Anybody happen to pick up a copy of the Statesman on Monday? I was tabling and forgot. The Statesman has a LTE section but none of the letters were recent. Let us know if your MLK letter was printed!
It's nice to see your letters here. I like everyone's individual perspective yet we all raise a common concern. I received this from the Austin American Statesman in my email on Wednesday. It appears to be an automatic response but I'll see what you all think.
Thank you for your letter to the editor.
We will be reviewing it for possible publication and may contact you to verify authorship by phone or email. This response does not guarantee publication.
In the event of publication, make sure the following is included: your name, city of residence and a daytime phone.
Thanks for writing.
Letters to the Editor 305 S. Congress Ave. P.O. Box 670 Austin, TX 78767 (512) 445-1773 (512) 912-5927 Fax letters@statesman.com
Errol and Chris, thanks for hosting the letter writing party. It was a lot of fun. I posted some pictures from the event.
Here is my letter.
As we approach the day celebrating the great American hero Martin Luther King, Jr., let's extend his legacy of fighting for human rights by giving justice to animals that are slaughtered for food. Most compassionate people would not eat meat if they knew how animals suffer in the meat industry. Animals feel pain and have emotions. Ask anyone who owns a pet.Other civil rights leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Caesar Chavez understood this connection and did not eat animals. I am a native Texan and longtime Austin resident and I am vegan, primarily for animal rights reasons. I encourage everyone to consider where their food comes from and the suffering that may have been caused by bringing it to them.
I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. --Abraham Lincoln
You are all welcome! We were soo glad to do it, we will have to do another one! Thanks to Ernest for the instruction. And thanks to everyone else for showingup and writing letters!
Indeed this was an awesome event!! Every little bit we do to help the animals is well worth it. Thanks to Ernest for putting on a great training and boosting my confidence in my letter writing advocacy skills, and thanks to Chris & Errol for hosting a great event!!
Chris and Errol are amazing activist and party hosts! Please do it again! And thanks for these great tips to keep reminding us to take action with our pens. Here is the letter I wrote on Tuesday, thanks to everyone's good energy that night (too long, perhaps):
This MLK Day, I am reminded of my childhood, age 4, when my father taught me to be kind to all people, regardless of the color of their skin, even if others felt differently. Thirteen years later, I discovered that farm animals, too, should be treated with dignity and kindness; I decided to go vegan and speak up for animal rights.
Coretta and Dexter King, wife and son of Martin Luther King, Jr., along with a growing number of Americans have understood that we should strive for peace on our own dinner plates and give animals a chance to live in peace.
99% of our meat comes from factory farms, which means keeping cows, pigs, and chickens in tiny cages and stalls laden in their own feces and urine with no hope. Our nation can do better than to support the rampant abuse of sentient, intelligent animals.
Let MLK Day be a reminder that we have the power of making kind choices in our everyday lives that can spare the suffering and lives of over 10 billion land animals in need of our most basic consideration.
Thx to you and Chris for organizing and making this party happen. I just wrote my letter-to-the-editor of the Austin American-Statesman using their on-line form. It was super easy. Here's my letter:
Like many long-time Austinites, I have found myself involved in a variety of social justice movements such as AIDS activism, gay/lesbian rights activism, or speaking out against the war. For many years now, I have been an advocate for animal rights and this year celebrate my 20th year as a vegan. My involvement in human and animal rights is not unusual. Coretta Scott King was a vegan. Dexter King, her son with Martin Luther King Jr, is also a vegan. As we observe MLK Jr Day, I invite my fellow Austinites to join me in acknowledging, as Mrs.King and Dexter have, that all humans and animals share the same basic civil rights. As Rev. King wrote, "A threat to injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere."
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Anybody happen to pick up a copy of the Statesman on Monday? I was tabling and forgot. The Statesman has a LTE section but none of the letters were recent. Let us know if your MLK letter was printed!
It's nice to see your letters here. I like everyone's individual perspective yet we all raise a common concern. I received this from the Austin American Statesman in my email on Wednesday. It appears to be an automatic response but I'll see what you all think.
Errol and Chris, thanks for hosting the letter writing party. It was a lot of fun. I posted some pictures from the event.
Here is my letter.
As we approach the day celebrating the great American hero Martin Luther King, Jr., let's extend his legacy of fighting for human rights by giving justice to animals that are slaughtered for food. Most compassionate people would not eat meat if they knew how animals suffer in the meat industry. Animals feel pain and have emotions. Ask anyone who owns a pet. Other civil rights leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Caesar Chavez understood this connection and did not eat animals. I am a native Texan and longtime Austin resident and I am vegan, primarily for animal rights reasons. I encourage everyone to consider where their food comes from and the suffering that may have been caused by bringing it to them.
I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
--Abraham Lincoln
Great letters everybody!!! I regret missing this and hope you guys have one again soon!!! ;))
You are all welcome! We were soo glad to do it, we will have to do another one! Thanks to Ernest for the instruction. And thanks to everyone else for showingup and writing letters!
Indeed this was an awesome event!! Every little bit we do to help the animals is well worth it. Thanks to Ernest for putting on a great training and boosting my confidence in my letter writing advocacy skills, and thanks to Chris & Errol for hosting a great event!!
Chris and Errol are amazing activist and party hosts! Please do it again! And thanks for these great tips to keep reminding us to take action with our pens. Here is the letter I wrote on Tuesday, thanks to everyone's good energy that night (too long, perhaps):
This MLK Day, I am reminded of my childhood, age 4, when my father taught me to be kind to all people, regardless of the color of their skin, even if others felt differently. Thirteen years later, I discovered that farm animals, too, should be treated with dignity and kindness; I decided to go vegan and speak up for animal rights.
Coretta and Dexter King, wife and son of Martin Luther King, Jr., along with a growing number of Americans have understood that we should strive for peace on our own dinner plates and give animals a chance to live in peace.
99% of our meat comes from factory farms, which means keeping cows, pigs, and chickens in tiny cages and stalls laden in their own feces and urine with no hope. Our nation can do better than to support the rampant abuse of sentient, intelligent animals.
Let MLK Day be a reminder that we have the power of making kind choices in our everyday lives that can spare the suffering and lives of over 10 billion land animals in need of our most basic consideration.
Done!!!
Thx to you and Chris for organizing and making this party happen. I just wrote my letter-to-the-editor of the Austin American-Statesman using their on-line form. It was super easy. Here's my letter:
Like many long-time Austinites, I have found myself involved in a variety of social justice movements such as AIDS activism, gay/lesbian rights activism, or speaking out against the war. For many years now, I have been an advocate for animal rights and this year celebrate my 20th year as a vegan. My involvement in human and animal rights is not unusual. Coretta Scott King was a vegan. Dexter King, her son with Martin Luther King Jr, is also a vegan. As we observe MLK Jr Day, I invite my fellow Austinites to join me in acknowledging, as Mrs.King and Dexter have, that all humans and animals share the same basic civil rights. As Rev. King wrote, "A threat to injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere."
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