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Our Interfaith Vegan Coalition bestowed our third annual Homo Ahimsa Award to Wayne Hsiung and Priya Sawhney, co-founders of Direct Action Everywhere and The Simple Heart Initiative, for trailblazing the “Right To Rescue” animals who are suffering or injured and in need of veterinary attention. Together, they created a precedent-setting campaign to gain public support for animal rescue, raise awareness about the political and legal repression of animal rescuers, and ultimately establish the legal right to rescue animals from abuse in the agricultural industry, where it is common practice.

Ahimsa is the Sanskrit word for non-harm and nonviolence. Venerated champions of the teaching include Mahatma Gandhi, who took a vow of ahimsa that informed his life and his activism. The Interfaith Vegan Coalition grants the Homo Ahimsa Award to those who embody the Homo ahimsa qualities of nonviolence and compassion for all beings. Homo Ahimsa Award recipients demonstrate how vegan living can co-create a world of peace, partnership, and loving kindness by ending violence and domination to people, animals, and the Earth. The award is named after the book, "Homo Ahimsa: Who We Really Are and How We’re Going to Save the World," by the Interfaith Vegan Coalition’s co-founder Judy Carman, who coined the term.

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