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Lecture 12Monday March 28 2011

PEACE ST 2B03 / LABR ST 2W03 / WOMENS ST 2A03: Human Rights and Social Justice

Dr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

National (in)securityRights and Justice post 9/11

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Outline

free speech zones

Academic freedom

patriotic correctness

Criminalising dissent

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free speech zones

G20 Toronto (2011)

regulating dissent

mass arrests

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...patriotic correctness, an ideology that privileges

conformity over critical [engagement] and thatrepresents dissent as something akin to a terrorist act.

Henry Giroux (2010)

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Summary

Diverse issues

Challenging and confronting

A long way to go...

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For Wednesday

Giroux: Dissent is akin to a terrorist act. Discuss.

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Citations & further reading

Henry Giroux (2010) Higher Education aer September 11th:e Crisis of Academic Freedom andDemocracy, in Anthony J. Nocella II, Steven Best & Peter McLaren (eds.), Academic Repression:Reections frome Academic Industrial Complex, Oakland: AK Press. pp. 92-111.

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Image sources

Mike Konopacki. 2000. If there was justice in the world, 2000 http://www.veggies.org.uk/calendar/2000.htm

Human Rights Champions, 2001 http://invisiblecollege.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/2007/03/11/who-wants-to-be-the-

new-human-rights-cha

Which do you pet, which do you eat? http://www.meatout.org/action/outreach.htm

Shane T. McCoy, Detainees at Camp X-Ray, 11 January 2002. Image in the domain image http://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_x-ray_detainees.jpg

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Video sources

Matt Lauer Corners Bush on Torture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp4vLBvU1bA

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