Oppressions intersect.
Systemic violence and institutionalized prejudices don’t victimize people in neat little boxes, such as “race” or “sex”.

Highlighted in ELK’s most popular post HERE, Kimberlé Crenshaw identified how we cannot rely on a single category of a lived experience (e.g., being queer, or being chronically ill) to explain something as complicated as oppression.

Any attempt to challenge oppression – through community organizing or personal daily battles – requires solutions that cross boundaries, defy labels and overlap in beautiful, messy ways.

That being understood, ELK has organized this website by keyword topics to make content more accessible. Some resources will appear on multiple pages because it is relevant to both by discussing multiple subjects.

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OPEN THE CAGES!
ZOOS, LABS, FACTORY FARMS AND THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
mandy

HOW NEOLIBERAL WHITENESS INFLUENCES VEGAN ACTIVISM
Dr. A. Breeze Harper

10 SIGNS ANIMAL RIGHTS IS A CULT
Woke Vegana

ANIMALS,
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER
Hannah Monroe

SCARS OF SUFFERING
Breeze Harper

ANIMALS,
INTERSECTIONALITY
AND “RIGHTS”
pattrice jones

PETA & THE TROPE OF ACTIVISM
Aph Ko

WHY ANIMAL RIGHTS NEEDS TO READ SCIENCE FICTION

EMPTY THE CAGES!
AND FILL THE PRISONS?

WHY ANIMAL RIGHTS NEEDS TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE

ART AS ACTIVISM

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Direct Action and Protests

• A legal guide for activists
  Produced by the Movement Defence Committee of the Law Union of Ontario, June, 2010
• ARRESTED at a demo or other political action? REPORTING an arrest?
  Movement Defence Committee in Toronto
• Know Your Rights: A Citizen’s Guide to Rights When Dealing With Police
  Canadian Civil Liberties Association
• KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: Protesters’ Edition
  Canadian Civil Liberties Association
• Know Your Rights: an activist’s guide to the law
  OPIRG-Carleton
• What To Do If The Police Come Knockin
  Developed by the Movement Defence Committee and the Summit Legal Project of the Law Union of Ontario
• PROTESTERS’ GUIDE TO THE LAW OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
  ‘Take Back Our Community’ Edition
  Produced by Leo McGrady Q.C. McGrady & Company Lawyers
• A LEGAL PRIMER FOR U.S. ACTIVISTS ATTENDING PROTESTS IN CANADA
  Movement Defence Committee in Toronto
• The Activists’ Legal Project 
  A not for profit collective which provides information about the law to a wide range of grassroots social change activists as well as people who are considering taking action for the first time.
• RECON 2013: POLICING & COUNTERINSURGENCY
• Committee Against Political Repression
  Against all forms of repression, including repression of those who challenge capitalism, the state, hierarchy, and domination.
• The Equal Justice Alliance
  Coalition of animal protection and other social justice organizations formed in November of 2006 to defend freedom of speech and assembly by defeating the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA).
• Green is the New Red
  Focus on how fear of “terrorism” is being exploited to push a political and corporate agenda. Specifically, I focus on how animal rights and environmental advocates are being branded “eco-terrorists” in what many are calling the Green Scare.
• How to Write Your First Letter to Someone in Prison
  by Pretty Queer
• Suggestions for Supporting Prisoners
  Earth First!
• Anarchist Black Cross Federation
  Since the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC), has been on the frontline in supporting those imprisoned for struggling for freedom and liberty.
• bored but not broken
  i expect to spend most of 2012 in jail for my participation in organizing the protests against the G20 leaders summit in toronto in the summer of 2010. this blog is for me to communicate with you while i’m locked up.
• RECON 2013: FIGHTING CORPORATE CONTROL
• Political Prison
  By Walter Bond

Privilege, Allyship & Anti-oppressive organizing

• Allyship & Solidarity Guidelines
  Interview with Harsha Walia
• Anti-Oppression Facilitation Guide, Resource Zine, Spring, 2014
  ANTI-OPPRESSION RESOURCE AND TRAINING ALLIANCE (AORTA)
• 4 Ways to Push Back Against Your Privilege
  By Mia McKenzie
• Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable
  By Ngọc Loan Trần
• HeteroPatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing
  By Andrea Smith
• SO YOU WANT TO BE AN ALLY! A zine on anti-oppression, allyship, and being a less shitty person
• Ally Bill of Responsibilities 
  By Dr. Lynn Gehl, Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe
• Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally-Industrial Complex
• The Anti Oppression Network
  A community collective dedicated to helping individuals, community collectives, groups, non profit organizations and society as a whole re-evaluate, unlearn, relearn, and understand, in a deep and meaningful way, the importance of decolonization and anti-oppression principles and policy. We are interested in building self-capacity in order to fully support and utilize privileges in the best interest of marginalized beings and mother earth.
• ANTI-OPPRESSION RESOURCE AND TRAINING ALLIANCE (AORTA)
  AORTA is a collective of educators devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy. AORTA works as consultants and facilitators to expand the capacity of cooperative, collective, and community-based projects through education, training, and planning. AORTA bases trainings on an intersectional approach to liberation because we believe that true change requires uprooting all systems of oppression.
• No More “Allies”
  By Mia McKenzie
• So You Call Yourself an Ally: 10 Things All ‘Allies’ Need to Know
  By Jamie Utt
• The Do’s and Don’ts of Being a Good Ally
  By karnythia
• ALLYSHIP
  An active, consistent, and arduous practice of unlearning and re-evaluating, in which a person of privilege seeks to operate in solidarity with a marginalized group of people
• RECON 2013: BUILDING AN INTER-GENERATIONAL MOVEMENT
• Seeds for Change
  We’re a network of independent activist training co-ops providing training and workshops on group and campaign skills. We support people who want to make our world a better and more sustainable place.
• Training for Change
  Reliable training tools (or activities/exercises), based on our direct education approach, rooted in popular education.
• Center for Story-based Strategy (CSS) 
  A national movement-building organization dedicated to harnessing the power of narrative for social change.
• People’s Commission Facilitator’s Manual
  The facilitator’s manual was developed as a guide for leading discussions and classes on immigration security measures, racism, and exclusion.