The easyVegan Weekend Activist, No. 12
July 17th, 2009 4:52 pm by Kelly GarbatoAction Alerts: Animal & Environmental Advocacy
1Sky: Fax Your Senators: Pass a Strong Clean Energy Bill!
Animal Rights @ Change .org: Lucky, Tina, Jewel, and Queenie: Speak Up for These Elephants
CREDO Action: Tell Vilsack: Don’t log Tongass National Forest!
DawnWatch: Wonderful NY Times Magazine cover story on whales — 7/12/09
Farm Sanctuary: Don’t All Egg-Laying Hens Deserve to Stretch Their Wings? [California AB 1437]
Kinship Circle: 7/10/09: Put Namibia’s Baby Seal Slaughter Out Of Business
Defenders of Wildlife: Help Defend Bristol Bay from Destructive Drilling!
My Face Is On Fire: Let The Boston Globe Know that The So-Called “Vegan Cook’s Bible” Isn’t Vegan
National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA): Protect Lands Adjacent to Katmai, Lake Clark from Industrial Mining [If you choose to use the sample letter provided, please edit for speciesism.]
National Wildlife Federation (NWF): Ask the President to Help Protect and Restore Our Waters
Oceana: Tell Your Senator No More Offshore Drilling [If you choose to use the sample letter provided, please edit for speciesism.]
PETA: Monkeys in Army Lab Need Your Help!
PETA: Urge New York City Department of Education to Stop Using Glue Traps in Schools!
PETA: Urge Gov. Doyle to Boycott The Great Circus Parade
PETA: Tell Six Flags to Send Elephants to a Sanctuary!
The Sierra Club: Tell Senators: No More Border Wall
Sierra Club Canada: Budget Needed for Bears in 2010.
United Farm Workers (UFW): TAKE ACTION: Chemical industry urges CA governor to ignore science
Action Alerts: Human Rights
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): Stop Indefinite Detention
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): PASS ID: A “Real ID-lite” that Doesn’t Cut It
Amnesty International: Tell the Senate to Support the Office for Global Women’s Issues
Barbara Boxer: Stop Hate Crimes
CREDO Action: Start torture investigation with Cheney and Addington
CREDO Action: Renounce Rush – Stand with Sonia!
Patrick Leahy: Support Hate Crimes Prevention Act
Planned Parenthood: URGENT: DON’T LET SENATOR HATCH CUT WOMEN OUT OF HEALTH CARE REFORM
Campaign Updates
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): Starting 7/13, the CCR, Civil Liberties Defense Center (CLDC) and civil rights attorneys will make oral arguments before the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California that the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) is unconstitutional. See: U.S.A. v. Buddenberg for more.
The Wilderness Society: Oregon’s Ancient Forests Win! Logging plans withdrawn at last
Carnivals
Carnival of the Green #188 @ Kids Discover Nature
Contests
The PETA Files: ‘Win It’ Wednesday: Bella Dog Bed [Deadline: July 29]
PETA2: Free Stuff Friday: Lick It! Ice Cream Book and Tote Bag! [Deadline: July 24]
SPCA International: Nominate a Local Shelter for a $1000 Grant
Newsletters
American Humane Association (AHA): The National Humane Review, 8.2, Summer 2009
ASPCA: eNews, July 17, 2009 – Record-Breaking Dog Fighting Raid Leads to Nearly 500 Rescues
Best Friends: eNews, July 17, 2009 – Celebrating everyday miracles
Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC): Dissent is Patriotic, July 2009, Vol. 8, No. 7
Earthjustice: e.Brief, July 2009 – Giant Loophole Threatens Climate Change Bill
In Defense of Animals (IDA): eNews, July 16, 2009
The Sierra Club: Club Currents, July 14, 2009: Volume VII, #27 – Find New Hikes Near You
The Sierra Club: Club Insider, July 14, 2009 – 100 Reasons to Celebrate
United Animal Nations (UAN): eNewsletter, July 2009 – 900 once-neglected dogs find freedom
Vegan Outreach: Enewsletter, July 15, 2009 – Great Links!
Petitions: Animal & Environmental Advocacy
Reverse Obama Administration’s Approval of Tongass Logging
Our Wildlife Depends on a Strong Climate Bill
Mining Plan Threatens Lake Clark and Katmai National Parks
Science – Not Industry – Should Guide Rules for Biofuels
Dog Groomer AMANDA TODD Murders While Partying
Don’t Kill Boston’s Zoo Animals!
Urge Gov. Doyle to Boycott The Great Circus Parade
Tony the truckstop tiger – Letter to CNN
Demand Sammy the Whale Shark’s Freedom
Petitions: Human Rights
Empower Women and Girls in Afghanistan
‘Round the Interwebs
Alec’s Story: “One morning in February 2008, my dog Alec came home limping after a trip to the park. An hour later he could no longer walk. This is the ongoing story of our lives since then…” If you visit just one link in this roundup, it has to be Nicole’s blog, i.e., Alec’s Story. (h/t, Animal Person)
Stephanie @ Animal Rights @ Change .org: Animal Rights Is a Mainstream Movement
FreePress: Save the News .org [New campaign/website]
Maria Daines: ‘Greek Tragedy’ available for FREE download
Upcoming Events
Taking Action for Animals – Friday, July 24 through Monday, July 27, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia
Farm Sanctuary: Walk for Farm Animals – September through October 2009
Puppy Mill Awareness Day – Saturday, September 19, 2009
Ocean Conservancy: 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.
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