I have written a manifesto for a radical abolitionism, which the vegan/animal rights movement desperately needs. Francione is over, just another distraction and dead-end. This approach incorporates – not condemns – militant direct action and links – not separates -- veganism and animal liberation with social and environmental cause to create a radical alliance politics and global resistance movement. Please read the manifesto, join our new Facebook group, and help us build a dynamic total liberation movement for humans, animals, and the earth.

Manifesto for Radical Abolitionism: Total Liberation by Any Means Necessary

http://thomaspainescorner.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/manifesto-for-radical-abolitionism-total-liberation-by-any-means-necessary/

TO JOIN OUR EXTENDED FACEBOOK NETWORK:

-Do a group search for "Radical Abolitionism: Total Liberation by Any Means Necessary" and submit a request to join, or

-Email camille@negotiationisover.com with the subject "Faceboook Radical Abolition Group"

"The Frankenstein Complex”
 Steve Best

simulposted at

Negotiation is Over

http://negotiationisover.com/?p=3213 Paine’s Corner



and

Thomashttp://thomaspainescorner.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/the-frankenstein-syndrome/

http://dmgd.org/

"Lee Hall, notorious defender of state oppression of animal activists and author of the ridiculous ‘Capers in the Churchyard, Animal Activism in the Age of Terror’ was scheduled to give a talk today (Sunday Sep 6th) at the London Vegan Festival. Things didn’t work out quite as she, or the festival, had planned however. If Hall was seriously entertaining the notion that she could fly to England and hold forth for fifty minutes at an event like this, with SHAC activists present, on the subject of her choice, without being confronted about her statements on direct action, then I suggest she is in need of a psychiatrist."

—Alison Banville

See: http://thomaspainescornerwordpress.com/2009/09/10/lee-hall-unplugged-and-unmasked/

There is also a very illuminating video of the entire event at this same link.

For background critical essays on Hall's shoddy scholarship and state-influenced denuniciations and distortions of the militant direct action movement in the UK, see:

Pacifism or Animals: Which Do You Love More?
http://thomaspainescorner...wordpress.com/2009/02/07/pacifism-or-animals-which-do-you-love-more/

Averting the China Syndrome: Response to Our Critics and the Devotees of Fundamentalist Pacifism
http://thomaspainescornerwordpress.com/2009/02/24/averting-the-china-syndrome-response-to-our-critics-and-the-devotees-of-fundamentalist-pacifism/

Presence of Malice: UK Activists v. Lee Hall
http://thomaspainescornerwordpress.com/2009/03/23/presence-of-malice-uk-activists-v-lee-hall/

I interviewed with Bob Linden (much too quickly, in a span of 10 minutes only) on the insights and limitations of both humanist Leftism and the vegan and animal rights movements, and why these movements so badly need one another, but remain so far apart.

The interview will air this Sunday and be archived at: http://www.goveganradio.com/