Engaging Abroad
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Sun. 9am
Advocating
animal rights and defending animals abroad
Presenter:
Earl, Marr, Moncrief
- Effectiveness of engaging abroad to achieve domenstic
and global objectives
- Campaigning the European countries and the EU itself
to ban Canadian seal products
- The EU itself to ban Canadian seal products
- Forcing
Canada to shut down the tar sands which destroys
habitat and causes fish deformation and human cancers,
as well as driving global warming, thus exacerbating
mass extinctionion.
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Dawn
Moncrief
Farm
Animal Rights Movement, www.farmusa.org
- Increased meat consumption on the global level
- Global hunger
- Why is it important to focus beyond the U.S.?
- FARM's international campaigns
offer materials and opportunities for people
to get active in their own communities.
- Sabina Fund - offers grants to grassroots groups
in low-income countries
- Meatout
- World Farm Animals Day
- It's important for activism to be community-based,
not just stemming from US national organizations.