Tag Archive for 'animal-rights'
Two New Vegan Blogs
Published May 17th, 2009 in blog, veg'nism and video. 4 Comments Tags: Animal Rights, blog, Erik Marcus, Karen Dawn, microblog, vegan.Two well known folks in the animal rights / vegan community have launched new blogs – check them out and subscribe!
First, Erik Marcus, who you likely know as the person behind Vegan.com, as well as the author of Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating, Meat Market: Animals, Ethic, and Money, and The Ultimate Vegan Guide: [...]
Does One-Click Activism Work?
Published April 15th, 2009 in Politics and veg'nism. 0 Comments Tags: action, Activism, advocacy, Animal Rights, ar, digital, email, one-click, Online, Politics, veg'nism.Via Erik Marcus I came to an excellent blog post by Mark Hawthorne, who takes on a question I’ve often wondered about: Is One-Click Activism Effective?
You’ve almost certainly seen one-click activism: you get an email, click on a link, and send a pre-written message to a pre-selected legislator or other politician. It’s activism made easy, [...]
Boston Vegan Association, Pamphlet
Published November 10th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: abolitionist, Animal Rights, Boston Vegan Association, bva, MyThai, vegan.The Boston Vegan Association monthly meeting was this weekend at MyThai, in Brookline. Although I don’t get to as many of these meetings as I’d like (after commuting in to Boston all week the last thing I want to do most weekends is commute), I was happy to see lots of familiar faces and a [...]
“Free Range” by Hadley Hooper
Published August 12th, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: Animal Rights, art, chickens, democratic national convention, denver, dialog:denver, Factory Farming.With the Democratic National Convention rapidly approaching, a series of Denver-area artists have come together for an exhibition called Dialog: Denver, which is described as “politically-themed exhibition addressing issues of both American and global import” and will run during the convention.
Hadley Hooper posted this image, which she created for the exhibition (click [...]
Bill Maher talks Turkey at the Huffington Post
Published November 23rd, 2007 in blog and veg'nism. 1 Comment Tags: Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Bill Maher, Thanksviging, Turkey, vegan.Via the MARC list I came across Bill Maher’s excellent and well-timed pre-thanksgiving rant about turkeys. He links to a few slaughterhouse videos to emphasize the point:
These people should be arrested. They would be if the turkeys were dogs or cats. Too bad our animal protection laws make about as much sense as [...]
