Thanksgiving is in exactly one week from today. I love Thanksgiving, even if the message is hugely skewed and a little fabricated. The intent is good and it comes down to the start of the Winter Holiday Festivities and family time. The one time of year that I actually do genuinely feel some type of [...]
Archive for the ‘Activism’ Category
18 Nov
Gobble Gobble!
Posted by just me in Activism, Animal cruelty/Animal Politics, Diet, Food/Booze, Health, Meat production, Organic/All Natural, Social Topics, Vegetarian/Vegan, Waste. Tagged: animal cruelty, thanksgiving, turkey. Leave a Comment
9 Oct
Becoming Joey
Posted by just me in Activism, American Society, Diversity, Education, Entertainment, Environment, Equality, Hate/Intolerance/Prejudice, Life, Poetry, Social Topics. Tagged: acceptance, becoming joey, diversity, diversity poems, diversity poetry, immigrants, kids, multicultural, paul c. gorski, poems, poetry, students, teasing, white privilege. 3 Comments
I was reading today and came across a poem that really caught my attention. I thought it was worth sharing since I’ve been on my writing so much about diversity this week… Becoming Joey By Paul. C Gorski Jose’s ten. Looks six by size, twenty in the eyes. Down the school-morning street he ambles along [...]
5 Oct
Teenage Gays Epidemic
Posted by just me in Activism, American Society, Celebrities, Diversity, Education, Equality, Goals, Hate/Intolerance/Prejudice, Health, Life, Mental Health, Rants, Social Topics, Uncategorized. Tagged: billy lucas, bisexual, bullying, ellen degeneres, gay, gay students, gay teen suicide, harassment, homosexual suicide, kathy griffin, lawrence fobes king, lesbian, oprah, physical harassment, school, sexual harassment, sexual orientation, teenage suicide, the trevor project, transgender, tyler clementi, verbal harassment. Leave a Comment
Bullying is hardcore right now, as we have all heard about the recent increase in teenage suicide related to school bullying. What’s really sad is that a freaking lot of these teenage suicides are related to gays. (Five gay teenagers just committed suicide this past week.) Right now dealing with homosexual harassment and prejudice is [...]
4 Oct
America’s Children Potential
Posted by just me in Activism, American Society, Diversity, Education, Equality, Goals, Hate/Intolerance/Prejudice, Life, Pregnancy/Children, Social Topics, Uncategorized, Work. Tagged: acceptance, america, american society, bullying, children, cultural differences, education, homophobic, progressive, race, racist, reforms, schools, sexist, teachers, teasing, tolerance, u.s history. 1 Comment
My number one reason why I want to be a teacher is because I love kids. Absolutely, genuinely, whole heartedly love them. But there are other reasons of course. One major one is that I believe in order to produce education that is going to contribute to our society and democracy later, we must teach [...]
22 Sep
I love elephants…more than people.
Posted by just me in Activism, Animal cruelty/Animal Politics, Life, Rants, Social Topics, Uncategorized. Tagged: animal abuse, animal cruelty, circus, elephants, elephants torture, ringling circus. Leave a Comment
I love elephants. I don’t know why but they have always been my favorite animal. Always. I’m obsessed with them. In love with them. So naturally I don’t like to think about them in the circus. I don’t think they should be trained against their will to do stupid ass tricks for dumb people to [...]
14 Sep
Lady Gaga Decides to Offend Everyone
Posted by just me in Activism, Animal cruelty/Animal Politics, Celebrities, Entertainment, Meat production, Music, Rants, Social Topics, Uncategorized, Vegetarian/Vegan, Waste. Tagged: animal cruelty, cher, ellen degeneres, ingrid newkirk, lady gaga, lady gaga at vmas 2010, lady gaga hommes japan, lady gaga meat bikini, lady gaga meat dress, lady gaga meat shoes, lady gaga wears meat, meat production, meat waste, mtv, peta, tmz, vegan, vegetarian, waste. Leave a Comment
I love Lady Gaga’s music, seriously. Just Dance is pretty much the anthem of all the nights I don’t remember. Her often psychotic approach to everything, usually appeals to me but last night? Not so much. Gaga came out to accept her award in a freaking meat dress. This is disgusting on so many levels. [...]
10 Sep
Ugh, I’m Giving up Uggs.
Posted by just me in Activism, Animal cruelty/Animal Politics, Products, Social Topics, Vegetarian/Vegan. Tagged: animal cruelty, animal hides, animal liberation movement, animal politics, animal rights, fleece, fur, fur lining, leather, pamela anderson, princeton animal welfare society, sheepskin, skinning animals, ugg boots, uggs. 1 Comment
I cannot lie. I love my Ugg boots. Love them. So how unfortunate that I had to do my research on them and now can no longer buy anymore of those evil boots. In reality, I do not need Uggs. I can happily get the Fuggs from Target, and now I probably will. It won’t [...]
9 Sep
A Fur-ry Situation
Posted by just me in Activism, Animal cruelty/Animal Politics, Celebrities, Products, Social Topics, Vegetarian/Vegan. Tagged: activism, animal cruelty, animal rights, animals, calvin klein, cats, china, dogs, faux fur, fur, fur farms, fur labeling, humane society, peta, peta investigation, polo ralph lauren, skinning animals, tommy hilfiger. 1 Comment
As a member of PETA, I get information mailed to me about new and shocking, (or not so new and shocking) information about anything animals related from around the world. The information I got recently, put me over the edge! I’m not a huge pet person, actually I don’t want pets at all, but I [...]
8 Sep
Fast Food Nation
Posted by just me in Activism, Animal cruelty/Animal Politics, Books, Celebrities, Entertainment, Environment, Goals, Health, Life, Meat production, Movies, Organic/All Natural, Products, Raves, Social Topics, Uncategorized, Vegetarian/Vegan, Waste, Weight Control, World Hunger. Tagged: activism, animal cruelty, animal liberation, animal rights, beef, charles wilson, chew on this, documentary, earthlings, eric schlosser, fast food industry, fast food nation, food, food fight, immigration, inc., mcdonald's, meat industry, meat production, movie review, slaughterhouses, supersize me, the future of food, vegan, vegetarian. 1 Comment
Last night I had the extreme pleasure of viewing the movie Fast Food Nation for the very first time. Let me tell you, if you haven’t seen this movie, you must! I was only a tad reluctant because the movie got very mixed reviews. Many of the reviews I read on my beloved Netflix were [...]
26 Aug
Veggies Can Feed the World
Posted by just me in Activism, American Society, Animal cruelty/Animal Politics, Education, Environment, Health, Life, Meat production, Social Topics, Vegetarian/Vegan, Waste, Weight Control, World Hunger. Tagged: americans, crops, environment, ethiopian famine, fat americans, livestock, meat consumption, meat production, vegan, vegetarian, waste, world hunger. 1 Comment
One of the most depressing things to me is waste. I’m a huge advocate of recycling, reusing, and leftovers. I don’t like seeing things wasted, ever. Although I am liberal in almost all parts of my life, I am very conservative with my money-which also aids me in my ability to never waste. I don’t [...]
