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  1. Against All Odds
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1985
    The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
  2. Bi Any Other Name
    Bisexual People Speak Out

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  3. Breaking the Bonds
    The Realities of Sexually Open Relationships

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
  4. Circles of Strength
    Community Alternatives to Alienation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Forsey, an activist and writer who works with the Federation of Egalitarian Communites has put together a collection of essays, and interviews with First Nations, religious orders and rural intentional communities giving their views and experiences as communities.
  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
    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. Communes in America
    The Place Just Right

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  7. Communes U.S.A.
    A Personal Tour

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  8. The Communistic Societies of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
  9. Community Dreams
    Ideas for Enriching Neighbourhood and Community Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    A compilation of vignettes, fragments and thought starters that provides stimulating ideas for practical community transformation.
  10. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  11. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
  12. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  13. Connexions Archive seeks a new home
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
  14. Dream Tower
    The Life and Legacy of Rochdale College

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  15. Fighting for Hope
    Organizing to Realize Our Dreams

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
  16. Global Visions
    Beyond the News World Order

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    This book seeks to establish how our diverse globalizing world can be turned into a common home. The authors create a dialogue about the two types of globalization occurring in the world: globalization from above and globalization from below.
  17. Group Marriage
    A Study of Contemporary Multilateral Marriage

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  18. High Weirdness by Mail
    A Directory of The Fringe: Mad Prophets, Crackpots, Kooks & True Visionaries

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  19. The Need for Alternative Employment
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
  20. New Options for America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  21. The New Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
  22. New Reformation
    Notes of a Neolithic Conservative

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  23. People Power
    Applying Nonviolence Theory

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    Explores the theory of power on which all successful nonviolent action is based, the blocks which keep people from acting when confronted with injustice, and the roles played in any nonviolent campaign by allies, neutrals, and opponents. Numerous case histories illustrate the dynamics of nonviolent action.
  24. The People's Report
    A Social and Economic Alternative for B.C.

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  25. Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
    Nineteenth-Century America

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
  26. Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
    Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
  27. To Have or To Be?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  28. The Uses of Disorder
    Resource Type: Book
  29. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1962
    Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
  30. Visionaries
    People and Ideas to Change Your Life

    Resource Type: Book
  31. The Youth Communes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970

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