Slideshow Reminder: 11/7 @ 8 pm

[Guest guest]

ANIMAL LIBERATION IS A WOMEN'S ISSUE!!

 

Animal Rights Direct Action Coalition and Feminists

for Animal Rights present:

 

ANIMAL LIBERATION THROUGH AN ECO-FEMINIST LENS

a slideshow presentation

 

covering the history of patriarchal attitudes

towards women and non-human animals. The show also

highlights the parallels between the objectification,

exploitation and abuse of women and non-human animals

in contemporary society, from their role in

pornographic media to the animal testing and

slaughterhouse industries.

 

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7, 2002 8 PM

THE WOMEN'S BUILDING

3543 18th Street (b/Valencia and Guerrero)

San Francisco

Accesible from 16th/Mission BART 14, 22, 26, 33, 49

and the J Church MUNI

 

 

$5-$15 Sliding Scale donations

no one turned away for lack of funds

(proceeds go to legal defense of local activists)

[Guest guest]

Those who are thinking of attending tonight's slideshow might want to

consider my impressions of a similar presentation by Feminists for Animal

Rights at a World Vegetarian Day some years ago. It was the first time I

heard the term " ecofeminism. "

 

Although the program promised to show a connection between feminism and

animal rights, the actual slideshow had little to do with either one.

Mostly, it was an exercise in male bashing and the spreading of hate. It is

exactly this hateful extremism that has made so many women today loath to

call themselves feminists.

 

I find it particularly disappointing that the new Animal Rights Direct

Action Coalition (ARDAC) has aligned itself with this kind of hate

mongering. Male bashing will not save one more animal's life or solve even

one of the problems that many women face every day. It will, however, serve

to alienate more and more of those who could become our allies.

 

Hate is not a progressive movement. Please don't support this program.