CALDAS DA RAINHA PELA ÉTICA ANIMAL

Acções de Protesto Contra o Comércio e Utilização de Peles de Animais Lisboa - Sexta-Feira, dia 26, Rua Garret – Chiado, Junto à Loja Zara                 entre as 13h e as 14h Contacto para mais informações: 91 880 27 59 ricardo.petinga@animal.org.pt   Porto - Sexta- Feira, dia 26, Rua de Santa Catarina, Junto à Loja Zara               entre as 13h e as 14h Contacto para mais informações: 96 132 08 18 rita.silva@animal.org.pt   Acções de Protesto Contra os Circos com Animais Lisboa - Domingo, dia 28, Circo Chen – Antiga Feira Popular                  entre as 16h30m e as 18h30m Contacto para mais informações: 96 132 08 18 rita.silva@animal.org.pt   Porto - Domingo, dia 28, Circo Soledad Cardinali – Parque da Cidad...

Cães saudáveis do canil municipal são usados como cobaias pelos alunos do curso de Medicina Veterinária da Universidade de Évora, denunciam antigos estudantes e actuais veterinários. Mais info aqui: http://www.publico.pt/Sociedade/caes-saudaveis-usados-para-cobaia-no-curso-de-veterinaria-da-universidade-de-evora_1466828?ref=nf Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/Publico

November 2, 2010 Panel Discussion Description: Many leaders/scholars in the social justice movement (such as Coretta Scott King, Cesar Chavez, and Gloria Steinem, among others) adopt/ed an ethical diet and/or animal rights as part of their philosophies. This panel, featuring Professor Emeritus Marc Bekoff, Professor Leslie Irvine, CU grad Matt Bear (from Nonviolence United), and CU student/staff member Tim Putnam will introduce speciesism (and address concepts from environmental justice and nonviolent/social justice theory) to help answer the question, “Why include nonhumans in the social justice discussion?” Objective: Attendees will leave with an understanding of how, by dismantling speciesism in our discussions and work for social justice and diversity, we can better break patterns of dominance, exclusion, oppression, and violence. *Speciesism is discrimination against an individual or group on the basis of their species. It is often based upon the belief that humans are mora...