The easyVegan Weekend Activist, No. 23
October 3rd, 2009 10:24 am by Kelly GarbatoAction Alerts: Animal & Environmental Advocacy
AAVS: Speak Out For Great Apes!
Animal Aid: Act now to help animals in laboratories
Animal Aid: [Pheasant] Shooting petition
Animal Rights @ Change .org: Captive Tigers Languishing in Deplorable Conditions in Cancun
Center for Biological Diversity: Senate Climate Bill: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
DawnWatch: NY Times front page on dairy industry includes info on slaughter 9/29/09
Earthjustice: Coal Ash is Hazardous to Our Health
Farm Sanctuary: Tell the USDA That Factory Farming Isn’t “Natural”
Humane Society Legislative Fund (HSLF): Protect Sharks from Finning
Kinship Circle: 9/29/09: Release Cancun Tigers From Misery
NRDC: Tell President Obama to halt logging and other destruction in our wild national forests
NRDC: Tell the Secretary of Agriculture to End the Senseless Poisoning of Wildlife!
PETA: Urge Martin County, FL, to Get Rid of Canned-Hunting Facility
PETA: Tell Breast Cancer Charities to Use Non-Animal Research
PETA: URGENT: Ask Philadelphia Schools to Stop Using Glue Traps
PETA: Tell Georgia National Fair to Cancel Cruel Tiger Display
PETA: Cruel Wild-Horse Roundup Has Begun!
PETA: Deer Being Cruelly Netted and Trucked to Slaughterhouse in Texas
PETA: Video Shows Workers Smashing Pigs With Hammer
The PEW Environmental Group: Protect our national forests
Sierra Club: Protect Communities from Toxic Coal Ash
The Wilderness Society: Protect the Greater Grand Canyon From Toxic Uranium Mining
Action Alerts: Human Rights
ACLU: Tell Congress it’s Time to Reform the PATRIOT Act
ACLU: Act now. Ask your representative to co-sponsor the State Secrets Protection Act of 2009.
ACLU: Protect American Workers [ENDA]
American Rights at Work: Take Action: Tell Giumarra to Stop the abuse in California’s grape fields!
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): Call upon President Obama to stand by his promises
Center for Inquiry (CFI): Urge Your Senators: Stop Obstructing Judicial and Executive Nominations!
CREDO Action: President Obama: Stop the Senate Democrats kneecapping health care reform.
CREDO Action: President Obama, it’s time to speak out.
Drop Dobbs: Sign the petition calling on advertisers to drop their sponsorship of Lou Dobbs.
International Rescue Committee (IRC): Urge President Obama to Take Action for Children’s Rights
Latin America Working Group: Support Travel for All
True Majority: Replace the Patriot Act
Campaign Updates
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): EFF Supports New Bill to Repeal Telco Immunity
Carnivals
Vegan Month of Food: Vegan MoFo III (2009 edition) – October 2009
Contests
Hungry Hungry Veganos: Win Coupons for Free Coconut Bliss [Deadline: October 7]
It’s A Vegan Dog’s Life: The Vegan Monologues Giveaway [Deadline: October 8]
PETA: Win The Conscious Cook Cookbook [Deadline: November 6]
The PETA Files: ‘Win It’ Wednesday: ‘Tofu Never Screams’ Tote and Tee [Deadline: October 14]
PETA2: Free Stuff Friday: Banned Books Giveaway! [Deadline: October 9]
PETA2: Win The Swellers’ New CD! [Deadline: October 9]
PETA2: Win the New Paramore Album! [Deadline: October 13]
Wildcare: Name Our Rattlesnake [Deadline: October 23]
Newsletters
ASPCA: eNews, October 2, 2009 – Swine Flu: Are Your Pets Safe?
Best Friends: eNews, October 2, 2009 – Cash, the 19 Year Old Cat… Adopted!
In Defense of Animals (IDA): eNews, October 1, 2009
Save the Manatee Club: Paddle Tales, October 2009
Vegan Outreach: eNewsletter, September 30, 2009 – Vic Sjodin; Link of the Season
Petitions: Animal & Environmental Advocacy
twitition: WE WANT AN HSUS “GO VEGAN” CAMPAIGN!!
Support Stronger Boxer-Kerry Climate Bill!
Ban Horse Drawn Carriages in Rome
Please stop selling Foie Gras at Amazon.com
HELP US FREE THE NEGLECTED TIGERS IN CANCUN
Helix shaped wind turbines save birds/more efficient.
Petitions: Human Rights
Help Promote Progressive Ideas [Please include a message about animal rights / vegan issues in the comments section.]
Responsible Teen Sex-Education Programs
Art Does Not Excuse Rape: Polanski Must Face Justice
‘Round the Interwebs
Animal Aid: Animals: the Hidden Victims of War (.pdf booklet)
Animal Person: On “The Age of Stupid”
Stephanie @ Animal Rights @ Change .org: Compassionate Hockey Players and “Militant” Vegans
Born Free USA: The Born Free USA Fall Auction starts today!
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project (CCR will be going to the Supreme Court this session to challenge guilt-by-association provisions of the Patriot Act and other statutes.)
Green is the New Red: Animal Rights Protesters Face Higher Sentences than Racist Cross Burners
My Face Is On Fire: Another Fundraising Fail from the Humane Something or Other
PETA: Undercover Investigation Reveals Cows Suffer for Land O’Lakes [Note: I'm not promoting PETA's weak, barely-even-welfarist action alert, but rather linking to its investigation.]
Jennie @ That Vegan Girl: Tattoo you!
The Veg Blog: The world’s worst sanctuary
VIN News: Pet cloning market proves hit or miss (Via AAVS)
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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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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