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Monday, October 24, 2011
Whaling International issues
So far:
1. ( 5 ) Greenpeace - Morgan , Keilor , Lorenzo , Jalen , Rachel (membership closed )
2. ( 5 ) International Covenant - Fitz , Jorge , Abbey , Caleb , Alan ( membership closed )
3. ( 5 ) High North Alliance - Christy, Gracie, Katie, Carson , Hana ( membership closed )
4. ( 5 ) Crest - Kaylon , Laurissa , Chelsea, Drake , Cassie ( membership closed )
5. ( 4 ) Sea Shepherd - Stuart, Zane , Cynthia, Austin ( membership closed )
6. ( 4 ) To be revealed later : Justin, Jose, Seattle, Gaige( membership closed )
The assignment: debate the Native peoples' rights to whaling. The positions:
1. Native people Viewpoint – We have a cultural right to these whales.
2. Greenpeace viewpoint - Native Peoples 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 Native Peoples should be allowed to whale. However, instead of using the “culture” argument, we think the Native Peoples should focus on a different argument. That argument is simply this: They have a guarantee from their respective 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 solely 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 that the Welcome to My Jungle presentations are completed and Gorillas in the Mist has been viewed, 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.html
http://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/whaling
http://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=20071005
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2003946019&zsection_id=2003925728&slug=webwhale13m&date=20071012
http://www.komonews.com/internal?st=print&id=4079361&path=/news/archive
http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/v-printerfriendly/story/153177.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/17/world/main4610908.shtml?source=related_story
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,322472,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,312205,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,317471,00.html
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=6425439
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/print/fd20090830pb.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/2009/02/the-war-over-wh.html
http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2009/WWFPresitem12741.html
http://www.reuters.com/articlePrint?articleId=USTRE5111EV20090202
Misc. additional resources:
Inuit Case for whaling:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2005773.stm
http://www.highnorth.no/Library/Culture/cont-cul.htm
http://www.highnorth.no/Library/Culture/Recipes/no-wh-me.htm
http://www.highnorth.no/library/Policies/National/la-cl-ag.htm
http://www.highnorth.no/Library/Publications/iceland/wh-an-in.htm
Overview of laws protecting whales and marine mammals: will be distributed in class and on this site. Some of them are quite wordy and it would serve you well to skim them and choose portions pertinent to your case.
Please make a note to yourselves that the Endangered Species Act of 1972 was completely redesigned and rewritten in 1973 to include CITES.
CITIES
http://www.cites.org/eng/disc/text.php#II
Marine Mammals Protection Act
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/laws/mmpa/
Endangered Species Act
http://epw.senate.gov/esa73.pdf
Summary of some of the international laws protecting wildlife
http://www.pacificwildlife.org/info/Online%20Docs/wildlife_laws_summary.pdf