The easyVegan Weekend Activist, No. 1
May 3rd, 2009 11:11 pm by Kelly GarbatoI’m back, kinda sorta. I was feeling well enough tonight to slog through my week-long backlog of email – 400+ in one account alone – and, as I went through alert after alert (and donation appeal after donation appeal after donation appeal!, blecht) it occurred to me that these daily link dumps are perhaps not the best use of my already scarce time. Or rather, the feeling finally began to overwhelm me, as the usefulness (or not) of these link roundups is something I’ve been pondering for quite some time now.
So, long story short, I’ve decided to ditch the near-daily “easyVegan Link Sanctuaries” in favor of the once-weekly “easyVegan Weekend Activist.” I’ll still post all those links you’ve come to love (and hopefully use!), but in one long link roundup, sometime over the weekend (Friday through Sunday), and without any summaries. This should cut the prep time in half, leaving your fair vegan blogmistress more time for meaningful blogging, which I’ve been sadly slacking on as of late.
Questions? Comments? Drop me a line in the comments. Seriously, peoples, I want to know what you think! Did you find the daily link roundups useful, or did you skip right by them? Did you click on each and every alert to find out more, or did you read the summaries first? Will you miss the easyVegan Link Sanctuary, or bid it good riddance? And what of the easyVegan Weekend Activist – yay or nay?
Action Alerts: Animal & Environmental Advocacy
Center for Biological Diversity: Save Bats From White-nose Syndrome and Extinction
DawnWatch: Swine flu and factory farming 5/3/09
DawnWatch: NY Times and Sports Illustrated on racing horse abuse and slaughter 5/1/09
DawnWatch: On Simon Chaitowitz, a beautiful animal defender who passed away 4/19/09
DawnWatch: CBS Sunday Morning on vegan firefighters 4/26/09
HSUS: The EU could ban its trade in seal products
In Defense of Animals (IDA): Boycott “Hurtful Essences” Shampoo
Kinship Circle: 4/29/09: Coke & Rodeos – Official Soft Drink Of Cruelty?
Kinship Circle: 4/25/09: Don’t Stain 2010 Olympics With The Blood Of Seals
Oceana: Urge the Senate to protect sharks (The Shark Conservation Act of 2009 (S. 850))
PETA: Tell Kraft Foods to Stop Exploiting Exotic Animals!
PETA: Tell Armstrong World Industries to Stop Exploiting Grizzly Bears!
PETA: Urge Officials to Protect Massachusetts’ Wildlife From Cruel Traps!
PETA: Tell Congress to Prevent Future Flu Outbreaks
PETA: Animals Suffer and Die in University of Michigan Laboratories
PETA: Help Us Stop Ringling Bros.’ Expansion on Coney Island!
The Sierra Club: Tell Obama, Act NOW to Restore Protections for the Polar Bear
The Sierra Club: Call on Congress to Support Clean Energy Jobs!
Wild Care: Petition to Protect the Northern Spotted Owl
World Wildlife Fund (WWF): Help Authorize a Wildlife Postage Stamp
World Wildlife Fund (WWF): Sign to Save the Western Gray Whale
Action Alerts: Human Rights
Amnesty International: Millions of civilians deprived of aid by the Sudanese government
NARAL: Tell the Senate: Confirm Hamilton and Johnsen
National Organization of Women (NOW): Woman Justice NOW; Sign the Petition to President Obama
National Partnership for Women & Families: Tell Senate to Support Fair Pay
National Women’s Law Center (NWLC): Urge President Obama to Nominate a Woman to the Supreme Court
Planned Parenthood: STAND UP FOR DAWN JOHNSEN
Save Darfur: Sign the open letter to President Obama
Carnivals
Carnival of the Green #177 @ Green Me
Contests
The PETA Files: ‘Win It’ Wednesday: Sammy the Sea Kitten Plush Toy (Deadline: May 13, 2009)
PETA Living: Win a $200 Gift Certificate From Betty Paige Clothing (Deadline: May 22, 2009)
PETA2: Free Stuff Friday: Win Converse Chuck Taylors! (Deadline: May 29, 2009
Newsletters
Best Friends: eNews, April 30, 2009
Center for Biological Diversity: Endangered Earth Online, No. 458, April 30, 2009
Compassion Over Killing (COK): Compassionate Action, May 1, 2009
Food Empowerment Project: Newsletter, April 30, 2009
In Defense of Animals (IDA): eNews, April 30, 2009
The Sierra Club: Club Currents, April 28, 2009: Volume VII, #17
Vegan Outreach: E-Newsletter, April 29, 2009
Voiceless: The Fund for Animals, e-Updates, Issue 15, April 2009
Petitions: Animal & Environmental Advocacy
The Human Face of Climate Change
Stop Mercury Pollution from Chlorine Plants
Ban Military Trauma Exercises on Animals
14,500 Unnecessary Deaths by AHS in Minnesota
PLEASE GIVE HUNKIE A CHANCE AT LIFE
Get Daffy’s Pet Soup Kitchen on Oprah and Ellen
Petition President Obama to save our birds
Justice for Tengteng [Joseph Carlo Candare @ University of the Philippines, Diliman]
Stop The U.S. Gov’t from harming our planet through their use of plastic water bottles!
Petitions: Human Rights
Invest in Women: Increase Funding for International Family Planning
‘Round the Interwebz
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): 100 Days to Restore the Constitution: Assessment
Invisible Voices: Kofa NWR Mountain Lions: 1 year moratorium extended
Michael Greger, M.D.: CDC Confirms Ties to Virus First Discovered in U.S. Pig Factories
SuperWeed: Deadly Intersections
Vegan Freak: Swine Flu and Empathy
Upcoming Events
United Poultry Concerns (UPC): International Respect for Chickens Day – Monday, May 4, 2009
WorldFest – Saturday, May 16, 2009 in Woodland Ave. Park in Encino, California
Farm Sanctuary: California Country Hoe Down, Saturday, May 16 & Sunday, May 17, 2009 in Orland, CA
Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary: Picnic on the Prairie – Sunday, May 17, 11:30 AM – 3 PM
Veggie Pride Parade – Sunday, May 17, 2009 in New York City
National Pigeon Day – Saturday, June 13, 2009 in New York City
Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale – Saturday, June 20 through Sunday, June 28, 2009
Let It Live – Friday, June 26 through Sunday, June 28 in Portland, Oregon
Taking Action for Animals – Friday, July 24 through Monday, July 27, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia
Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup, Saturday, September 19, 2009
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About
“The easyVegan Weekend Activist” is a weekly roundup of animal and environmental advocacy action alerts, campaign updates, carnivals, contests, newsletters, petitions, upcoming events and miscellaneous resources, posted every weekend at easyvegan.info. Follow the links provided in order to learn more and take action!
For the time being, the weekly newsletter-esque format will replace the near-daily link roundups I previously posted under the title “easyVegan Link Sanctuary.” Hopefully, this condensed, once-weekly “newsletter” will free up some time so that I can perform more meaningful blogging. If you have any questions or comments about the new format, please drop me a line in the comments section!
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.
You can also follow me on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, delicious, Flickr, Amazon and LibraryThing.
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