Animal Liberation page at Indybay.org is now live before 1,000s of eyes!

[Guest guest]

Good day all,

 

A new Animal Liberation category page is now live and open to the public at www.indybay.org, the website of the SF Bay Area Independent Media Center (which is a local branch of the world-wide, open-publishing www.Indymedia.org effort). The page will feature news and events related to our ongoing struggles to liberate animals from the bondage of human servitude and exploitation. Be sure to bookmark the page at http://indybay.org/animalliberation/ and come back often!! Tell your friends!

 

Your help will make this new portal rich with news and information on animal rights activities and issues in the Bay Area (and beyond). It will be a great resource for those already on the side of right with animals, like us, and it will be viewed by many thousands of outside activists involved in other causes such as Anti-War and/or Women's Rights. Note that the site averages 20-30,000 hits per day and up to 100,000 on big news days (with large S.F. anti-war protests and the like).

 

If you have news and events important enough to send to various email lists, take a few extra minutes and post them to Indybay and reach thousands more than you usually might. It’s actually very easy to do. Primarily, the new category page needs two, well three, things from you…

 

1) Post all of your significant upcoming animal-related events/rallies/protests/etc. to the Indybay calendar at http://indybay.org/calendar/ -- click on "Add an Event", then select "Animal Liberation" as "Event Topic" when you enter your events. It's a great way to announce upcoming actions and get more activists to your events. Additonally, large events might get “redlinked” on the top of Indybay’s home page the week of the event, and sometimes an upcoming AR event will make it into the calendar of Indybay’s newspaper, Fault Lines, if the event is entered on the website far enough ahead of time (for instance, the “Rally to Protest Dog Experiments at UCSF on December 1st" appeared on the back cover of Fault Lines latest issue).

 

2) Report back on those activist events with stories, photos, and even short video pieces by publishing your news at http://indybay.org/publish.php and select "Animal Liberation" as the "Thematic category". (For examples, see photo and video links at the bottom of https://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=2596 & category_id=18.) Also, feel free to publish any animal-related news stories the same way. It will all show up in the "newswire" on the right hand column. It's a great way to spread hot news stories and let the world know about your activities and/or those of the group you're working with. (See http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/08/1693823.php for a simple “act now” Viva!USA example.) The best news stories (esp. those with at least one photo) will be promoted to a short blurb in the main center column of the Animal Lib page by Indybay editors, calling even more attention to your news.

 

3) Lastly, note that as an open-publishing website, Indybay allows the public to make comments on newswire posts, so, especially with the hot topic of Animal Liberation (or Animal Rights, if you will), there are guaranteed to be hateful flamers who will try to bait us into verbal fights. I would never discourage you from defending your own posts or the posts of others, but please, when trolls inevitably arrive only to provoke and not to truly debate the issues on their merits, do try to stay calm, above the fray, and don’t use coarse language or personally attack the provocateurs. Sometimes stupid, hateful, and mean comments require no retort whatsoever – their own ignorance and mean-spiritedness reveals them to be the unthoughtful people they are. Keep in mind that you are talking to large numbers of those outside of the usual AR circles and everything will be fine.

 

If just a handful of us contribute a few times a month (or more) it'll become a great Bay Area resource for us and for those who think like us but maybe just aren't quite there yet.

 

Let me know if you have any questions or want to get further involved

 

Thanx for your time reading all of this (and thanx for working for the betterment of animals!)

 

peace,david

 

ps. I will be creating an AR links/resources page for the site this week -- if you have any suggestions of websites/books/etc. that must be listed there, just reply to this email and let me know.