Civic Engagement for Animals: The Power of Local Political Activism
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Join me today in conversation with Tim Anderson, animal advocate, co-founder and board member of the East Bay Animal PAC, and engaged citizen. We met over a decade ago working to stop backyard animal slaughter from becoming legal in our city, and as a result, he became one of my closest friends — and biggest inspirations.
In today's episode, Tim shares ideas for effective engagement with elected officials, talks about the power of local civic engagement to promote compassionate policies, and offers numerous ways to get involved locally on behalf of animals — finding friendships and our own authentic voice along the way.
Tim has been involved in grassroots organizing for 25 years. His efforts include work on the successful senatorial campaign for Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, and the 2008 presidential election of Barack Obama. Locally, he’s worked on various Oakland mayoral and city council elections, as well as city-wide ballot initiatives.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food for Thought is brought to you by the listeners of this |
| 0:04.0 | podcast. Join others making this podcast possible by going to JoyfulVegan.com |
| 0:09.3 | slash donate. Today's topic is the power of local activism civic engagement for |
| 0:15.9 | animals. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Goodrow and I am your |
| 0:37.1 | host. My work is dedicated to empowering people to live meaningfully, |
| 0:40.7 | compassionately, and healthfully. You can learn more about who I am and what I do |
| 0:45.2 | by visiting my website JoyfulVegan.com. Hi everyone. I hope you're doing |
| 0:50.7 | fabulously well. We have a very special episode today for those who are regular |
| 0:56.6 | listeners of the past 16 years. You know that it has been pretty rare for me to |
| 1:02.6 | feature conversations with other people on this podcast. I've had a few over |
| 1:08.8 | the years, but they're pretty rare. However, as we move into our 17th year of |
| 1:14.6 | Food for Thought, I thought I would include more. So dispersed between and among |
| 1:19.9 | our regular episodes of Food for Thought will be special episodes in which I sit |
| 1:24.1 | down with inspiring people who are changing the world for other animals and for |
| 1:29.7 | people. And on today's episode, I'm so pleased to welcome Tim Anderson. I met |
| 1:36.3 | Tim 11, 12 years ago when we came together over a local animal issue. A group of |
| 1:45.6 | activists had wanted to revise Oakland's urban agriculture plan to make it easier |
| 1:51.6 | for people to grow and sell agricultural products to the public, making it a |
| 1:56.7 | home-based business, being able to grow in your backyard, so changing those |
| 2:01.0 | zoning for residential areas, making it easier to get permits, etc. Because it |
| 2:06.1 | involved zoning, it had to go through the city's Planning Commission, my city |
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