Active new animal rights group in SF!

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Hi everybody,

Many of you have probably already heard of or

seen some postings about Freedom for Animals, a

new all-volunteer animal rights group that was

recently formed. We held a meeting a couple of

months ago to meet many new activists and to

discuss what sorts of events we might want to

plan.

 

For a list of events planned for the month of

February and for more info about FFA, please

check out www.freedom4animals.org. (The website

is still under some construction, and more

content will be added shortly, but our calendar

is current!)

 

Following in the tradition established by Alka

Chandna, FFA regularly does the " Vegan Video

Brigade, " as she dubbed it, where we stand on

street corners with a battery-powered TV and VCR

showing " Meat Your Meat, " a PETA video exposing

how animals are treated on factory farms and

slaughterhouse. We have lots of veggie starter

guides available and even have copies of videos

(thanks to Gabe Quash) for people who want to

show others how awful the conditions are at

these facilities. This is such an inspiring and

effective form of activistm; we surely convert

many people to veg'ism each night we do it.

 

It's short notice, but we'll be doing VVB

tonight at Powell and Market from 8-midnight or

so, if anyone would like to join us. We will be

there from 8-12 next Friday as well. We also

sometimes spontaneously decide to set up and do

VVB in various locations (typically in the

Castro or Mission), so if you're ever in the

mood (and have a car!), please give me a call at

415-710-7351, and we'll convert away.

 

FFA is also coordinating KFC protests in SF,

with our first one scheduled tomorrow afternoon

(a safe two hours after IDA's gopher event

tomorrow morning) from 2-4 at 4150 Geary on 6th

Ave. (as Carla posted a couple days ago). We

sent out a press release about it, so we're

hoping for a good turnout, especially if some

media show up! We have weekly KFC protests

scheduled indefinitely for every Saturday

afternoon (except 2 weeks from now, when the

Liberation Now (student animal rights

conference) will be held in Berkeley--does

everyone know about that? If not, check out

www.liberationnow.org.) until KFC gives up, just

as McD's, Murder King, Wicked Wendy's, and

Shameway did.

 

We also do regular anti-fur protests outside of

Nieman Marcus (these have been going on for the

past three years, long before FFA!) on Geary and

Stockton every Sunday from 2-4, rain or shine.

 

We're also working on putting together a

vegetarian-friendly restaurant guide to San

Francisco, which I know Tammy and some others

have been working on and wanting to put out.

Please email me if you're interested in working

on this! Even if you can just make some

recommendations for restaurants that you think

should be listed, that would be really helpful!

(We know all the veg restaurants in the Bay

Area, but we also want to have a good listing of

restaurants that aren't veg but that have a good

selection of vegan options.)

 

Again, please check www.freedom4animals.org for

a list of events this month. Please e-mail

info if you'd like more

information, have any ideas about events we

could take on, or would like to get involved!

You can to our email list (which has

far fewer postings than SFBAveg!) by signing up

on the homepage--www.freedom4animals.org--though

we'll keep SFBAveg members updated on our

activities.

 

I hope this new group can add some life to the

SF activist scene by motivating both activist

and non-activist types alike to get more

involved in helping animals. Hopefully it will

also help solidify the Bay Area community of

dedicated veg'ns out there who are committed to

helping animals!

 

Thanks for all the great efforts you all already

make for animals (starting with not eating

them!) everyday!

 

Nora

 

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