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Girls Are Not Chicks – Coloring Book
Ballerina's with wrenches, a stubborn Miss Muffet and high heel cloning projects are just 3 of the 27 gender bending scenarios in Jacinta Bunnell and Julie Novak's Girl's are not Chick's coloring book. A yellow front and back cover is filled with multi-colored stars, the front featuring an upside down chick and on the flip side, a broken shell with the following definition
Continue reading...Winged Migration
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Winged Migration (2001) is a visually stunning “documentary-adventure” that follows several communities of birds on their seasonal migratory journeys. Although the migrations are set to music and the flapping of the birds’ wings can be heard in many scenes, the film is primarily a visual experience. There is very little narration in Winged Migration, which for the most part is shot from the perspective of the migrating birds.
Continue reading...Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights is a highly accessible introduction to animal rights alongside leading animal rights philosopher Tom Regan’s own story of transitioning to an animal friendly lifestyle.
Continue reading...For Kids Who Love Animals: A Guide to Sharing the Planet
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
If your children love creative projects, fun facts, and animals of all kinds For Kids Who Love Animals: A Guide to Sharing the Planet will be a great addition to their bookshelf.
Continue reading...Peaceable Kingdom
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Tribe of Heart's documentary, Peaceable Kingdom, asks viewers how current factory farm practices can be justified given that the treatment of farm animals, while perfectly legal, is so undeniably cruel. This film advocates a reawakening of both human conscience and compassion. It suggests that this can be achieved through reconnecting to the innate affection most people have for animals (not just pets) which is often stifled or discouraged in a modern consumer society.
Continue reading...The Witness
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The Witness, an award winning documentary, tells the story of a personal miracle, a change in perception. Eddie Lama is an architectural metals contractor in New York, with a mission to raise awareness about animal suffering. Growing up in a violent neighbourhood in the Bronx, Eddie frequently witnessed friends harm zoo animals at night or chase cats down alleys with intent to harm. The only reason he didn't participate himself, he says, was fear. Eddie never had a pet growing up. Having been raised in a family with an aversion to pets, Eddie was afraid of animals.
Continue reading...Issues in Green Criminology: Confronting Harms Against Environments, Humanity and Other Animals
Sunday, March 8, 2009
This edited collection draws together works from scholars involved in ‘green criminology'. Green criminology studies how governments, corporations, military complexes and human consumption harm the environment and non-human animals. Damage to air and water quality, animal testing, uranium proliferation and slaughterhouses are examples of the kinds of issues green criminologists examine.
Continue reading...Earthlings
Monday, February 16, 2009
The 2003 documentary film Earthlings, Narrated by Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Shaun Monson, presents a shocking account of the relationships between nature, nonhuman animals, and humankind with horrifying images of animal use over the swooning original soundtrack by Moby. While Earthlings' thesis is the noble comparison of these three elements of life, the film mostly draws on the dark consequences of human dominance over animals.
Continue reading...Terrorists of Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals
Saturday, February 7, 2009
This critical anthology, Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals, investigates the clandestine faction known as the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). In a holistic collection of essays from academics, writers, political prisoners and activists it uncovers the true nature of the group who, along with other "eco-terrorists," are deemed the number one domestic terrorist threat by the FBI.
Continue reading...The Longest Struggle: From Pythagoras To PETA
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Norm Phelps book, The Longest Struggle: From Pythagoras To PETA, constructs a broad historical narrative that makes new and important sense of Western history from the perspective of animal advocacy and vegetarianism. By working from the animal and vegetarian standpoints, Phelps uncovers aspects of Western history that are as crucial to understand as they are systematically ignored.
Continue reading...- Girls Are Not Chicks - Coloring Book
- The Jena 6
- A Movement of Movements: Is another world really possible?
- The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and Chicago Police Murdered A Black Panther
- Behind the Mask
- On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Twenty-First Century Lynching
- Earthlings
- The Will to Resist
- The Lifelong Activist: Changing the World Without Losing Your Way
- The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
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