Student Group's List: topic1

• Collective punishments

• he United Nations Emergency Force was Pearson's creation, and he is considered the father of the modern concept of peacekeeping. H

• Japan's Fisheries Agency has labeled Greenpeace ships as "anti-whaling vessels" and "environmental terrorists".^[35]

• • Think about this quote: “You are only as big as the world you are interested in.” Should we
    as Canadians and Calgarians be concerned about things that are happening on the other side of
    the World? Why? Do they have an effect on us here in Calgary?
    
    
• • A soldier can be a peacekeeper. What kinds of things do you think peacekeeping soldier
    does?
• n that country shift from a combat role to a peace keeping and humanitarian presence

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• • Why would Canada need this bill if there was no threat?
• The Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act was passed by the Liberal government of Canada in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. It received Royal Assent on December 18, 2001 as Bill C-36. The "omnibus" bill extends the powers of government and institutions within the Canadian security establishment to respond to the threat of terrorism.

• In 1979 black trade unions were legalised and could engage in collective bargaining, although strikes were still illegal.

• The Indian political spectrum was further broadened in the mid-1920s by the emergence of both moderate and militant parties, such as the Swaraj Party, Hindu Mahasabha, Communist Party of India and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

• Suffragettes carried out direct action such as chaining themselves to railings, setting fire to mailbox contents, smashing windows and on occasions setting off bombs

• Finding logging road blockades (carried out by Corvallis-based Cathedral Forest Action Group) were offering too short-term a protection, Marylander Ron Huber and Washingtonian Mike Jakubal devised tree sitting

• strikes, workplace occupations, sit-ins, demonstrations, sabotage, vandalism and graffiti. More violent actions include riots and revolutionary/guerrilla warfare. Direct actions are often (but not always) a form of civil disobedience and thus often violate criminal law. For example, vandalism is illegal,
• The anti-nuclear movement used direct action, particularly during the 1980s. Groups opposing the introduction of cruise missiles into the United Kingdom employed tactics such as breaking into and occupying United States air bases, and blocking roads to prevent the movement of military convoys and disrupt military projects

  • Could you use this argument for both sides?
• "Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored."

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• in particular for the Act's provisions allowing for 'secret' trials, preemptive detention, and expansive security and surveillance powers.[1]

• • Does this work with the definition of terror that we have?
• "aggressions by the U.S. Army, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan" and calls on the United Nations to "intervene in the global problem of U.S. prisons in Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and secret jails in other countries,"

• • When is it terrorism and when is it civil disobedience
• Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.^[1] There is no internationally agreed definition of terrorism.^[2][3]

• • Do you have any ideas of what it means to be a “peacekeeper”? Have you ever seen people at
    your school that might fill the role of a “peacekeeper”?

• • Do you know that there have been many wars in countries all over the world since World War
    II ended? In fact, there are more wars going on in the world now than there has ever been
    before.