Vegan Education Radio

Summary: Vegan Education Radio promotes abolitionist animal rights and empowers advocates to creatively engage in unequivocal vegan education as part of a grassroots movement. Aimed primarily toward current vegans, this podcast provides information and inspiration for joining the grassroots abolitionist movement by becoming active in your own community and/or online. As abolitionists, we oppose welfarism, new welfarism, regulationism, and protectionism, and we instead work toward abolishing the property status of nonhuman animals and acknowledging their moral personhood. As advocates for the oppressed, we oppose single-issue campaigns, which inevitably reinforce speciesism and waste precious advocacy resources, and we instead focus our efforts on creatively and unequivocally educating the public about being vegan and thereby eliminating demand for animal use. As nonviolence advocates, we unequivocally reject violence and support only justice-based tactics and goals. As grassroots activists, we liberate ourselves from the "gatekeepers"—the large animal organizations that have dominated, distorted, corporatized, and monetized animal advocacy over the past few decades—, and we empower ourselves to stand up as agents of change in our own local and global communities through our dedication and collaboration. As a network, we create, collect, and disseminate materials and information so as to support each other in transforming the world. This podcast discusses theory and how our principles inform our praxis, presents do-it-yourself advocacy tactics, interviews experienced advocates, provides clarification and coaching on tricky advocacy situations, and offers inspiration for those listeners new (and not-so-new) to advocacy. Vegan Education Radio is produced as a free resource by the Vegan Education Grassroots Abolitionist Network (V-E-G-A-N), located at http://www.v-e-g-a-n.org/.