Another guest speaker: July 22nd

[Guest guest]

(Note: This is a different talk than the one announced earlier offered

by Jenna Calabrese on the 18th.*)

 

We're pleased to announce an upcoming talk by Samuel Guerrero Azañedo on

Wednesday, July 22nd. He is currently visiting from Spain. He will also

be speaking at AR2009.

 

Samuel is well known for creating and teaching an anti-speciesist

syllabus in primary schools in Spain. He will be speaking with us about

that work. Samuel Guerrero Azañedo is part of Todos Somos Animales

(todossomosanimales.org), a Spanish organization devoted to promoting

respect for life and liberty of all animals through vegan education.

We're particularly impressed by the group's commitment to freedom for

animals, as evidenced in their work. The full description of the talk is

pasted below.

 

We are looking forward to this presentation and learning about how we

might start a similar program here in the Bay Area.

 

All are invited and welcome to attend and participate. The talk is free

and will be transit-accessible. We'll send out the time and location

once they're confirmed with the space. If you'd like to attend and have

any accessibility requests, please send us a note.

 

Warmly,

Miranda and Victor

 

* For those who missed the earlier announcement, the talk by Jenna

Calabrese, co-founder of L.O.V.E. (loveallbeings.org) and former Vegan

Outreach Northeast Outreach Coordinator, will be offered at this month's

Vegans for Action meetup: http://www.meetup.com/vegans/calendar/10792466/

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Speciesist Education. Yesterday's Education as the Source of Today's

Prejudice

 

Synopsis: our attitude towards nonhuman animals is determined by the

education we have received. Since early childhood, both the given

teachings at school and the experiences lived around

us, marked the way we consider the rest of animals, our mentality and

the way we interpret reality.

 

The talk focuses on the education field. In it, the analysis of

textbooks and didactic resources which we received at school shows that

behind those teachings we can find the ideas and elements that uphold

specieism, the bias by which non human animals are discriminated against.

 

Through such study, the personal experience of the speaker himself as a

teacher in a public Primary school sets a model to prove, on the one

hand that the official syllabus keeps its speciest condition

intact and on the other hand, to express his points of disagreement with it.

 

Consequently, an alternative education project is suggested, whose goal

is, firstly, to inform both the education system and the public opinion

and media about the existence of this specieist education, and secondly,

to put forward a new syllabus that may convey values of respect, justice

and equality towards all animals, including “veganism” as the attitude

that best embodies them all.

 

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Veganism as Anti-Oppression: http://loveallbeings.org/