One Kind World Foundation, Santa Monica, CA (2026)

06/19/2026

Six years ago today, we lost Regan Russell.

She knelt beside transport trucks on scorching summer days and offered water to pigs who were hours from death. She had been doing this since before most of today’s activists were born. She did not need recognition for it. She did not require an audience. She required only that the suffering in front of her be met with kindness.

“When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to him who suffers, and try to help him.”
~ Leo Tolstoy

She came closer. Every time, she came closer.
Big Agriculture spent years persuading governments that this- a woman offering water to a sentient being who suffered their whole life, was a threat worth legislating against. They poured money into the halls of power and walked out with Bill 156, a law that criminalized bearing witness. That criminalized the photograph, the testimony, the outstretched hand. An industry built on suffering, terrified of a single pair of eyes.
Bill 156 passed on June 17, 2020. Two days later, Regan Russell was dead. The driver did not have the decency to get down from his truck. He was fined two thousand dollars.

Big Ag got its law. They got their silence. They did not get our surrender.

Regan deserved a world that protected her the way she protected others. We are still building it.

For Regan. 🕯
And for EVERY life she fought for.

📽️Documentary: CaveLight Films

06/19/2026

There is a particular kind of city that treats what its people eat as a question of justice. New York has moved steadily toward that conviction. This week it took a decisive step.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has named Siddhartha Sanchez Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office of Food Policy. Sanchez is a lifelong vegan, raised in Washington Heights, shaped by the neighborhoods he now returns to serve. He brings more than two decades of nonprofit leadership and community-rooted food work to the role. In the 1990s, before the language of food justice had reached city podiums, he founded a catering company devoted to vegan Dominican cooking, the cuisine of his own lineage offered to a wider table. Years later, at the Bronx River Alliance, he helped raise the first edible food forest in New York City at Concrete Plant Park, returning native berries and vegetables to a reclaimed industrial lot. He has spent his working life teaching the city to find abundance in the places it had written off.

He inherits a foundation already laid. In 2022, every public school in New York launched plant-based Fridays, reaching roughly 930,000 students. In 2025, the city revised its food standards toward whole, plant-centered meals and removed processed meats from eleven agencies, among them schools, hospitals, senior centers, and shelters.

New York has not waited. Grocery costs here run nearly 18 percent above the national average, and the families who carry that weight live largely in low-income communities of color, where nourishing food has long been hardest to reach. Sanchez states the matter plainly. Food security cannot be separated from racial and economic justice. He has built his life around that conviction.

One Kind World celebrates the appointment, and we will work to see more cities follow.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani NYC Mayor's Office and congratulations, Siddhartha Sanchez !!

🌱 One Kind World Foundation

06/11/2026

🚨 RYDER’S LAW IS REINTRODUCED TODAY. WE ARE DONE WAITING 🚨

Deniz was sixteen years old. She spent those years in harness, on asphalt, in traffic, in heat, pulling strangers through Central Park. On the evening of June 9th, 2026, she collapsed on that same pavement and died, while witnesses begged for a veterinarian who never came, while Central Park representatives stood by, while police stood by, while her owner showed no distress and not one person placed a hand on her to comfort her during her last moments.

Reportedly, Deniz’ “owner” has already moved to replace her.

TODAY, Council Member Christopher Marte Christopher Marte is reintroducing Ryder’s Law before the New York City Council. This bill has been fought for, blocked, buried, and brought back because the dying has not stopped.

NYC Council Member Lynn Schulman Lynn Schulman 舒曼琳 looked at this industry, looked at the bodies, and called for “bridging the divide between stakeholders.” In November 2025, she blocked public comment entirely. She led the vote that killed Ryder’s Law 4 to 1. Seventy-eight percent of New Yorkers wanted this bill to pass, and she chose the industry over compassion.

Council Member Jim Gennaro James F. Gennaro called the bill “ill-conceived and silly.” Say that to Deniz. Say that to Ryder. Say that to Lady. Say it to every horse that has died on the streets of this city while this Council took meetings and ran out the clock.

Council Speaker Julie Menin Speaker Julie Menin Julie Menin DID NOT EVEN APPEAR for the vote. The Speaker of the New York City Council could not be bothered to show up!!

Remember every single one of their names!

Mayor Zohran Mamdani Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani : you said you were disturbed. You said you support removing the carriages. New York is watching you govern in real time. This is the moment. DO SOMETHING. LEAD.

: We demand this cruelty end NOW.

📅 Thursday, June 11
🕐 1:30 PM
📍 New York City Hall, Manhattan

Arrive early. Line up outside the gates before 1:30 PM. The public gallery is open. Fill those chambers until there is no question about where the people of this city stand.

🐴

06/11/2026

🚨 RYDER’S LAW IS REINTRODUCED TODAY. WE ARE DONE WAITING 🚨

Deniz was sixteen years old. She spent those years in harness, on asphalt, in traffic, in heat, pulling strangers through Central Park. On the evening of June 9th, 2026, she collapsed on that same pavement and died, while witnesses begged for a veterinarian who never came, while Central Park representatives stood by, while police stood by, while her owner showed no distress and not one person placed a hand on her to comfort her during her last moments.

Reportedly, Deniz’ “owner” has already moved to replace her.

TODAY, Council Member Christopher Marte Christopher Marte is reintroducing Ryder’s Law before the New York City Council. This bill has been fought for, blocked, buried, and brought back because the dying has not stopped.

NYC Council Member Lynn Schulman Lynn Schulman 舒曼琳 looked at this industry, looked at the bodies, and called for “bridging the divide between stakeholders.” In November 2025, she blocked public comment entirely. She led the vote that killed Ryder’s Law 4 to 1. Seventy-eight percent of New Yorkers wanted this bill to pass, and she chose the industry over compassion.

Council Member Jim Gennaro James F. Gennaro called the bill “ill-conceived and silly.” Say that to Deniz. Say that to Ryder. Say that to Lady. Say it to every horse that has died on the streets of this city while this Council took meetings and ran out the clock.

Council Speaker Julie Menin Speaker Julie Menin Julie Menin DID NOT EVEN APPEAR for the vote. The Speaker of the New York City Council could not be bothered to show up!!

Remember every single one of their names!

Mayor Zohran Mamdani Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani : you said you were disturbed. You said you support removing the carriages. New York is watching you govern in real time. This is the moment. DO SOMETHING. LEAD.

: We demand this cruelty end NOW.

📅 Thursday, June 11
🕐 1:30 PM
📍 New York City Hall, Manhattan

Arrive early. Line up outside the gates before 1:30 PM. The public gallery is open. Fill those chambers until there is no question about where the people of this city stand.

🐴

06/09/2026

One Kind World Foundation
In Memoriam

Anthony Stewart Head
20 February 1954 - 5 June 2026

One night in Bath, Anthony Head and his partner Sarah were driving when they saw a dog running loose among the traffic. A Staffordshire Bull Terrier mix, alone and terrified on the road. They stopped the car, carried her from the pavement, and took her to safety. They named the little girl Faith.

Anthony lived for more than forty years in the Somerset countryside, on a ninety-acre farm called Tilley, where he and Sarah made a home and filled it with animals who had nowhere else to go. He gave his time to the shelters and sanctuaries around Bath, and he gave his name when they asked for it, and he showed up when showing up was what was truly what was needed.

Anthony said once that rescue makes the bond between a person and an animal something more, because the animal knows. He had seen it enough times to be certain.

In December of 2025, Anthony lost his beloved Sarah, his partner of forty-three years. She had spent her life as an advocate for animal welfare, and he had spent his beside her. Their daughters Emily and Daisy grew up on that farm, watching both of their parents move through the world with that same steady, unannounced care. When Anthony died on June 5th, just six months after their mother, Emily and Daisy told the world that witnessing his impact on others had been the honor of their lives.

At One Kind World Foundation, we believe that the measure of a life is in what it protected. Anthony Head stopped for a dog running in traffic on a dark night in Bath, carried her to safety, and gave her a name that meant everything. He did that kind of thing for forty years, without any theater, without it ever needing it to be a story.

But we believe it is a story, and it is the only story that matters.

We honor him, and we will not forget him.

Rest now, Anthony. Thank you for everything. 🙏🕊️🌍🌱💕

One Kind World Foundation
Be kind to each other and all others.
For every being. For all life. For our shared and only home.
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06/04/2026

His name was Chutou. He was eight years old, a Border Collie who had spent his life traveling across China with his human companion Guo. From snowy mountains to deserts, he had documented years of journeys with more than 1.5 million followers watching, often guarding Guo outside his tent at night. Guo had known him since he was three months old.

While Guo was traveling abroad, Chutou was taken from his family’s privately owned land. He was wearing a collar and a tracking device. The couple who stole him claimed they thought Chutou “was just a stray.” They sold him for 180 yuan, roughly $25, to a restaurant. By the time Guo learned of this, Chutou had already been slaughtered and eaten. The accused and their relatives offered no apology.

Between 10 and 20 million dogs are killed for meat annually in China, in a trade that is unregulated and frequently illegal, operating through organized networks of theft, transport, slaughter, and sale. Organized gangs use poison darts to sedate and steal companion animals directly from their families. Many arrive at slaughterhouses still wearing the collars their families put on them. The annual Yulin Dog Meat Festival, held each June during the summer solstice, sees thousands of dogs slaughtered over ten days. It begins in seventeen days.

China has no comprehensive national anti-cruelty legislation protecting companion animals. A nation of 1.4 billion people has no federal law that makes what happened to Chutou unambiguously, prosecutably illegal.

And yet we must sit with something harder. The grief flooding the internet for Chutou is right and warranted. But somewhere a pig spent her entire life in a crate too narrow to turn around in, a cow watched her calf taken from her hours after birth, and there is no investigation, no viral post, no outpouring of rage. They live and die unseen, in the same darkness Chutou died in. Every life that can suffer deserves the same protection we are demanding for him.

Chutou deserved to live out his natural life beside the person who loved him. Every single one of them does.

06/04/2026

One hundred thousand Albanians poured into the streets of Tirana this week. They carried cardboard cutouts of pink flamingos, the very birds whose ancient migration corridor Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s $4 billion resort would pave over and silence forever.

Ordinary people who looked at what was happening to their coastline, to their protected wetlands, to the creatures who have traveled the Adriatic Flyway since long before any border was drawn on any map, and decided that their bodies in the street were the only answer left.

Police met them with water cannons on June 3rd. Construction proceeded without consultation and without transparency inside a formally designated protected area, excavators moving through ancient ecosystems in late May to open access routes. Albania’s Special Anti-Corruption Prosecution Office, SPAK, has opened a formal investigation into the funds used to acquire the land titles and the legislative changes that made the whole thing legally possible.

A hundred thousand human beings standing in the June heat, met with water cannons, while their own government is under corruption investigation; and still, through all of it, the bulldozers run.

This is what the defense of the living world looks like in 2026. It looks like a grandmother in Tirana holding a paper flamingo above her head in the June heat, asking her government a question it does not want to answer.

We stand with every one of them.

06/03/2026

Prince William founded the , travels the world awarding millions of pounds to those working to repair the living systems of this earth, and addresses humanity with the gravity of a man who understands what is at stake. “2030 is a threshold by which future generations will judge us,” he has said. “It is the point at which our actions, or lack of them, will have shaped forever the trajectory of our planet.”

These are not small words. They are the words of someone who understands that the natural world needs our steadfast care.

And then Prince William goes home.

Killing parties at estates like Sandringham routinely deliver between 300 and 350 birds slaughtered among eight participants in a single day. Freedom of Information requests have revealed that more than 7,000 mammals and birds were killed on royal land in a single year. The Princess of Wales has become, by multiple accounts, a keen and accomplished killer of sentient, living beings. Prince George has already been taken to grouse slaughter, the tradition transferred with deliberate care to the next generation.

And the foxes. Hunted for centuries with a ruthlessness so codified it became ritual, chased to exhaustion by horses and hounds before being torn apart. Banned in its traditional form since 2004, the slaughter continues on the same land, with the same horses, the same hounds, and largely the same participants, rebranded as trail hunting. The fox remains the quarry. Only the paperwork has changed.

The prize podium and the killing field are both expressions of the same life, sustained by the same hereditary privilege, funded by the same British public Prince William addresses with such apparent moral urgency. There is no speech about the fate of the earth that survives the journey home to a Boxing Day killing.

It is pure, undiluted hypocrisy.

The fact that something has always been done is not a reason to continue it. It is simply what cruelty is called when those practicing it have done so long enough to engrave it on their crest.

06/03/2026

SeaWorld announced this week the passing of Dottie, a dolphin who lived 39 years in their keeping. They described her as extraordinary. They called her deeply known. They spoke of her tenacity, her resilience, her strong personality, her bond with her trainers.

They did not mention that she was a prisoner.

Dottie was born into captivity at SeaWorld Orlando in 1987 and spent every day of her 39 years inside tanks. A pod of wild dolphins travels up to 100 kilometers a day in the open ocean, with family members who frequently remain together for life, teaching each other survival skills across entire coastlines. Dottie never knew a coastline. She never dove to the depths her body was built to reach, choose her companions, or experience the full acoustic world of the open sea. She performed and was observed. She was, in SeaWorld’s own language, known to guests. Her “bond” with her trainers was not tenderness freely given. It was the only relationship available to her as she had no one else.

We grieve her passing, but not in the way SeaWorld does. We grieve the 39 years of life she was denied.

The institution that mourns her today is part of an industry that made her story possible and makes the story of others like her inevitable. Prior to a ruling by the National Marine Fisheries Service declaring the practice illegal, small cetaceans were regularly obtained by SeaWorld directly from Taiji, Japan. The global captivity industry is widely understood to be the primary financial engine sustaining the Taiji drive hunts. A live bottlenose dolphin selected for performance can fetch between $30,000 and $150,000 on the world aquarium market, compared to under $1,000 for a dolphin killed for meat. The 2024/25 Taiji season saw 94 dolphins captured alive for sale to marine entertainment venues worldwide, with hunters increasingly prioritizing live captures over slaughter precisely because the captivity market is so lucrative.

In Taiji, hunters chase pods to exhaustion by speedboat, separate families with nets, and hold terrified animals in a cove while trainers walk among them selecting the young, the beautiful, and the compliant. The rest are killed. The water runs red. And somewhere on the other side of the world, a tank is waiting.

Five of the world’s largest travel companies, Trip.com, Klook, Traveloka, GetYourGuide, and TUI, currently offer tickets to dolphin entertainment venues with documented connections to Taiji-sourced animals. The supply chain of captive dolphin entertainment runs directly through that cove, and every ticket purchased to watch a dolphin perform is a link in that chain.

SeaWorld did not import Dottie from Taiji. But the industry SeaWorld represents, the one that normalized dolphin performance and built an entire economy around keeping these beings in concrete and glass, created and continues to sustain the demand that makes Taiji profitable. These things are not separate. They are the same story, told in different languages, ending the same way.

Dottie died on May 31, 2026. We do not know the full measure of what she understood of her own life, though the science of dolphin cognition suggests she understood far more than we have ever been comfortable acknowledging. Dottie had a mother’s love, and raised four calves inside those walls; yet whatever she transmitted to them, it was not freedom.

She deserved the ocean. Every dolphin and sentient life performing in a tank today deserves the ocean.

Rest now, sweet Dottie. You are finally FREE. We are so sorry it took the world this long to say so.

06/03/2026

In 1963, the Bronx Zoo unveiled an exhibit titled The Most Dangerous Animal in the World. Visitors approached the cage and found a mirror.

Demographers estimate that roughly 117 billion human beings have lived since the emergence of our species across 190,000 years of existence: every civilization that rose and fell, every person who ever lived and disappeared into the long current of human time. When we combine the approximately 88 billion land animals slaughtered annually with the two trillion marine beings pulled from their ocean home each year, we are killing the numerical equivalent of every human being who has ever existed on this earth once every 20 days. Every 20 days, we erase the entire human story.

Simultaneously, the tropics lost a record 6.7 million hectares of primary rainforest in 2024 alone; an area nearly the size of Panama, the most catastrophic loss since satellite monitoring began. Global forest destruction is currently running 63% higher than the trajectory required to halt it by 2030. These are not statistics to be filed and forgotten. Each hectare is a community of beings, reduced to extraction revenue.

The science has been unambiguous for decades. Vertebrates experience pain. Fish demonstrate fear responses, memory, and social cognition. Crustaceans alter their behavior to avoid noxious stimuli, which is the neurological signature of suffering. We have peer-reviewed documentation of all of it. We have continued regardless.

The 8.2 billion people alive today represent approximately 7% of all humans who have ever existed, a small fraction of the human story. And within our fraction, we have industrialized killing and extraction at a scale no prior civilization could have conceived, and named it economy.

Sixty three years later, and every metric has worsened. The most dangerous animal in the world is the one who will read these numbers, feel a moment of discomfort, and return to the very behaviors that produced them.

We are that animal. We carry that shame. And we carry, equally, the responsibility to become something worthy of the mirror.

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