Permit me to go out on a limb here and say what I feel about dying in the teeth of a lion. Our ancestors used to do it fairly routinely.
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I’d guess you’re feeling the way I feel about the approach of the Kentucky Derby. We can only hope ethics-minded, socially responsible people would question the holiday mood it purports to bring. To nudge that hope along, I’ve done this pro bono work for CounterPunch.To support continued work like this, consider subscribing to the Studio for the Art of Animal Liberation.
Love and liberation,
Lee.
Photo by Kybluegrass of the sculpture of Barbaro, one of the horses who has died in the Kentucky Derby (CC BY-SA 3.0)
We know all about Trump on the political level. But what does the emergence of Trump tell us about ourselves at the species level? Some thoughts on that here.
We write to resist. We do art to resist. We walk to resist. We engage in dialogue to resist. We teach ourselves and others to resist.
A paradigm shift does not occur without resistance.
Love and liberation,
Lee.
Banner image: Ludovic Hirlimann via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic (cropped)
Terminus, the Roman god of borders and boundary stones, had a motto: I Yield to No One. In the old days, lambs and piglets died in blood sacrifices for Terminus. Today, nations sacrifice human lives in homage to their borderlines.
The most recent sacrifices include the due process rights of 200+ Venezuelans, sent to a sprawling pit in El Salvador from which nobody gets out alive, where warehoused human beings eat with their hands and sleep under lights, on bare metal racks. Meanwhile, Trump walks free, touting meme coins and flying to golf outings.
And then comes Bernie…
Continue reading the full piece, new today on CounterPunch.
CounterPunch opposes the Trump regime’s plan to excise the Council on Environmental Quality’s implementing regs for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Our comment is now visible at Regulations.gov.
Sometimes called the Magna Carta of U.S. environmental law, NEPA forces agencies to interrogate proposed federal actions before they begin. CounterPunch has a strong interest in the use of NEPA in protecting living communities and ecosystems, and in the work of environmental activists, lawyers, journalists, and others who hold agencies accountable.
Eviscerating the White House Council on Environmental Quality is a vile idea. Oppose it.
The published comments is linked in today’s CounterPunch newswire.
Can we use the F word to describe the subordination of nonhuman animals by humanity?
Feel free to add your thoughts to mine, friends.
I woke up today to Google’s gumbo banner and the shrimps and the crab and the chicken stood out. All are living, feeling beings with eyes. Their eyes witness their doom from inside the scene of their deaths. Two of them are in midair, the first one looking at two fellow shrimp who’ve already been tossed into the simmering pot…
Cats returned to the outdoors may seem free, but they don’t really live in a natural bio-community on their terms. Most suburban “strays” are ultimately picked up by animal control officers and killed.
On the other hand, as long as they stay in a home, they are dependent. Sprite seemed to find this acceptable. Sprite adjusted so well to our indoor life that I couldn’t bear to follow through with the “R” phase of TNR. It would feel unfair.
If I’d decided to keep Sprite inside, Elf would also stay. The two cats loved each other. Separating them wouldn’t do.
So they’d have a roof overhead for life. And I got used to having Elf as a dissatisfied lodger. We’d never touch each other, and I’d live with that.
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Here’s today’s post in the Studio, on the purpose of writing and resistance.
Why write about racial fairness? Because all oppression is connected, no matter who is being oppressed in the course of category-forming and othering (white-or-minority; male-or-female; human-or-not). The issue is oppression, and why we human primates can’t seem to stop it.
So this article in the weekend edition of CounterPunch is about how the Philadelphia region’s transit system (in its current state) perpetuates an unjust social hierarchy, and how people in the suburbs are implicated.
They say it’s just not possible to take the bus out here. You’re really car-dependent.
Behold our inherent vulnerability in a social system focused on the primacy of private cars over public transit.
Car-dependent.
And still, somehow, the bigger your car, the tougher you are. Are you? Take the bus, buttercup. Sit down with folk who make your lifestyle possible every day…
Read the full piece, now on CounterPunch.
Vegan Place 
