Action Alerts

ACORN: “Stop Foreclosures for Real Economic Recovery”
“The foreclosure crisis among American homeowners lies at the very heart of the broader economic collapse from which we are struggling to recover. Because of widespread predatory lending, 2008 saw 2.3 million properties enter foreclosure, the highest rate of foreclosure since the Great Depression. Credit Suisse predicts that there will be between 8 and 9 million foreclosures in the next four years without major changes. A successful economic recovery is impossible without directly addressing the record foreclosure rate that lies at its heart.”

Animal Welfare Institute (AWI): 111th Congress Starts With Important Animal Protection Measures
“The end of the last Congress saw significant movement on two issues of great importance to AWI and its supporters. House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN) introduced the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act, a bill to ban horse slaughter, which passed out of the Chairman’s committee. The House of Representatives also passed a measure to strengthen the Shark Finning Prohibition Act. However, the Senate was unable to take action on either measure before the session ended, necessitating the recent reintroduction of both. The good news is that both have been reintroduced and are clear priorities for their sponsors. Nevertheless, we need your help to ensure their successful passage. Please take a moment to contact your US Representative to ask for support on both issues.”

Color of Change: Another officer attacked Grant before he was killed; The District Attorney says he isn’t prosecuting
“It wasn’t just one cop attacking Oscar Grant on New Year’s Eve. A new video shows that before Grant was killed, officer Tony Pirone punched him in the face without cause. Experts have called it criminal. So why has the District Attorney said he’s not pursuing charges? It took two weeks and thousands of people speaking out before the DA charged Oscar Grant’s killer with murder. Clearly, it will take continued public pressure to see that justice is served throughout this case. Please join us in publicly confronting District Attorney Tom Orloff, as well as calling on California’s Attorney General to keep an eye on Orloff’s handling of the case.”

National Partnership for Women & Families: Expand Access to Family Planning Services
“This week, family planning opponents in Congress used lies and distortions to eliminate an important provision in the economic stimulus package that would have allowed states to expand access to family planning services to low-income families through the Medicaid program. This provision would have enabled many low-income women and families to access vital family planning services — basic health care that includes contraceptives and breast and cervical cancer screening. At the same time, it would have generated hundreds of millions of dollars in much-needed savings to both states and the federal government.”

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Tell Strathmore to Leave Ringling Bros. Circus Out of Its Festival
“When we discovered that Strathmore, a nonprofit arts center, was planning to host clowns, jugglers, and trapeze artists from the Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey Circus at its annual festival, we immediately fired off a letter to the center’s president. We explained that by endorsing Ringling Bros., Strathmore would be supporting an industry that condones cruelty and violence to animals. [...] Following discussions, Strathmore executives decided to move forward with the partnership. We must let them know that promoting Ringling Bros. is unacceptable and supports cruelty to animals.”

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Urge ITC to End Its Sponsorship of Cruel Circus
“Candyman sugar candy may taste sweet, but India’s ITC company, which makes Candyman candy, is anything but sweet to animals. As a sponsor of India’s Great Bombay Circus, Candyman products support an industry that causes immense suffering to animals. [...] PETA India has asked ITC to cut ties with the Great Bombay Circus, but it has yet to do so. Please write to ITC and tell the company that you won’t buy Candyman products until it stops supporting all animal circuses.”

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Urge California Retirement Community to Halt Woodpecker Slaughter
“PETA’s office is being flooded with calls from concerned citizens in Walnut Creek, California, regarding the Rossmoor Retirement Community’s reported plans to have the local acorn woodpecker population cruelly gunned down. Rossmoor has allegedly refused wildlife experts’ assistance in using humane habitat modification to control the woodpeckers living in and around the community. Instead, Rossmoor has apparently applied for and received a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service depredation permit that will allow it to use firearms to kill as many as 50 woodpeckers. We are told that shooters will discretely begin gunning down birds in the coming days or weeks.”

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Urge USDA to Stop the Starling Massacre
“Compassionate New Jersey residents have flooded PETA’s offices with e-mails and calls for help after media outlets reported that the USDA used the notorious avicide DRC-1339 on a farm near Franklin, New Jersey, in a misguided attempt to control the starling population. DRC-1339 kills birds by attacking their kidneys, eventually resulting in total renal failure and death. This is a slow, torturous process that can take up to several days.”

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Urge Ben Franklin Variety Store to Stop Selling Hermit Crabs
“Concerned residents of Cheney, Wash., have contacted PETA for help after seeing hermit crabs who were reportedly suffering while on display at Ben Franklin Variety Store. The store sells these delicate creatures as though they were mere trinkets rather than living beings. [...] Please contact Ben Franklin Variety Store and ask it to do the right thing by immediately halting all sales of live hermit crabs.”

Project R&R: Help End Chimpanzee Research, SUPPORT THE GREAT APE PROTECTION ACT!
“The Great Ape Protection Act (GAPA) was introduced by Representatives Edolphus Towns (D-NY), David Reichert (R-WA), Jim Langevin (D-RI) and Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) on APRIL 17, 2008. The bill has been referred to three committees: Committee on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Foreign Affairs. If your Representative serves on any of these committees, it is particularly important that he/she cosponsor GAPA. If they are already a cosponsor, please thank them and show your support.”

You Street: No Bailout Money for Lobbyists
“Recent reports have shown that banks and other companies receiving taxpayer-funded bailouts are turning around and spending millions on lobbying Congress…for more bailout money! It appears the lobbying industry is one of the few American industries not in a recession. The rest of us are, and our government should be investing in our homeowners and our economy, not lobbying firms.”

Campaign Updates

Environmental Defense: Huge Victory for Transit Funding
“Today, the U.S. House passed an amendment to the stimulus bill that will increase transit funding by $3 billion (+33%). This is a huge win. It offers Americans a chance to save and create jobs, get people to work and to reduce air and global warming pollution.”

Newsletters

Vegan Outreach: E-Newsletter, Jan. 28, 2009
“Does Veganism Spread Itself?”

VegCooking.com: Recipe of the Week, January 28, 2009
“Tomato Bruschetta; Couldn’t care less if the Cardinals will cream the Steelers during Super Bowl XLIII? Go for an easy, “anti-game day” appetizer instead.”

Petitions

Give Greater Yellowstone Wolves a Lasting Future

Include a Family Planning Provision in the Next Health Act

‘Round the Interwebz

Green is the New Red: Activism Labeled “Blackmail,” UK Animal Activists Sentenced to 4-11 Years in Prison

Green is the New Red: Obama: “Silencing Dissent” is on “Wrong Side of History”

Selling Compassion: Effective Written Animal Advocacy

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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