Vegan Spirituality Group of Philadelphia

We meet Monday evenings at 6pm Pacific / 7pm MT / 8pm CT / 9pm ET. Please note that while our route to mindfulness and compassion generally follows a vegan path, all are welcome – vegan, vegan-curious, and vegan-supportive. For our annual schedule and weekly discussion topics, click here.

Vegan Meditation is affiliated with the Compassion Consortium.

Please note these important details:

• As a security precaution, you must be signed in to a Zoom account to join the meeting. Zoom accounts are free at https://www.zoom.us/ (click signup) and you'll need to log in there BEFORE joining the meditation. If this is your first time, please register at that link in advance because doing so takes a few minutes.
• Please use a computer or tablet, as some Zoom features don’t work on a phone, and phones in general don't work well for our Zoom Meetups.
• Talking during the discussion is completely optional, but to help reduce trolling we ask that all participants keep their webcams on (and stay on webcam) during the entire session.
• Meditation begins promptly on the hour, so please arrive on time. When you enter, you'll see a meditation timer counting down from 15 minutes – that's your cue to begin meditating silently (or listen to your own guided meditation). We don't provide meditation instruction, but the basics are easy to learn through various online resources such as those here and here.
• While we officially end at the half-hour mark, depending on the number of people sharing, we may run later. If that happens, please feel free to stay or leave any time after the half-hour mark as you choose.
• The Zoom link will be displayed on the Meetup event page after you RSVP. We'll also send the Zoom link and discussion topic in a reminder email the day of the event. If you'd like to receive this reminder email, please keep your Meetup notification settings turned on.

See you soon!

The Compassion Consortium Service on Sunday, May 19, 2024, will feature our Special Spiritual Guest Lisa Kemmerer. www,compassionconsortium.org

Our Spiritual Guest for May 19 will be the renowned animal rights activist, scholar, and philosopher Lisa Kemmerer. Lisa Kemmerer is an American academic who has written on animal ethics and environmental ethics. She is the author or editor of nine books. In 2012 she researched wildlife conservation in Kenya and Peru.

Kemmerer studied at Reed College, at Harvard and at Glasgow University in Scotland, where in 1999 she completed a PhD with a dissertation on Protectionism: Applying Ethics Consistently. She is an associate professor at Montana State University in Billings, Montana.

Kemmerer has coined the term anymal as a “correct” term for non-human animals.

Publications:

In Search of Consistency: Ethics and Animals

Curly Tails and Cloven Hooves, poems

As editor, with Anthony J. Nocella: Call to Compassion: Reflections on World Religions and Animal Advocacy

Sister Species: Women, Animals, and Social Justice

Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

Animals and World Religions: Rightful Relations

As editor: Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

Bear Necessities: Protecting Bears through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

Animals and the Environment: Advocacy, Activism, and the Quest for Common Ground

Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

Learn more about Lisa at: Lisa Kemmerer

For the Compassion Consortium Compassion in Action on May 19 our guest will be Donny Moss.

Donny is a NYC-based animal rights activist who runs local campaigns and produces videos for TheirTurn.net. In 2008, Moss made the award-winning film BLINDERS that documents NYC’s controversial horse-drawn carriage trade.

In May 2015, he launched a grass roots campaign to compel the NY Blood Center to pay for the care of 66 chimpanzees who the organization abandoned with no food or water on islands in Liberia. That campaign ended in May 2017, when the organization made a $6M contribution to pay for the lifelong care of the chimps.

Donny also recently led protests inside of Adidas’s flagship store in New York City as part of a global effort to compel the sportswear giant to stop using kangaroo skin in its soccer cleats. Approximately thirty animal rights disrupted business inside of Adidas’s flagship store in New York City as part of a global effort to compel the sportswear giant to stop using kangaroo skin in its soccer cleats. The protest was organized by the animal rights groups NYCLASS and Donny’s TheirTurn organization with the support of The Center for A Humane Economy, a Washington-D.C.-based animal welfare organization running a global campaign to compel sneaker manufacturers to replace “k-leather” with cruelty-free materials.

For more information about Donny see: www.TheirTurn.net