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Presentation to Stef's Class
"Critical
Thinking on the Environment"
March 2, 2006
"Much of it focuses on individual and collective responses to
environmental decline and globalization,
and the activist work you have
been doing with CROW around chemical fogging would fit very
well."
Stef
...individual and collective responses to environmental decline and
globalization...
result of globalization:
- more and rarer diseases being transferred around the globe
- mutations (of both diseases and species)
- international standards (ie pop's)
- adjusting of Canada's reg's to be more inline with U.S.
("smart" regs)
environmental decline:
- decimation of bird and insect populations following spraying
- contamination of air, soil and water from lawn-care and
mosquito spraying
- mutations (in target and non-target species)
- resistance
- human toxic body burden
individual responses:
- some very brave souls have stood up (or sat down!) for all
of us, and they did it alone (Carrie Boles, Sara Peloquin and I'm sure
there are more)
- people have registered their personal
buffer zones (sometimes despite great resistance from family and even
vigilanteism and threats from neighbours)
- people have gone door-to-door
collecting buffer registrations
- people have vandalised fogging trucks
as they go through
neighbourhoods (violence is not recommended)
- people have phoned their politicians
collective responses:
- people have strategically buffered entire neighbourhoods
- people have blockaded streets to keep fogging trucks out,
with their vehicles and their bodies (for which people have been
arrested; some were discharged, some paid fines)
- people have demonstrated at city hall and the leg
- people have held sit-in's to demand meetings with
politicians
- people have petitioned, made presentations and written
letters to all levels of government
- people have symbolically blockaded with strings of baby
toys and street chalk drawings of insects
- people have blockaded at the insect control compound to
prevent fogging trucks from leaving (for which some were arrested, in
2004 fines were paid, in 2005 the court granted absolute discharge)
- CROW was born out of the protests of summer of 2002, and
incorporated as a non-profit org in 2003
- CROW provides a display, speaker services, resources,
e-newsletter, and website...
- CROW has organized Dragonfly Cafes (formerly Mosquito
Cafe), Detox Day, and the upcoming Earth Day forum, Pesticides in
Children
Q & A
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