I floated lazily downstream on a makeshift raft I had created, the hot afternoon sun tanning my young skin, bees buzzing the honeysuckle that grew along its banks, a green-eyed dragonfly hovering before my hand-shielded face. There weren’t any other sounds for miles, just the running water emptying into tranquil pools that slowed the raft and spun it slowly before …
Laura Moretti
Laura Moretti
Laura Moretti is a lifelong animal and human rights activist. She is the director of The Animals Voice and the designer of David’s and MTP’s web sites, as well.
When it rains deep in the jungle, the Indonesian people of the Mentawai tribe huddle for warmth and safety in a community hut they’ve built of wood. They eat a prepared pulp of bamboo mush, an assortment of plant life, and an occasional wild pig they’ve caught, penned for fattening, and then collectively killed. The people of this tribe have …
Actor and musician David Soul, best known for his role as “Hutch” in the iconic 1970s television series, ‘Starsky and Hutch,’ is also a humanitarian and activist. Among his rights work, he was arrested in 1985 during a demonstration defending Rev. D. Douglas Roth, who was fired by the Lutheran Church for his anti-corporate sermons. Soul has also aided the …