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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does our movement mean?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This weekend you will attend workshops, hear talks, see films,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and learn about organizations that represent the wide breadth of efforts
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taking place under the banner of the animal rights movement.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will hear about work to spread veganism,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,efforts to enact and enforce laws that protect animals,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and campaigns to stop specific abuses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will learn how to use certain tools in your activism
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from social media to storytelling to virtual reality
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you will have opportunities to debate the best strategies for making change.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will meet other compassionate and passionate people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are deeply committed to improving the world for animals.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will undoubtedly walk away inspired.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you go about your days at this conference, keep this question in mind:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does our movement mean?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To an outsider?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To our society?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does it even mean that there is an animal rights movement?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does it mean that animals should suffer less before they become food?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That some of the worst confinement, mutilations, and violations of animal cruelty laws should be stamped out?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does our movement mean that certain uses of animals
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like imprisoning them in theme parks and circuses
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are simply beyond the pale?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does the existence of an animal rights movement mean there should be more vegan options?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More vegan products?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More vegans?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because another thing you will hear about this weekend
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that we are making progress in these areas.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been doing animal rights activism for two decades,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in that time we have achieved many of the goals
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that seemed so out of reach when I first joined this movement.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The term factory farming is widely understood,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the practice is widely condemned.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is growing awareness that producing dairy and eggs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,involves at least as much suffering as producing meat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are enacting animal welfare legislation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and forcing other policy changes to stop some of the worst practices.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are seeing the increasing recognition
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the liberty interest of so-called higher animals
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and widespread public opinion that has decimated the attendance and profits at SeaWorld
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and forced Ringling Brothers to retire elephants and then close up shop entirely.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Applause]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I became a vegan 21 years ago this month
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for my first several years I met few people who even knew what the word meant.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now the diet is widely known,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and vegan food is widely--though not sufficiently or equitably--available.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And public discourse about animal issues is growing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are being discussed in prominent publications by so-called thought leaders,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and academic animal studies programs are spreading.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not enough.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These accomplishments are notable.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They deserve applause.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They have come about through the extremely hard work,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the tirelessness, the blood, sweat, and tears of people who are ferociously dedicated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Believe me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I understand the sacrifices we make to achieve even the smallest gains for animals.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Still, it is not enough.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it rests upon a flawed foundation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have yet to make the meaning of the animal rights movement
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a challenge to the use of species to deny rights,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inflict violence, and cause suffering.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have yet to make the animal rights movement and anti-speciesism movement.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every social movement contains a variety of meanings.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It pursues numerous goals and has internal disagreements.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if we look at movements for equality and justice
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that have been organizing longer than we have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,movements that are still fighting but which have made more progress than us
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we see that they rest upon a firm foundation:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that whatever illegitimate characteristic has historically been used
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to treat one group as less than another,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will no longer fly.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A movement for racial justice has many goals
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and seemingly countless manifestations of racism against which to fight.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But at bottom, its very existence means
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that race is not a legitimate basis for treating individuals and groups differently.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A movement against sexism and for gender justice
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,challenges our society in a variety of practical and theoretical ways.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But most fundamentally, the meaning of such a movement
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that sex and gender are not legitimate bases for treating people unequally.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A disability rights movement seeks many concrete changes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but ultimately it means that no one should be treated
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as less than anyone else because of what abilities they do or do not possess.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These movements are not similar in all respects
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the animal rights movement, nor to each other.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are many relevant differences.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I think they have at least this much in common:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that in order to be effective in the long run,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the primary message they consistently deliver
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that people ought to be treated equally
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,independent of their membership in different groups.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever concrete goals and conceptual changes these movements seek,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever systems of power we must continue to tear down to actually create a world
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which people are not treated unequally for these reasons,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the demand for equality is clear.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The animal rights movement has yet to do this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To make the foundational meaning of our movement
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,opposition to speciesism and a challenge to human supremacy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be clear, I am not saying there should be no more welfare campaigns,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no more meat reduction efforts, no more vegan outreach,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no more short term goals.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other movements have benefited from incremental gains and moderate efforts,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so can we.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And on the road to animal liberation, we must make as many reforms as possible
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help animals who are suffering right now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I believe in a pluralistic movement.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That moderate and radical effort can complement each other.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rather I am talking about the center of gravity in our movement.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now our moderate efforts are the primary idea people associate with animal rights.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The primary meaning of the so-called animal rights movement is animal welfare,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this needs to shift.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The primary ideas associated with our movement should be the stronger ones,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not the moderate ones.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Applause]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the only way to get at the root of the problem.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Speciesism is the operating principle at the bottom
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of exploitation and violence against animals.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the fact that speciesism is deemed legitimate
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the reason for the extent of that exploitation and violence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is because you are not human that we can eat you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is because you are not human that we can turn you into shoes and belts and coats.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is because you are not human that we can lock you in a cage,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pump you full of chemicals, and kill you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to test things like coffee sweeteners and detergents
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and drugs to stop compulsive shopping.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is because you are not human that we can kidnap you from your home,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tear you from your family, and force you to perform for our entertainment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could go on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course being a member of the human species
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is hardly a guarantee against violence, exploitation, and oppression.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Declaring that certain differences may not be used to deny right
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not make it so.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But failing to declare it guarantees that it will never be so.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until we vocally, prominently, and unflinchingly demand an end to speciesism,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are just trimming branches.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have not yet attacked the roots of the poison tree.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some will argue the opposite:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that in fact the things we have accomplished came about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we have avoided showing our true hand.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we have moderated our demands and joined forces
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with those who would never entertain the idea that speciesism is wrong
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but who will support an end to battery cages.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My critics will point out how far we have come
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in 20, 10, even 5 years.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They will remind me how back then
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we could not have imagined achieving things we have now done.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they will say again that we have done it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without invoking controversial ideas like speciesism,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without using uncomfortable terms like human supremacy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't get me wrong: I was there too.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back in my college days, back when I was running the SHAC campaign,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could not have imagined entire states banning extreme confinement and animal agriculture.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would have been floored by a New York Times columnist noticing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"a broadening deepening concern about animals that is no longer sufficiently captured by the phrase animal welfare,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his declaring that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"an era of what might be called animal dignity is upon us."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could not have imagined the idea that the circus I protested for years,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which had arrived in town marching its elephants through the streets of my city,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would close up shop because the idea of forcing majestic animals
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to perform in a circus was no longer profitable.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And don't get me wrong: we should be very, very proud.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we must never let what we have achieved
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,limit what we think we can achieve.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must never let looking back on our successes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,limit our imagined goals for the future.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, we should remember that 20, 10, 5 years ago
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we could not have envisioned what we have now achieved,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that should tell us not to limit our vision now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the truth is we don't know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't know what it would mean for our movement
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to truly stand for an end to exploitation and violence on the basis of species.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we have yet to turn the growing groundswell
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of concern for animals in that direction.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At first it may look like the wrong turn.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Make no mistake: when we finally speak up
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a way that challenges a norm that runs so deep,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that pervades our society at every level,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that structures our entire world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will get flak.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whenever we do it, whether it is tomorrow as I am calling for,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whether it takes another 10 years.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When our movement finally speaks up for animals in this way
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will be dismissed, we will be ridiculed,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will be subjected to one of the most powerful polices
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of behavior there is: social condemnation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it will make us feel like we should stop.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will take those initial reactions,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the immediate feedback we get from our activism,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a sign that what we are doing is counterproductive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this too must be part of our vision.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must be able to see beyond the initial reactions of those
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have never questioned the things we are raising questions about.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must see past the abandonment by powerful interests
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who claim to be our allies.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must be able to see even beyond dismissal and ridicule
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by our fellow animal activists who will be so unsettled
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by how firmly we stand up for animals.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They will want to temper our activism even more than our opponents.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I attended a Superbowl party this year.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we were watching the game, a fellow party goer joked
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"what if animal rights activists ran out onto the field."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This person who has done animal rights activism for decades,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who has been arrested and convicted and jailed for it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had their home raided by the FBI,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has faced civil suits, and faced down grand juries
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was making fun of our fellow activists
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have disrupted sporting events in the name of animal rights.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone else at the party,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,also vegans and animal rights activists, laughed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I know if people had rushed the field
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to condemn Donald Trump's xenophobic and unconstitutional travel ban,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they had disrupted the Super Bowl to demand an end to police violence,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they had done it to oppose pipelines that violate treaties,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,destroy sacred land, and pollute our planet,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my fellow Super Bowl partiers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my fellow animal rights activists
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would not have laughed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They would have rightly cheered on those people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who interrupted while the whole world was watching.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Demanded attention to these issues
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and an end to oppression and violence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when it comes to animals, it looks weird even to us.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We feel ashamed by those who will do for animals
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it seems admirable to do for humans.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In our heads we know that oppression and violence
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against animals is no less an emergency,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no less deserving of forcing the issue into everyone's attention
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and onto everyone's TV screen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet our stomachs flip.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It makes many of us uncomfortable to see people acting like it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have trouble seeing beyond the water we are swimming in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That we are affected by the very biases we are trying to challenge.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is as though we are saying:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you are not human, we will not rush the field for you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the course of writing this talk
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought a lot about why I'm up here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why the organizers of this conference felt
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was a fitting person to fill a top speaking slot.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think it's because we want to see people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have been knocked down due to their activism
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have gotten back up and kept fighting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want to hear from people who are bloodied but unbowed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Applause]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As much as you need to see me up here
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still fighting after prison
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I need to see you out there in the world
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,demanding an end to speciesism
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and supporting one another in doing so.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I do not always speak up strongly for animals.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I stood up here a few years ago and told this entire conference
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how I had gotten up from a dinner table and turned my back on my family
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than eat with them while they are eating animals.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I told you that walking away from them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was harder than walking into prison.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I will tell you now that it is still hard,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I do not always succeed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I work at the Center for Constitutional Rights,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we do what I believe is some of the most important
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human rights and social justice litigation there is.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been at CCR for six years
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that entire time I have struggled
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to urge CCR to consider whether animal rights
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is part of our broader struggle for justice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My dear friend and colleague Rachel Meeropol
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is in the audience tonight
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will remind me that we have made substantial gains.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That while CCR may not yet have confronted
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fundamental issue of animal liberation,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have for example an acted a vegan policy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for all of the food that CCR provides and pays for.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Applause]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even while Rachel is talking me out of my exaggerated sense of failure,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she will concede that I have most often bit my tongue
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when something at work sets me on fire for animals.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I did not speak up at the Super Bowl party.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did not say to my friends what I am saying now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That if we think there are different standards of protest for humans and nonhumans,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we ourselves have yet to escape the very ideas we are challenging.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I thought about it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it has nagged at me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were many things that were hard about prisons.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One thing that was not hard was standing behind my actions,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feeling proud of having stood up for what I believed in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is because of the overwhelming support I received
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for doing what quite frankly was a hell of a lot crazier
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and more foolish than rushing a football field
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a banner about animal rights.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My peers celebrated me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me assure you:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I'm suggesting we all need to do for animals
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is much harder than going to prison.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To stand up and stand strong even when few will celebrate you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many will scorn you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is one of the hardest things in the world
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be virtually alone in saying
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that something almost everyone else believes is wrong.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can be harder to stand up to your peers,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to people you admire and respect,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than it is to stand up to evil corporations and governments.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it can be next to impossible to do it alone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you are out there in the world
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not sitting in a room with hundreds of people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feeding off our shared energy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must support the heretics,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those who are ridiculed for most firmly proclaiming our shared beliefs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must help them tap into the feeling in the room tonight,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even when they are virtually alone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we must join them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Though I have often been too afraid to speak up at CCR.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Though my conflicting desires have sometimes kept me sitting at a meaty dinner table.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Though I stayed silent in the presence of a friend's super bowl mocking.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will also say this:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anytime I have had just one other person willing to speak up
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or walk away with me,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have found the strength to do it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we do what needs to be done
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make the very existence of our movement a challenge to speciesism
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will be called silly,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will be dismissed,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will be condemned.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At first.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the only way out of that is through it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can only challenge what is normalized
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by normalizing the challenge to it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Applause]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of us have had the experience
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being written off as a caricature.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This reflects that we are still relatively speaking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the early days of our movement.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the way to push forward is not to back off
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we are written off.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is to continue to deliver the message
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until we cannot be written off.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There will not come a time when people are ready to hear it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is not a time you wait for.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a moment you create.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another thing you are likely to hear this weekend
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that we are winning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are not winning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And truly no disrespect to those speaking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on various "we're winning" panels this weekend.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are indeed setting campaign goals and we are achieving them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I mean something different by winning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are winning when the status quo must defend its position.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the point over which we are arguing is the fundamental one.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are winning when we create an actual debate
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over whether we can continue to eat, wear, test on,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,capture, confine, breed, mutilate, slaughter,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and destroy the habitats of billions,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply because they were not born into our species.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The subtitle of this panel is "inspiring messages for our movement."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I do not mean to uninspire
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I say that it is not enough
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or when I say that we are not winning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I would rather inspire you by what we can do,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than by what we have done.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I believe we can win.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our moral position is strong.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dominant ideas about animals are not dominant because they are right,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are dominant because they have never faced a true challenge.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those who believe these ideas have never actually had to defend them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we force this debate, we will win it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Applause]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No doubt the industry hacks in the audience tonight
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will warn in their publications that I am up here
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,touting crazy ideas like speciesism,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tossing around extremist terms like human supremacy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please, prove them right.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The next time I ask what does our movement mean,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let the answer be that speciesism is wrong,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we will end it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Applause]\N