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Bucking Conservatism: Part III: Doing Politics in a New Way

Bucking Conservatism
Part III: Doing Politics in a New Way

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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I: Indigenous Activism and Resistance
    1. Introduction
    2. 1. Indian Status as the Foundation of Justice
    3. 2. Teaching It Our Way: Blue Quills and the Demand for Indigenous Educational Autonomy
    4. 3. “We are on the outside looking in [. . .]. But we are still Indians”: Alberta Indigenous Women Fighting for Status Rights, 1968–85
  6. Part II: Defying Heteropatriarchy
    1. Introduction
    2. 4. Fed Up with the Status Quo: Alberta Women’s Groups Challenge Maternalist Ideology and Secure Provincial Funding for Daycare, 1964–71
    3. 5. Gay Liberation in Conservative Calgary
    4. 6. Contraception, Community, and Controversy: The Lethbridge Birth Control and Information Centre, 1972–78
    5. 7. “Ultra Activists” in a “Very Closeted Place”: The Early Years of Edmonton’s Gay Alliance Toward Equality, 1972–77
  7. Part III: Doing Politics in a New Way
    1. Introduction
    2. 8. Daring to Be Left in Social Credit Alberta: Recollections of a Young New Democratic Party Activist in the 1960s
    3. 9. Socialist Survival: The Woodsworth-Irvine Socialist Fellowship and the Preservation of Radical Thought in Alberta
    4. 10. Learning Marxism from Tom Flanagan: Left-Wing Activism at the University of Calgary in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
    5. 11. Drop In, Hang Out, and Crash: Outreach Programs for Transient Youth and War Resisters in Edmonton
    6. 12. Solidarity on the Cricket Pitch: Confronting South African Apartheid in Edmonton
  8. Part IV: Countercultural and Environmental Radicalism
    1. Introduction
    2. 13. From Nuclear Disarmament to Raging Granny: A Recollection of Peace Activism and Environmental Advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s
    3. 14. The Mill Creek Park Movement and Citizen Activism in Edmonton, 1964–75
    4. 15. “A Lot of Heifer-Dust”: Alberta Maverick Marion Nicoll and Abstract Art
    5. 16. Land and Love in the Rockies: The Poetic Politics of Sid Marty and Headwaters
    6. 17. Death of a Delta
  9. Conclusion: Bucking Conservatism, Then and Now
  10. List of Contributors

PART III
Doing Politics in a New Way

A black-and-white photograph shows a group of young men and women holding up placards. Some of the placards read, “It’s for your own good.” Germany in the 30’s, Canada in the 70’s.” “Welcome to Canada, The friendly police state.”

Protesters defy the War Measures Act, Calgary 16 October 1970. Courtesy of Calgary Herald Photograph Collection, Glenbow Archives, Calgary, NA-2864-6745-CS3-9a-10.

Ernest Manning on Medicare and Socialism

Canada is dangerously close to setting her feet on a path that can lead to but one ultimate end. That end will be a nation turned into a regimented socialist welfare state. [. . .]

To those who want to see a free society preserved in Canada, the proposed compulsory federal medical care program is a direct challenge to individual liberty and responsibility.

Ernest Manning, “National Medicare—Let’s Look Before We Leap,” speech to the Alberta Division of the Canadian Medical Association, 8 September 1965

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