The easyVegan Weekend Activist, No. 22
September 25th, 2009 10:25 pm by Kelly GarbatoAction Alerts: Animal & Environmental Advocacy
Animal Rights @ Change .org: A Chance to Help Midwestern Waterfowl
Audubon: Defend the Clean Air Act
Center for Biological Diversity: Save the Clean Air Act, Curb Global Warming
Center for Biological Diversity: Leopold’s Legacy Threatened by Off-road Vehicles
Center for Biological Diversity: Support a New National Monument in California
CREDO Action: Tell the Senate: Hands off the EPA
DawnWatch: Rescue Ink tonight on the National Geographic Channel! 9/25/09
DawnWatch: Undercover farm investigation and dogfighting both on NPR 9/22- 9/24/09
DawnWatch: NY Times front page on dairy farm water pollution 9/18/09
Earthjustice: Tell Congress: Don’t Weaken the Clean Air Act
Earthjustice: Defend America’s Wild Forests!
Greenpeace: The World is Ready for a Strong Climate Treaty
In Defense of Animals (IDA): Tell Zoos To Cut Ties With Circus Elephant Cruelty
In Defense of Animals (IDA): Help Stop Special Bowhunt to Kill Deer in Westchester
In Defense of Animals (IDA): Wild Horses Imperiled – Comments Needed Now!
NRDC: Tell the EPA to protect our water supplies from toxic coal ash and mountaintop removal mining
NRDC: Urge your senators to defeat harmful amendments to the Interior appropriations bill
NRDC: Tell the Obama Administration to postpone development in the Fortification Creek Planning Area. [If you choose to use the sample letter provided, please edit for speciesism.]
PETA: Rabbits Have Holes Cut Into Their Chests at ASU
PETA: Tell Lie Sang Bong to Ditch Fur! [Leather, too!]
PETA: Animals Are Being Killed at the University of Central Missouri
PETA: Ask Edmonton to Let Lucy Pack Her Trunk
PETA: Join Kim Basinger in Telling Yohji Yamamoto to Stop Using Fur! [Leather, too!]
PETA: High School Teacher Allows Gerbils to Starve to Death [Tampa, Florida's Freedom High School]
Sierra Club: Don’t Let Congress Block Funds to Fight Global Warming
Sierra Club: Protect Colorado’s Roadless Areas
Sierra Club: Add Your Voice and Help Us Reach Our Goal by October 4th!
United Poultry Concerns (UPC): Urge ASPCA to Make Kapparot Chicken Abusers Give Water and Food to Crated, Suffering Chickens; A Post from NYC resident Rina Deych [Please see www.upc-online.org/kaparos/ for background info and additional actions you can take. For example, urge the ASPCA to speak out against the abuse of chickens in Kapparot and work with Jewish religious leaders to replace sentient beings with objects such as bags of money -- rather than just asking the ASPCA to ensure that these animals are given food and water before they're brutally and needlessly slaughtered.]
The Wilderness Society: Urge President Obama to protect the Arctic
WSPA: Enough is enough: help Catalonia end bullfighting
Action Alerts: Human Rights
ACLU: Tell Your Senators You Want Patriot Act Reform
Amnesty International: Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone
CREDO Action: Repeal telecom immunity and roll back PATRIOT ACT abuses
CREDO Action: Let’s kick DOMA to the curb.
CREDO Action: Thank Speaker Pelosi for showing leadership in the public option fight.
NOW: Add Your Voice to NOW’s Call for Open Internet
National Women’s Law Center (NWLC): The First Lady’s Call to Action on Health Reform
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation: A Major Step Forward on Nuclear Disarmament
Patrick Leahy: Break Up Insurance Monopolies
Peace Team: It’s Time To Roll Back The So-Called Patriot Act
Public Citizen: Petition to President Obama: Turn Around the WTO!
Public Citizen: Tell Congress to Focus on Real Reform
True Majority: OMG GOP WTF?! [For every question you get right, CREDO mobile will donate 10 cents to True Majority; five questions total, this week only.]
Contests
Blisstree: Giveaway: Yogavive Apple Chips [Deadline: September 29]
The Campaign for Free Expression: Blasphemy Contest [Deadline: October 1]
Coconut Bliss: Win a Night of Bliss [Deadline: October 1]
It’s A Vegan Dog’s Life: Collar Flowers Giveaway! [Deadline: September 30]
The PETA Files: ‘Win It’ Wednesday: Vegan Guitar Strap [Deadline: October 7]
PETA2: The Agonist’s EXCLUSIVE Video Premiere and Contest! [Deadline: September 30]
PETA2: Free Stuff Friday: Jellyfish Mood Lamp! [Deadline: October 2]
The Sunshine Studio: Baby Muffalatta – Interview & Giveaway [Deadline: September 27]
Vegan Appetite: Love Soup! Review, Interview, Recipe and Contest! [Deadline: September 30]
Freebies
CREDO Action: Get Your Free OMG GOP WTF Sticker!
Newsletters
ASPCA: eNews, September 25, 2009 – Cat Survives Attack with Steel-Toe Boot
Best Friends: eNews, September 25, 2009 – From homeless to heroic
In Defense of Animals (IDA): IDA eNews, September 24, 2009 – Two Huge Court Victories!
Vegan Outreach: eNewsletter, September 23, 2009 – Facebook, Twitter, & Brownies
Petitions: Animal & Environmental Advocacy
Help Support the Creation of Marine Reserves
Act Now for Trade Justice! (For more on the link between NAFTA — and other free trade agreements — and animal exploitation, see Free Trade Kills Animals.)
Protect National Parks from Climate Change
Protect America’s Oceans and Great Lakes!
HELP PSPCA FIND PERSON WHO TAPED UP HIS CAT [You can read more here.]
Petition to Enforce Laws Fairly, and to Investigate Corruption in Iberville Parish
STOP THE HUNT IN LOWER MAKEFIELD, YARDLEY, PA
FireBull – stop the burning of live Bulls
Petitions: Human Rights
September is Hunger Action Month — Fight to End Hunger! [Please include a note about vegan and vegetarian meal options!]
Free the Internet and End the Digital Divide!
GOP: Stop Spewing Health Care Lies
End Discriminatory Health Insurance Practices
Quit the Bickering! Give Us Real Health Insurance Reform
‘Round the Interwebs
American Humane Association: Downloadable Foreclosure Pets Resources
Animal Rights @ Change .org: Around the World: Horses, Dogs, Hens, Tuna, and Bulls
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): If An Agent Knocks
Digging Through the Dirt: HSUS Scrambles Campaign’s Message
Quarry Girl: ronald’s donuts: vegan lab results
Upcoming Events
Farm Sanctuary: Walk for Farm Animals – September through October 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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“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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