Goodbye Meta & big tech, hello Fediverse
It's been five years since I uninstalled the application of Facebook from my phone and never installed it ever again, right after I watched the documentary "A social Dilemma". After a year or so, I deactivated my main Facebook account, and only used an alternative one...
While in the Mediterranean the forests are lost due to wildfires, in Scandinavia they are lost due to logging industry
Around four months ago we left from Greece together with my partner, my dog and my cat, and we came all the way to Sweden by ferry and car, because it was unbearable to live in Greece anymore, mainly due to heatwaves and wildfires which occur every year and make every...
Participation in a new book on Critical Animal Studies
About a month ago, the book "Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in solidarity and total liberation" was published by the Swiss publishing house Peter Lang. It is an anthology with 12 essays by activists from all over the world, all of whom are...
How can we help Ukraine?
Here's a list of initiatives (which will be constantly updated), mostly acting in the borders, but not only: Greece 1/3/22 – “Το Greek forum for refugees opens its premises and its heart to the Coordination Committee of the Ukrainian Communities in Greece in order to...
Press Release: New legislation for pigs saved from illegal situation in Italy
On the 21st of January 2020, twenty-five pigs have been found abandoned in an illegal landfill in the Lombardia region (Cadegliano Viconago). According to investigators, it is not excluded that they were raised and then slaughtered illegally: The area, completely...
Urban birds facing starvation during lockdown
As long as people have to stay at home, stray dogs & cats as well as urban birds are facing starvation unless if governments allow some citizens to take responsibility. In some countries, even monkeys are suffering from starvation because they were habituated In...
Press release: Toulon Declaration: “Animals must be considered as non-human natural persons”
On Friday, 29 March 2019, scholars from the Faculty of Law provided a legal response to the Cambridge Declaration. The Toulon Declaration states that animals should be considered as "non-human natural persons" and not as things. The Cambridge Declaration, proclaimed...