63. Winning Hearts and Minds for Animals
December 23, 2021
After more than two years of offering biweekly reflections on our movement, the time has come for me to transition to the writing of the
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61. Fighting for Farmed Animals Since 1975
November 23, 2021
FARM (Farm Animal Rights Movement) is the oldest U.S. animal rights organization and the only one fighting for farmed animals during our movement’s first two
57. Honoring Our Pioneers: Peter Singer
September 28, 2021
We stand on the shoulders of dozens of pioneers who built our movement, but may now be forgotten. They displayed an uncommon vision, creativity, conviction,
50. Struggling with Ethics and Solidarity
June 22, 2021
As vegans, our ethical obligations toward animals are perfectly clear. As animal rights advocates, we know where our solidarity resides. Or do we? Please join
47. What Has Brought Us Together
May 11, 2021
The basic elements of a movement are vision, campaigns, publications, and conferences. How did those elements play out in forming, shaping, and nurturing our own
46. Honoring Our Founders: Cleveland Amory
April 27, 2021
We stand on the shoulders of pioneers who built our movement, but are now largely forgotten. They displayed an uncommon vision, creativity, conviction, daring, and
38. Our Challenges for the ’20s
January 5, 2021
Social movements, like all living and prospering entities, must evolve and grow, else they wither and die. In the next decade, our movement will face
37. Animal Rights in 2020 Hindsight
December 22, 2020
The slow pace of social change may make us wonder whether our struggle to save animals is bearing fruit. Our success becomes so much more
36. Why and How to Engage Abroad
December 8, 2020
If we believe that all animals are equal, then saving animals raised for food abroad should be just as worthy and perhaps even more cost-effective
34. Engaging Compassionate Holidays
November 10, 2020
Thanksgiving and Christmas have been traditionally and literally “murder” on turkeys. The growing popularity of plant-based roasts and the virus-related ban on large family gatherings
33. Some We Love, Some We Eat
October 27, 2020
The recent Netflix blockbuster My Octopus Teacher chronicles a mutual relationship between a man and one of the world’s most bizarre looking animals – an
32. Electing for Animals
October 13, 2020
Every four years, presidential elections offer an unparalleled opportunity to introduce animal rights to our nation’s power brokers and the media. The process starts with
31. Bearing Witness
September 29, 2020
World Day for Farmed Animals, just around the corner, on October 2nd, offers an appropriate setting for revisiting what’s at the core of our animal
30. Memorializing Farmed Animals
September 15, 2020
World Day for Farmed Animals is coming up in two weeks, on October 2nd. The observance was conceived in 1983 and celebrated throughout the world
28. Saving Animals & Toxic Communications
August 18, 2020
Two of our life’s most important functions – parenting and internet communications come without an instruction manual. The toxic communications that stem from this flaw
27. Relating to Other Movements
August 3, 2020
Joining forces with other movements increases our ability to effect change. Animal rights is fundamental to opposing all oppression, and veganism is the ultimate health
26. My Animal Rights Hall of Fame
July 21, 2020
Who launched, nurtured, and shaped the U.S. animal rights movement? What happened to them? Why hardly anyone knows their names? Here, at last, are some
25. The Do’s and Don’ts of Planning a Conference
July 7, 2020
Conferences are an effective vehicle for forming, shaping, and nurturing our movement. They offer documentation of animal abuses, activist training, and lots of inspiration and
24. Our Conferences Shape Our Movement
June 23, 2020
Conferences have proven to be the most effective vehicle for forming, shaping, and nurturing our movement. They offer documentation of animal abuses, activist training, and
23. What Brought Us Together
June 9, 2020
At what point does a vision induce people to act on it? At what point do individual actions become a movement? And, what is the
22. On Leading and Managing
May 26, 2020
Traditionally, leaders who launch organizations in our movement end up managing them. Yet, leaders and managers are very different people? What can be done to
21. Getting Things Done
May 12, 2020
How do we get started with saving animals? How do we free up more time and deal with multiple priorities, adversities, and burnout? And how
20. Growing Our Activism
April 28, 2020
Are we really in charge of our lives, or a mere product of circumstances? Why can’t we be like some of the outstanding activists in
18. Grassroots Activism – Then and Now
March 31, 2020
Grassroots activism gave birth to the animal rights movement and fostered its growth for the next three decades. Then, its role has greatly diminished. Here,
13. Why We Oppress? Why Animals?
January 21, 2020
Just a few days from now, on January 27th, the world will observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date marks 75 years since liberation of
12. An AR Blueprint For the ’20s
January 7, 2020
Social movements, like all living and prospering entities, must evolve and grow, else they wither and die. In the next decade, our movement will face