December opens with World AIDS Day — a global moment of remembrance and resolve — but it also reveals a deeper reality unfolding across the United States: a federal government growing increasingly silent in the face of suffering. From HIV prevention and civil rights protections to hunger, housing, and public health, compassion is receding from national leadership at a time when communities need it most. This month’s This Month in Compassion examines where empathy is thriving at the grassroots level, where it is disappearing at the federal level, and why ethical governance demands that compassion remain at the heart of every policy decision.
Tag: Humane Party
Black Friday Without Buying: The Rise of the Consumer Blackout Movement
A growing movement is calling for a full consumer blackout over Black Friday weekend—urging people to skip the sales and resist the hyper-capitalist pressure to buy. The blackout shines a light on exploitative labor, environmental damage, psychological manipulation, and the animal suffering embedded in the holiday retail spike. Through the Humane Party lens, it’s an act of ethical realism: choosing not to feed a system built on harm.
Thanks-Living
A reflection on Thanks-Living as a compassionate alternative to traditional holidays, emphasizing abolitionist values, ethical realism, and the Humane Party’s vision for a culture rooted in empathy rather than exploitation.
The Quiet Revolution or a Quiet Trap?
The FDA’s expanded approval of cultivated meat marks a major shift in U.S. food policy. But beneath the promise of slaughter-free protein lies a harder ethical question: Are we truly ending our exploitation of animals, or simply modernizing it? A technology that begins with the taking of another being’s cells cannot deliver liberation. It can only deliver a cleaner mirror for our existing beliefs.
A Broken Clock and a Broken System
HHS’s recent shift away from federally funded animal testing is a meaningful win for the animals trapped in America’s laboratories. But when progress arrives from a political figure widely regarded as unreliable, it exposes a deeper problem: true leadership was missing long before this moment. The credit belongs to public pressure, not to the man temporarily occupying the seat.
Transgender Day of Remembrance 2025: Honoring Lives Lost, Confronting a Crisis of Violence
Transgender Day of Remembrance honors the lives lost to anti-trans violence and exposes the urgent need for nationwide protections. This piece reflects on the crisis facing transgender communities and highlights ERA2 as a path toward full constitutional equality.
The Seventh Amendment: Justice by the People
Explore how the Humane Party’s ethical vision reimagines the Seventh Amendment—America’s forgotten promise of justice by the people.
The Sixth Amendment: The Voice of the Accused
Explore the Sixth Amendment through the Humane Party’s ethical lens—how the right to a fair trial, open court, and true justice remains the test of a nation’s conscience.
Deconstructing Dominance: The Language of Oppression from Barn to Boardroom
Words shape how we see — and who we harm. From barns to boardrooms, euphemisms like “processing” and “human capital” make cruelty sound routine. The Humane Party calls for truth in language, reminding us that liberation begins with the courage to speak honestly.
Eyes in the Slaughterhouse: Why Transparency Terrifies the Industry
UnchainedTV’s call for mandatory cameras inside slaughterhouses has reignited a national debate on transparency, ethics, and power. While mainstream “humane” groups stay silent, the Humane Party argues that true oversight isn’t reform — it’s revelation.
Celebrate Bisexuality Day: Visibility, Equality, and the Ongoing Struggle for Recognition
Celebrate Bisexuality Day, observed every September 23, honors bisexual visibility and equality. Explore its history, connection to ERA/ERA2, and why visibility matters today.
Three Things the Humane Party Is Not
The Clarity of Repulsion Some years ago, I helped develop a playful, quirky, non-scholarly personality test based on a certain … More
The Monthly Pulse: July 2025
As the world sweltered through the hottest July on record, the fight for justice—in every form—pressed forward with renewed urgency. … More
Humane National Committee: Political Representation for All Animals—Not just the Human Kind
Humane National Committee (HNC) Structure The Humane National Committee (HNC) is the future governing body of the Humane Party. Its … More
“Jane Unchained” Covers U.S.’s First Vegan, Animal Rights Political Party
Jane Unchained News Network has published a new article covering the Humane Party, which emerged in 2009 as the U.S.’s … More
Massive surge of support bodes well as Humane Party celebrates 12th anniversary
The events of 2020-21 have engendered a massive, worldwide surge of support for Humane Party positions that had previously been … More
