The easyVegan Weekend Activist, No. 16
August 14th, 2009 6:38 pm by Kelly GarbatoAction Alerts: Animal & Environmental Advocacy
Animal Welfare Institute (AWI): Please Contact Your Legislators This Month to Enlist Their Support
Center for Biological Diversity: Act Now to Save Desert Tortoises
DawnWatch: NY Times and CNN have animal friendly blogs — 8/10/09
DawnWatch: In Vitro Meat on CNN 8/9/09
Digging Through the Dirt: Use Twitter to Advocate on Behalf of Pigs (August 16)
Dogs Deserve Better (DDB): PA Anti-Tethering Website Introduced
East Bay Animal Advocates, Inc: The Cheesecake Factory Farm
In Defense of Animals (IDA): Save Cloud And His Herd From Capture
National Wildlife Federation (NWF): Help Wildlife Make the Cut
PETA: Tell Placer County, Calif., Officials to Stop Kiddie Deer Hunt!
Rainforest Action Network (RAN): Ask Your Senator to Co-Sponsor the “Appalachian Restoration Act”
The Sierra Club: Now is the Time to Support Clean Water!
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA): Thank Your Senators for Passing the Utah Land Exchange!
Action Alerts: Human Rights
ACORN: Show your support for health care reform
AVAAZ: Burma: Help Justice Defeat Tyranny
Amnesty International: Support a Torture Prosecutor but Demand Full Accountability
Amnesty International: Immediate and Unconditional Release of Aung San Suu Kyi
Amnesty International: Unlock the Camps in Sri Lanka
CARE: Urge Clinton to make preventing gender-based violence a priority
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): Demand Prosecution for the Torture Team
Consumers Union: House passes Food Safety — On to the Senate!
Moms Rising: Support the Breastfeeding Promotion Act!
Peace Action West: Tell Congress it’s time to stop the bombings [Afghanistan]
Campaign Updates
Kinship Circle: UPDATE: 8/13/09, 18 Months Juvenile Jail For Girl, 14, Who Helped Roast Kitten
Contests
It’s A Vegan Dog’s Life: Dog bandanas giveaway! [Deadline: August 15]
PETA2: Ocean Potion Sun-Care Giveaway [Deadline: August 14]
PETA2: Layla Kayleigh Ad and Giveaway! [Deadline: August 20]
Newsletters
Animals Voice: Newsletter, August 2009
ASPCA: eNews, August 14, 2009 – Dying Wish to Help Dogs Leads to Court Case
Best Friends: eNews, August 13, 2009 – Remembering the Great Kitty Rescue
In Defense of Animals (IDA): eNews, August 13, 2009
United Animal Nations (UAN): August 2009 Newsletter – Cheers! Wine sales benefit the animals
United Poultry Concerns (UPC): Poultry Press, Summer-Fall 2009, Volume 19, Number 2
Petitions: Animal & Environmental Advocacy
Allow a Deduction for Pet Care Expenses
Convict Randall L. Treadway for Animal Abuse, Again
Harshest Penalty Allowed by Law for Dixie’s Killer
No Coney Island Freak Show for (now) 4-legged Lilly
Global Veg Climate Actions 2009
Petitions: Human Rights
Health Reform Legislation Fails to Include Children
Threats to Humanitarian Aid in Sudan
Justice for Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein
Support SUDANESE journalist – Lubna Al-Hussein
End transgender discrimination at Lu’s Pharmacy
‘Round the Interwebs
Adam Kochanowicz: Can we raise $10k for animal sanctuary in 3 months?
Stephanie @ Animal Rights @ Change .org: Art for Endangered Species
Eastern Shore Sanctuary Blog: What One Church Camp Thinks about Torturing Animals
Pasado’s Safe Haven: “THE LITTLE MIRACLES”
treehugger: LiveFuels to Farm Fish to Make Biofuel = Bad Idea (h/t, Stephanie)
Washington Examiner: Obama’s dissident database could be secret — and permanent
Upcoming Events
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.
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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