Reports and Publications
Major Poverty Reduction Report
United Nations Covenant On Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Plain Language Summary
2006 Report to the United Nations
International Human Rights Day Message from LIFT
LEAD’s Press Release Regarding Canada’s 2006 review
Report of the UN committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights
LIFT’s Publications
Many people are probably doing popular education without knowing it. The name is really secondary. If the process is participatory, critical and supports people in organizing to change their situation, it’s popular education.
Eduardo Baez in To Change This House: Popular Education or Popular Education Under The Sandinistas (Deborah Barndt)
Human Rights Workbook/Video Kit ($ 50.00)
Provides a complete workshop package with “how-to” instructions, a list of support people and copies of the United Nations Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (with plain language translation).
The Ontario People’s Report to the UN ($ 35.00)
Submitted to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on violations of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights in the province of Ontario, Canada.
LIFT’s Economic Literacy Comic Books
Series of Booklets on economic and social policy in Canada presented in an easy, fun and entertaining way, an alternative view of the ongoing dismemberment of Canada’s public sector. Written and illustrated by Tony Biddle of Perfect World Productions.
The Real Reasons (Behind All Those Cuts) ($ 2.00)
Bulldozing Human Rights ($ 3.00)
There Are Alternatives (To Globalization-Mania) ($ 2.00)
Ontario’s Food Story (Food security issues) ($ 3.00)
LIFT’s Budget Documents
Lift’s Budget Response
City Budget Deputation
Suggested reading
Here are some documents worth reading.
To All Delegations of the World Summit Review