Publications
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WPIRG Journal on Social & Environmental Justice Issues

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The Bridge – WPIRG Journal – Pilot Edition, 2010
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Articles:
- Bhopal: 25 Years After Disaster, by Nava Dabby
- Critical Mass: A Vehicle for Social Change, by Julie Bélanger
- What Happened to the Copenhagen Climate Change Negotiations? by William Saunders
- Canada’s Disappearing Caribou: The Role of Uranium Mining in Nunavut, by Elaine Ferrier
- Nothing Turns, Nothing Burns: Benignly Beautiful Electricity Generation for a Post-Modern Century, by Ted Sherk
- Volunteer Tourism: Potential for Social Change, by Matea Kulic
- Sustainability Ethics: A Foundation for Decision-Making, by Jonathan Frank
- Taking Responsibility for Shared History: Dialogue on Canadian (neo) Colonialism, by Ashling Litgate and Krysta Williams

The following is a list of our publications that are still in print. Other publications we have done that are not listed here are currently out of print.
- Action for Change: A Guide to Activism with PIRGs (pdf)
Edited by Daryl Novak (ISBN 0-9690545-9-9)
First published 1994, this document offers guidance on working in groups, from holding effective meetings and consensus decision-making to building coalitions and planning events.
- Migrant Workers in Ontario (pdf)
by Melanie Kramer
This book is about the migrant farm workers who live and work in our communities throughout Ontario and Canada for up to eight months each year. It looks specifically at why Canada brings people from other countries to work in agriculture and attempts to explain some of the inequities, problems, and challenges these workers face.
- The Supermarket Tour (pdf)
by Stella Lee, Caroline Liffman, and Cindy McCulligh (ISBN 0-9690545-7-2) OPIRG-McMaster.
Using the supermarket as a classroom, the Tour asks questions about the products on supermarket shelves, providing a focus for discussion on a wide range of food issues, from labour to labeling, from marketing to genetic manipulation, from pesticides to profit.
- Ready for Action: A Popular Theatre, Popular Education Manual
by Jenifer Anderson, Jennifer Michol, and Joshua Silverberg (ISBN 0969054580)
Provides an overview of ideas, materials, and resources dealing with popular theatre and popular education, and connects and links the theory to concrete exercises, which comprise the majority of this book. The focus is on concrete exercises for groups who want to jump into the popular theatre process. It includes energizer exercises, analytical exercises, reflection and evaluation exercises, as well as ideas for doing street theatre and pop theatre workshops. Currently available from The Catalyst Centre.
