How Organizations Develop Activists, Not Leaders

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Get Political for Animals and Win the Laws They Need by Julie E. Lewis is a text book that step-by-step tells you exactly how to do all the political organizing stuff I was talking about before. As many activists as possible should own this book in the animal movement, I think it's just an incredible resource that exists. And outside of that, I'll say I love reading history books, generally, either like biographies or history of other social movements or important moments in history. There's just always incredible lessons.

David Coman-Hidy is former President of The Humane League, one of the largest farm animal advocacy organisations in the world. He now works as a Partner at Sharpen Strategy working to coach animal advocacy organisations.

In this episode, we discuss the age-old debate facing animal advocates: Should we pursue incremental approaches to improve welfare or should we only advocate for the total abolition of animal exploitation. Additionally, David also shares some approaches he would like to see more of within the animal advocacy movement, as well as what we could learn from other social movements.

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