Banned on the Hill: A True Story about Dirty Oil and Government Censorship
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (575 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0991696107 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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(It’s an approach we here at Grist admire.) Her illustrated essays call out individuals, corporations, and governments for their inadequate responses to environmental threats, but in an unfailingly good-natured way more likely to make you grin than grimace. James, a Toronto-based activist with no shortage of gumption and political acumen, has turned the federal government’s efforts to silence her into a new book. “If art has to agree with government policy, then art is government propaganda.”… James hopes her book will also be a how-to gu
Happily, Franke James is indefatigable!” BILL MCKIBBEN, Founder, 350“Franke James’ commitment to art, free expression and political commentary put her in the cross-hairs of Stephen Harper’s Conservatives. Bravo!” CLAYTON RUBY, C.M., B.A., LL.B., LL.M., LL.D. Franke James is
Rev. F. Mark Mealing, Ph.D. said Banned on the Hill. A superb collection of well-founded criticisms of recent & current Federal policy & actions, by an artist-victim. Clever, engaging, & righteous.. Franke James & Her Activism -- A Delightfully Naughty Soup for Cloudy Days! Detong Choyin In 2011, Franke James was in the middle of planning for a solo 20-city tour art show and an introduction to a new international audience. The show was being funded in large part by the Canadian government with Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the helm."Banned on the Hill" is Franke's visual letter to Harper, published online and sent out in a press release across Canada that began,* "Dear Prime Minister, You say a pollution tax would "WREAK HAVOC on our economy* Why are YOU making us CHOOSE between the ECONOMY* and the ENVIRONMENT?* You say a TAX on POLLUTION WILL. The return of an old problem gets denounced in a new genre C. Montpetit Franke James's style is almost a genre of its own, one that we don't see very often in the adult-oriented publishing world as it requires large-format, full-colour art on almost every page. Such a lush, cheery format is quite unusual, especially when it denounces the return of a very dark era, that of the Nixonian Enemies List and the blacklisting of anyone who disagrees with government policy--in Canada, no less!Access-to-information stories and censored documents about environmental problems usually make for dry reading, so it's particularly surprising to see Fr
Banned on the Hill: Winner, 2014 Gold IPPY Award and Foreword's Silver IndieFab Award. Her experiences as an artist facing muzzling and censorship by the federal government led to the publishing of her third book, Banned on the Hill, which chronicles her experience with free expression through eight “visual essays”. Franke’s artwork and books span print, TV, radio, and online mediums in Canada, the USA, and many other parts of the world. Tom Pedersen, Pacific Institute for Climate SolutionsFranke James: Winner, Liberty Award for Excellence in the Arts, BCCLAFranke James received the 2014 Liberty Award for Excellence in the Arts, from the BC Civil Liberties Association. It’s a tour de force and if you haven’t bought a copy