Thanks-Living

Choosing compassion. Creating culture. Living our values.

As so many gather this week around heavy traditions, we choose something different — something alive, intentional, and rooted in empathy.

Thanks-Living isn’t about rewriting a holiday.

It’s about reclaiming our power to choose gentler traditions, nourish our communities, and honor every being who shares this world with us.

It’s a day defined not by the harm we accept, but by the compassion we practice.

For the Humane Party and The Humane Herald community, Thanks-Living echoes our deepest commitments:

• Ethical realism — refusing euphemisms and facing the truth of what conventional holidays cost animals, the planet, and our future.

• Abolitionist values — honoring life rather than treating it as property.

• Community and resilience — gathering around plant-based abundance, shared stories, and a vision of a more just nation.

• Gratitude with integrity — celebrating without causing suffering.

Today we celebrate the activists, writers, volunteers, and everyday compassionate humans reshaping culture one meal, one article, one conversation at a time. We celebrate you.

Here’s to Thanks-Living —

A holiday where no one is harmed for our traditions,

and where gratitude becomes an act of liberation.