Striking at the Roots

Striking at the Roots: A Practical Guide to Animal Activism is a non-fiction book by Mark Hawthorne that examines a number of strategies for animal activism in countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. The book was first published by O Books in the UK in January 2008.

More than 100 animal activists -- including Carol Adams, Gene Baur, Alka Chandna, Nick Cooney, Karen Davis, Joyce D’Silva, Adam Durand, Lisa Franzetta, Juliet Gellatley, Bruce Friedrich, Pattrice Jones, Erik Marcus, Jack Norris, Glenys Oogjes, Lauren Ornelas, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, Nathan Runkle, Paul Shapiro and Kim Sturla -- discuss the models of activism that work best for advancing animal rights and animal welfare.

Contents include discussions of leafleting, writing, tabling, protesting, corporate campaigning, legislation, lobbying, multimedia, direct action, and using vegan food as outreach.

Hawthorne says he wrote the book because when he first got into animal activism, he couldn’t find a book like it, “one resource that you could easily carry with you” that covers the broad range of activist models.¹

The title is derived from Walden, in which Henry David Thoreau writes: "The are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."²

References

1. Miller, Sienna. [http://www.strikingattheroots.com/uploads/FINDING_HIS_RELIGION.pdf Finding His Religion] . Vegan Voice magazine: May 2008.

2. Thoreau, Henry David. Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition. Yale University Press. 2004. ISBN: 0300104669.

External Links

[http://www.markhawthorne.com Striking at the Roots web site]

[http://strikingattheroots.wordpress.com/about/ Author's bio]