Oscar Ciutat
Truly amazing photographs from Oscar Ciutat. See also comment from Andrew Sullivan.
View ArticleFriday Afternoon
I’m embarrassed to admit that my last post was nearly two weeks ago. Between then and now I’ve looked at this Web site every day (sometimes several times a day) and thought, I must post something. And...
View ArticleSue Coe
The good folks at Our Hen House have produced an excellent short film about Sue Coe. Sue describes herself as an artist whose work is reportage. To learn more about her work, go here and here. Sue Coe:...
View ArticleMy Relationship with Violence
One very cold morning in the winter of 1975 I heard trees scream as I set them alight. After I abandoned my career in the food service industry, I worked as a labourer in a commercial tree nursery. I...
View ArticleWhich to Support?
I have in front of me three appeals for funds. The first is from a national animal rights organisation which promotes vegan, cruelty-free living and exposes institutionalised animal exploitation with...
View ArticleWhich Needs? Whose Interests?
The animal rights movement is a social movement. Sociologists define social movements as a ‘collective, organized, sustained, and noninstitutional challenge to authorities, powerholders, or cultural...
View ArticleAnimal Dharma Update
After a two-day period of self-imposed isolation at home, an important landmark was reached on Saturday with respect to my first book, Animal Dharma. Draft Two is finished! Yay! Animal Dharma explores...
View ArticleOpen Door for Vegans
Toward the end of 1975 the BBC began an innovative series of community-based television programs called ‘Open Door.’ They selected a handful of organisations to help them make programs about...
View ArticleAugust
August always feel like the end of one year and the beginning of another. It’s a bit like New Year’s Eve. But it lasts a month. And without all the celebrations of one evening, which usually disappoint...
View ArticleSeptember
Writing this on September 11, I cannot but help think of it as a sad day. Not only for everyone who was affected by the terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001, but also for the people in South...
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