Listen to the replay at the audio link above. Thank you.

Photo credit: OUR PLANET. THEIRS TOO.

On June 4, 2024, Vegan Nation features NARD14 National Animal Rights Day (NARD14 was held worldwide Sunday, June 2nd.) Tune in Tuesday, June 4, 2024. 4 PM EDT. VEGAN NATION WCUW 91.3 FM. Listen worldwide online: wcuw.org/listen. Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Vegan Nation archives. Thank you for tuning in, thanks for your Vegan activism. Vegan Nation PHOTOS. Vegan Nation is in The LOBE!

Vegan music in this June 4th episode includes: Vegan Queen V, Charity and the JAMband, Entyce the Lyrical Vegan, Stella Paris, and Will Tuttle.

Tune in 4 pm to 5 pm EDT – Every Tuesday – two 1/2 hour shows On-Air (immediately following the 4 pm show, there’s a rebroadcast of the previous week’s Vegan Nation show).

Vegan Nation is a 1/2 hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events and interviews. On-Air since 2015. Vegan Nation embraces Deep Veganism – ‘World peace and lasting human freedom & justice requires Animal liberation. (As we collectively sow, humanity eventually reaps.)

Photo: Aylam Orian, founder/president OUR PLANET. THEIRS TOO. Listen to Marlene’s interview with Aylam in 2018 (first 12 minutes in this .mp3 replay) Vegan Nation airs on Tuesdays: https://vegansradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/v.n.05.03.18.kimgiovacco.aylamorian.mp3

NARD statement (May 31, 2024): “There is so much suffering for all species of beings on this planet, always, and especially right now. And it seems like it is all caused by us, the human species, not being able to recognize our unity, the sanctity of all life, and the fact that we are all sisters and brothers on this fragile planet, rotating in space.

As members of this species, we at Our Planet. Theirs Too., the NARD leadership, and our organizers, including those in Tel Aviv, abhor the violence, bloodshed and wars that humans inflict on each other, on our fellow Earthlings, and on our shared home, over differences of skin color, ideas, or a piece of Earth which is not ours to grab in the first place. We are all merely guests on this Earth, which we call ‘Our planet‘.

But it’s theirs too. And while we cannot solve all the human-made injustices, we’ve banded together from around the world to solve the one injustice which we are best equipped to handle: giving a voice to the voiceless – humanity’s forgotton and silenced victims: the fish suffocating in a trawler net, the chicken shackled in the slaughterhouse, the mother pig unable to move in her bare enclosure, the wounded mouse in the laboratory cage and all the other nonhuman animals whose lives on Earth humans make into Hell.

For that purpose, we have established a National Animal Rights Day in more than 60 countries: one day a year when we ask our fellow humans to put their differences and disagreements aside, come together, and stand shoulder to shoulder around the world for our nonhuman fellow Earthlings. And for them only. Just for one day.

On this day, we also ask for the cooperation of other animal rights groups, in order to maximize our unity and our ability to bring forth a massive change for nonhuman animals. We do not want to dwell on what divides us: Us, as then they suffer even more. We want to hold on to what unites us: Them.

So in this spirit of unity, we call upon all of you today to overcome the pain of violence, the pain of separation, and the pain of hatred, and seek peace and reconciliation. As Buddha said: “Hatred does not cease hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

All donations collected at the NARD events this year will be sent to groups helping animals affected by the current war in the Middle East.

Thank you,

Our Planet. Theirs Too. and The National Rights Day”

List of 165 cities participating in NARD14:

UNITED STATES: Albuquerque; Augusta; Austin; Denver; Hawaii; Houston; Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Pittsburg; Roanoke; San Diego; Tucson CANADA: Edmonton; London; Montreal; Saskatoon; St. John’s; Toronto; Vancouver MEXICO: Guadalajara; Hermosillo; La Laguna; Merida; Mexico City; Monterrey; Playa Del Carmen BOLIVIA: La Paz CHILE: Quilpue; Santiago ECUADOR: Guayaquil; Quito NICARAGUA: Managua PERU: Ica; Lima PUERTO RICO: San Juan URUGUAY: Montevideo AUSTRIA: Vienna BELGIUM: Ghent FRANCE: Lyon; Nice; Paris; Strasbourg; Rennes GEORGIA: Tbilisi GERMANY: Berlin; Frankfurt; Hannover; Stuttgart GREECE: Athens; Mykonos HUNGARY: Budapest ITALY: Bologna; Cagliari; Ferrara; Firenze; Genova; Perugia; Pescara; Rome; Torino; Venice MALTA: Valletta NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam NORWAY: Bergen; Oslo; Trondheim POLAND: Wroclaw PORTUGAL: Lisbon RUSSIA: Nalchick SLOVENIA: Ljubljana SPAIN: Barcelona; Canary Islands; Madrid; Valencia IRELAND: Dublin UNITED KINGDOM: Aberdeen; Belfast; Birmingham; Bournemouth; Bristol; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Hull; Iverness; Isle of Wight; Leeds; Liverpool; London; Manchester; Newcastle; Norwich; Oxford; Plymouth; Sheffield; Truro; York NIGERIA: Calabar RWANDA: Musanze SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Town UGANDA: Kampala ISRAEL: Tel Aviv IRAN: Ahvaz; Bushehr; Isfahan; Karaj; Kermanshah; Mashhad; Rasht; Shiraz; Tabriz; Tehran; Yazd NEPAL: Chitwan; Kathmandu PAKISTAN: Lahore INDIA: Agra; Ahmedabad; Auroville; Bangalore; Bareilly; Chandigarh; Chhattisgarh; Chennai; Coonoor; Delhi; Dharamshala; Goa; Guwahati; Indore; Jabalpur; Jaipur; Jamnagar; Kanpur; Kolkata; Lucknow; Mumbai; Mysore; Namchi; Nashik; Pune; Rajkot; Rishikesh; Sasaram; Sikkim; Surat; Trivandrum; Vadodara; Varanasi MALAYSIA: Kuantan PHILIPPINES: Manila TAIWAN: Taipei; Kaohsiung SOUTH KOREA: Busan; Jeju Island JAPAN: Fukuoka; Hiroshima; Nagoya; Osaka; Tokyo NEW ZEALAND: Auckland; Christchurch AUSTRALIA: Melbourne; Perth; Sydney

Listen to the replay at the audio (29 minutes, 29 seconds, .mp3) link above. Thank you. Charity Kahn joins us from Oakland, California (San Francisco Bay area), for a Vegan Nation interview. Charity Kahn is a mother, songwriter, musician, teaching artist and founder of Charity and the JAMband, JAMboodas, and JAMcamp. We discuss Charity and the JAMband’s new album, The Vegan Album, and much more! Tune in Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 4 PM EDT. WCUW 91.3 FM. Listen worldwide online at: wcuw.org/listen. Archived shows can be heard anytime at: vegansradio.com. Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

Thank you for caring enough to hear & be heard, for your support of nonprofit Community radio, and for your compassionate Vegan activism. Vegan Nation is a 1/2 hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events, and interviews. On-Air since 2015. PHOTOS. You can find Charity at jamjamjam.com, and The Vegan Album is available on all streaming platforms. Awesome! Vegan Nation is in The LOBE. PHOTOS Vegan Nation – May 21st replay. “We Love Animals” and “Friends Not Food” by Charity and the JAMband.

Listen to the replay at the audio link (28 minutes, 35 seconds .mp3) above. Thank you very much. On May 21st, Manda Rose, co-founder/organizer of New England VegFest, and Jen Wyglinski, executive director of NEVF, join us for an interview on Vegan Nation WCUW 91.3 FM. Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 4 PM EDT. Listen worldwide online at: wcuw.org/listen. Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. This May 21st show includes vegan music by Liedermacherin NETTE, Charity and the JAMband, Will Tuttle, and Sally Zito. Much thanks to the vegan musicians, Manda, Jen, & all volunteers & supporters of New England VegFest.

Vegan Nation is a 1/2 hour radio show featuring vegan music, news, events and interviews. On-Air since 2015 – Tune in every Tuesday 4 pm EDT. Thank you for caring enough to hear & be heard, for your support of nonprofit Community radio, and for your compassionate Vegan activism. (Vegan Nation embraces the philosophy of Deep Veganism – freedom, social justice, world peace and sustainability require Animal liberation.) Vegan Nation & NEVF in The LOBE! Stay tuned in (wcuw.org/listen) 4 pm EDT to 5 pm – immediately hear a rebroadcast of the previous week’s Vegan Nation show. Thank you. Archives: vegansradio.com. PHOTOS

Listen to the audio replay at the link above (29 minutes, 29 seconds, .mp3). Thank you.

Ingrid Newkirk, President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) joins us from Norfolk, Virginia, for a Vegan Nation interview. May 14, 2024. 4 PM EDT. WCUW 91.3 FM. Listen worldwide online: wcuw.org/listen. Thank you. Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Archives: vegansradio.com (“All Together Now!” photo by PETA)

Tune in Tuesday, May 14th, for this exciting, insightful interview. Ingrid Newkirk was born in Surrey, England, and lived in Europe until she was 7 years old, when she and her parents moved to New Delhi. Ingrid founded PETA in 1980. Ingrid is now 75 years old, still going strong, and is one of the most powerful activists on the planet. She is an abolitionist who remains committed to the idea that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.

Vegan Nation is a weekly, 1/2 hour, radio show featuring vegan music, news, events and interviews (On-Air since 2015). Music in this May 14th Vegan Nation show includes: “Rodeo” by Ellie Sarty in Worcester, Massachusetts (Ellie is the founder of Compassion Arts). Also, “Louder than Words” by CarbonWorks. (CarbonWorks is Dr. Neal Barnard’s band, based in Washington, D.C.) And also, “ChickenSong” piano music by Will Tuttle.

Stay tuned in from 4 pm to 5 pm EDT (one hour) wcuw.org/listen – every week, immediately following Vegan Nation’s 4 pm broadcast, there’s a rebroadcast of the previous week’s Vegan Nation show (starting at 4:30 PM EDT). Vegan Nation PHOTOS

Listen to the replay at the audio link above (28 minutes and 54 seconds, .mp3). Thank you. Vegan Nation celebrates the 19th anniversary of International Respect for Chickens Day Founded by Dr. Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns (Machipongo, Virginia). Tune in Tuesday, May 7, 2024. 4 PM EDT. WCUW 91.3 FM Listen online: wcuw.org/listen. Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Archives: vegansradio.com. Vegan Nation is in The LOBE! (Photo by United Poultry Concerns) This May 7th broadcast includes wise, compassionate words by Dr. Karen Davis (snippets of her presentation at Conscious Eating Conference, 2014). Tips on how to bake without using eggs are included within this Vegan Nation show.

The WCUW 91.3 FM radio station is rebroadcasting this show on May 14th (2024) at 4:30 pm EDT. Tune in again at wcuw.org/listen! Thank you.

VEGAN MUSIC: Includes songs: “We Love Animals” and “Friends Not Food” by Charity and the JAMband from their new album, The Vegan Album. (Also, “Chickensong” by Will Tuttle; and “I Will Be Their Voice” by Vegan Smythe in Australia.)

Vegan Nation is a weekly, informational 1/2 hour radio show (On-Air since 2015) featuring vegan music, news, events, and interviews – locally, nationally, and internationally. Thank you for caring enough to hear & be heard, for your support of nonprofit Community radio, and your compassionate Vegan activism. Vegan Nation PHOTOS. (Below: “For three days, starting on International Respect for Chickens Day, May 4th, United Poultry Concerns ran our ads “What Wings Are For! Life Can Be Beautiful Go Vegan!” and “Kindness is Contagious – Live Vegan – Wash Your Hands of Animal Suffering” on a truck driving around downtown Washington, DC for 8 hours each day. This is in addition to our ads running at 14 Bike Share locations through the entire month of May in honor of our annual International Respect for Chickens Day May 4/month of May campaign.”- UPC)

Listen to the replay (28 minutes 32 seconds audio .mp3) at the link above. Thank you very much. Vegan Nation interview with Dr. Will Tuttle. Discussing his latest book, Food for Freedom: Reclaiming Our Health and Rescuing Our World. Tune in Tuesday, April 30, 2024! 4 PM EDT. WCUW 91.3 FM Listen worldwide online: wcuw.org/listen. Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

“The essential focus of the book is illuminating how human liberation of animals is the critical key to human health, spirituality, and sustainability.” – Dr. Will Tuttle

Vegan Nation is a 1/2 hour radio show, On-Air since 2015. (Archives: vegansradio.com). Thank you for caring enough to hear & be heard, for your support of nonprofit Community radio, and for your compassionate Vegan activism. PHOTOS

From the book, Food for Freedom (p.115):
“As individuals we are being tested during these times in demanding ways. What we see unfolding since 2020 is the most sophisticated, expensive, well-organized, and far-reaching psychological, medical, economic, and physical assault on humanity-at-large in the history of the world. It was clearly a trans-national operation, with globalist plutocrats functioning primarily through the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations and thereby controlling national health agencies, governments, academia, and media. Children, the elderly, and small business owners were especially targeted, but all of us, with the exception of the wealthiest class, were assaulted and have had our freedoms eroded. Fortunately, there have been resilient pockets of higher awareness, and as the months and years have gone by, increasing numbers of us are awakening to the realities of the pervasive deception.” From the interview: “When we liberate animals, then and ONLY then, will we be in a position to actually have freedom for ourselves…” – Dr. Will Tuttle

Listen to the replay at the link (29 minutes and 9 seconds, audio .mp3) above. Thank you.

Vegan Nation features music by CarbonWorks and an interview with Dr. Neal Barnard, founder and president of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) and Barnard Medical Center, in Washington, D.C. We discuss his latest book, The Power Foods Diet, and also his band, CarbonWorks. Tune in Tuesday, April 23, 2024, WCUW 91.3 FM wcuw.org/listen 4 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Vegan Nation (ON-AIR since 2015) is a 1/2 hour radio show airing every Tuesday. Archived shows can be heard anytime at: vegansradio.com.

Stay tuned in Tuesdays 4 pm to 5 pm EDT (1 hour total – two 1/2 hr shows). Immediately following Dr. Barnard’s interview, there is a rebroadcast of last week’s Vegan Nation show. Thank you for caring enough to hear & be heard, for your support of nonprofit Community radio, and for your compassionate Vegan activism. PHOTOS Vegan Nation is in The LOBE! Songs: “Athena”, “Lullaby”, and “Louder than Words” by CarbonWorks are included in this Vegan Nation April 23rd radio broadcast.

“Athena” by CarbonWorks The Power Foods Diet book tour Apr to Aug 2024

Listen to the replay (29 minutes, 29 seconds audio .mp3) at the link above. Thank you very much.

Vegan Nation features an interview with Vegan authors, Tami Hay in Alberta, Canada, and Judy Carman in Kansas, USA. Discussion includes grief, Holistic healing, contemporary events, many upcoming conferences, retreats, and additional resources. Music in this episode: “How Beautiful We Are” by Sally Zito in Los Angeles; “Calvesong” by Will Tuttle in Northern California; and “Animals are our Friends, We Don’t Want to Hurt our Friends” by That Vegan Teacher Miss Kadie in Montreal. Tune in Tuesday April 16, 2024 wcuw.org/listen 4 PM EDT – WCUW 91.3 FM – Vegan Nation (On-Air at 4pm EDT; 3pm CDT; 2pm MDT). Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Vegan Nation archives: vegansradio.com

Thank you for caring enough to hear & be heard, for your support of nonprofit Community radio, and your compassionate Vegan activism. Vegan Nation is in The LOBE!

Judy McCoy Carman, M.A., earth, peace, and animal activist, is the author of Peace to All Beings: Veggie Soup for the Chicken’s Soul and the new book, Homo Ahimsa: Who we Really are and how we’re going to save the world. She is also co-author of The Missing Peace: The Hidden Power of our Kinship with Animals.  In addition to animal rescue work, some current projects include the Animals’ Peace Prayer Flag project; Vegan Spirituality interviews and retreats; and co-founding the Circle of Compassion, the Interfaith Vegan Coalition and Prayer Circle for Animals Facebook. She appears in the film, “A Prayer for Compassion,” and received the Henry Spira Grassroots Animal Activist Award in 2014. Her website is  www.peacetoallbeings.com . 

Tami S. Hay, M.A., RMT, Founder of Infinity 8 Food and Nutrition; Masters in Integrative Nutrition specializing in Detoxification, Hydration and Gut Health; and author of the book, EarthGut: The Story of Peace Love and Microbes – The journey into Healing MindBody Disorders, Digestive Dis-ease and our Reconnection to Mother Earth. Tami recovered from being very ill with crohns and colitis, teaches peace as studied by the Essenes, has experience in Social Work, and has been a massage therapist for two decades. Tami is a Mother Bear dedicated to keep our children and grandchildren’s mind-body well. She shares her log country home with many friends, family, Grandchildren, retreat participants, plants and sprouts, on a little piece of the prairie near Edmonton, Alberta. Her heart’s longing is for ALL sentient beings to be happy, healthy and FREE. Her website is https://tamihay.com/ .

Vegan Grandmothers Speak – A poem by Tami Hay, founder of Million Vegan Grandmothers (written April 10, 2024)

Photo and poem on grief by Tami Hay – THE SOUNDING

THE SOUNDING

There is something sounding in my heart, 
A calling we can seek to hear
From the bottom of my grief, 
Sunk right down to the hidden reef 
Where, cracked wide open, 
I feel it ALL.

Until I hit this bottom,
I lightly rode the waves,
I didn’t weep
Or feel the urgent stir, so deep,
To free all sentient souls
in thrall

I couldn’t see the shells and bones
Littering the sand below, 
Those castoffs hidden
In my underwater midden, 
“Less worthy are some,” I thought, to try and
cover sin.

Now something draws my eye, 
Not from on deck, 
But from sand-grazed knees, 
And through the murk of blood-soaked seas,
A vent or fissure, through which God’s light
Seeps slowly in…

© Tami Hay 2023

VEGAN NATION PHOTOS & more PHOTOS. Poster photos: Judy with bovine by Ann Wilson. Tami on dock. Art by Tami Hay.

Listen to the replay (28 minutes, 44 seconds audio .mp3) at the link above. Thank you. Vegan Nation interview with Dr. Susan Craig. APRIL 9, 2024 Tune in Tuesday 4 PM EDT wcuw.org/listen WCUW 91.3 FM. Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Much thanks to all. Vegan Nation Archives: vegansradio.com

Dr. Susan Craig, a longtime vegan for the animals, lives on an off-grid mini-farm in Northern California, where she grows food crops and manages a small, private sanctuary for rescued animals. Dr. Craig is a founding member of the North American Veganic Certification Standard (certifiedveganic.org). Her farm, Happy Chihuahua Acres, is the first Certified Veganic farm in California and is home to 12 dogs, 5 cats, 7 goats, 2 miniature horses, 3 ponies, and 1 sheep. 

Susan experienced first hand the effects of anthropogenic climate change in 2017 when her home at the time was destroyed in a massive wildfire. Following this life-altering event she became increasingly aware of the ongoing presence of jet aircraft spraying long, thick trails of silvery white dispersions in the skies (The scientific term is stratospheric aerosol injection or SAI.) above her rural homestead. This observation propelled a deep dive into learning as much as possible about the widespread covert practice of climate engineering and how it jeopardizes all life on Earth.

This interview on Vegan Nation focuses on one aspect of weather modification, the practice of chemically nucleated winter weather. Promising news about Tennessee’s ground-breaking legislation to ban climate engineering will also be discussed. Susan will also share updates about the growing interest in Veganic Certification. Dr. Craig recommends geoengineeringwatch.org as the go-to source for well-researched, credible information on the subject of climate engineering. (VEGAN NATION Photos)

Photos of Happy Chihuahua Acres ~ Apollo & Demi Diva (chihuahuas), Cupcake (pony), barley growing (4-4-24). Root cellar and SAI sky photo by Dr. Susan Craig (2023)

Music in this episode includes: “STILL THE LINE”, “TRAGEDY OF PETULANCE”, AND “TRAVELING SONG” by Sally Zito; “It’s OK to Love Me” by Monkeys with Drums (Carlos Garcia); and “Join the Waggle Dance” by Jen Armstrong (Vegan Queen V) in collaberation with Bonobo TV Publishing. Thanks again for tuning in to Vegan Nation.

Listen to the replay (29 minutes, 6 seconds audio .mp3) at the link above. Thank you. Tuesday, April 2, 2024, Vegan Nation featured a rebroadcast in Memory of Casey Sheehan (24) 5/29/79 – 4/04/04. Interview with Cindy ‘Peace Mom’ Sheehan (Interview first aired in 2022). Hosted by Marlene Narrow, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

wcuw.org/listen Vegan Nation is a 1/2 hour radio show On-Air 4 PM ET every Tuesday on WCUW 91.3 FM. April 2nd 4 pm Vegan Nation featured David Giardina’s songs & interview. Vegan Nation’s special tribute to Casey Sheehan aired immediately following Vegan Nation’s 4 PM broadcast. Thank you all. Peace to all.

“Eastertime is Hard for Me and My Family” Cindy Sheehan: Substack website. Rest in Peace, Casey Sheehan.