Showing posts with label Pact. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pact. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Speak for Those Who Have No Voice

Hey, please help this house resolution become a bill and then the law of the land.

Animal abusers and murderers often get off scot-free.

And these same people are very likely to turn their hands on humans later.

I already called my senators and representative.

It will only take five minutes of your time.



Help pass a national animal cruelty law.

The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act will make it a federal crime to commit malicious cruelty to an animal on federal property or otherwise in interstate commerce.

Federal law already prohibits animal fighting, as well as the trade in obscene video depictions of animals being crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled or subjected to other forms of heinous cruelty. But while the trade in video depictions of cruelty is banned, the underlying cruelty itself is not. The PACT Act will create a federal anti-cruelty statute that complements the cruelty laws in the 50 states.

TAKE ACTION
Please make a brief, polite phone call now to your U.S. Representative and your two U.S. Senators. Look up your federal lawmakers' phone numbers. You can say, "As a constituent who cares about animals, I urge you to co-sponsor H.R. 1494/S. 654, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act. If you're already co-sponsoring the bill, thank you and please do all that you can to get it enacted quickly."

--source: The Human Society of the United States

Monday, February 20, 2017

Gil Ott's Pact (2002)

I was reading in an old issue of the venerable, Philly-based TO magazine yesterday and today. This particular issue's focus was fiction, and featured almost exclusively non-normative narrative writing and hybrid forms of writing.

I remember being impressed with Gil Ott's fiction in this issue. This was way back in the nineties. I wondered how these pages would hold up, all these years later.

They held up admirably. The three short pieces by Ott included in this issue are stellar. Two of the stories are decidedly creepy. One is supernaturally skewed. All are rife with pathos.

I wondered if Ott's fiction had been published in book form and found these stories had been packaged as "prose poems" and included in Pact.

I suppose one could go with that designation. Labels are superfluous things.

In any case, I'll order this book in the near future. I'm happy that it exists.