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Canada's Rights Revolution - 9780774814799

Un libro in lingua di Dominique Clement edito da Univ of Washington Pr, 2008

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Primarily focused on the 1960s and 1970s, this work by Clément is a history of Canada as seen through the perspective of human rights activists. It has two primary goals: to identify the human rights violations the activists were concerned with, including the suspension of habeas corpus in the wake of the October 1970 kidnapping of a British trade commissioner and a Quebec cabinet minister by the Front de libération du Québec, and to analyze the emergence of professional social movement organizations. In pursuit of the latter goal he examines the evolution of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, the Ligue des droits de l'homme, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and the Newfoundland-Labrador Human Rights Association, paying particular attention to the impact of state funding on social movement activism, differences between first generation (1930s-50s) and second generation (1960s-80s) rights organizations, strategies for change deployed by activists; the obstacles to forming a national social movement organization in Canada, the ideological divisions between activists dedicated to the same cause, and the relationship between social movement organizations dedicated to different causes. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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