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Action Alerts: Animal & Environmental Advocacy

Campaign for America’s Wilderness: Ask Sec. Vilsack to Uphold Roadless Rule

Center for Biological Diversity: Tell the Bureau of Land Management: No More Coal

DawnWatch: “Killing Wolves for Fun” — fun NY Times columns 9/9/09

DawnWatch: Wolves, elephants and glorious dolphin news 9/4/09

Defenders of Wildlife: Help Save Sea Otters and Other Wildlife from Dirty Drilling

Dogs Deserve Better (DDB): Finally! A Chained Dog Abuse Case in Pennsylvania Goes as it Should when Dogs Deserve Better and Pennsylvania SPCA Team Up to Save Four Neglected Chained and Penned Dogs near Tyrone, PA

Dogs Deserve Better (DDB): Billboard Campaign

Earthjustice: No Drilling in America’s Arctic!

Ecological Internet / The Rainforest Portal: Questioning World Bank Palm Oil Funding and Forest Carbon Finance in Indonesia

Ecological Internet / The Rainforest Portal: Join Borneo’s Penan Indigenous Peoples in Standing up to Malaysian Rainforest Destruction

Farm Sanctuary: Support SB 135; Tell Governor Schwarzenegger to Stop Cruel Tail Docking

Humane Society International (HSI): Tell the U.S. to increase protection for sharks at CITES!

Humane Society International (HSI): Tell the U.S. to give nautiluses protection against trade at CITES!

In Defense of Animals (IDA): Act Now for Queenie; Please make a phone call or send a fax today!

In Defense of Animals (IDA): IDA Continues To Urge NIH Peer Reviewers To Fund 21st Century Science, Citing A Half-Century And Billions Of Dollars Spent On National Primate Centers

Invisible Voices: Another Kofa Lion killed, guilty of eating

Kinship Circle: 9/10/09: San Francisco – Take Political Action Against Live Markets

Kinship Circle: 9/5/09: Save Gray Wolves So We Can Slaughter Them?

NRDC: Stop the Trophy Hunting of Polar Bears

NEAVS & Project R&R: Help Wenka & Elder Chimpanzees

NEAVS & Project R&R: Who’s There?; WHO ARE THE CHIMPANZEES BEHIND THE CONCRETE AND STEEL? SIGN ON TO HELP US FIND OUT.

PETA: Deer Being Cruelly Netted and Trucked to Slaughterhouse in Texas

PETA: Save Dogs From Miserable Lives and Deaths in the Philippines

PETA: Urgent Action Needed for Queenie the Elephant

The PEW Environment Group: Oil and Ice Don’t Mix: Protect the Arctic Ocean

Save Our Environment: The Pika Need Our Help To Fight Global Warming

Sierra Club: A Dramatic Step Toward Ending Mountaintop Removal

Sierra Club Canada: Dear President Obama, Canada too needs leadership on green energy [Canadian residents only]

The Wilderness Society: Protect Clearwater’s wild forest from ORVs

WWF: Help Protect Bluefin Tuna [If you choose to use the sample letter provided, please edit for speciesism.]

Action Alerts: Human Rights

ACLU: We need your help to stop indefinite detention.

Dennis Kucinich: A New Movement: Health Care as a Civil Right

Human Rights Campaign (HRC): Help us Repeal DOMA!

National Whistleblowers Center: Coleen Rowley: Action Needed Now

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: President Obama at the UN: A Stage for Leadership

Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health (PRCH): Health Reform Must Include Reproductive Health

Planned Parenthood: URGENT: ANTI-CHOICE FORCES ARE HIJACKING HEALTH CARE REFORM

United Farm Workers (UFW): Take Action to Help NY State Farm Workers

United Farm Workers (UFW): Workers made to race in 100+ degree weather

Campaign Updates

Center for Biological Diversity: Killing of Wolf Pair a Serious Setback to Wolf Recovery in Oregon

Contests

The Bark: Enter the Crypton “Home Away from Home” Contest [Deadline: December 31]

Honest Teas & The Sierra Club: Win a Trip for Two to a National Park [through March 31, 2010]

It’s A Vegan Dog’s Life: Halloween Collar Giveaway! [Deadline: September 15, 2009]

One Frugal Foodie: Giveaway: Vegan Brunch AND Vegan Soul Kitchen [Deadline: September 14]

The PETA Files: ‘Win It’ Wednesday: PETA Stencil Set [Deadline: September 23]

PETA2: Free Stuff Friday: ‘Have You Hugged a Vegetarian Today?’ Tee! [Deadline: September 21]

Newsletters

ASPCA: eNews, September 11, 2009 – 25 Severely Neglected Dogs Rescued From Hoarder

The Animals Voice: Online Monthly Newsletter, September 2009

Best Friends: eNews, September 11, 2009 – Friends make all the difference

Center for Biological Diversity: Endangered Earth Online, No. 477, September 10, 2009 – Progress, Peril for Wolves; Win Tickets to Climate Blockbuster

Compassion Over Killing (COK): Compassionate Action, September 10, 2009 – DC Mayor and VegFest, Nat’l Chicken Month, and more!

The Fund for Animals: September 2009 Update – Wild neighbors in need always welcome

In Defense of Animals (IDA): eNews, September 10, 2009

United Animal Nations (UAN): September 2009 Monthly News – What’s your animal disaster preparedness IQ?

Vegan Outreach: eNewsletter, September 9, 2009 – Good for World, Good for Self

Petitions: Animal & Environmental Advocacy

Help Stop the International Polar Bear Trade

DEMAND JUSTICE FOR DOG LEFT TO ROT AMONG OTHER VICTIMS OF PRICHARD ANIMAL SHELTER, PRICHARD, ALABAMA

Act Now For Queenie

EQUAL rights for non-hunters in Wisconsin for 1st time!

Petitions: Human Rights

End Forced Divorce in Saudi Arabia

‘Round the Interwebs

The Discerning Brute @ Crazy Sexy Life: Leather Jacket: The Rebel Icon That Lost Its Gall (h/t, Stephanie)

Digging Through the Dirt: Sunstein Freeze Ends; Ag Chairwoman Named

Corey Wrenn @ The Examiner: A critique of Vegan Outreach literature

Humane Society of the Ochocos: The Kiss Rescue Dogs

NEAVS & Project R&R: Chimpanzees Suffer Psychologically Like Humans

Karen Davis @ United Poultry Concerns (UPC): The Social Life of Chickens (and the Mental States I Believe They Have and Need in Order to Participate in the Social Relationships I have Observed)

vegansaurus!: Offal IS awful. So is every other part of the animal, Dan Barber!

vegansaurus!: Here is a Professor at Texas State telling an old rich white dude media outlet to stop eating meat. Remind us what’s so radical about a vegan diet?

We Other Animals: Why does Matt Ball keep picking on me? Promoting stereotypes about activists is unjustifiably mean

Upcoming Events

Farm Sanctuary: Walk for Farm Animals – September through October 2009

Compassion Over Killing and the Vegetarian Society of D.C.: D.C. Veg Fest – Saturday, September 12, 2009 in at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Puppy Mill Awareness Day – Saturday, September 19, 2009

Ocean Conservancy: International Coastal Cleanup – Saturday, September 19, 2009

Farm Sanctuary: NY Farm Animal Care Conference – Saturday, September 19 through Sunday, September 20, 2009 in Watkins Glen, New York

Animal Aid: National Anti-Shooting Week (UK) – Monday, September 21 through Sunday, September 27, 2009

World Farm Animals Day – Friday, October 2, 2009

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: ThanksLiving 4.0 – Sunday, October 18, 2009 in Woodstock, NY

Best Friends: No More Homeless Pets National Conference – Friday, October 23 through Sunday, October 25, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV

In Defense of Animals (IDA): World Go Vegan Week – Sunday, October 25 through Saturday, October 31, 2009

Defenders of Wildlife: Carnivore Conservation in a Changing World – Sunday, November 15 through Wednesday, November 18, 2009 in Denver, Colorado

Farm Sanctuary: NY and CA Thanksgiving Celebration FOR the Turkeys – Saturday, November 21, 2009 in Watkins Glen, New York and Orland, California

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM): The Art of Compassion Gala Celebrating PCRM’s 25th Anniversary, Saturday, April 10, 2010 in Malibu, California

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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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