glad you're all so keen, we've been leafletting regularly since prior to zChristmas re. factory farming and have done some about animal exp. this week and are doing more this thursday. im also on hol's and am happy to do some in city at anytime. please tell me if u r interested and i will pass on to organiser
'Hopefully' in Frankston? Lol this place is boring (I live there)
Anyway on topic, I would love to join you as well, the more the merrier! Just not on a day over 30 degrees!
I want to do stuff like this too, but I live far out of Melbourne and can't really get into the city so I just try to do stuff over the internet, like sending letters.
Good luck with the actuvism though!
I want to do stuff like this too, but I live far out of Melbourne and can't really get into the city so I just try to do stuff over the internet, like sending letters.
Good luck with the actuvism though!
You can leaflet on traffic bridges and stuff maybe if you have a busy town centre near where you live maybe someone can take you one day if they lived near you.
I think its so great that we can do e-activism these days, the world of electronic letter writing is fantasticly convenient. However if you were trapped in one of those place (any of "those places") what would you want people to do about it? send emails? write polite letters to your captors? just a thought... I think the Action Alerts are great though and always do them although alot is letter writing, but think outside the square, I mean can you name any great movement in history that suceeded through letter writing/e-activism alone?
I also have a couple of questions... like do I need a permit to campaign somewhere like flinders street station or fed square? Anything else important I should know??
I will be organising leafletting in Melbourne four times a week for the next few months (at least):
No permit needed 4 flindersor fed square .
Im in just let me know when and what
Ill be in sydney for a week from this sunday so after that lets do some stuff
hah just went to Sydney for a week
glad im back, Melbourne!
An update: the Universities aren't back yet, so I won't be doing lunchtimes for the moment.
In addition, I won't do leafletting tomorrow, as it's just too darn hot!
I intned to leaflet on Friday though, get in touch if you want to join me at Fed Square
Roy
0402 580 338
I've been vegan for 9 months now, and haven't been happier. I've just started reading Keith Mann's book 'From Dusk Til Dawn' which outline some of his activism as well as the general history of animal liberation. I'm all of 15 pages through it, and i'm already so angry! I want to do more, but I don't know where to begin. Work has recently slowed down so for the next couple of weeks I have some spare time on my hands. If anyone feels the same and wants to get active, contact me! I want to start small, so I have asked for some campaign material and want to get started as soon as it arrives (Im hoping in the next 7-10 days). It'd be great to meet some like-minded people at the same time.
Who wants to join me?!?
I also have a couple of questions... like do I need a permit to campaign somewhere like flinders street station or fed square? Anything else important I should know??
Thanks!
Hi, with regards to books, may I suggest, by Gary L. Francione, "Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog?" and "Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation". They are excellent in clarifying and explaining the theoretical and practical aspects of animal rights, including why veganism should be the moral baseline of the animal rights movement, and why promoting 'free range' or 'humane' fails to produce any meaningful change at all for non-human animals. The answer?: clear, non-violent, vegan education
They are excellent in clarifying and explaining the theoretical and practical aspects of animal rights, including why veganism should be the moral baseline of the animal rights movement, and why promoting 'free range' or 'humane' fails to produce any meaningful change at all for non-human animals.
While not going as far to promote 'happy meat', engaging industry does do a lot for animals, and does produce meaningful change. Its just change that is not on the abolitionist agenda. Granted, it's not animal liberation - but freeing pigs from sow stalls, or getting chickens out of battery cages is very much meaningful change. It's mobility. Its the freedom to express one more natural behaviour that was once denied. It's less cruel. It's less painful. It's the next step to animal liberation.
Yes, it may be minor, but it is in no way not meaningful.
so I just try to do stuff over the internet, like sending letters.
maybe someone can take you one day if they lived near you.
