24th Mar2013

Blum & Socha Publish Collection of Grassroots Essays

by Anthony Nocella

socha_coverICAS board member Kim Socha and long-standing activist Sarahjane Blum have recently published Confronting Animal Exploitation: Grassroots Essays on Liberation and Veganism (McFarland & Co. Publishing, Inc.), a collection of essays by activists from the Twin Cities, MN. This book provides an opportunity for everyday activists, many of whom did not consider themselves writers before this book, to explain why they advocate for nonhuman animals while inspiring others with their narratives and strategies.

Confronting Animal Exploitation web site

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07th Feb2013

“Animal Liberation and Social Justice: An Intersectional Approach to Social Change” – the inaugural Oceania Critical Animal Studies conference!

by Institute for Critical Animal Studies

kanga loveWhen: July 6th (Saturday) at the University of Canberra, Australia

The conference aims to raise consciousness and dialogue among the academic, activist and student community about the oppression of non-human animals, which is intrinsically connected to a larger social justice framework and movement for total liberation. The inaugural ICAS Oceania conference aims to increase awareness of CAS in the Australia-Pacific region aims to further development of an interdisciplinary approach to social change.

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Category : Activism, Call for Papers, Campus Events, Centers/Working-Groups, Conference, Courses/Workshops, Critical Animal Studies, Oceania, Veganism
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07th Feb2013

Videos from the First Annual Student Conference for Critical Animal Studies are up now!

by Institute for Critical Animal Studies

LargeLogo[1] (2)This international conference aimed to raise consciousness and prompt conversation among current graduate and undergraduate students about the oppression of nonhuman animals related to the larger global intersectional social justice movement for total liberation. Watch the presentations that took place.

http://www.youtube.com/user/criticalanimaltheory?feature=mhee

Category : Activism, anarchism, Campus Events, Centers/Working-Groups, Conference, Critical Animal Studies, Critical Animal Studies, Environmental Ethics
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23rd Dec2012

Activists stop close to 1000 kangaroos from being shot by government shooters

by Institute for Critical Animal Studies

In June this year (2012), on cold winter nights,  Australian activists from Animal Lib ACT, ICAS and other groups managed to stop the ACT government from killing nearly 1000 kangaroos. Read on for this thrilling story of people working together to save the kangaroos.

In the Night they Came

Carolyn Drew

“This year’s ACT kangaroo cull has failed to meet its set quota due to protests and bad weather.” (ABC 2012) Australian news sources had declared. Instead of the quota of 2015 being killed, only 1154 were reportedly killed. Nearly 1000 kangaroos were saved from this annual slaughter; an extraordinary number, a first. (more…)

Category : Academia, Activism, Centers/Working-Groups, Critical Animal Studies, Environmental Ethics, Environmentalism
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23rd Dec2012

Interview with Anthony Nocella on ARZone: Remembering William C Rogers, environmental and social justice activist

by Institute for Critical Animal Studies

Anthony Nocella Talks with Carolyn Bailey from ARZone about William C Rodgers, environmental and social justice activist.

Listen here: http://arzone.ning.com/forum/topics/arzone-special-edition-podcast-remembering-william-c-rodgers-with#

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22nd Aug2012

OHSU fined by USDA for 5 monkey deaths and escapes

by Anthony Nocella

Photo by Doug Beghtel/The Oregonian: Rhesus macaques photographed in 2007 at the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Hillsboro. The center was recently fined for incidents included monkey escapes and deaths.

Reposted: The Oregonian

OHSU fined by USDA for monkey deaths and escapes at Oregon National Primate Research Center in 2009

Nicole Dungca

21 August 2012: The Oregon Health & Science University was fined $11,679 for incidents that led to the escape of nine monkeys and deaths of five at its primate research center in Hillsboro, a federal agency announced today.

The U.S.Department of Agriculture found the university’s Oregon National Primate Research Center to be in violation of the Animal Welfare Act, which regulates treatment for animals used in research or for commercial purposes.

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04th May2012

1ª Conferencia de Estudios Críticos de Animales

by Anthony Nocella

1st Annual South American Conference for Critical Animal Studies
Friday August 10, 2012
Chile

TEMA: “Hablar sobre Animales, Teoría y Activismo”

La invitación es la siguiente: se acoge a todo/a aquel que quiera hablar lo que quiera sobre animales. La consigna es arriesgada, pero con justa razón.
Los estudios críticos de animales son el primer campo académico de estudio dedicado a la abolición de la explotación animal y ecológica, de la opresión, apropiación y la dominación. Está basado en un movimiento amplio, global, emancipatorio e inclusivo, que persigue la liberación total y la libertad ante dicha opresión.
Nos interesa llamar la atención sobre las nuevas y viejas formas de pensar al animal (en las diversas maneras que toma la etiqueta de lo animal), que a lo largo de la historia, han terminado identificándolo, o bien con un homólogo fantasioso del humano, o bien una máquina de reflejos.
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Category : Awards, Call for Presentations, Centers/Working-Groups, Conference, Critical Animal Studies
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28th Jan2012

2012 ICAS Award Winners

by Anthony Nocella

The Institute for Critical Animal Studies is pleased to announce our 2012 Annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies Awards of the Year. Awards will be bestowed on March 3, 2012 during the conference at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY (March 2-4). We thank the many nominees for submitting their work. It was an honor to consider the wonderful nominations from around the world! Although the final decisions were difficult, we truly feel that the following award recipients have done superb work to help animals and end oppression. We are proud to recognize their contributions to the field of Critical Animal Studies.

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08th Mar2011

10th Annual N.A. Conference for CAS at Brock U.

by Anthony Nocella

THINKING ABOUT ANIMALS CONFERENCE
March 31 and April 1, 2010
10th Annual N. American Conference for Critical Animal Studies

The Department of Sociology at Brock University announces a conference on “Thinking About Animals” to be held March 31 and April 1, 2011 at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
This two-day conference will explore a variety of issues concerning the current and historical situation of nonhuman animals and interactions with humans.
The Department is organizing this conference with the assistance of the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences, the Departments of English, Political Science, History and Visual Arts, the MA Program in Critical Sociology, and the MA Program in Social Justice and Equity Studies. We are also grateful for the generous support provided to the conference from Niagara Action for Animals (see NAfA link).
We are especially pleased to be hosting this conference in association with the Institute of Critical Animal Studies as the 10th Annual North American ICAS conference (see ICAS link).
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05th Feb2011

Starting a Student Group

by Anthony Nocella

The importance of starting a student group at your college cannot be emphasized enough.

Starting a student group is more than a symbolic gesture, it is a real step towards building an animal rights community and accomplishing goals on campus.

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16th Jan2011

Gene Baur to speak at Penn State

by Anthony Nocella

Farm Sanctuary President and co-founder Gene Baur will be speaking at Penn State University on Thursday, February 3, 2011.

Presentation:
“Farm Sanctuary: Changing How Society Views Animals and Food”
a presentation by Gene Baur

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06th Sep2010

Letter: Going vegan is the best way to become energy-efficient

by Anthony Nocella

Originally printed in the Penn State Daily Collegian on September 3, 2010.

I enjoyed reading about Penn State’s creative methods for sustainable living in Thursday’s article “Penn State researches canola as energy source.” However, there is a much cheaper way to make dining halls more sustainable: add more vegan food.

According to an extensive United Nations study, raising animals for food contributes more to climate change than all cars, boats and trains combined.

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