandante Marcos, Mahatma Gandhi, Gustavo Esteva, Arturo Escobar and many more.  This book could be used as a good resource to find background information on certain issues such as: ‘progress,’ poverty, colonization, bottom up power, ‘development,’ and simple living among others.


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WEBSITES - Research and Policy Alternatives:

Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives:  The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives offers an alternative to the message that we have no choice about the policies that affect our lives. We undertake and promote research on issues of social and economic justice. We produce research reports, books, opinion pieces, fact sheets and other publications, including The ‘Monitor,’ a monthly digest of progressive research and opinion.  www.policyalternatives.ca

Center of Concern:  Since 1971, the Center of Concern has offered moral vision and provided effective leadership in the struggle to end hunger, poverty, environmental decline, and injustice in the United States and around the world. Our goal is to provide individuals and organizations with basic tools to address universal injustices.  We provide reliable information and analysis on development issues, practical alternatives to current development policies and practices, suggestions for personal action, and faith reflections on this work for justice.  www.coc.org

Corporate Watch: Corporate Watch supports grass-root and direct activism against large corporations, particularly multinationals. Our approach is to investigate, corporate structures and the system that supports them more broadly, rather than solely criticizing the individual companies for bad behavior. We are committed to ending the ecological and social destruction wrought by the corporate profit motive.  www.corpwatch.org

Council of Canadians:  Strictly non-partisan, the Council lobbies Members of Parliament, conducts research, and runs national campaigns aimed at putting some of the country's most important issues into the spotlight: safeguarding our social programs, promoting economic justice, renewing our democracy, asserting Canadian sovereignty, advancing alternatives to corporate-style free trade, and preserving our environment. www.canadians.org

Global Education Network:  The Global Education Network consists of teachers, students, and members of the Community at large who believe that teaching and learning must integrate the interdependency of the social, economic, environmental, and political aspects of our world. As citizens of the world we have responsibilities towards our global community; a global education approach to teaching focuses on the students' place in the world community. Globally aware students will be more inclined to take responsible action to change their world for the better of all. To that end, we are creating an on-line directory of resources to be used in any curriculum area at any level. www.global-ed.org

Halifax Initiative:  Halifax Initiative is a Canadian coalition of development, environment, faith, rights and labour groups. Our goal is to contribute to the fundamental transformation of the international financial system and its institutions to achieve poverty eradication, environmental sustainability and the equitable re-distribution of wealth.  http://halifaxinitiative.org/

Octopus Books:  Providing a space for people to access books on social justice issues, to obtain alternative news and information and to articulate a better vision of the future.  This is a really excellent site for finding relevant books to Social Justice and Peace Studies.  www.octopusbooks.org

Polaris Institute:  As its stated objective, Polaris is designed to enable citizen movements to re-skill and re-tool themselves to fight for democratic social change in an age of corporate driven globalization. Essentially, the Institute works with citizen movements in developing the kinds of strategies and tactics required to unmask and challenge the corporate power that is the driving force behind governments concerning public policy making on economic, social and environmental issues.  www.polarisinstitute.org

Program on Law, Corporations and Democracy:  We are thirteen activists who have spent the last several years researching corporate, labor and legal histories, rethinking our past organizing strategies and talking with people about democracy movements. We work in the tradition of people's struggles to replace illegitimate and tyrannical institutions with democratic ones that disperse, rather than concentrate, wealth and power. www.poclad.org

South End Press:  Our goal is to publish books that encourage critical thinking and constructive action on the key political, cultural, social, economic, and ecological issues shaping life in the United States and in the world.  In this way, we hope to give expression to a wide diversity of democratic social movements and to provide an alternative to the products of corporate publishing.  www.southendpress.org

Transnational Institute:  In the spirit of public scholarship, and aligned to no political party, TNI seeks to create and promote international co-operation in analyzing and finding possible solutions to such global problems as militarism and conflict, poverty and marginalization, social injustice and environmental degradation.  www.tni.org

UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Here you will find the most comprehensive collection of translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948.  www.unhchr.ch/udhr

Women's Human Rights Resources: The purpose of the Women's Human Rights Resources Web Site is to provide reliable and diverse information on international women's human rights via the Internet.  www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana

World Social Forum Website:  The World Social Forum is an open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, free exchange of experiences and interlinking for effective action, by groups and movements of civil society that are opposed to neoliberalism and to domination of the world by capital and any form of imperialism, and are committed to building a planetary society directed towards fruitful relationships among Mankind and between it and the Earth. www.forumsocialmundial.org.br