Category: activism
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Animais, Intersetorialidade e da “Direitos” (Portuguese Translation of Animals, Intersectionality, and “Rights”)
To read or watch this in English, click here. To read or watch this in Arabic, click here. To read or watch this in Hindi, click here. Essa conversa está agora disponível em Português (Brasileiro). Clique CC – Closed Caption – na parte inferior direita , em seguida, escolha Português em Configurações. Veja também a…
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pattrice jones Closing Address of Human Rights are Animal Rights
Full video with closed captioning available here This has been mind-blowing, hasn’t it? Alright, so, a round of applause for the organizers. [Applause] Alright, so if your brain is anything like mine – although you might hope it’s not, from the way it feels sometimes inside my head – your synapses have just been snapping and making connections and…
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Beyond Veganismo: Diet & Consumo no mundo global (Portuguese Translation of Beyond Veganism: Diet & Consumption in a Global World)
To read or watch this in English, click here. To read or watch this in Arabic, click here. Essa conversa está agora disponível em Português (Brasileiro). Clique CC – Closed Caption – na parte inferior direita , em seguida, escolha Português em Configurações. Veja também a transcrição escrita abaixo. This talk is now available in…
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Intersecting Oppression and Muslim Vegan Feminism *REPOST*
*This article has been reposted after changes due to privacy concerns* The title of my talk is Halal. It is, as you may know, an Islamic term or Arab term for what is permissible or allowed. With that in mind, I just want to say that what this talk is not about religion or about Islamic standards of slaughter, etc.…
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A White Vegan Feminist in Palestine (Danielle)
Last night, I sat at my dinner table in Ramallah, Palestine, sharing a meal with Palestinian, French, and North American friends. We were discussing the different ways human and animal rights issues are perceived. Specifically, how social justice looks in the complicated context of an overall conservative Palestinian society, at least when compared to the…
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10 Signs your Animal Rights Group is a Cult (Woke Vegana) *REPOST*
*this article has been reposted after changes due to legal concerns* content warning for triggering material including sexual violence, abusive behavior and self-harm I have an ongoing lawsuit with this animal rights group – so cannot be specific on names – and am accepting any donations for my legal fees. Follow…
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5 things Animal Rights need to learn from The Black Panthers *REPOST*
(this is a repost of an older article – partly because of #throwbackthursday, partly because of Black history month and partly because white vegans cannot hear this stuff enough. some of the content has been edited & updated.) in respect of the 52nd anniversary since the 1966 founding of the Black Panthers Party for Self-Defense, this…
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I Don’t Have to Tell You Things are Bad…
I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are shit – it’s a gd depression. Nobody can find work and if they do they’re scared of being harassed, exploited or losing that job. Everybody’s exhausted or too tired to care much, to speak something even if they knew what to say.…
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Veganism in an Oppressive World (Meneka Repka)
“Veganism in an Oppressive World” Book Review by Dr Meneka Repka Veganism in an Oppressive World (for Canadians), edited by Julia Feliz Bruek and published by Sanctuary Publishers (2017) is a timely volume that interrogates the relationships between veganism and other oppressions. In the current social and political context, people of colour (POC) and more specifically, vegans…
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Happy Birthday ELK!
it was 5 years ago that we began what has now become known as ELK. making space for anti-oppressive human empowerment in animal rights spaces. making space for other species in human-led community organizing activism. neither of which was particularly popular or welcomed and so we at ELK have often taken to doing our own…
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Sick Tofu Eaters — Stories by Vegans who know Veganism doesn’t Cure Everything
SO HONORED to have an ELK member’s writing included in this newest issue ❤ but – can you guess which one? mwaha. and even better, it is available on a sliding-scale purchase too ❤ ❤ find it here: tofu mag issue #12 Following the path set by T.O.F.U. #11, which focused on veganism, chronic illness,…
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수나우라 타일러 – 비건, 괴짜들, 그리고 동물들발췌 번역. 장애와 동물에 대해 (Korean Translation of Vegans, Freaks, and Animals)
To read or watch this in English, click here. 이 대화는 현재 한국어로 제공됩니다. 오른쪽 하단의 CC – 자막 -을 클릭 한 다음 설정에서 한국어를 선택하십시오. 아래의 필기 기록을 참고하십시오. This talk is now available in Korean. Click CC – Closed Captioning – on the bottom right, then choose Korean in Settings. Please also see the…
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Animal Defenders against White Supremacy
every vegan and animal defender alike know well enough that white supremacy exists in direct opposition to the freedom and liberation of all Earthlings. and when racism reveals itself most candidly in the faces of neo-nazis rallying around hate, then it becomes our responsibility to prioritize our efforts to undo whiteness as an identity and…
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ELK’s DIY… Self-care Mental Health
*please read the five point disclaimer here* 🙂 this post is for all us folk needing help (tips, support, hacks, resources, pep talks, etc.) to maintain our health, for today, like, right now – or in other words, this is to help you get through the short-term by trying some new solutions in the next few minutes.…
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Write for ELK
hey elk fans! we’re excited to announce that we are now offering a small cash honorarium for you folks to submit to us some original online content. we are open to any kind of content (blogs, articles, artwork, youtube vlogs and the like), but we ask you to keep it: ♥ radical ♥ intersectional ♥…
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Animal Defenders against Islamophobia
if your organization for animal defense wishes to sign onto the statement, contact us by following this link here. please know that you are expected to donate a minimum of $5 directly to the victims of the Quebec Islamic Cultural Center shooting or to your local mosque. This is a statement of support from animal defenders everywhere who…
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ELK Update – Art as Activism
perhaps you have noticed, but maybe not… ELK has been quite inactive of late. there are a few different reasons for this, one of which is the focus of this post.
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Animal Defenders in Solidarity with Standing Rock #NoDAPL
if your organization for animal defense wishes to sign onto the statement, contact us by following this link here. please know that you are expected to donate a minimum of $5 directly to the “Stand with Standing Rock” fund (click here) or to Standing Rock’s Legal Support fund (click here). This is a statement of support for…
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Animal Exploitation & Toxic [Trans] Masculinity (Corvus)
Disclaimer: I am transmasculine and identify mostly as a transgender butch or simply transgender. I do not identify as a binary trans man, nor do I have the internal or psychological experience of many binary trans men. Whiteness shapes my experiences, which may not resonate with people of color from otherwise similar gender/class/ability demographics. I…
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Internalized Speciesism
content warning for triggering material, including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, colonialism, transphobia, speciesism, tokenizing & violence against animals. speciesism, the exploitation & abuse of non-human animals by a dominant oppressor on the basis of species membership, is weird. weird like, despite how we humans keep busy discriminating & exploiting animals specifically because they are of different species, we humans…
Earthling Liberation Kollective 