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Chicana Italiana vegana chingona, low waste maker, baker, wild fermenter, native plant gardener, compost lover, total liberation ecofeminist artist, author, former professor of art and photography luchando for all animals 💚 linktr.ee/eyelarocca
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Please request this book at your local library. Everyone should know about this secretive industry. ISBN 978-1590567364
We don't have to depend on governments and corporations. We have the power to address the most pressing problems of our day every day with our choice of what we consume!
#vegan
My first time carving pumpkins. So much fun. Happy Halloween
hundreds turned out in peace and solidarity in red state small town Danville, Kentucky in defense of democracy and freedom from authoritarianism on this beautiful fall day. power to the people right on. #NoKings #Indivisible #indivisibledanville #50501Movement #ChingaTuMAGA #ChingaLaMigra
Not soon enough but I'll take it
Not all is lost...
The US army is to offer vegan options, due to the demand for them
plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/fo...
to keep its profits high, JBS recruits immigrants desperate for work. In the last 20 years, JBS has been the subject of over 100 lawsuits, EEOC complaints, and government investigations over working conditions.
Https://revealnews.org/podcast/immigrants-haiti-jbs-meatpacking-greeley-colorado-tps/
Haitian immigrants went to Colorado for the promise of jobs. What they found is being called human trafficking.
Haitian immigrants moved to Colorado on the promise of a good job and a place to stay—only to be mistreated. Now, they could be deported
revealnews.org
Barbaric. Criminal. My heart hurts for these beings. This must stop!!!
Gracias Gente!!!
The Oglala Sioux Tribe boldly banned Gov. Kristi Noem from Pine Ridge, standing up against her harmful rhetoric linking reservations to cartels. Eight of nine tribes followed—sending a clear, proud message of protecting their communities with courage and dignity.
apnews.com/article/sout...
Megalomaniacal profiteering billionaires are destroying the planet
A federal judge greenlit Holtec to dump 45,000 gallons of radioactive water from Indian Point into the Hudson, sparking outrage. New York officials and environmentalists warn this reckless move could undo decades of river restoration.
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Authoritarian playbook: create divisions to make themselves richer and more powerful
Please participate if you can!!!!
Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief at No Kings Day 2.0 on October 18. There are currently over 2,000 events planned nationwide. More details here: https://www.nokings.org
Boycott animal agriculture! Eat plants yo
Reaping the Benefits of PlantRich Diets

"A 2023 study concluded that 'plant-based diets produce 75% less heat-trapping gas, generate 75% less water pollution & use 75% less land than meat-rich diets.

More on co-benefits of diet shifts & ways to promote them:
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It's so glaringly obvious that a plant-based diet is the way to go from multiple reasons. And yet...
"Scientists tracked the eating habits of >23,000 people in the UK over two decades: the people most closely following a plant-based diet had a 32% lower incidence of type 2 diabetes than those with the least adherence, as well as 18% lower GHG emissions linked to their diets."
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Study recommends ‘planetary diet’ to cut diabetes risk and emissions
Researchers say dietary changes are crucial part of effort to tackle global heating
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Feliz día de la independencia de México! Grítenlo: que viva México! Pintura de Rufino Tamayo
We don't have to depend on governments and corporations! We have the power everyday several times a day with our choice of what we consume!
A little reminder:
The land freed by a global adoption of a plant-based diet would be the size of the US, China, the EU and Australia combined. 8Gt of CO2 could be removed each year.

(every plant-based meal helps)

h/t @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social)
ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
This Labor Day, I urge you to join a Workers Over Billionaires protest.

We must continue standing together to show Trump that we, the people, have the power – not his billionaire buddies and corporate cronies. bit.ly/4lMgKaR
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