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Civil disobedience
Due to continuing unjust and outdated laws prohibiting cannabis and restricting access to medical mariuana, the BC Compassion Club is engaged in compassionate civil disobedience on a daily basis, conscientiously breaking the law and risking arrest in order to bring this much needed medicine to the seriously and terminally ill. Here are some links and resources about the philosophy and history of civil disobedience.
The Role of Civil Disobedience in Democracy
A short article by Kayla Starr discussing examples of and reasons for civil disobedience and non-cooperation.... [...More]
Dictionary of the History of Ideas on Civil Disobedience
Read about the history of civil disobedience, and find many examples of how it has been used to challenge unsatisfactory laws.... [...More]
Civil disobedience on Wikipedia
A link to the Wikipedia article about civil disobedience.... [...More]
Civil Disobedience (by Henry Thoreau)
An essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice.... [...More]
Seven guidelines for civil disobedience (by Howard Zinn)
An excerpt from Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order (New York: Random House/Vintage, 1968), 119-122, by Howard Zinn... [...More]
Crimes of Compassion
Canada 2001. Director: Jennifer Pickford.
Crimes of Compassion takes an insider’s look at the Vancouver Island Compassion Society (VICS) as it struggles to operate after being busted by the police. The film includes an inside look at a medical marijuana grow operation, and an interview with former Canadian Health Minister Alan Rock as part of an examination of the medical marijuana access regulations.... [...More]
