Strategic Action for Animals: A Handbook on Strategic Movement Building, Organizing, and Activism for Animal Liberation
Melanie Joy

Potential Allies for Animal Liberation Activists

• Jews for Animal Rights (JAR)
  Offers books on Judaism and animal rights and Judaism and vegetarianism, as well as articles and essays.
• Jewish Vegetarians of North America
  Offers information on Judaism and vegetarianism, recipes, and recommended books on Judaism and vegetarianism.
• American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
  International organization of Quakers whose focus is on social justice and nonviolence.
• Quaker Concern for Animals
• Unitarian Universalists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (UFETA)
• Catholic Concern for Animals
• The Christian Vegetarian Association (CVA)
• Islamic Concern
  Offers information and resources on Islam and animal rights.
• Jainism Global Resource Center
  Offers information and resources on Jainism, including animal welfare and vegetarianism.
• World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
  Largest international conservation organization.
• Feminists for Animal Rights (FAR)
  Offers information and resources on the connection between feminism and animal rights.
• International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)
  International animal protection agency that focuses on animal welfare and conservation.
• The Sierra Club
  Runs program targeting CAFOs to protect the environmental and public health.

Literature Relating to Potential Allies

• Vegetarianism (Living a Buddhist Life Series)
  by Bodhipaksa
  Windhorse Publications
• To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian
  by Philip Kapleau
  Zen Center
• The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights
  by Norm Phelps
  Lantern Books
• Diet for Transcendence: Vegetarianism and the World Religions
  by Steven Rosen
  Torchlight Publishing
• Animal Rights/Human Rights: Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation
  by David Nibert
  Rowman & Littlefield
• Judaism and Vegetarianism
  by Richard Schwartz
  Lantern Books
• The Dominion of Love: Animal Rights According to the Bible
  by Norm Phelps
  Lantern Books
• Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations
  by Carol Adams and Josephine Donovan (Eds.)
  Duke University Press

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