CCIDD Resources for Critical Social Analysis and Social Justice

Welcome to our CCIDD resource page. Here are a variety of resource links to guide you and challenge you in your own critical analysis and learning process. As world citizens, as spiritual beings, we have a responsibility and opportunity to care for one another and for our Earth. The resources provide learning and action opportunities for all. Together we can make a difference and work for the common good of all people and our environment. Enjoy your journey through these resources. Some links are Canadian based, some are USA based, others are Mexican.

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LINKS

Mexico:
La Jornada www.jornada.unam.mx
Mexico Solidarity Network www.mexicosolidarity.org/site/
SIPAZ www.sipaz.org/fini_eng.htm
Zapatistas/La Otra Campaña 1) www.ezln.org.mx
 2) www.enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx
 
Latin America:
Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean www.epica.org
Latin America Working Group www.lawg.org
NACLA: North American Congress on Latin America www.nacla.org
Resource Center of the Americas www.americas.org
Washington Office on Latin America www.wola.org
 
Alternative News:
Common Dreams www.commondreams.org
Indy Media www.indymedia.org
Narco News www.narconews.com/en.html
The Nation www.thenation.com
The Progressive  www.progressive.org
Truth Out www.truthout.org
Z magazine www.zmag.org
 
Economics-Politics:
50 Years is Enough www.50years.org
Center Economic / Policy Research www.cepr.net
Centre for Globalisation www.globalresearch.ca
Centre for Social Justice www.socialjustice.org
Center of Concern  www.coc.org
Corporation Watch www.corpwatch.org
Make Poverty History www.makepovertyhistory.org
Move On  www.moveon.org
One Campaign www.one.org
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty www.ocap.ca
Oxfam America www.oxfamamerica.org
Public Citizen www.citizen.org
United Nations www.un.org
 
Environment:
Earth Charter www.earthcharter.org
Earthwatch Institute www.earthwatch.org
Ecological Footprint www.earthday.net
How to Compost www.ns.ec.gc.ca/udo/paydirt.html
Worldwatch Institute www.worldwatch.org
 
Fair Trade Organizations:
Coop America www.coopamerica.org
Equal Exchange www.equalexchange.com
Ten Thousand Villages www.tenthousandvillages.com
 
Human Rights:
American Friends Service Committee- Quakers www.afsc.org
Amnesty International www.amnesty.org
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee www.crwrc.org
Human Rights Watch www.hrw.org
Kairos: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives www.kairoscanada.org
 
Immigration:
Border Action Network www.borderaction.org
Humane Borders www.humaneborders.org
 
Maquiladores – Labour Issues:
Clean Clothes Campaign www.cleanclothes.org
Maquila Solidarity Network www.maquilasolidarity.org
Labor Education in the Americas Project www.usleap.org
Protecting the Rights of Maquila Workers www.maquiladoras.org
 
Take Action:
Episcopal Peace Fellowship www.epfnational.org
Fellowship of Reconciliation USA www.forusa.org
Move On  www.moveon.org
Network social justice lobby www.networklobby.org
Ontario Coalition www.ocap.ca
Pax Christi USA www.paxchristiusa.org
School of the Americas Watch www.soaw.org
United Nations www.un.org
 
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BOOKS

     

Social Analysis, Media, Popular Education and Pedagogy

Faith & Contextual Theologies: Feminist, African American, Latino, Indigenous and Liberation Theologies

Base Ecclesial Communities & Biblical Interpretation

Economic Policy Resources

 
  500 Years: Past, Present & Future
 

Social Analysis, Media, Popular Education and Pedagogy

Arnold, Rick et.al. Educating for Change. Toronto: Between the Lines and Doris Marshall Institute for Education and Action, 1991 & 1995. 

Bob, Kim et.al. Organizing for Social Change: A Manual for Activisits in the 1990’s. rev. ed. Santa Ana, CA: Seven Locks Press, 1996. 

Brow, Janice. The Leaven Program for Social Justice. Workshop and reflection resources. One World Research and Education Network, Mox 381, Melleville, Ont. K8N 5A5 Tel: 613 962 6571. 

Critical Games. Amherst, MA: Center for International Education, 1994. The complete CIE publications lists is available by writing: Publications Officer, CIE, 285 Hills House, Amherst, MA 01003 

Croteau, Davaid Willian Hoynes. By Invitation Only: How the Media Limit Political Debate.  Munroe, MA: Common Courage Press, 1994.

Czerny, Michael and Jamie Swift. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada. Toronto: Between the Lines, revised periodically. 

Freire, Paolo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Herder, 1970. 

___. Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 1992. 

hooks, bell. Teaching to Trangress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York & London: Routledge, 1994. 

It’s Not Fair: A Handbook on World Development for Youth Groups. London: Christian Aid, 1993. To order, send international postal money order for £5.99 to Christian Aid, P.O. Box 100, London, U.K.SE1 7RT. 

Many Faces of Mexico. Curriculum Guide by The Resource Center of the Americas,3019 Minnehaha Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55406 

Nadeau, Denise. Counting Our Victories: A Training Guide on Popular Education and Organizing. A kit containing a book and video (1996) For copies, write: Repeal the Deal Productions, c/o 707-12th St., New Westminster, B.C. V3M 4J7 

The Power to Change: A Report by the Women’s Feature Service. London: Zed Books, 1993 

Sadker, Myra & David. Failing at Fairness: How our Schools Cheat Girls. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994. 

Shor, Ira, ed. Freire for the Classroom: A Source Book for Liberatory Teaching. Portsmouth, NH: Heineman, 1987. 

Smith, Susan E.; Willms, Dennis, G.: Nurtured by Knowledge. Learning to Do Participatory Action Research. New York, Apex Press, 1997 More info: gerardo_debbink@hotmail.com 

___. Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for the Classroom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1992. 

Weiler, Kathleen. Women Teaching for Change: Gender, Class, & Power. New York: Bergin & Garvery, 1988. 

Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States. New York: Harper, 1980.

Faith & Contextual Theologies: Feminist, African American, Latino, Indigenous and Liberation Theologies (among others)

Aquila, Maria Pilar. Our Cry for Life: Feminist Theology from Latin America.  Maaryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1993. 

Banuelos, Arturo J., ed. Mestizo Christianity: Theology from a Latino Perspective. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995. 

Berryman, Phillip. Liberation Theology. Philadelphia: Temple University, 1987. 

Boff, Leonardo & Clodivus Boff. Introducing Liberation Theology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1990. 

__. Ecology & Liberation: A New Paradigm. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1991.

__.Faith on the Edge: Religion and Marginalized Existence. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1991. 

Brown, Robert McAfee. Gustavo Gutierrez: An Introduction to Liberation Theology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1990. 

Cadorette, Curt et. Al. Liberation Theology: An Introductory Reader. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1992. 

Chittester, Joan. A Passion for Life: Fragments of the Face of God. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996. 

Clarke, Tony. Behind the Mitre: The Moral Leadership Crisiss in the Canadian Catholic Church. Toronto: Harper Collins, 1995. 

Cone, James H. A Black Theology of Liberation. Philadelphia & New York: Lippincott, 1970. 

Cook, Guillermo, New Face of the Church in Latin America: Between Tradition and Change. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994. 

Dorr, Donal. Option for the Poor: A Hundred Years of Catholic Social Teaching. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1992 (rev.ed.). 

Dussel, Enrique, ed. The Church in Latin America, 1492-1992. Mryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1992. 

Hennelly, Alfred T., ed. Liberation Theology: A Documentary History. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1990. 

Isasa-Diaz, Ada Maria. Mujerista Theology: A Theology for the 21st Century. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996. 

Gebara, Ivone & Maria Clara Bingemer. Mary, Mother of God, Mother of the Poor. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1989. 

Goizueta, Robert S. Caminemos Con Jesus: Toward a Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniament. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995. 

Gutierrez, Gustavo. The God of Life. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1991. 

­___.Las Casas: In Search of the Poor of Jesus Christ. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1993. 

Kavanaugh, John F. Following Christ in a Consumer Society: The Spirituality of Cultural Resistance, rev.ed. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1991. 

Lernoux, Penny. Cryof the People. New York: Penguin, 1982. 

Lind, Christopher & Joe Mihevc. Coalitions for Justice: The Story of Canada’s Interchurch Coalitions. Ottawa: Novalix, 1994. 

Mananzan, Mary John, et. al. Women Resisting Violenc e: Spirituality for Life. Mryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996. 

Myers, Ched. Who Will Roll Away the Stone? Discipleship Queries for First World Christians. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994. 

O;Brien, David. J. & Thomas A. Shannon, eds. Catholic Social Thoght: The Documentary Heritage. Mryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1992. 

Peelman, Achiel. Christ is a Native American. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995. 

Rodriguez, Jeannette, Our Lady of Guadalupe: Faith & Empowerment Among Mexican-American Women. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1994. 

Segundo, Luis. The Liberation Theology. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1976. 

Sugmund, Paul. Liberation Theology at the Crossroads: Democracy or Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. 

Tamez, Elsa. The Amnesty of Grace: Justification by Fith from a Latin American Perspective. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993. 

Walsh, Michael & Brian Davies. Proclaiming Justice and Peace: Papal Documents from Rerum Novarum through Centesimus Annus. Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1994 (rev.ed.) 

Williams, Delores S. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Challenge of womanist God-Talk. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1993.

Base Ecclesial Communities & Biblical Interpretation

Boff, Leonardo. Ecclesiogenesis: The Base Communities Reinvent the Church. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1986. 

Brown, Robert McAfee. Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1984. 

Cook, Guillermo. The Expectation of the Poor: Latin American Basic Ecclesial Communities in Protestant Perspective. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1985. 

Galdamez, Pablo. Faith of a People: The Story of a Christian Community in El Salvador. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1986. 

Gill, Athol. Life on the Road: The Gospel Basis for a Messianic Lifestyle. Herald Press, 1992. 

Hollyday, Joyce. Clothed with the Sun: Biblical Women, Social Justice and Us. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994. 

Segovia, Fernando & Mary Ann Tolbert. Reading from This Place: Social Location and Biblical Interpretation. Vols. 1&2 Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995. 

Sugirtharajah, R.S., ed. Voices from the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World. Mryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995. 

Torres, Sergio & John Eagleson. The Challenge of Masic Christian Communities. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1982.

Economic Policy Resources

When Corporations Rule the World 

Baker,et.al. Teaching Freedom: How Free Trade Affects Our Lives, Work & Environment. San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy Studies, 1992. 

Barnet, Richard J. The Global War Against the Poor. Washington, DC: Servant Leadership Press. Available from The Potter’s House Book Service, 1658 Columbia Rd. NW, Washington, DC, 20009, Tel: 202 328 7312. 

Barry, Tom et. al. The Great Divide: The Challenge of U.S.-Mexico Relations in the 1990’s. Grove Press, 1994. 

­­­___.Zapata's Revenge: Free TRade and the Farm Crisis in Mexico. Boston: South End Press, 1995. 

Bartlett, Donald L. & James B. Steele. America: What Went Wrong. Philadelphia: Andrews and McMeel, 1992. 

Bello, Walden Dark Vistory: The United States, Structural Adjustment and Global Poverty. London Pluto Press, 1994. 

Blank, Rebecca M. Do Justice:Linking Christian Faith and Modern Economic Life. Cleveland: United Church Press, 1992. 

Brecher, Jeremy & Tim Costello. Global Village or Global Pillage: Economic Reconstruction from the Bottom Up. Boston: South End Press, 1994. 

Cavanagh, John, et.al., eds. Beyond Bretton Woods: Alternatives to the Global Economic Order. Boulder, CO: Pluto Press, 1994. 

Cleves Mosse, Julia. Half the World, Half a Chance: An Introduction to Gender and Development. Oxford: Oxfam, 1993. 

Cobb, John, Jr. Sustainability: Economics, Ecology and Justice. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1992. 

Coote, Belinda. The Trade Trap: Poverty and the Global Commodity Markets. Osford: Oxfam UK, 1992. 

Daly, Herman E. & John B. Covv, Jr. For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future. Boston: Beacon Press, 1994. 

Danaher, Kevin, ed. Fifty Years is Enough: The Case Against the World Band and the International Monetary Fund. Bonston: South End Press, 1994. 

Dillon, John. Turning the Tide: Confronting the Money Traders. Ottawa: Canadian Cetnre for Policy Alternatives & the Ecumenical Coalition for Economic Justice. 

Dwyer, Augusta. On the Line: Life on the U.S.-Mexican Border. London: Latin America Bureau, 1994. 

Erlander, Daniel. Manna and Mercy: A Brief History of God’s Unfolding Promise to Mend the Entire Universe. Mercer, WA.: The Order of Saints Martin and Teresa, 1992. 

Fuentes, Annette and Barbara Ehnreneich. Women in the Global Factory. Boston: South End Press, 1983. 

George, Susan. The Debt Boomerang: How The Third World Debt Harms Us All. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1992. 

___. A Fate Worse than Debt: The World Financial Crisis and the Poor. New York: Grove, Weidenfeld, 1990. 

Folbre, Nancy & the Center for Popular Economics. The New Field Guide to the U.S. Economy:A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America. New York: The New Press, 1995. 

LaBotz, Dan. Mask of Democracy: Labor Suppression in Mexico Today. Boston: South End Press, 1992. 

Mathias, Erich D. Partnership, Global Economics and an Ethical/Christian Response to Debt, the IMF and the World Bank. Joint Ministry in Africa-UCC/Disciples.

May, Roy H. Jr. The Poor of the Land: A Christian Case for Land Reform. Mayknoll, NY: Orbis, 1991. 

McQuaig, Linda. The Quick and the Dead: Brian Mulroney, Big Business and the Seduction of Canada. Toronto: Penguin/Viking, 1991. 

___. Shooting the Hippo: Death by Deficit and other Canadian Myths. Toronto: penguin/viking, 1995. 

Meeks, Douglas M. God the Economist: The Doctrine of God and Politcal Economy. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989. 

Moody & McGinn. Unions and Free Trade: Solidarity vs. Competition. Detroit: Labor Notes Book, 1992. 

Petras & Mosley, Latin America in the Time of Cholera: Electoral Politics, Market Economics and Permanent Crisis. New York: Routledge, 1992. 

Sims, Beth. Workers of the World Undermined: American Labor’s Role in U.S. Foreign Policy. Boston: South End Press, 1992 

Sinclair, Jim. Crossing the Line: Canada and Free Trade with Mexico. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1992. 

___, ed. Mortgaging Women’s Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment. New Jersey: Zed Press, 1994. 

Vallehy, Paul. Bad Samaritans: First World Ethics and Third World Debt. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1990.

500 Years: Past, Present & Future

Behar, Ruth. Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza’s Story. Boston: Beacon, 1993. 

Collier, George A. Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas. Oakland, CA: Food First, 1994. 

Chomsky, Noam. Latin America: From Colonization to Globalization. New York: Ocean Press, 1999 

Churchill, Ward. Indians and Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America.  Munroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994. 

Fuentes, Carlos. The Buried Mirrors: Reflections on Spain and the New World. New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1992. 

Galeano, Eduardo. Open Veins of Latin America. New York, London: Monthly Review Press, 1973. 

Goodpasture, H. McKennie. Cross and Sword: And Ewewitness History of Christianity in Latin America. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis 1989. 

Kivel, Paul. Uprooting Racism: How White Pople Can Work for Racial Justice. Philadelphia: New Society, 1996. 

MacEoin, Gary. The People’s Chruch: Bishop Samuel Ruiz of Mexico and Why He Matters. Crossroads, 1996.

Markman, Roberta H. & Peter T. The Flayed God: The Mthology of Mesoamerica, Sacred Texts and Images from pre-Columbia Mexico & Central Amerca. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1998. 

Maybury-Lewis, David. Millenium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World. New York: Viking, 1992. 

Menchu, Rigoberta. I, Rigoberta Menchu: And Indian Woman in Guatemala. New York, Verso. 1983. 

Nelson-Pallmeyer, Jack. School of Assassins. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2001. 

Riding, Allan. Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans. New York: Knopf, 1985. 

Ross, John. Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas. Munroe, Maine: Common Courage Press. 1995. 

Ross, John. The Annexation of Mexico: From the Aztecs to the IMF. Munroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1997. 

Tangeman, Michael. Mexico at the Crossroads: Politics, the Church and the Poor. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1995. 

Wallis, Jim. The Soul of Politics: A Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1994. 

Wheaton, Phil, ed. Panama Invaded: Imperial Occupation vs. Stuggle for Sovereignty. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 1992. 

Wright, Ronald. Stolen Continents: The “New World” Through Indian Eyes Since 1492. New York, Viking. 1992.

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VIDEOS

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media. “The whole sweep of the most challenging critique in modern political thought, as well as the major counter attacks against it” (Boston Globe, 1993). National Film Board of Canada, 2 parts: 95 minutes and 72 minutes.

The Panama Deception. Documents before, during and after the U.S. Operation Just Cause, the invasion of Panama in 1989. Examines media coverage. Winner of 1993 Academy Award for best feature length documentary. Empowerment Project Production, 1992.

The Global Banquet: Politics of Food  2000. 

Arms for the Poor (25mins. 1998) looks at the economics and politics vehind the U.S. role in the international arms trade to ask if the “arms business is killing our national soul”.  

Banking on Life and Debt (30mins. 1995) examines policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Ghana, Brazil, and the Philippines. 

The Ties That Bind: Immigration – Stories Behind the Controversy (56 mins; 1996, available in English or Spanish) examines the border issues; migration, maquiladoras and values.

Who’s Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics (94mins. 1995) examines economics, gender and the myths that guide economic policy-making. Directed by Academy Award Winning filmmaker Terre Nash 

The Emperor’s New Clothes: A Cautionary Tale of Free Trade (53 min; 1995) tells the story of the corporate push for globalization which imposes free trade. 

School of the Assasins. Narrated by Susan Sarandon. “This institution costs us millions of dollars each year and identifies us with tyranny and oppression.” (Rep. Joseph Kennedy). Maryknoll World Productions, Box 308, Maryknoll, NY 10545-0308; 1 800 227 8523 

Incident at Oglala – The Leonard Peltier Story. A 1991 film produced by Robert Redford about the U.S. American Indian Movement activist and political presoner. Carolco International. 

A Question of Conscience. Documentary on the assassination of six Jesuit priests and their house-keepers by members of the El Salvador military high command. First Run/Icarus Films. Tel: 212 727 1711. 

Peace, What Peace? Confronting Central America’s New Economic War. (29min;1997) Useful update on the post-war situation in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala from Canada’s Inter-Church Committee on Human Rights in Latin America. With study guide and action ideas.

 A Place Called Chiapas (93min; 1997) Documentary by Nettie Wild on the indigenous-led rebellion in Chiapas.

Kanehsetaki – 270 Years of Resistance (119min; 1993) Documentary film by Alanis Obamsawin about the 1990 confrontation betweeb Mohawks in Oka, Quebec, and the Canadian government and army.

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