Wangari Maathai (1 April 1940 – 25 September 2011) Derrick Bell (November 6, 1930 – October 5, 2011) Marti Kheel (August 25, 1948 – November 19, 2011) Legal scholar Derrick Bell called his 1987 book on the persistence of racial inequality “And We Are Not Saved,” prefacing the text with this Old Testament quotation: “The [...]
Just in time for Mother’s Day, a couple of my students have contributed heartrending blog posts related to mothers and grandmothers. Check out Letter from Your Gay Granddaughter and Mothers in Prison and the Children Left Behind for some non-traditional Mother’s Day reading. And, please do show the authors of those posts and other contributors [...]
I heard about the vicious gay-bashing of Mercy for Animals founder Nathan Runkle a few days ago but didn’t want to write anything until I was sure Nathan wanted the attack to be publicized. Now that Mercy for Animals has put out a press release about the incident, I guess it’s safe to speak of [...]
What do anarchist cooking collectives, decadently healthy deserts, and the sniveling excuses of leftists who give into their own greed under the guise of solidarity with the masses have in common? They’re all featured in the latest action-packed edition of the Abolitionist Online. Yes, Australia’s indefatigable Claudette Vaughn has done it again, pulling together an [...]
Ecofeminist Greta Gaard’s remarkable essay “Explosion,” which I quoted a few posts ago, is now available in free full text online. I’m so happy to be able to share it! Two paragraphs into my first reading of that essay, I bolted out of my chair and bounded around the house exclaiming, “This is so good! [...]
At the recent AR2008 conference, I was lucky to have the opportunity to spend lots of time, on panels and at our adjoining exhibit tables, with my pal lauren Ornelas of the Food Empowerment Project. A long time animal rights activist, lauren conducted harrowing investigations of factory farms during her tenure with Viva!USA. Now she’s [...]
So, I’m off to the annual Animal Rights National Conference and, unlike last year, I’m not even going to try to blog while I’m there. Maybe I’ll post an on-the-spot report but probably not. Instead here are three documents I’ll be distributing while there: All Out to the Grocery Stores and Gas Stations! Strategic Action [...]
“When we walk free after visiting the political prisoner, leave the kitten at the humane society to her uncertain fate, look back at the long necks of the giraffes behind bars at the local zoo, a part of us stays with them and the knowledge of their unfreedom haunts our hearts.” I wrote that in [...]
I regret to inform you that the University of Michigan (at which I pursued my graduate studies) has yet again refused to grant tenure to a more-than-qualified woman of color. I remember struggles around this problem back in the 90s and I’m dismayed to find that the problem is ongoing. Luckily, the outrage over the [...]
