Tag Archives: animal protection

New Zealand Recognizes ALL Animals As Sentient Beings

News to celebrate! Wishing a world of ripples outward from this fabulous leap of a forward consciousness–thanks to Deus Nexus for re-posting, and thanks to TrueActivist.com for originally posting this truly revolutionary news.

Raise Your Voice Against War in Syria and Iraq/NIH Funded Torture/US Navy Sonar Testing/Censorship of Journalists

Still vital for the rest of us with conscience to speak out against a new war in Syria, and a return to war in Iraq–at the cost of billions of dollars, and unimaginable cost to human life and peace everywhere. Also vital to keep speaking out against surveillance and censorship of journalists, activists, writers, and everyday working citizens. And PETA tells us new horrors are being unveiled in recent NIH-funded use of baby macaques ($30 million spent in the last 7 years to traumatize newborns) building on 30 years of needless psychological and physical torture. NRDC tells us the Navy is knowingly going ahead with 5-year mid-frequency sonar testing expected to strand, maim, and kill thousands of whales and other sea creatures.

Just Foreign Policy is running a campaign to get Congress to debate bombing Syria. The Committee to Protect Journalists is running a campaign to speak out for journalists. PETA is running a campaign to stop the torture of baby monkeys. NRDC is running a petition to the Secretary of Defense to stop the sonar testing. There is another petition as well on The Petition Site to stop the sonar.

Please drop in to the Peace/Not War page, the  Privacy/Censorship page, the Living Beings page for these petition-links.

News and opinion on Iraq and Syria:

Terrific video from Ken O’Keefe, Military veteran, on the insanity of returning to war.

“The staggering costs of all this—$25 billion to train the Iraqi Army, $60 billion for the reconstruction-that-wasn’t, $2 trillion for the overall war, almost 4,500 Americans dead and more than 32,000 wounded, and an Iraqi death toll of more than 190,000 (though some estimates go as high as a million)—can now be measured against the results. The nine-year attempt to create an American client state in Iraq failed, tragically and completely. The proof of that is on today’s front pages.” Read Peter van Buren’s op-ed at Nation of Change on the madness of returning to war in Iraq and bombing Syria.

“Søren Kierkegaard in “The Present Age” warned that the modern state seeks to eradicate conscience and absorb individuals into a public that can be shaped and manipulated by those in power.” Read Chris Hedges’ op-ed on continuous war, the madness of a new war, and what the US is trending toward, via Simone Weil’s ruminations on war, 1984, and the distant memory of the Roman Empire.

More from Truthdig on Syria.

News and Video from PETA on the tragic abuse of baby monkeys:

NIH Child Abuse: Experiments on Baby Monkeys Exposed

News on US Naval plans to kill Whales while Testing & Operating Sonar:

This article is from Collective Evolution, a fabulous site for news and taking action, they also list petitions. This article also has links to 2 petitions and the email address for the Secretary of Defense so you can send him a note: US Navy Killing Thousands of Whales and Dolphins with Sonar and Weapons Testing

The Everyday Concerned Citizen: a site to get info, take action, make change happen

The Everyday Concerned Citizen is a site for the everyday working person to easily get info & take online action in the ongoing campaign to revive & restore our country–the USA, democracy, & world.

This site started as a Facebook page, and is currently active there. Here’s the link: https://www.facebook.com/EveryDayConcernedCitizen

If you are someone who cares about what is happening everyday in the US, and want to take online action to make change of a positive sort happen–whether it’s to stop fracking, or save the Arctic from oil drilling, or save manatees in Florida from motorboats, or right whales from harpoons, or children and women from trafficking, or stop incessant wars in different parts of the world, join us! Become part of the community on Facebook–and check in here as the site unfolds.

On Facebook and here, the ECC is a site to post petitions and news articles, and to inspire change in our world.

This site truly hopes to support all the wonderful non-profits and individuals who are already making positive change happen. If this describes you, and you would like your petitions to be posted here, please send me a note at ramolad@hushmail.com.

If you’d like to be involved in building this site, also do send me a note!

ECC is founded and run by Ramola D (http://www.ramolad.com, http://www.delphiquarterly.com, http://www.artcreatewrite.com), a writer who believes we can make positive change happen by everyday adding our voice to movements and gestures for change, whether in art or activism.  I’ll post a page soon detailing a bit further why I am starting this site, and what it personally means to me. Meanwhile, please drop in at the About page for a little more information. And I promise to post some meaningful info soon!

Until then:

Stay inspired! Stay engaged! Take action everyday!