Blog Action Day – October 15, 2008: Poverty

Blog Action Day is on October 15 again. I participated last year, which had a focus on the environment. This year’s focus is on Poverty. As they ramp up this year and post on their blog, they had a post that started out by asking us to think about poverty. To think about it on [...]

VeganMoFo

Okay, so this is likely not news to the vast majority out there, but as much of my blog-reading time is spent reading photography blogs and biking blogs rather than vegan food blogs or animal rights blogs (I have a few exceptions, it is true, but I’m really bike-obsessed at the moment), I was happy [...]

The 1680

I heard about a project recently, called “The 1680″. I’ll let them describe it, from their facebook page: 53 billion land animals are slaughtered every year worldwide for the meat and dairy industries. None of these deaths are necessary in any way. This is too big a number to really comprehend but it becomes easier [...]

border walls and habitat fragmentation

I am not a fan of borders. I’ve written about it before. Many of the issues with the enforcement of borders are social. It is about power, about control. Denying access to some groups of people gives others more power. Drawing a line on a piece of paper and fighting wars to maintain that as [...]

micro-activism

I was reading a blog recently that mentioned micro-activism. This caught my eye, and my thoughts. Lately I’ve been feeling like I’ve been doing a whole lot of nothing when it comes to activism. I go through this fairly often. What is activism? Sometimes it is obvious. Leafletting, giving a talk on veganism, setting up [...]

a cricket rescue

This morning I walked into the bathroom at work, and heard the unmistakable sound of a cricket. And it was loud. At first I had the confused thought that it was coming from the ceiling. Then I thought to look on the ground, and sure enough, there was a cricket hiding behind the toilet. I [...]

Gold Butte’s burros need your voice

I received an action alert today from the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign: Gold Butte’s burros need your voice. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has proposed a new Herd Management Area (HMA) Plan for Gold Butte’s burros in Nevada, effective for the next 10-20 years. The Gold Butte HMA is the last of three [...]

perry’s dustbath

Perry is one of the five White Leghorns who arrived last year at Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary when they were just a few days old, having been found abandoned in a grocery store parking lot. Yesterday Perry was busy giving himself a dustbath in the bunny barn. He dug himself a little Perry-sized indentation and [...]

workplace advocacy, aka the dreaded team lunch

Periodically I get an invite to a team lunch at work. Since the closest they come to being inclusive is to say “hey, there’s a veggie platter” (and then only at the really big company-wide holiday luncheons), I came up with an efficient system for handling these invites. A couple weeks ago, another invite came [...]

against vivisection: ethics and science

pattrice is hosting a Carnival Against Vivisection, and it is an important topic, as well as one that I don’t talk enough about, and so I’m joining in. Her deadline is September 6th, by the way, if anyone else would like to take part as well. Vivisection sounds like such a clinical word, doesn’t it? [...]