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Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Vegan Activist Alliance with Eloísa Trinidad

Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

Documentary, Education, News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9579 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

According to powerhouse activist and community organizer Eloísa Trinidad, an anti-colonial framework is fundamental to how she approaches activism. Eloísa, who serves as Executive Director  of both the Vegan Activist Alliance and the food justice organization Chilis on Wheels New York, is a total liberation activist. She is unapologetically adamant that species does not define personhood and emphasizes the importance of…

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0:00.0

Welcome to Our Henhouse. This is Marianne Sullivan. And this is Jasmine Singer.

0:12.9

And on this week's show, Eloisa Trinidad, who does so many things and wears so many hats that it's hard to list them all, is going to be joining Jasmine.

0:21.2

And one of our favorite things that she does

0:23.2

is to be the executive director of Chili's on Wheels, New York,

0:26.6

which is working to make vegan food accessible to folks in need.

0:30.3

She's just an incredible powerhouse.

0:33.5

That's like one, one hundredth of what we talk about that she does. I mean, she wears a lot of hats and I've just so inspired. I absolutely loved this interview. And on this week's flock bonus segment, I'll be continuing my conversation with Eloisa. So if you are a flock member, you'll get a link to the bonus segment in your email on the Tuesday

0:54.4

after this podcast episode goes up, or you can always find it on the flock Facebook group.

0:59.4

And if you're not a member of the flock and you can afford it, you can join for $10 a month

1:03.5

at our henhouse.org slash donate.

1:06.9

And of course, if you're a flock member, please join us for our flock first Friday

1:10.6

Zoom calls, which are once a month on the first Friday, at 4 p.m. Eastern, where we have some very inspiring guests and some excellent conversations about all sorts of stuff, focusing mostly on activism. But, you know, it's pretty wide-ranging. So if you're a member of the flock, check out the flock Facebook group for updates or write to us at info at our henhouse.org.

1:32.3

And you can set up a one-on-one conversation with Jasmine, too.

1:36.0

Yeah, I love those.

1:37.0

So email info at our henhouse.org to set up a time to meet with me to talk about your activism.

1:41.9

So let's start by acknowledging the absolute shit show

1:47.0

that our world is in right now. And I'm talking about Ukraine. Yeah, it's hard to think about anything

1:53.4

else. Yeah. Right. It is. I know you've been pretty tied to your doom scrolling recently.

2:00.0

Like many people, it's hard to take my eyes away from what's happening.

2:03.8

And of course, by the time you hear this, other things may have happened that haven't happened

2:08.1

yet.

2:08.7

It's all very frightening.

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