Building Multispecies Resistance Against Exploitation

Zane McNeill is a scholar-activist from West Virginia and was co-manager of the collective, Rights for Animal Rights Activists (RARA). They have published edited collections with Lantern Publishing & Media, PM Press, and Routledge.

• Acknowledgments – Zane McNeill: Introduction – Catherine Oliver: Unfulfilled Resistance: The Labor of Not Surviving – S. Marek Muller: Violence Begets Violence: The Necessity of Solidarity with U.S. Slaughterhouse Workers – Ellyse Winter: Undercover Investigations and Carceral Veganism: The Limitations of "Removing the Veil" – Kelly Shanahan: Death or Deportation: A Nebraska-Based Study of the Exploitation of Immigrant Workers in Meatpacking Facilities and the Immigration Consequences of the Animal Protection Movement – Drew Robert Winter: Laboring for Nonhumans: An Autoethnography of an Animal Rights Non- Government Organization – Rajesh Reddy: Horses of a Different Color: Reckoning with Race in the March for Animal Rights – Hailey Huget: Abolish the Meat Industry: A Roadmap for Transforming Animal Liberation from a Single-Issue Cause into a Mass Movement – Will Boisseau: Animal Liberation, Class and Direct Action for Total Liberation – Dan Fischer: An Essay on Total Liberation: Marcusean Insights for Catalyzing Transformation – Nathan Poirier: Concluding Thoughts – Notes on Contributors.

This timely volume brings together a select group of committed activist-scholars to address what is perhaps the central question facing the pro-animal movement today: How should we think about violent discrimination against animals in conjunction with other forms of social injustice? The essays highlight not only the entangled forms of oppression at work in slaughterhouses and related institutions, but also uncover subtle forms of marginalization and exploitation at the very heart of the animal rights movement itself. The authors collectively aim to do nothing less than bring these interconnected forms of oppression to the surface and find means for eliminating them. The book deserves to be widely read and its suggestions for change widely implemented. Matthew Calarco Professor of Philosophy, California State University at Fullerton