Special speaker: Samuel Guerrero Azañedo on anti-speciesist education

[Guest guest]

(Please note the date change: Samuel will be speaking this coming

Tuesday the 21st.)

 

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

Prejudice

A talk by Samuel Guerrero Azañedo

Tuesday, July 21st at 7 PM

810 Clay St, Oakland, CA 94607

Free to attend

 

Samuel Guerrero Azañedo, currently visiting from Spain, is well known

for creating and teaching an anti-speciesist syllabus in Spanish primary

schools. He will be speaking with us about that work. Samuel 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. Samuel is also speaking at this weekend's

AR2009 conference.

 

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 transit-accessible. 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

Saturday'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/