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Commonality of Oppression - Sun. 9am
Commonalities of oppressing animals, children, women, others

Presenters: Jones, Ornelas, Patterson

Charles Patterson
Author, Eternal Treblinka

• Emergence of human beings as the master species and their domination of the rest of the inhabitants of the earth
  
  
• Industrialization of slaughter (of both animals and humans) that took place in modern times--with America giving the world the slaughterhouse and Nazi Germany giving it the gas chamber
  
  
• Similarities between how the Nazis treated their victims and how modern society treats animals
  
  
• Profiles of Jewish and German vegetarians and animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust
  
  

These remarks are based on ideas expressed in Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust (Lantern Books, 2002), now in 13 languages

[The book's title is from the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer: "In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka."]