| Description |
xii, 281 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-260) and index. |
| Contents |
Canada's Rights Revolution. The Politics of Rights : Parliamentary Supremacy and the Bill of Rights Movement -- The Human Rights State : Human Rights and the Law -- Strategies for Change: Human Rights Activism -- Canada's Rights Culture -- The Forties and Fifties. The First Generation -- Criminalizing Communism -- The Padlock Act and the Canadian Civil Liberties Union -- The Line in the Sand : Communists and Social Democrats -- "A farce of citizenship" : Japanese Canadians and the Espionage Commission -- Anti-Discrimination Legislation -- A National Rights Association -- Social Movement Organizations : A Brief Introduction -- The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association -- A New Era Begins : The Proliferation of Rights Associations -- The Birth of the BCCLA -- "It's simple common sense" : Defending Free Speech in British Columbia -- The October Crisis -- Violence in the Streets : The Gastown Riot -- Taking the Government to Court : The Heroin Treatment Act -- The BCCLA : A Case Study in Negative Freedom -- La Ligue des droits de l'homme. "An anachronism failing to function properly" : The Law Years, 1963-1970 -- "Just watch me": The October Crisis, 1970 -- The Ligue and the Crisis of 1970 -- Transition Years, 1970-75 -- New Orientations and Divisions, 1975-82 -- The LDH: A Case Study in Positive Freedom -- The Canadian Civil Liberties Association. "It makes the Quebec padlock law look like the Bill of Rights" : First Steps, 1964-68 -- "The insane are devil possessed!" Entrenchment Years, 1968-77 -- Protecting People from the Police, 1977-82 -- The Charter of Rights and Freedoms -- The CCLA : A Case Study in National Social Movement Organizing -- The Newfoundland-Labrador Human Rights Association. Nineteen Sixty-Eight : International Year for Human Rights -- "The very survival of the organization depends on your generosity" : The NLHRA -- "The greatest single threat to equality of religion and freedom of worship" : The Case of Denominational Education -- The NLHRA: A Case Study in State Funding -- Conclusion. The New Anti-Liberals? Comparing Generations -- Divided We Stand : A National Rights Association -- State Funding -- Rights Activism in the Age of Protest. |
| Summary |
"In the first major study of postwar social movement organizations in Canada, Dominique Clement provides a history of the human rights movement as seen through the eyes of two generations of activists. Drawing on newly acquired archival sources, extensive interviews, and materials released through access to information applications, Clement explores the history of four organizations - the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, Ligue des droits de l'homme, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and Newfoundland-Labrador Human Rights Association - that emerged in the sixties and evolved into powerful lobbies for human rights despite bitter internal disputes and intense rivalries." "In addition to offering a unique perspective on some of the most infamous human rights controversies of the period - including the Gastown riot, the campaign to counteract police violence in Toronto, compulsory treatment of drug addicts, the October crisis of 1970, and the rights of prisoners and welfare recipients - Canada's Rights Revolution argues that the idea of human rights has historically been highly statist while grass roots activism has been at the heart of the most profound human rights advances."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Human rights movements -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
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Human rights movements. |
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Canada. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Human rights advocacy -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
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Human rights advocacy. |
| ISBN |
9780774814799 |
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0774814799 |
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