Action Alerts: Animal & Environmental Advocacy

** Will Potter’s dog is lost! DC Craigslist: Lost Dog – Italian Greyhound/mixed breed (NW – near Blair and Kansas) **

1Sky: Tell Congress clean energy is good business – Sign the Pledge to Support a Clean Energy Economy

Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF): School Teacher Faces Felony Animal Abuse Charges [Allison Dinsmore of Palm Beach County, Florida]

Avaaz-dot-org: Swine flu: investigate and regulate

Bluewater Network: Whales Threatened by Speeding Cargo Ships

Born Free USA: Stop the Proliferation of Invasive Species and Protect Wildlife

Campaign for America’s Wilderness: Help Save America’s Last Wild Forests (The Roadless Area Conservation Rule)

DawnWatch: Barbara Walters comments on NY Times cow escape story and plans to go veggie! 5/7/09

DawnWatch: IHT front page on Smithfield and beef water waste in San Francisco Chronicle blog 5/6/09

Defenders of Wildlife: Urge the Obama Administration to Give Polar Bears the Protection They Need

Docs for Dogs: Protest against the massacre of stray animals in Bulgaria

Earthjustice: Tell Household Cleaner Manufacturers to Come Clean on Chemical Ingredients

Ecological Internet: Malaysian Oil Palm Threatens Brazilian Amazon

Farm Sanctuary: Are You My Mother?

Farm Sanctuary: Missing the point on climate change: Why is the EPA ignoring the livestock connection?

Farm Sanctuary: New York: It’s time to give farm animals room to stretch their limbs!

Farm Sanctuary: California: Stop Battery Caged Eggs from Entering the State

Humane Society International: Wild Animals Need Funding from Congress!

HSUS: Help Retire the 26 Elderly, Wild-caught Chimpanzees at the New Iberia Research Center

HSUS: Pennsylvania: Stop Caged Animal Shoots

In Defense of Animals (IDA): IDA Tracks Davenport Elephants To Massachusetts; Finds Tina, Queenie and an emaciated Jewel at Shrine Circus in Springfield in serious jeopardy: tell USDA to confiscate them NOW!

In Defense of Animals (IDA): Urge Interior Secretary Salazar To Protect Polar Bears

Kinship Circle: 5/5/09 – CANADIAN SEALERS LOSE BIGGEST CLIENT – EUROPE!

Kinship Circle: 5/1/09 – Profit From Misery – Dogs And Cats Sold To Research

The Literacy Site: Help Racing Greyhounds

The Literacy Site: Give Foreclosure Pets a Helping Paw

The Literacy Site: Save Sumatran Tigers from Extinction

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Tell the Interior Department to stop dirty oil shale development from destroying our western wildlands.

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Urge the Agriculture Secretary to cancel this spring’s hazing of wild buffalo.

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Tell the EPA to protect kids from dangerous pesticides in pet flea products

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Speak out to stop a dangerous bill that would increase air pollution in southern California (CA residents only)

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Urge your state assemblymember to pass three key environmental bills (CA residents only)

Ocean Conservancy: End Finning — Save the Sharks! (The Shark Conservation Act of 2009)

Oil Change International: Shell: Stop Gas Flaring Now!

PETA: Urge Maryland Department of Natural Resources Not to Kill Swans

PETA: URGENT: Ask Richmond, Va., Middle School to Halt Its Alleged Use of Cruel Glue Traps!

PETA: Tell Columbus Zoo to End Ringling Partnership!

PETA: Tell Sprint Nextel Corporation to Stop Exploiting Chimpanzees!

PETA: Demand Justice for Dogs Allegedly Starved to Death by Sheriff’s Deputy!

PETA Asia-Pacific: Ask New Zealand to Uphold the Ban on Live-Sheep Export!

The Sierra Club: Send a Message to your Representative to Protect EPA’s Authority to Regulate Under the Clean Air Act

The Sierra Club: Help the Obama Administration Succeed where the Bush Administration Failed: Protect Streams and Communities from Hazardous Mining Waste

Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA): Stop the illegal Paria Canyon ORV ride

Stop Mountaintop Removal: Tell Sec. Salazar to Enforce the Stream Buffer Zone Rule!

United Poultry Concerns (UPC): Protest Oprah’s Giving Away KFC Chicken Meals

The Wilderness Society: Protect the peace of Oregon’s Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest

World Wildlife Fund (WWF): Defend California’s Ocean Life (Deadline: May 14)

Action Alerts: Human Rights

ACORN: Spread the Philadelphia Miracle (Mandatory mediation for foreclosures)

American Freedom Campaign: Tell Congress to Impeach Jay Bybee

Council for a Livable World (CLW): Nuclear Reductions Bill in Congress – McGovern-Lungren Resolution

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): Fight Government Secrecy and Reform the State Secrets Privilege

Feminist Majority Foundation: Help Free Journalist Roxana Saberi

Human Rights First: Put in prisons for seeking protection in the U.S.; Tell the Department of Homeland Security to improve the treatment of asylum seekers immediately

National Partnership for Women & Families: Cosponsor the Healthy Families Act

Peace Action Team: So What Do YOU Say? The Senate LAUGHS About How Many Police It Takes To Silence The American People On Single Payer Health Care.

People for the American Way (PFAW): Tell Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to conduct a criminal investigation of Jay Bybee, John Yoo and Steven Bradbury, the legal architects of the Bush administration’s torture policies.

Secular Coalition for America: Oppose the Creation of Spiritual Heritage Week

True Majority: Keep Obama’s Military Budgets Clean! – No one wants this war plane – except Congress.

True Majority: Email Congress to stop off shore loopholes

United Farm Workers (UFW): Join the virtual vigil for heat victim Eladio Hernandez; Take action to prevent future deaths

Campaign Updates

Center for Biological Diversity: Obama Administration Adopts Bush’s Polar Bear Extinction Plan As Its Own

HSUS: Big victory for seals! Europe passes a ban on seal products, driving another nail in the coffin of the cruel commercial seal hunt.

No Kill Advocacy Center: No Kill Conference 2009 Highlights, including the following:

To stay up to date about future conferences, seminars, events, and No Kill news, subscribe to our free e-newsletter, The No Kill Advocate, by clicking here.

To read the keynote address given by Nathan Winograd, our director, click here.

Animal Wise Radio broadcast the revolution live from the No Kill Conference. Listen to the show by clicking here.

To watch a video montage of the Conference set to music, click here. (Requires Windows Media Player.)

If you were not able to attend, you can still get some of the documents provided by many of the speakers (High speed internet connection required):

* Legal Track documents are available by clicking here.
* Shelter Track documents are available by clicking here.

Please note: The No Kill Advocacy Center is not responsible for the content of some of the documents and may not agree with them.

Carnivals

Carnival of the Green #178 @ Go Green Travel Green

Contests

The PETA Files: ‘Win It’ Wednesday: Drinkwell Pet Fountain (Deadline: May 20, 2009)

PETA2: Free Stuff Friday: BabyCakes Cookbook! (Deadline: May 18, 2009)

PETA’s Veg Cooking Blog: Win PETA’s Vegan College Cookbook! (Deadline: May 26, 2009)

Newsletters

ASPCA: eNews, May 8, 2009 – Animal Torturer Found Guilty

Best Friends: eNews, May 7, 2009 – Lucky Ducks (and cats, dogs and humans!)

Born Free USA: eNews, May 8, 2009 – Stop the Proliferation of Invasive Species and Protect Wildlife

Campaign for America’s Wilderness: Your Wilderness – May 2009

Center for Biological Diversity: Endangered Earth Online, No. 459, May 7, 2009 – Sea Turtles Saved, Wolves in Crosshairs Again

In Defense of Animals (IDA): eNews, May 7, 2009

National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA): ParkLines, May 2009

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM): PCRM Online, May 2009

The Sierra Club: Club Currents, May 5, 2009: Volume VII, #18 – Green Your Cinco de Mayo

The Sierra Club: Club Insider, May 5, 2009 – Red or White Wine? Try a Glass of Green…

Vegan Outreach: E-Newsletter, May 6, 2009

Wildcare: eNews, May 2009

Petitions: Animal & Environmental Advocacy

Protect Polar Bears From Global Warming

Save Critical Habitat for the Florida Panther

Tell Sarah Palin: Don’t Reject Energy Efficiency Funds!

End “Finning” — Save the Sharks!

Protect Our Oceans, Coastal Communities and Consumers

Pit Bull ban/BSL proposal in San Antonio, TX

Unchain Queenie, Tina, and Jewel!

STOP packaging and promoting cruelty!

Petitions: Human Rights

Tell the Senate: Filibuster is NOT an Option

Free Roxana Saberi

Help To Save Samatha Orobator’s Life

‘Round the Interwebz

Deb Durant, guest-posting on Animal Rights @ Change-dot-org: Petey and the Rake: The Curiosity of Playful Pigs

The Cancer Project: The Five Worst Packaged Lunchbox Meals – A Report from the Cancer Project, Spring 2009

CNN: Deal on ‘cash for clunkers’ bill; Obama administration says it will stand behind deal struck by House Democrats to push forward legislation to stimulate car sales.

CNN: Texas police shake down drivers, lawsuit claims

Allan Kornberg, MD @ Farm Sanctuary: H1N1 (Swine Flu): The Health and Welfare Implications for Humans and Animals

Farm Sanctuary: Farm Sanctuary Releases Report on “Humane” Meat Labels: The Truth Behind The Labels: Farm Animal Welfare Standards and Labeling Practices

FOOD, INC. Trailer – Now available on Apple Trailers! (FOOD, INC. opens in limited theaters June 12, 2009; For more information, please visit the official site: www.foodincmovie.com.)

The Independent: The guilty secrets of palm oil: Are you unwittingly contributing to the devastation of the rain forests?

Salon: A guide to Salon’s investigation of torture, American-style – From Abu Ghraib to Abu Zubaydah, everything you need to know about torture during the Bush administration’s war on terror.

The Wilderness Society: A conservation-minded President? A look at Obama’s first 100 days in office

The Women’s Media Center (WMC): Marilyn French, 1929 to 2009

Upcoming Events

Animals & Society Institute (ASI): Bag It for the ASI in Ann Arbor!, Monday, April 13 through Sunday, July 5, 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

Their Lives, Our Voices 2009 – Midwest Animal Advocacy Conference, Friday, June 12 through Sunday, June 14, 2009 in Minneapolis, MN

National Pigeon Day – Saturday, June 13, 2009 in New York City

National Conference on Childhood Obesity: Confronting the Epidemic through Nutrition Research and Policy – Thursday, June 18 to Friday, June 19, 2009 in Washington, D.C. (Sponsored in part by The Cancer Project and PCRM)

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.

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