Animal Rights [Coalition to Liberate Animals Worldwide]

Staten Island, New York: Coalition to Liberate Animals Worldwide (C.L.A.W.), [1989]. 3 ¾ x 8 ½ in. Xerox. Single sheet folded in thirds. Handbill (3 ¾ x 8 ½ in.) entitled “What’s so good about vegetarian eating?” tipped in. 

Pamphlet from a little-known animal rights activist organization active in the late 1980s in New York City. Dates and locations are written in an unknown hand on the front cover which, based on the “Burger King Liberty St/Church St” note, presumably denote protest actions.

The pamphlet rails against agribusiness and the “brainwashing” achieved by the propaganda of money interests. C.L.A.W. claims to engage in education, protests, lobbying, direct action, and networking with the broader animals right and social justice advocacy movements.

Tipped in is a handbill singing the praises of vegetarian eating, with a listen on New York vegetarian restaurants and grocery stores: Country Life, House of Vegetarian, Spring Street Natural, Blazing Salads, Eva’s, Pitaria, Shojin, Madras Palace, Healthy Chelsea, Leaf and Bean, Nature’s Exchange in the Bronx, and several more. 

Mild toning to head of pamphlet and annotation in red pen to front of pamphlet; otherwise, both very good. A rare artifact of street-level animal rights organizing in the 1980s, years before the Green Scare.