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		<title>On &#8220;The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary&#8221; by Andrew Westoll</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a vegan and animal rights activist, I can easily review Andrew Westoll’s “The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery” by focusing, perhaps to the point of ranting, about speciesism and exceptionalism. After all, what discussion about any kind of rights for chimps or other apes doesn’t come down to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&amp;blog=10928808&amp;post=5132&amp;subd=challengeoppression&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Mother&#8217;s Day and Doing Something</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 13:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Willy, he&#8217;s a boxer mix who&#8217;s up-to-date on his shots and good with kids and dogs. He was first rescued from Miami Dade Animal Services, where there was distemper in March and the chosen solution was to kill all of the dogs. After a brief battle, rescues were given a short window of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&amp;blog=10928808&amp;post=5059&amp;subd=challengeoppression&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On &#8220;The Circular Glance&#8221; and Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 13:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t say enough about this short film, the vast majority of which contains no graphic images. I think it&#8217;s well done and suspenseful and hits home a point especially important with Mother&#8217;s Day upon us. I&#8217;m curious to hear what you think about the story, the execution and the graphic images. Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&amp;blog=10928808&amp;post=5031&amp;subd=challengeoppression&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Abuse That&#8217;s Standard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Rights & Veganism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Bittman has a fascinating opinion piece in today&#8217;s New York Times called &#8220;Who Protects the Animals?&#8221; I&#8217;d like to deconstruct it because it speaks to a couple of issues I&#8217;ve been thinking about and chatting privately about, one of which could very well end up under the dreaded and often erroneous title &#8220;infighting.&#8221; The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&amp;blog=10928808&amp;post=4967&amp;subd=challengeoppression&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Fido Not Being A Doctor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Martin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Rights & Veganism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Hal Herzog&#8217;s &#8220;Fido&#8217;s No Doctor. Neither is Whiskers&#8221; in today&#8217;s New York Times, the author questions the conventional wisdom that pets and other animals are good for the emotional and physical well being of humans. Though there have been studies that have indeed demonstrated benefits of the companionship of pets or of therapy using [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&amp;blog=10928808&amp;post=4550&amp;subd=challengeoppression&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On &#8220;Bold Native&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Bold Native&#8221; is particularly relevant to our discussions here at Animal Rights and Anti-Oppression. The film deals with themes that recur here and elsewhere, and takes a side on some issues while leaving others illustrated, but for the audience to decide upon/take a side on. In an effort to keep this brief, I&#8217;ll just bullet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&amp;blog=10928808&amp;post=4535&amp;subd=challengeoppression&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Confused About Michael Vick</title>
		<link>http://challengeoppression.com/2010/12/17/why-im-confused-about-michael-vick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last time I attempted satire, with my new way of veganism, VBM (Vegan Between Meals), mocking, of course, Mark Bittman&#8217;s VB6 (Vegan Before 6), I was not met with unanimous appreciation. I was very tempted to give it another go with this, but I don&#8217;t want to be confusing or otherwise annoying to our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&amp;blog=10928808&amp;post=4488&amp;subd=challengeoppression&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Gift of Awareness</title>
		<link>http://challengeoppression.com/2010/12/02/on-the-gift-of-awareness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s Baby Sky, at 5+ months, at the mall after going Christmas shopping at Gucci’s (behind her). Just kidding. She is at the mall, but we were meeting a friend to pass off an original Baby Bjorn I borrowed so the owner could loan it to another mom. (Baby Sky would have none of it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&amp;blog=10928808&amp;post=4371&amp;subd=challengeoppression&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy World Vegan Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Martin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Adoption Month]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy World Vegan Day!  It’s the 66th anniversary of the term vegan, and I’d like to take this opportunity to discuss a few topics that I have a particular passion about. 1)   No one living in a house or apartment in the developed world in 2010 is 100% vegan. Let’s get that out of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&amp;blog=10928808&amp;post=4310&amp;subd=challengeoppression&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Demonizing Animal Killers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephanie&#8217;s post about her grandfather raised what has been a complex issue for me: The temptation to view people who hunt, kill, torture, skin, gut, enslave or &#8220;experiment&#8221; on sentient nonhumans as in some way evil. People who eat and wear animals are exempt from this temptation in my mind as there is a significant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=challengeoppression.com&amp;blog=10928808&amp;post=4242&amp;subd=challengeoppression&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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