Animal Liberation Front

The Animal Liberation Front and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are two organizations that fight for the Animal Rights. In 2012, both organizations reacted in a completely opposite manner to the anti-fur fight happening in Toronto. On one hand, the PETA reacted in a pacific way, using charity, by giving fur coat to homeless people, whereas the ALF reacted in an aggressive manner, which involved the vandalism of two stores and a letter mentioning that it was their first attack, but certainly not their last (Kane). This paper will prove that PETA and ALF are both trying to prove that it is very important to respect animal rights, but they do so by using opposite methods of action and philosophies. I will start with a paragraph…

The Animal Liberation Front is a terrorist group that intends to change international policy for animal use and treatment. The group has successfully damaged businesses where animal abuse took place, and freed animal victims of abuse. Some of the businesses that have been targeted have shut down in fear of another attack, which have led the ALF to be successful. The interesting aspect of the ALF is that they have taken a vow not to bring injury to any form of life, and therefore take a careful…

Milian was because he was speaking out against the other terrorist acts going on in Miami because many were upset with the control of Fidel Castro in Cuba. During the 1970’s into the early 1980’s, many bombers of the Alpha 66 and Omega 7 groups were targeting Cuban cigar shops, shipping companies, and the offices of magazine editorials that claimed to support a Castro Regime (Emilio Milian, 2016). For the most part, Domestic Terrorism is still true to its definition of acts only carried out by…

Peter Singer in, Animal Rights: debate between Peter Singer & Richard Posner, makes clear his position that animals which feel, deserve the consideration of their well being by humans. This position echos his stance as an Utilitarian because the moral theory of Utilitarianism weighs the sum of happiness and least unhappiness in a holistic approach that reaches beyond mere inclusion of human beings. Singer therefore encourages us to include the animal kingdom in the conversation of maximum…

Singer, Peter (1972). Famine, Affluence, and Morality. Philosophy and Public Affairs 1 (3):229-243. “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” was written by a well-known Jewish philosopher named Peter Singer. Singer has made many endeavors in ethics, tackling different taboo issues such as abortion, euthanasia, and animal rights. He grew up and attended school in Melbourne, Australia. In college, he became an avid proponent of veganism and vegetarianism leading him to pen his well-known book Animal…

Gays and lesbians have been standing up and sometimes even rioting for many years. For example, “The Stonewall riots (also referred to as the Stonewall uprising or the Stonewall rebellion) were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. They are widely considered to…

Gay and Lesbian Liberation, he describes the occurrence as “an event which had occurred a thousand times before across the U.S. over the decades”. New York police had targeted and raided another gay bar, which had been illegally operating in the city, in order to attempt to shut it down. Wright goes on to say that shutting down these bars was a routine procedure, the entering of “Seven plain-clothes detectives and a uniformed officer” caused the bartenders to stop serving drinks and the usual…

does not entitle us to abuse them, and similarly the fact that some people are less resourceful than others does not mean that their concerns may be disregarded. Peter Singer published Animal Liberation in 1975 which has been mentioned as a leading prompt on leaders…

A half decade after the conclusion of the National Literacy Crusade, Deborah Brandt composed an analysis on the history of Sandinista education entitled, “Popular Education” in Nicaragua: The First Five Years (1985, edited by Thomas W. Walker). Brandt argued the symbiotic relationship between the militia members of the Sandinista National Liberation Front or the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) and the historically disenfranchised rural peasants through popular education…

to believe the FSLN was smashed, and he lifted the state of siege in September 1977. In January 1978 the country’s best known bourgeois oppositionist, Pedro Chamorro, a leader of the Conservatives, was assassinated on his way to work at the La Prensa newspaper, known for its criticisms of Somoza. Protest demonstrations swept the country. This was the beginning of a new wave of mass resistance to Somoza. Zimmermann describes: “New forms of popular struggle took shape, became generalized over…