Action Alerts

Center for Biological Diversity: Tell the Fisheries Service to Ban Swordfish Imports and Protect Marine Mammals
“Consumers in the United States buy vast amounts of illegally imported swordfish each year, unintentionally harming both marine mammals around the world and domestic economic interests. Help end U.S. support of destructive fisheries by telling the National Marine Fisheries Service to enforce the Marine Mammal Protection Act, a longstanding law that bans such imports until the country providing them proves that their fisheries meet U.S. standards for protecting marine mammals.”

Liberation BC: Article on Straight . com – your comments needed!
“Check it out: an article about LBC’s foie gras campaign, written by our very own Becci, in the Straight.com politics blog! Please take a few minutes to visit the page and leave a comment. The more people who view the page and leave comments, the more likely it will be that they’ll ask us to write more articles. So, don’t delay, read it now!”

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Save Bird Habitat
“Every year, billions of migratory songbirds stop over in Canada’s vast boreal forest to build their nests and raise their young. In fact, more than half of America’s migratory birds use the boreal forest for breeding and nesting. But, the rapidly growing tar sands industry poses a huge threat to these migratory bird populations. A new report just released by NRDC and our environmental partners finds that, over the next 30 to 50 years, as many as 166 million birds could be lost if tar sands development continues. In Alberta, tar sands mining and drilling has already caused significant loss of habitat, not to mention Canada’s fastest growing source of global warming pollution. These destructive operations have also created hundreds of toxic lakes and ponds throughout Alberta, killing 8,000 to 100,000 birds annually. Tell Canadian government officials to slow the expansion of tar sands development and protect bird habitat in the boreal forest.”

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Urge Phoenix Apartment Complex to Stop Cruel Trapping of Pigeons!
“Several residents of Arcadia Cove apartment complex in Phoenix, Arizona, have informed PETA that the complex’s management is live-trapping birds on the premises and leaving the birds to languish in the traps for days at a time. We are told that the traps are only checked twice a week and that several trapped pigeons have been attacked and “eaten alive” through the bars of the traps by birds of prey who have found them to be easy targets. As long as live traps continue to be used in this fashion, pigeons and other animals—including protected and endangered species—are at risk.”

PETA India: Stop the Illegal Treatment of Indian Cows
“Gulshan Grover, Raveen Tandon, Shamita Singha and Luke Kenny along with top designers such as Hemant Trevedi, Anita Dongre and Stella McCartney have stopped using leather. They join the growing list of international celebs who opt to use humane materials instead of leather. These cattle are counting on your help! Please write to the Prime Minister of India urging him to immediately enact humane practices and conditions for cattle transportation in India.”

United Farm Workers (UFW): Unjust Bush guest worker regulations went into effect Saturday.
“Thousands responded last month when we shared the devastating legacy President Bush’s administration has left for farm workers. President Bush issued new H2A regulations that gut existing protections for both domestic and foreign farmworkers. These devastating changes make it easier for growers to slash the pay of domestic farm workers and hire imported foreign laborers instead of U.S. field workers. They weaken government protections in an industry where it can be proven that there are many violations of the minimum wage, housing requirements and other rules.”

Campaign Updates

Kinship Circle: VERDICT: Brindi lives and comes home soon!
“After a six-month legal battle with Halifax city hall, metro pet owner Francesca Rogier and her lawyer have won their case to save Brindi the dog from being killed by the state…”

Carnivals

Carnival of the Green #163 @ SustainaBee

Newsletters

Center for Biological Diversity: Endangered Earth Online, No. 443, January 15, 2009
“Endangered Earth: Abalone Protected, Gray Wolves and Beluga Whales Attacked”

Petitions

Protect the Endangered Species Act

Save the Arctic’s Marine Ecosystems

Keep Loaded Guns Out of Our National Parks

Do What’s Right: Achieve Peace in Gaza

Ban Bestiality in Florida

Stop 24-hour tethering of dogs in Washoe county , Nevada

Stop the importation of wild live coral

‘Round the Interwebz

Animal Rights @ Change . org: Celebrating Coretta, Who Celebrated Nonviolence–and Stopped Eating Animals

Green is the New Red: Recap of the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty “Terrorism” Appeal in Philadelphia

On Human-Nonhuman Relations: A Meat Eater Goes Vegan (for 2 months).

Sociological Images: IT’S NOT A FISH, IT’S A SEA KITTEN

Sociological Images: OUTING PROP. 8 SUPPORTERS

SuperWeed: Made for You and Me?

That Vegan Girl: On insincerity and psychopath-sadism

Upcoming Events

World Day for Meat Abolition, January 31, 2008
“World Day for the Abolition of Meat is intended as a means of promoting the idea of abolishing the murder of animals for meat. Worldwide six million sentient beings are killed for their meat every hour! That figure doesn’t even count the fish and other sea animals, which of course are included in the demand for the abolition of meat. Meat consumption causes more suffering and death than any other human activity and is completely unnecessary.”

Dogs Deserve Better (DDB): Have a Heart for Chained Dogs Week, February 7-14, 2009
“Join us February 7-14th for Have a Heart for Chained Dogs Week. OUR GOAL in our 7th Season is to SEND OUT 12,500 VALENTINES TO CHAINED or PENNED DOGS. We are striving to raise awareness for chained and penned dogs in a positive way…by delivering Valentines, a brochure and a treat coupon to dogs living outside all over the U.S. and into other countries where we have representation, such as Canada and Australia. Here’s what you can do: 1) Make Valentines; 2) Mail Coupons for Free or Reduced Cost Treats or Dogfood; 3. Send addresses for Chained or Penned Dogs.”

Animal Aid: End Primate Experiments – Day of Action, Saturday, February 28, 2009
“After 20 years, the EU law that governs animal testing across Europe and the UK is being revised. European Directive 86/609 EEC, which applies to animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes, is the legal template on which all EU member states base their national laws. In the UK, the relevant law is the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.Sadly, this Directive does not include an independent enquiry into the scientific reliability of animal experiments, nor does it offer a total ban – something to which Animal Aid is committed unequivocally.”

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About

The easyVegan Link Sanctuary is a near-daily roundup of animal and environmental advocacy action alerts, campaign updates, carnivals, contests, newsletters, petitions, upcoming events and miscellaneous resources.

While my primary focus is non-human animals and the environment in which they live, I will cover human rights issues as well, especially as they relate to animal and environmental welfare. (For example, while reproductive rights is typically seen as a feminist or women’s issue, the growing global human population does have environmental consequences. In this vein, access to family planning resources has a tangible impact on the environment – an environment we share with non-human animals.)

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 above. I’ve tried my best to identify and name any speciesism, sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, sizeism, etc. which may appear in the resources above; 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.

If you’d like to get on the above organizations’ e-mail lists, I’ve compiled a full list of all my resources on the Get Active! page.

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