CRIMES AGAINST PEOPLE

Fireworks must end now. The carnage of July 4th, 2025, has laid bare a truth we can no longer ignore: fireworks—all fireworks, not merely illegal ones—are destructive relics whose time has passed. Los Angeles, July 15th, 2025 – From burned homes and lost lives to poisoned air and traumatized animals, the damage is undeniable.

Hollywood, California, November 3rd, 2023 – If you’re one of the many people who report feeling distressed and disgusted in the wake of the conviction and jailing of Wayne Hsiung in California, you can join #ProsecuteThis. It’s the new social media campaign launched in the wake of this miscarriage of justice.

Vegan activist Curtis Vollmar was found guilty of criminal trespass and disorderly conduct after leafleting at a park in Utah. Los Angeles, April 28th, 2023 — Beaver County Judge Shadrach Bradshaw found Curtis Vollmar, a vegan activist from the animal rights organization Direct Action Everywhere (DxE), guilty of criminal trespass and disorderly conduct after he was confronted by police while leafleting about Smithfield Foods, at a park in Utah.

Dr. Peter Carter’s Wakeup Call Everyone Must Hear! In November 2020, Roger Hallam, one of the founders of Extinction Rebellion, interviewed climate expert Dr Peter Carter. JaneUnChained editor Jane Velez-Mitchel asked me to review the 40-minute abridged video of this interview, as I did with Greta Thunberg’s latest film.

#JaneUnChained on VoiceAmerica – Live Internet Talk Radio with Jasmin Singer! Jasmin is the author of the memoir Always Too Much and Never Enough, the cohost of the Webby-recognized Our Hen House podcast (now in its tenth year), the Digital Director for the award-winning VegNews Magazine, and the Director of Storytelling for social justice organization The Pollination Project.

Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story, premiering in NYC, LA, and now, Portland, Oregon! Hear directors, Kate and Mick McIntyre, on why this groundbreaking film needed to be made. Kangaroo is opening nationwide in the U.S. to raise awareness of the eye-opening reality of how the Australian government supports the horrifying brutalization of their national icon, the Roos!