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Advanced Advocacy Practices
Use Language Mindfully
Develop Critical Thinking Skills
Resist Objectification
Expose conflicts of interest
Cultivate humility
Recognize Counterspin
Protect Online Dialog from Manipulation
The Humane Declaration
Toward Justice for Animals
Essays and Talks
Against All Odds
Compassion for Sale?
Hogwash! Or, How Animal Advocates Enable Corporate Spin
Books
Toxic Sludge is Good for You
The Sociopath Next Door
Moral Courage
Doing democracy
Losing Ground
Organizations
The Center for Media and Democracy: Sourcewatch
“A principle is a principle, and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.”
-- Gandhi
“You have much more power when you are working for the right thing, rather than against the wrong thing. And of course if the right thing is established, wrong things will fade away of their own accord. Grassroots peace work is vitally important. All who work for peace belong to a special peace fellowship, whether we work together or apart."
-- Peace Pilgrim
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