Survey

Brief summary of yourself (group you represent, area of focus, etc):

1) How would you define activism?

2) What percentage of your time (in hours per week) do you devote to activism? ____

3) How is your time divided between the following types of activities?

i) meetings ____

ii) administrative work ____

iii) reading and writing ____

iv) contacts with media ____

v) lobbying ____

vi) protests ____

vii) blockades ____

viii) monkey wrenching ____

4) In your personal experience, what are some of the things that you have done that have resulted in accomplishing the goal in mind? Explain with specific instances in order to illustrate the point being made.

4.1) As a member of an organization, what do you think has been the major success to date? Why?

5) What do you deem as effective in terms of evaluating what the/your action has accomplished?

6) What are some of the things that you have seen in your time within the environmental arena, not necessarily done by yourself or someone within your organization, that you have thought was an effective approach to accomplishing environmental activist goals?

7) What causes do you see as important; what motivates you to participate in an action?

8) What do you think needs to be addressed within the environmental activist arena in order for activists to be more effective or more able to address the issues at hand?

9) What do you see in the future of environmental activism in Canada (politically, economically, socially, etc.); what will shape activism in the future?

10) Does Canadian activism have a distinct personality ; what makes Canadian activism Canadian?

11) What do you consider necessary resources in environmental activism (ie. money, time, volunteers)?