Rare good news on a grim anniversary NEW YORK, N.Y.––Twenty years after al Qaida terrorists on September 11, 2001 hijacked four airliners and crashed two of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, killing 2,763 people, tens of thousands of New Yorkers awakened to a good news story. About […]
Animal advocates have races to watch in NYC, Denver, & Berkeley, too
Voters for Animal rights bids for New York statewide breakout, Denver weighs repealing pit bull ban, & Direct Action Everywhere founder Wayne Hsiung runs for Berkeley mayor BERKELEY, DENVER, NEW YORK CITY––While the races for the U.S. Presidency, control of the Senate and House of Representatives grip the nation on Election Day 2020, animal […]
Are NYC foie gras ban & other new “pro-animal” bills all they’re quacked up to be?
“Horsefeathers,” says Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages founder NEW YORK CITY, N.Y.––Voters For Animal Rights was quick to declare victory on October 30, 2019 when the New York City Council passed a bill banning the sale of foie gras from force-fed ducks and geese and a bill creating a Mayor’s Office of Animal Welfare within […]