Theme: Intersecting Power and Global Justice: Building Solidarity in Global Justice Movements
Where: 120 Clemens Hall, University of Buffalo, North Campus, Buffalo, NY 14260
When: Saturday, December 1st 2012
FREE FOR EVERYONE
Click here for more details: http://peaceconsortium.org/peace-studies-conference
On September 9th 2011, Canisius College’s Institute for the Study of Human-Animal Relations (ISHAR) hosted “The Use of Primates in Biomedical Research: A Personal Perspective” at the Montante Cultural Center featuring guest speaker Dr. James Ha, head of the primate breeding program at the Washington National Primate Research Center (WNPRC) in the University of Washington (UW). It was here and then, where animal rights activist and student, Morgan Jamie Dunbar, was combatively arrested and detained after raising questions during the evening’s Q&A segment about the USDA-documented mistreatment of primates at UW during his tenure at that institution. (more…)
Here is a talk of Amie Breeze Harper presenting her new book Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society at AK Press Release. This talk concerns how her new book discusses racialization and white privilege in veganism and the animal rights movement. Check it out!
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The U.S. animal advocacy movement is truly growing. One can judge its complexity, maturity, and seriousness by the many important forums that are coming up in the near future. To add a note, each of the forums address a different issue of concern with a diversity of different speakers, rather than the same speakers, which would be the case ten years ago, speak over and over again. New and wonderful voices are being heard. In the multitude of activist based conference is the North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies a blend of activist-academic, but leaning more academic, geared for students and faculty in aiding the development and legitimizing of critical animal studies in higher education.Animal Liberation Forum 2010 CSU-Long Beach, Long Beach CA April 15th – 18th
Animal Ethics Conference Utah Valley University, Provo UT March 29th – April 2nd
North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies SUNY Cortland, Syracuse NY, April 9th, 10th, and 11th
Let Live Conference Portland State University, Portland OR June 25th – 27th
Animal Rights National Conference 2010 Hilton Hotel, Alexandria, VA July 15th – 19th
In January 2010, The Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS) and The Vegan Police Radio, located in St. Catharines, Canada developed a partnership rooted in the tradition of Paulo Freire’s philosophy of dialoguing for liberation and freedom.
“[T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.”
— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people–they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.”
— Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The Vegan Police, facilitated by Dylan Powell and supported by Ryan Sexton and Crista Murphy directing the tech work, engage in radio dialogues that are organic and politically grounded with particular socio-political values. Their approach is unlike that of a typical interview, which may be useful to disseminate information (such as for an event, campaign or news) but lacks a critical pedagogy for all participants. The Vegan Police are based in critical theory and pedagogy rather than a detached apolitical process for production purposes.
Vegan Police Radio is a socio-political project grounded in radical politics and critical animal studies, i.e., for the liberation and freedom for animals and abolition of animal oppression and domination. They are not concerned with their rates or sponsors, but a mission for total liberation. Therefore, they reach out to a specific community who shares these goals.
In this collaboration, ICAS hopes to aid in the legitimizing of radio dialogues as a theoretical and methodological process.
The Anarchist Studies Initiative at SUNY Cortland is the first center dedicated to the study of anarchism in higher education. Anarchist Studies Initiative comes out of SUNY Cortland’s commitment to cutting edge innovative liberal arts and professional public education.
Click Here for the Flyer for the April 9, 2010 Anarchist Studies Initiative Unveiling (more…)
The Journal for Critical Animal Studies (JCAS) seek
s essays from women of color scholars and activists across a variety of disciplines and social justice initiatives to develop understandings on the issues of race, gender, and animality in critical animal studies. Since the term “critical animal studies” was introduced by the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, there has been a void of people of color contributions to the new and developing field. Particularly absent have been the thoughts, concerns, and activism of women of color. For critical animal studies to engage a holistic politics for total liberation, women of color must play a role in the field’s development. The goals of this issue are (1) to vitalize the intellectual participation of women of color in critical animal studies, (2) to examine overlapping concerns that are central to critical animal studies, feminist theory, and critical race theory, and (3) to promote avenues of thought and ideas for action that can move us beyond pernicious forms of “othering” that undergird nonhuman and human animal suffering. (more…)
