philosophy Category
The need for an ethic regarding our treatment of animals grows with our ever increasing use of them for food, clothing, labour, medicine, research and education. This usage is becoming more mechanised and removed from our daily lives so that we may remain unaware of [...]
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Women must see that there can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose fundamental model of relationships is one of domination - Rosemary Radford Reuther
It is no coincidence that social [...]
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does nature have intrinsic worth?
By: admin on: Oct 30,2000 In: direct action, environment, philosophyUnless you have been living in a closet for the last 20 years, it can hardly have escaped your notice that many people perceive the world to be in environmental crisis. In Australia alone we have vast tracts of farmland rendered useless and dead [...]
Turn off the tv and think for a moment.
Despite the fact that most of the species that have ever existed are now extinct, never before in the history of the earth have extinctions occurred at such a breathtaking rate: we are causing it. [...]
There will come a time when the world will look back on vivisection in the name of science as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.
Dr Henry Bigelow, Professor of Surgery, Medical School, Harvard UniversityWhen [...]
about me
i have been involved in environmental, human rights, animal rights & media activism for over fifteen years, since the birth of my kids. i love to write and make short amateur films. i've been published in some magazines including New Internationalist, Chain Reaction, Vegan Voice, Animals Today, Green Left Weekly, Maple St Coop news, and written too many zines and indymedia articles to list here. i've been a media tart at community radio 4ZzZ102.1fm since 2002. some of my radio can be listened to here or at Radio4all, my films can be found at EngageMedia