Action Alerts

Amnesty International: Give President-Elect Obama the support he needs to close Guantanamo and end torture.
President-Elect Obama has forcefully come out against these disastrous policies. Less than 10 days ago on 60 minutes, he stated his strong intention to finally close the detention camps at Guantanamo Bay. How he closes it however is crucial. That’s why he needs to hear from you, and everyone who cares about human rights. Sign the petition. Give President-Elect Obama the overwhelming support he needs to close Guantanamo and close it right.

An Animal-Friendly Life: Vegans needed for documentary interviews
Casting for I’m Vegan has now begun! I’m Vegan is a series of short documentary profiles that will feature vegans from all walks of life, perhaps including you! The project is is intended to address preconceptions about vegans and veganism, which may increase normalization of and appreciation for veganism. It is also expected that I’m Vegan will be a catalyst for some viewers to go vegan. Completed profiles will be distributed for free over the web so that anyone can share the videos with family, friends, and visitors to their own sites. A full-length documentary is also in the works.

Animal Person: On Vegans in Minnesota and Pigs in Florida
Pig Tales Sanctuary in North Florida (about four hours from me), which I didn’t know existed until yesterday, is in dire need of help. [...] The situation is that Lory doesn’t have enough help or money, some of the pigs are indeed suffering, and the local “Humane” Society is about to round up all the pigs and haul them all off to slaughter (you know, the “euthanasia” kind). Michele writes: “The solution to this problem is really not that difficult or insurmountable if enough people – even just 5 or 10 to start with – pitch in and help out. Since the sanctuary already exists, the hardest part, finding a place for the pigs to live out their lives, is already done.”

Consumers Union: A Deadline is a Deadline!
You helped pass a tough new law this year that will make it illegal to sell lead and chemically tainted children’s products. But guess what? Some companies now say they can’t meet the deadline — and they want to keep selling these hazardous kids’ products after they’re supposed to stop!

Oceana: Obama’s Ocean To-Do List
It was a thrill to watch Barack Obama’s historic campaign and election, but now it’s time to get down to business. Along with a heap of other challenges, President-elect Obama faces oceans in crisis from overfishing, climate change, mercury contamination, and more. In the past, President-elect Obama has been a friend of the oceans. As an Illinois Senator, he was the sponsor of a bill that would have required chlorine factories to switch to mercury-free technology, which was designed to reduce harmful mercury contamination of our waterways and seafood. We hope that as President, he will make this bill the law of the land to improve the health of our families and our marine communities.

Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA): Ask President-Elect Obama to Reverse Bush Administration Damage
As a parting gift to the energy industry, the Bureau of Land Management announced expansion of its Utah oil and gas leasing program to include thousands of acres on or near the boundaries of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, as well as Dinosaur National Monument. The iconic landscapes of Desolation and Nine Mile Canyons are also threatened by the planned December 19, 2008 lease sale. Please send a message to President-elect Obama asking that he reverse the Bush administration’s damaging plans for Utah’s redrock canyonlands.

United Poultry Concerns (UPC): Letters to NY State Education Department Urgently Needed.
The New York State Education Department is currently reviewing the legal status of a chicken slaughter project at Canandaigua Academy, a high school in upstate New York. The project involves flying 25 or more chicks from Murray McMurry Hatchery in Iowa, as regular, unprotected airmail like luggage, to be raised and slaughtered by high school students, then cooked and eaten by the students. In December 2007, students slaughtered 21 chickens and let one little rooster go to Farm Sanctuary following a meeting with school administrators in which Canandaigua animal activist Joel Freedman pleaded futilely for mercy for all of the birds.

Contests

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM): Enter the Exultant Ark Photo Contest
Pleasurable Kingdom was the first book to focus exclusively on pleasure in animals, and the new book will be the first pictorial book of its kind. Exultant Ark will celebrate the positive aspects of animals’ existence and further correct the stereotype—commonly bolstered by nature documentaries that favor life’s more dramatic and perilous moments—that wild nature is a constant, earnest struggle for survival. I was energized by meeting so many animal lovers on my recent book tour and would like to invite the photographers among you to take part in this new effort by submitting your photographs for the Exultant Ark Photo Contest.

Newsletters

The Sierra Club: Club Insider, November 25, 2008
Don’t Be a Turkey — Green Your Thanksgiving

Petitions

Build a Wildlife Conservation Agenda for the New Administration

Make Public Schools in Your State Go Green

Global Warming is a Moral Issue

Stop Dog Prizes at The National Kidney Foundation’s Auction of the National Capital Area

Tell Iraq to Stop the Inhumane Killing of Dogs

Upcoming Events

Dogs Deserve Better (DDB): The DDB Holiday Auction Has Begun – Annual Holiday E-bay Auction from November 20 through November 30th
Over 70 Items, from tiny earrings to large pet portraits, iPod, and Kodak Cameras! Start the Bidding…and Remember. Bid High, Bid Often, and Bid, Bid, Bid!

Fur Free Friday, November 28, 2008
Autumn is here, and “fashionistas” everywhere are buying, selling, or writing about fall wardrobes. Don’t forget an essential day in the fall “fashion season” – Fur Free Friday! Join us again this year as we urge shoppers to never buy fur, stores to stop selling fur, and media fashion writers to reveal the truth behind fur.

Buy Nothing Day, November 28, 2008
It’s coming. Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year. Last year, the weekend after Thanksgiving alone, Americans spent nearly 28 BILLION DOLLARS shopping. Stop the madness before it starts by celebrating Buy Nothing Day on Friday, November 28th.

Post Punk Kitchen: 4 Course Dinner For The Doggies – Fri 12/12
It’s on again! Join us at Sweetpea Bakery for a 4 course dinner to benefit Portland’s Family Dogs New Life Shelter, an non-profit no-kill dog shelter for, but not limited to, pups who are at risk of going to doggy heaven before their time.

Farm Sanctuary: A Winter Wonderland for the Animals, December 4, 2008
On Thursday, December 4, 2008, Farm Sanctuary will host a Winter Wonderland for the Animals fundraiser to support our work. I would love to celebrate this event with you, so I’m writing to ask you to be a special supporter of our holiday benefit this year.

Amnesty International’s 2008 Global Write-a-thon, December 5 – 14, 2008
In the days surrounding International Human Rights Day on December 10, tens of thousands of caring people around the world will take part in the world’s largest letter writing event. Please join this worldwide effort. Be a part of the Global Write-a-thon. During last year’s Global Write-a-thon, people in more than 30 countries sent over 150,000 letters, postcards and emails on behalf of prisoners of conscience, human rights defenders, and others at risk. At least three of the prisoners were freed because of your support.

The Humane League of Philadelphia: Holiday Party 2008, Saturday, December 13, 2008
Our biggest event of the year is on the way in just one month, and YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS IT! This year our annual holiday party will feature keynote talks from Bruce Friedrich (VP, PETA) and Heidi Prescott (VP, Humane Society of the US) on how to be a more effective voice for animals. Our special guests in attendance will also include Sarah Speed (PA Director, HSUS); Alka Chandra (Senior Researcher, PETA); Sen. Roy Afflerbach (Director, Humane PA PAC); Stu Bykofsky and Vance Lehmkuhl (Daily News); Rob Teti (Director, Chenoa Manor) and more! This fun, festive, and inspiring event will be taking place on the evening of Saturday December 13 at the Ethical Society Building in Center City Philadelphia.

Miscellaneous

World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA): Eating our future: the environmental impact of industrial animal agriculture

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The easyVegan Link Sanctuary is a near-daily roundup of animal and environmental advocacy news, action alerts, carnivals, events and resources. This link roundup is meant as a jumping-off point for you, the reader, to take further action and learn more about the issues presented here. I link, you decide!

If you have a link you’d like included, please drop me a line at easyvegan [at] gmail.com – or leave it in the comments! Feedback is also appreciated, particularly as it relates to the links included below. I’ve tried my best to identify and name any speciesism, sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, sizeism, etc. which may appear in the resources below; if, however, I’ve overlooked something, please leave a note in the comments. It’s not my desire to fight one form of oppression by engaging in another.

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