The easyVegan Weekend Activist, No. 21
September 18th, 2009 5:10 pm by Kelly GarbatoAction Alerts: Animal & Environmental Advocacy
Born Free USA: Tell Max Mara to Go Fur Free
Center for Biological Diversity: Help Protect Polar Bears From Oil Drilling
Compassion Over Killing (COK): Dunkin’ Donuts’ Egg Supplier Exposed!
DawnWatch: Terrific Washington Post column on antibiotic use in factory farming 9/16/09
Defenders of Wildlife: Help Save America’s Endangered Jaguars
Defenders of Wildlife: Tell Your Representative to Watch Out for Wildlife
Earth Day Network: A Billion Acts of Green™ [Please make yours an animal-friendly initiative!]
Earthjustice: Keep it Clean! Help Protect Our Waters from Pollution
Environmental Defense Fund: Support New Pollution Standards for Autos
Farm Sanctuary: Don’t Let Factory Farms Write Their Own Rules; Vote NO on Issue 2! [Ohio]
Kinship Circle: 9/15/09: Freedom Interrupted…Cloud’s Herd Caught In BLM Roundup
Kinship Circle: 9/11/09: Mutilated Sharks – Fin Soup’s Main Ingredient
NPCA: Florida Panther Habitat at Risk
NRDC: Tell President Obama to reject dirty Canadian tar sands oil
NRDC: Tell the Obama Administration to protect our Arctic wilderness from oil and gas development.
PETA: Cruel Wild Horse Roundup Has Begun!
PETA: Urge New York Officials to Halt Cruel Turkey Bow Hunts!
Rainforest Action Network (RAN): Tell President Obama We Don’t Want Canada’s Dirty Oil!
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS): Stop the Senate from Giving Nuclear Power a Blank Check
The Wilderness Society: Colorado’s pristine forests need your help today! [Should you use the sample letter provided, please edit for speciesism.]
WWF: Sign On to Save Sea Turtles
Action Alerts: Human Rights
Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC): Disbar the Torture Lawyers: Sign on Today!
Common Cause: The Diebold Deal
Council for a Livable World: Support the President’s Nuclear Agenda
CREDO Action: Tell Harry Reid: Don’t let Max Baucus kill the public option.
CREDO Action: Tell Senator Reid: It’s time to take bipartisanship out of the health care bill.
Human Rights Campaign (HRC): Ask your representative to support the bill to repeal DOMA!
National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF): Protect Women’s Health
National Women’s Law Center (NWLC): Oppose Anti-Choice Efforts in Health Reform
Pathfinder International: End the Global Gag Rule for Good and Increase Funding!
Planned Parenthood: TELL YOUR SENATORS TO STAND UP FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH
Presente: Lou Dobbs must go — you can make it happen.
Public Citizen: Write Congress: End Forced Arbitration
Shakesville: Rape Is Hilarious, Part 41 [In which the Chicago Transit Authority advertises I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell with rape joke ads plastered on city-owned buses.]
Carnivals
Carnival of the Green # 196 @ Stream of Consciousness
Contests
It’s A Vegan Dog’s Life: Mega Buttons Giveaway! [Deadline: September 22]
The PETA Files: ‘Win It’ Wednesday: Jellyfish Mood Lamp [Deadline: September 30]
PETA2: Free Stuff Friday: Food Fight Gift Certificate! [Deadline: September 25]
PETA2: Alyssa Milano Sportswear Contest [Deadline: October 11]
Freebies
CREDO Action & The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): Get Your Free Torture Team Cards!
Newsletters
ASPCA: eNews, September 18, 2009 – Facebook Helps ASPCA Agents Nab Dog Abuser
Best Friends: eNews, September 17, 2009 – On the road to No More Homeless Pets
Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC): Dissent Is Patriotic, September 2009, Vol. 8, No. 9
Earthjustice: e.Brief, September 2009
Vegan Outreach: eNewsletter, September 16, 2009 – Measurable Impact
Petitions: Animal & Environmental Advocacy
NHL Player Georges Laraque Goes Vegan: Cheer Him On!
Statewide Spay & Neuter Programs Work!
Florida Panthers Could Disappear Forever Without Your Help
American Jaguars Need Your Help to Survive
Demand Strong Clean Car Standards
End “Cold War Thinking” – Transform U.S. Nuclear Weapon Policy
Remove the Headmistress (Andrea Charman) of Lydd Primary School, Kent
Petitions: Human Rights
End Health Care Discrimination Based on Pre-Existing Conditions
‘Round the Interwebs
Animals & Society Institute (ASI): The Animal Experts database now online
Ars Technica: JUSTICE Act would roll back telecom wiretap immunity
Associated Press: Obama supports extending Patriot Act provisions
Christien Meindertsma: PIG 05049 (h/t, Ryan)
Digging Through the Dirt: Honor 9/11 Victims: Use ‘Terrorists’ Judiciously
My Face Is On Fire: Oh, HSUS! Why Do They Malign You So?
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
United Nations: The International Day of Peace – Sunday, September 20, 2009
Vegan Month of Food: Vegan MoFo III (2009 edition) – October 2009
World Farm Animals Day – Friday, October 2, 2009
Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: ThanksLiving 4.0 – Sunday, October 18, 2009 in Woodstock, NY
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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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