Strategy Meeting: Veg Activism in the SF Bay Area

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends,

 

Just a quick reminder ( & confirmation) that the Food & Social Justice

Project is hosting a strategy meeting this Thursday evening (June 6th, 7

pm), at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library. We will be

meeting in the First Floor Conference Room, located behind the 1st Floor

Information Desk. Please use the 30 Grove Street entrance.

 

We'll conduct the formal part of the meeting in the library from 7 - 7:50

pm. And, we will continue informal

discussions/brainstorming/chatting/socializing across the street at the

falafel joint on Grove Street (it's right across from the library - how

fortuitous!).

 

Through the meeting, we will brainstorm through a number of ideas for

promoting vegetarianism in the Bay Area, including:

 

* Vegan Video Brigade (taking our baby faunette to street corners with heavy

pedestrian traffic, playing video footage of factory farms &

slaughterhouses, and distributing literature)

 

* Vegan Feed-Ins (taking veggie food -- boca burgers, fake chicken nuggets,

etc. to areas with heavy pedestrian traffic & distributing literature - can

be done in conjunction with V.V.B.)

 

* Tabling at Festivals this summer (how do we make the most of summer

tabling opportunities, and what sorts of resources might we use to build the

most effective tabling display?)

 

* Writer's Group - Media (let's make a difference in our local media by

writing op-eds en masse, letters to the editor en masse, etc. - if a lot of

us throw ourselves into this activity, the editors won't be able to ignore

us, and we can achieve presence for the issues in the press)

 

* Farm Sanctuary Walkathons for the Bay Area - let's plan together to make

this year's walks (and fundraising parties) the best ever!!

 

* National Campaigns: what are some of the national campaigns with which we

can get involved? Farm Sanctuary's sentient beings campaign (we could get

Berkeley, Oakland, SF, SJ, etc. to sign on, adding a tremendous boost to the

national campaign)

 

* Cooking Classes/Veggie Workshops: since food *is* after all the currency

of the veggie movement, what kind of forums might we construct to get the

veggie message out to the maximum number of folks?

 

* Going Veggie 101: Let's discuss options for doing introductory classes of

veg*ism in the Bay Area.

 

* public video screenings & discussions - we could host screenings of films

like Farm Sanctuary's new film on factory farming (narrated by Mary Tyler

Moore), video footage from the three investigations of egg-laying facilities

that took place over the past year, etc.

 

There are more ideas at: www.goveg.com/a-promote.html

 

Hope to see many of you on Thursday!

 

Best regards,

Alka

 

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