This topic is very dear to my heart because it tells me that every day you are taking something you have learned about through this magazine—or through PETA’s Web site or through literature you may have received in the mail or picked up at an animal rights table—and putting it to work for animals.

Being an activist is surprisingly easy. The hardest part is making the decision to stand up for what you believe in, even when it means people may not agree with you. Once you get involved, though, you will meet new friends and find more and more people who give you a thumbs up.

Your posters, your letters to the editor, the literature you leave at the local store and your voice will all work to make people ponder, even subconsciously, what you have shown them.

What changed my life was seeing footage of a Sea Shepherd ship blockading a whaler on the TV news. For others, it may have been a book like Animal Liberation, loaned to them by someone like you. Or a shared Animal Times® magazine.

It is the job of each one of us to be heard. The animals have no voice, so we must speak for them. So, please, keep up the racket! People are listening—and learning and changing.

Thank you for all you do.