Saturday, April 20, 2013

The U.S. Practices and Supports Torture (What We’re Up Against)

On April 16, 2013, the newspaper of record “broke” the “news” that the United States of America has a long and enduring record of supporting the use of torture. The New York Times article by Scott Shane, “U.S. Practiced Torture After 9/11, Nonpartisan Review Concludes,” opens:

“A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that ‘it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture’ and that the nation’s highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it.”

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One of my recent photos:

De-Occupy Drones (rainy day activism)

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Seal hunt demo photos here

Carriage horse demo photos here

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Speciesism: Left Out of the Left Forum?

In 2010, I was part of a panel on animal rights (AR) at the Left Forum (LF). To the best of my knowledge, this was one of the first—if not, the first—AR panels ever presented at the typically speciesist LF.

Also to the best of my knowledge, no such panel appeared in 2011 or 2012 but this year—as the LF moves to a weekend in June—I was surprised to receive an invitation to appear on panel called “Animal Liberation and Social Justice.”

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One of my recent photos:

#solitude

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Even more new photos here

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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Gorilla Warfare: The Animal-Prison/Industrial Complex

The role of the corporate media is to normalize the daily—hourly—violence and hierarchy inherent within the dominant culture. For example: speciesism. Corporate news outlets work around the clock to keep the human/non-human privilege alive and unexamined.

Case in point: On April 1, 2013, N. R. Kleinfield of the New York Times penned a predictably ill-informed and agenda-reinforcing piece called, “A Child Star With a Knack for Publicity,” about the death a western lowland gorilla (a species classified as “critically endangered”) who was born behind bars within the Central Park Zoo.

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One of my recent photos:

Stop Drone Warfare (demo)

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Seal hunt demo photos here

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Courtesy of Rick the Cartoonist:

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