Joan Kuyek
Joan Kuyek is a lifelong community organizer and activist educator who spent most of her adult life in Sudbury, and now lives in Ottawa. Her eclectic life has spanned working for the telephone company, advocating for better environmental protection, welfare and housing rates, coordinating an award-winning child-centered community project, a national economic literacy campaign and the start-up of MiningWatch Canada. She is a gardener, grandmother, friend and lover of the outdoors.
Books by Joan Kuyek
Community Organizing
A Holistic Approach
Joan Kuyek
“History is full of stories of the oppressed rebelling against the oppressor, only to reinstate an equally oppressive system. What we learn from oppression is how to oppress. If we want a truly transformative politics, then we must take up methods that embody the kind of world we want to create; we have to change deeply embedded beliefs and behaviours.” (from the Introduction) In this engaging and passionate book, long-time community organizer Joan Kuyek offers important insights… (more information)