On Sunday I’m part of a panel on animal rights in Romania, at the “Internationalizing Vegan Sociology” conference. Presentating on the condition of animals trapped in shelters and sanctuaries who, while “saved”, still suffer in invisible, insidious ways. Details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Today it's the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Some details on disappearances in Palestine and elsewhere: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Latest post in my captivity series, documenting the criminalization of resistance to criminality. In the topsy-turvy reality enforced by our rotten legislative and judicial class, challenging the suffering inflicted on humans and nonhumans becomes a crime. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

"Animals, Mass Atrocity, and Epigenetics in Gaza: Intergenerational Harms and the Impossibility of Repair": on Sunday I submitted to a journal this short paper I wrote in just six days, on a topic I have little background on. Details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Yesterday I was on Radio Islam International (South Africa) to talk about the forgotten victims of Israel's atrocities in Gaza: animals and nature. Some thoughts here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Today marks 12 years since the start of the Yazidi Genocide, perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria btw. 2014 and 2017. Those years were marked by mass displacement, massacres, rape, slavery, forced religious conversions. Some thoughts & resources here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

CfP, "Metahuman Dignity and the War Against the Living", 6th Metahuman Futures Forum (31 Oct to 1 Nov, online & Mytilene, Greece). Submit your proposal by 4 September. Last year I was among the guest speakers at the forum. One of the few truly critical, radical spaces. metabody.eu/6th-metahuma...

“Planetary insolvency looms”: this report estimates over 2 billion people could die from climate change by 2050. Human lives aside, trillions of nonhumans are crushed directly and indirectly, for profit or from ignorance. Greed and apathy shape our lives and deaths. actuaries.org.uk/media/ni4erl...

Last year the nine nuclear-armed states spent $119 billion, or $3,768 per second, on their nuclear arsenals (a 19% increase compared to the previous year). Next week we commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We haven’t learnt much. Report here: assets.nationbuilder.com/ican/pages/1....

When not genocided, Palestinians weave sounds. Make this your weekend compilation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUL1...

Traditional Music of Palestine

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On Monday I'm giving a talk, "Animal Captivity: The Matrix of Extraction, Torture, Murder", at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich. Details here: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_...

In München on a research visit at the Rachel Carson Center for the next ten days, to progress with my research on animal captivity. Details here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that ethical veganism is protected under Article 9 (freedom of thought, conscience and religion) of the European Convention on Human Rights. Judgement here: hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-25...

As we witness the deepening tragicomedy: resistance to criminality is increasingly criminalized (whether direct action against genocide, ecocide, or animal abuse), I'm reminded of this book from 2004: books.google.lk/books?id=Shw...

Terrorists Or Freedom Fighters?

Foreword by Ward Churchill; cover design by Sue Coe The first anthology of writings on the history, ethics, politics and tactics of the Animal Liberation Front, Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? featur...

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Update on the recently announced ban on cages for chickens and pigs in Europe: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

This Thursday giving a (rescheduled) lecture at the “Wildlife Security” course, Uni Hamburg. I examine why wildlife trade, legal and illegal, given its massive toll on sentient beings and on nature, should be treated as a continuum btw. genocide and ecocide. Details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Part of my series on animal captivity, some thoughts on glue traps and other forms of immobilization commonly used in our (mis)management of "pests", "invasive" and "overpopulated" species: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

On 15 July I’m giving a lecture on animal captivity at the “Decoding Compassion” animal protection workshop (15–21 July, Mt. Lavinia, Sri Lanka). Details here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

On 1 August, Jack Lampkin and I are sharing our research on harms to animals used in outer space, at the “Shared Worlds” conference, convened by the Arihanta Institute. The event’s online and everyone’s welcome to join. Details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Sharing my research on Israel’s crimes against the dead in Gaza, at the “Death and Power” conference (17–19 June) convened by the Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath, UK. Details here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Medical volunteers needed for missions in Gaza. Please spread the word! 🖤

On 12 June I’m giving a lecture on Israel’s crimes against animals and nature in Gaza, at the “Palestine, Ecocide, and Interspecies Liberation” symposium in New York City. Most activities in person, but my session is online and everyone's welcome to join. Details: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

On 11 June giving a lecture at the “Wildlife Security” course, University of Hamburg. I examine why wildlife trade (legal and illegal), given its massive toll on sentient beings and on nature, should be treated as a continuum btw. genocide and ecocide. Details here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

🖤 Please spread the word: medical volunteers needed for deployments in Gaza through June and July.

Next Friday I'm giving a lecture at the Public Climate School, Hamburg University Faculty of Law. Details on my class, "Genocide–Ecocide in Gaza: Continuities Between Mass Human and Nonhuman Displacement", here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

This Friday I'm teaching a class on animal captivity for students partaking in the "Animal Rights and the Law" course at the Kinnaird College Law Department, Lahore. Details here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

My recent and upcoming lectures (January to August). Old projects, some recently completed research, and new topics I’m trying to disentangle. If you wish to read my work on any of these, message me and I’d gladly send it. Also open to collaborations on these topics: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

I’m giving a guest talk tomorrow at the “Home and Belonging” webinar series by the Kerulos Center for Nonviolence. Details on my talk, “Multispecies Domicide in Gaza: The Annihilation of Human Homes, Nonhuman Homes, Homeland”, here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Today marks 111 years since the Armenian genocide: starting 24 April 1915, one million Armenians died from massacres, starvation, or illness; around 2 million Christian Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians were deported/executed. Genocide denial persists. More here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Please spread the word!