ANIMAL RIGHTS WATCH

‘The Whirlwind Moment’: Storytelling, logistics, and decentralized leadership will be crucial for animal rights

In the history of social justice, ‘whirlwind’ moments have been crucial to social change. In ‘This Is An Uprising’ — the book that has become a bible for social justice activists — a whirlwind moment is described as ‘a dramatic public event… that sets off a flurry of activity, and that… quickly spreads beyond the institutional control of any one organization. It inspires a rash of decentralized action, drawing in people previously unconnected to established movement groups’. The Ridglan Farms beagle rescue on March 15 may be the animal rights movement’s whirlwind moment. WAYNE HSIUNG: On March 15, 100+ activists […]

‘The Ramba Effect’: New documentary follows the inspiring journey of the last circus elephant in Chile

Ramba, an Asian elephant who endured 50 years of isolation in a Chilean circus, embarks on an extraordinary 2,550-mile journey to her new home at Elephant Sanctuary Brazil, guided by compassionate experts and a devoted team of volunteers. THE RAMBA EFFECT: After five decades of captivity, Ramba must summon extraordinary strength for one final quest: freedom. During her long journey by plane and truck, she faces daunting obstacles that test her spirit. Her story becomes a moving symbol of the broader fight for animal liberation, offering hope for all creatures still living in captivity. Intimate and profound, The Ramba Effect […]

‘Animate’: How nonhuman and human minds are inherently linked

The notion that humans are separate and superior to nonhuman animals has been used for hundreds of years to justify both our dominion over the natural world and our cruel treatment of animals. This human-centric arrogance is driven by indifference and the fear of seeing ourselves in other animals, resulting in an era called the Anthropocene, often called ‘the age of humanity’, when, in fact, it’s more appropriately called “the rage of inhumanity. It has defined the cultural evolution of humankind, since it describes not only a division between human and nonhuman, but between nature and culture, body and mind, […]