The Largest All-Vegan Thanksgiving Food Share
Long Island Food Not Bombs, in recent years has re-defined food sharing programs, constantly outdoing similar programs and even themselves with the quantity of food shared, it’s quality, and the community participation the sharing inspires. There has never been a Food Not Bombs chapter that has exponentially grown this way, and in LIFNB’s growth […]
A Plea for Progress
As Election Day is upon us, I vacillate between continuing to play my assigned role in the sham of American “democracy” (i.e. voting for someone who will, in the end, cater not to the needs of the people, but to whichever corporation has financed her/his campaign) and casting a non-vote of protest. This year, however, […]
The Peace Process
I know we’re not supposed to talk about this, it’s too controversial in this country to talk about Israel or Zionism, and it’s easier to pretend that it doesn’t perpetuate the longest standing current day human rights crisis in the world. It would, I’m sure, make many of us more comfortable if human rights activists […]
Mainstreaming Palestine With Invincible
Save the Date! – OCTOBER 26, 2010 PROJECT PALESTINE PRESENTS – Mainstreaming Palestine An evening of music, words and a motion picture. Featuring INVINCIBLE “One of the most talented emcees I’ve ever heard, black or white, male or female”—Talib Kweli THE NEW SCHOOL 66 W. 12th Street, Room A-404 Pamela Olson Oklahoma-born Author, Hear excerpts from […]
Cipher’s ‘Joyous Collapse’ is Making the Political, Personal
This week Sparrow’s Andy Stepanian highlighted the political punk band Cipher in an article he wrote for The Huffington Post. The article garnered a bit of attention for Cipher, which was the point …Cipher has always put sincerity, ethics, and substance before the fluff of the music industry, if only every band had the hearts […]
Race and Religion as Red Herrings
[T]he hangover has hit hard, on many fronts and, true to form, post-racial America has proven itself to be as virulently racist as always; an ignominious tradition remains unbroken…
Bansky Shanks FOX with Storyboard for Simpson’s Intro
Usually we reserve space on this blog only for projects we are actively involved in or for activist efforts that we support but today may be one of the few exceptions. The semi-elusive UK street artist Banksy was commissioned to storyboard the intro to the primetime animated television show The Simpsons which airs weekly on […]
35 Seconds – Short Stories From Haiti
Yesterday, Sparrow cofounder & contributor, Andy Stepanian wrote an article for The Huffington Post about a new documentary short by Dustin Miller, Nate Williams & Eric Hires about what life is like in post-earthquake Haiti. There are serious concerns that with a lack of popular media attention that the relief efforts to Haiti will subside during […]
Peace Activists Targeted By FBI for Justice Work; Protests Planned Nation-Wide This Week to Show Solidarity & Support
If, in fact, there is anyone left who still believes that Barack Obama is a progressive, I offer this past Friday’s raids on peace activists in Minneapolis and Chicago as proof to the contrary. The homes of eight activists were invaded and their belongings confiscated due to their support of the Palestinian cause and the […]
Victory for Activists, Animals & Environment as Proposed LNG Island is Shut Down!
After an 18month+ campaign by activists in the Northeast the proposal to build an Liquid Natural Gas terminal and artificial island 13 miles south of Long Beach has been shut down! In April of 2009 The Sparrow Project partnered with Clean Ocean Action, The Surfrider Foundation, local environmentalists, politicians, and artists in an effort to […]
Russell Simmons on Activism, Spirituality & Bold Native
After hosting the New York premiere of Bold Native, the first fiction film about the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), Russell Simmons sits down to talk about veganism, spirituality and radical activism. On the nine billion animals bred, raised and killed for food annually in the U.S., Simmons says, “Aside from all the suffering we’re causing […]
Calling All Designers! – New Book, Designing For Social Change, Makes Call For Submissions
Calling all community-based graphic designers! Author Andrew Shea is looking for projects to feature in his upcoming book. Have you used a graphic design to help a community in need? Do you have insights into this process? If so, visit andrewshea.com/book.html and submit your work. From the website: “This book will emphasize strategies to help […]
Bold Native: Like All Revolutionary Films…
When Open Road Film’s Denis Hennelly and Casey Suchan set out to make Bold Native they wanted to work in the spirit of revolutionary films like Easy Rider. They succeeded. Bold Native is a feature film on the subject of animal liberation but at its heart, much like Easy Rider, it’s a road film about […]
Uganda Skate Union Support Shirts & CNN
The Uganda Skateboard Union in Kitintale Uganda has whittled itself out a little place in the hearts of us here at Sparrow. If you are able to, please consider buying one of these t-shirts we made to support their beautiful program that embodies solidarity and hope. One year ago Cassi Amanda Gibson visited their […]
BP’s Greenwashing & Greenpeace’s Rebranding
For those reading this via RSS or on facebook click here to view the full post w/ video. Last week Andy Stepanian of The Sparrow Project wrote an article for The Huffington Post declaring that, “all of BP’s greenwashing can clean up their spill,” and this week that is becoming evident. The article drew […]
Long Beach Swim 4 Humanity Event to Benefit Surfaid International
Much thanks are due to Danny Bobis of Cipher for this contribution, and moreover big thanks are owed to Danny for all the hard work he has put into coordinating this amazing fundraiser in Long Beach. Worldwide, 10 million children die each year from preventable diseases. You can help make a difference by participating in […]
Adham the Father of Sayaaf
Please Check Out Andy Stepanian’s Article this week on Huffington Post, Share It With Your Friends, & Leave Comments on the Huffington Post Blog So That They Will Continue to Pay Attention To This Important Story! “Before Abu-Sayyaf was an inmate in a secretive US political prison called a ‘Communications Management Unit’ Abu-Sayyaf was a […]
Interview with Moby & Miyun Park
A few weeks ago the sparrow project had the privilege to sit down with multi-platinum recording artist and producer, Moby and Miyun Park, executive director to the Global Animal Partnership to discuss their new book Gristle out now through The New Press. Gristle addresses issues ranging from workers rights to animal welfare to the environmental […]
Anti-LNG Earth Week Events
For more info on the Green Expo click here. Long Island says, “NO TO LNG!” With little public review a group of investors proposed the construction of an artificial island 13 miles south of Long Beach that would import and re-gas foreign Liquid Natural Gas (LNG.) The plan is bad for our environment, it poses […]
Leanne Mai-Ly Hilgart of Vaute Couture
Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart, founder of Vaute Couture, the first and only vegan winter coat line on the market sat down with the Sparrow Project this fall for an interview where she detailed her 8 months of fabric research for a vegan alternative to wool that was slim & pretty but ready for a Chicago winter. […]
Speak With It Too
The following video has been circulating around activist communities in the past few weeks, it’s a brilliantly animated typographic depiction of a poem by Taylor Mali. The artist, Ronnie Bruce, made it as a class project over a year ago and later posted on his vimeo page. Without over analyzing, this video is a prime […]
Muzzling A Movement 3/23/2010 NYU
The NYU Student Animal Legal Defense Fund presents “Muzzling A Movement” a speaking engagement with former SHAC 7 prisoner Andy Stepanian, and Dara Lovitz whose book, Muzzling A Movement, on the suppression of speech & first amendment protected protest within the animal protection movement, is due out this summer from Lantern Books. Activist & former […]
50%50 Solidarity Shirts
For those visiting from SuperVegan.com Please be sure to check out our new online store here. It’s exciting news to say that after a lot of saving up money, designing, and signing contracts the Sparrow Project is proud to announce that this Spring 2010 we will be launching a line of benefit shirts, that are […]
Island to Island Opening 1/23/2010
Recently we were hired to make a video short to help promote Brent Gentile’s latest exhibition called Island to Island. All smooth-talking aside, it can hardly be considered work when you are dealing with content as interesting as Brent’s. Merging what some call graffiti with victorian styles Brent Gentile uses ornamental flourishes, stencils & urban […]