DUE DATE: Have read and decided by no later than 14 October (Wednesday) ....... I will place you in a group if you do not indicate a preference!!! Please also note that there are 25 of you and 6 groups. That means 4 per group with a group of 5. First come, first served on groupings....So far:
1.( 4 ) Makah: Jonte , Ross , Shelby, Lydia ( membership closed)
2. ( 4 ) Greenpeace: Kenzie , Kathryn, Haley, Ashlee ( Greenpeace is now closed for membership)
3. ( 4 ) International Covenant : Colleen , Maria , Angelica , Hollis ( closed for membership)
4. ( 5 ) North High Alliance: Knox , Emory , Nathan , Emilee, Clinton ( closed for membership)
5. (4 ) Crest: Luke , Caitlin, Hannah, Gabby ( Crest is now closed for membership)
6. ( 4 ) Sea Shepherd : Chrissy, Matt, Adair , Brittney ( Sea Shepherds is now closed for membership )
The assignment: debate the Makah rights to whaling. The positions:
1. Makah Tribal Viewpoint – We have a cultural right to these whales.
2. Greenpeace viewpoint - Makah do not have a cultural right to these whales. We don’t believe that anyone has a cultural right to anything what so ever, and certainly not to a living organism that has inherent rights.
3. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – As members,we believe that the Makah should be allowed to whale. However, instead of using the “culture” argument, we think the Makah should focus on a different argument. That argument is simply this: They have a guarantee from the US government that states they are allowed to whale.
4. High North Alliance - We believe whaling and seal hunting is ok and necessary. But we need to protect the areas.
5. Crest - your position on whaling is neutral. ( but there is a catch for you ! )
6. Sea Shepherd and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society - non - profit, non- government agency involved with the investigation and documentation of violations of international laws, regulations and treaties protecting marine species.
Instructions:
1. Please look at these positions carefully and determine which most closely fits your viewpoint. That will be your group for the debate.
2. This debate will be not be soley graded as a group, your individual participation will be of supreme importance.
3. Your contribution to the debate will need to include statistics, document references , newspaper references , videos ( created or real ), props as are deemed fit for your particular group : things like signs , banners , clothing , etc.
4. The main stipulation is that you need to clear the prop ideas with me first.
5. From the point the prairie project presentations are completed and you receive your group description card, you will have 1 week for preparation.
6.at the one week plus a day mark, the debate will begin and let the best man/woman/team win!
Sources
http://www.whales.org.au/alert/makah/index.html - pertinent legal documents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR2MEI1CcsA - Makah whaling video
http://www.makah.com/whaling.htm - Makah site on whaling
http://www.alamut.com/subj/the_other/misc/makahWhaling.html - historical information
http://www.cnie.org/NAE/cases/makah/index.htmlhttp://content.lib.washington.edu/cmpweb/exhibits/makah/whaling-in-makah.html - whaling treaty being read in Makah native language
http://www.highnorth.no/Default.asp - High North Alliance home page
http://www.iwcoffice.org/conservation/estimate.htm - International Whaling Commission: includes population numbers and whale catch limits for aborignal peoples and scientific studies.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/- Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/- Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/whalinghttp://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/editorial-061220-1.html- Sea Shepherd's view of Greenpeace
http://www.seashepherd.org/ - Sea Shepherd
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cescr.htm - International Covenant
http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/UN-covenant/ - the document
http://www.highnorth.no/news/nedit.asp?which=172 - world council of whalers
http://www.icrwhale.org/eng-index.htm - Institute for Cetacean Research site . Lots of interesting pictures of whaling and up to date information about Japanese whaling etc.
Newspaper Articles: interesting! just a few to give you something to start working with and on...
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2003926767&zsection_id=2003925728&slug=whale05m&date=20071005http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2003946019&zsection_id=2003925728&slug=webwhale13m&date=20071012http://www.komonews.com/internal?st=print&id=4079361&path=/news/archivehttp://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/v-printerfriendly/story/153177.htmlhttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/17/world/main4610908.shtml?source=related_storyhttp://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,322472,00.htmlhttp://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,312205,00.htmlhttp://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,317471,00.htmlhttp://abcnews.go.com/print?id=6425439http://search.japantimes.co.jp/print/fd20090830pb.htmlhttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/2009/02/the-war-over-wh.htmlhttp://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2009/WWFPresitem12741.htmlhttp://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USTRE5111EV20090202Overview of laws protecting whales and marine mammals: will be distributed in class.
Please make a note to yourselves that the Endangered Species Act of 1972 was completely redesigned and rewritten in 1973 to include CITES.