The easyVegan Weekend Activist, No. 25
October 17th, 2009 10:54 am by Kelly GarbatoAction Alerts: Animal & Environmental Advocacy
Animal Rights @ Change .org: How You Can Help the “Why Honey Is Not Vegan” Site
Center for Biological Diversity: Stop Pizarchik From Becoming Dirty Coal Czar
CREDO Action: Tell CEOs: Ditch the Chamber of Commerce
DawnWatch corrected: Larry King Live meat debate on line 10/13/09
DawnWatch: “The debate over meat” on CNN’s Larry King Live –11/12/09
DawnWatch: Jonathan Safran Foer NY Times essay, “Against Meat.” 10/11/09
Defenders of Wildlife: Crucial Crossroads for Greater Yellowstone Wolves
Environmental Defense Fund: Help Restore Coastal Louisiana
Environmental Defense Fund: Help Strengthen America’s Toxic Chemicals Standards
NAAVS: Federal: Bill Would Liberate Great Apes from Laboratory Cages
NRDC: Tell the Obama administration to protect our oceans, coasts and Great Lakes [If you choose to use the sample letter provided, please edit for speciesism.]
National Wildlife Federation (NWF): Help Protect Wyoming’s Majestic Elk
Oceana: Tell Congress: Sea Turtles Need More Protection to Survive
PETA Asia-Pacific: Help Save Thousands of Dogs From Miserable Lives and Deaths in the Philippines
Rainforest Action Network (RAN): Save Rainforests and Stop Climate Change
Sierra Club: Dear EPA: Get Dirty Coal Pollution Out of the Grand Canyon
The True Food Network: Tell USDA: Keep Nanotech OUT of Organic!
The Wilderness Society: Protect drinking water from natural gas drilling chemicals
Action Alerts: Human Rights
ACLU: Tell Congress it’s Time to Reform the PATRIOT Act
Drop Dobbs: “Report” directly to CNN on Dobbs’ hate
Feminist Majority: Women must have real health insurance reform now
Human Rights First: Tell Your Representatives: Guantanamo Must Be Closed!
NARAL: Tell the Senate to reject anti-choice provisions in health-care reform!
NOW: Abstinence-Only Education Shouldn’t Make the Cut
Save Darfur: No Lobbyists for War Criminals
The Secretary of State Project: Demand Open Source Voting Machines
Shakesville: Clinton: Guinea’s Military Leaders Should Step Down
True Majority: Stand with Melanie, not the insurance CEOs
United Farm Workers (UFW): Tell Walmart to stop its supplier Giumarra’s unlawful behavior
Campaign Updates
ecorazzi: ‘Dancing With The Stars’ Removes Chimp After PETA Protest [Alt. title: “PETA effects change without marginalizing women, people of color, or nonhuman animals (It can be done!)”]
Farm Sanctuary: Michigan farmers agree to ban cruel confinement practices (Updated October 13, 2009)
Farm Sanctuary: Two Major Advances for Farm Animals This Week Thanks to YOU
Carnivals
Vegan Month of Food: Vegan MoFo III (2009 edition) – October 2009
Contests
Happy Herbivore: Giveaway: Vegan Comfort Food! [Deadline: October 19]
PETA: Win Alicia Silverstone’s New Book [Deadline: November 12]
The PETA Files: ‘Win It’ Wednesday: Vegan Chocoholic Basket [Deadline: October 30]
PETA Living: Win a Palm-Free Soap Pack From LUSH [Deadline: October 31]
PETA Prime: Prime Contest: Win a Free Trip to Hawaii! [December 31, 2009]
PETA2: Free Stuff Friday: ‘The Conscious Cook’ Cookbook! [Deadline: October 23]
PETA2: The Sounds’ New Ad and Contest [Deadline: October 28]
PETA2: Win a Gift Basket From Manic Panic! [Deadline: November 3]
PETA2: Attack Attack! Contest [Deadline: November 5]
Vegan Appetite: RAW Giveaway, Part 2 + Food Network Friday 10/16 [Deadline: October 20]
Vegan@Large: Help Design a Bay Area Vegetarian Restaurant [Deadline: October 25]
VeganMoFo: Featured Contests & Giveaways
Newsletters
American Humane Association (AHA): The National Humane Review — Fall 2009
ASPCA: eNews, October 16, 2009 – Are Your Pet’s Toys Toxic?
Best Friends: eNews, October 16, 2009 – A Family for Cherry the Vicktory Dog
Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC): Dissent is Patriotic, October 2009, Vol. 8, No. 10
Earthjustice: e.Brief, October 2009 – Death Of A Killer Dam
Food Empowerment Project: eNews, October 1, 2009 – Join Go Vegan Week and more
In Defense of Animals (IDA): IDA eNews, October 16, 2009
United Animal Nations (UAN): eNewsletter, October 2009 – Share your animal rescue story
Vegan Outreach: Enewsletter, Oct. 14, 2009 – Leslie Patterson, “Against Meat”
Petitions: Animal & Environmental Advocacy
Bring Renewable Energy to Native American Reservations
Regulate Toxic Coal Ash as Hazardous Waste
End Water Pollution from Mountaintop Removal Mining
Petaluma’s Feral Cats need your support
Petitions: Human Rights
Don’t Let Anti-Choice Politics Put Women’s Health in Jeopardy
‘Round the Interwebs
Making Hay: Dying Over Spilt Milk
NY Times: Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells
The PETA Files: Sweden Burns Bunnies to Generate Electricity–and Outrage
Primate Freedom: Standing Above the Law
Project R&R: Study Challenges Importance of Animals in Research
quarrygirl: morningstar farms adds eggs and milk to vegan products!
Daniel @ Vegan Soapbox: An Open Letter To PeTA
vegansaurus!: Albatross Chicks Eat Plastic
WeHo News: WeHo Protesters Shot At Puppy Mill Action
Upcoming Events
Farm Sanctuary: Walk for Farm Animals – September through October 2009
Vegan Month of Food: Vegan MoFo III (2009 edition) – October 2009
Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary: ThanksLiving 4.0 – Sunday, October 18, 2009 in Woodstock, NY
World Vegan Day – Sunday, November 1, 2009
In Defense of Animals (IDA): Fur Free Friday – Friday, November 27, 2009
Your Weekly Click-Through Reminders

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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!
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