Crim 3703 -- Toxic In/Justice Winter 2024/25 MW2.30-3.50    BMH103 outline     gradesheet     index    resources    in the news

week1 jan 06-10 foundations I
mon: orientation 
wed: green crim intro
week5 feb 03-07 transgression II Q5
mon: chs 4/5notes; ch06notes Q6
wed: xtra Muskrat Falls
issue: enviro racism
week9 mar 03-07 reading week
Uni closed no classes
week13 mar 31-apr 4 presn's 75mins/class: @5/6
mon: Bezanson, Chandler, Galbraith, Garrett,
Getchell/Spinney, Guitard, Hickey,
wed: McLaughlin,  Nicholson, Paul, Stickles,
Whalen, Woodside/Neilson/Mason
week2 jan 13-17 foundations II
mon: greencrimintro cont
wed: Grassy Narrows; protests Q1
issue: climate on fire
week6 feb 10-14 proposals due
mon: xtra: Love Canal Q7
wed: xtra: Grassy Narrows Q8
issue: proposals due
week10 mar 10-14 intervention II
mon: chs 9/10 pollution/victims
wed: class cancelled
week14 7- 09 presentations
mon: no class/ spillover prezis?
wed: cont. work on project
projects due
week3 jan 20-24 foundations III
mon: xtra: Westray Q2
wed: xtra: Westray Q3
issue: local/global
week7 feb 17-21  transgression III
mon: Family Day, no class
wed: chs7/8notes harm Q9
issue: nature as persons
week11 mar 17-21 intervention III
mon: ch11/12notes regulation
wed: cont.

 
  video Climate Chaos
week4 jan 27-31 transgression I
mon: ch02/03 notes
wed: cont. Q4 
issue: enviro racism, Boat Harbour
week8 feb 24-28 intervention I
mon: xtra: activists Q10
wed: xtra: fracking@Rexton Q11
issue: activism
week12 mar 24-28 intervention IV
mon: ch13/14notes
wed: ch15 prevention
Watch 131 Years of Global Warming in 26 Seconds
xtra: , propaganda
  Sydney Rexton; Kingsnorth;
politics and protest link

Sample engagement exercise:  Write an introductory paragraph about the issue, and then watch the study video, and with the resources below, discuss the 'harm' involved in the Boat Harbour incident and how power was an issue in the toxic crime and in getting anything done about it. 
Study video: Boat Harbour, 45mins, link

Assignments: In general, assignments areexcuseable but not makeupable.
Q1 1.15. Are protests effective. If not, why. If so, how?
Q2  1.20. Why are such survivor statements important? (re Westray  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPyaIAQzFvk
Q3 1.22. What is the likelihood of such an event happening again? video: Reclaiming A'se'k: Boat Harbour and the Next Generation
Q4. 1.29. What emotions are involved in moving forward (re Boat Harbour).
Q5. 2.03. How do you define an environmental crisis?
Q6. 2.05. How could the presentation be improved?
Q7. 2.10. Should Lois Gibbs be a climate hero?
Q8. 2.12. Why has the problem at Grassy Narrows persisted?
Q9. 2.19. Why is it important to speak up? With regard to the video on the danger of being silent.
Q10. 2.24. Does one have a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws? wrt "The Crime: Compassion"
Q11. 2.26. Was the surveillance of the protestors warranted?

Watch "Meet the animal rights activists... 20mins" link, and summarize the issues.

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"We live in a time of crisis, exacerbated and made intractable by social, economic, and political problems, all with effects on personal liberty and social control. These include economic mass migration due to famine; globalization and the movement of capital to offshore zones; the plutocratic greed of the one percent, the fading of the middle class and a growing precariat; refugees of climate change brought on by fossil fuel, toxic colonialism and environmental racism; terrorism and counter-terrorism; political civil unrest and its suppression by an expanding surveillance state; activism of the dispossessed, and cyber counter-activism; the effect of living in stranger-economies; and pandemics and the effect of disinformation. These and other portents are part of a gathering storm of global crisis and discontent with profound implications for both the practice and the study of deviance and criminal justice."

Resources:
"Boiling Point: Climate Chaos," CBC. 2024, https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.7118212
"TESTING THE LINE. Canada Considers What Makes a Terrorist," article, https://theintercept.com/2019/05/12/animal-rights-activism-canada/

"Spraying Glyphosate on our Forests - Stop the Spray!," 4 mins, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpRWLayXhlM
"Why care about climate migrants in an era of loss and damage," LAUREN GRANT | TEDxLimassol, 2023, 17mins, www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE4xRb1rjEg
**"Climate Change is a Social Justice Issue | Adriana Laurent | TEDxUBC," 2018, 14mins, www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRmHp0VC4K4

"Environmental Justice in Mi'kmaq & African Nova Scotian Communities," Ingrid Waldron | TEDxMSVUWomen, 19mins, 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=itRiNmo3hq8
Environmental Racism: There's Something in the Water, 1.32 hr. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeZw5dsAw2M
**"What Does "Environmental Racism" Look Like in Canada?," (interview with Ingrid Waldron), 5mins, 2022, www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhOq-Ya8AlU

"Animal rights -- birth of an activist | Simone Reyes | TEDxOrangeCoast," 11mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erg8sDIYjmw
"Misery and Slow Death for Pigs Crated in Filthy Factory in British Columbia," 2019, 2mins, Misery, Slow Death for Pigs Crated in Filthy Canadian Factory | PETA
The Reason: "W5: Alleged animal abuse at an Ontario pig farm," 23mins, link *trigger warning*
"Testing the Line. As Animal Rights Activists Push Legal Boundaries, Canada Considers What Makes a Terrorist," The Intercept, 5.12.19. link

"Why Capitalism is Killing Us," 24mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2YEeeu-LKo
"Naomi Klein – On Fire (Willy Brandt Lecture 2019)," 49 mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx9XiLMiugU
The Nature of Things: Rebellion, 44mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1_BuAQ8GFU

Gaslands (the movie, 1.42 hrs videolink
The Social Dilemma, 3mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaC57tcci0
Sacred land, unholy uranium: Canada's mining industry in conflict with First Nations, 3.30.16, link
Three Seconds: link
The toxic impact of Canada's oil sands industry on Indigenous communities
This Changes Everything, with Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein, 3mins, Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein on their documentary This Changes Everything | CBC.ca
         
The Response: "A global rebellion: millions of young people fighting for a livable planet | The Nature of Things," 40mins, link
... and this article: "Jury acquits Extinction Rebellion protesters despite ‘no defence in law’," The Guardian, 4.23.21, link     
Inside Extinction Rebellion, 20 mins, link
Clayoquot resources including video: link

"Pesticides - DDT - Rachel Carson - Silent Spring," 11mins, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipbc-6IvMQI

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