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8/4/2001 Aug 4th : Picnic Potluck at the Berkeley Marina, Noon Join us

again for food, friendship, sun and sailing at Berkeley's Marina Park, near

Children's Adventure Playground. We will meet in a partly shaded area near

the Nature Center and restrooms on the SOUTH side of the Marina. We should be

able to ride together or separately in boats from the Cal Sailing Club they

have life vests, etc. Pls bring strictly vegetarian food to share with a

recipe/ingredients listing. Vegan items strongly preferred. Beverages are

already provided (don't bring). Also bring your own utensils and plate and

cup - it's a picnic! RSVP howarddy2

8/4/2001 SMASH ANIMAL RESEARCH! AUGUST 4TH @ 8 PM ACTUP Community Space

1884 Market Street (Market @ Laguna) San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 864-6686

Join Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) and Animal Rights Direct Action

Coaltion (ARDAC) for speakers and videos about animal research at Huntingdon

Life Sciences and the successful grassroots campaign to shut them down.

Speakers will discuss the history of the campaign against Huntingdon Life

Sciences, up and coming targets, show videos, and tell you how you can get

involved to shut them down! WHO IS HLS? Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) is

Europe's largest animal testing laboratory and one of the biggest in the

world. HLS operates three testing centers: one in East Millstone New Jersey

and two in England. Imprisoned in these notorious laboratories are 70,000

animals including dogs, cats, monkeys, birds, rabbits, fish, mice and farm

animals. 500 animals are used, poisoned, and murdered in HLS's barbaric and

worthless experiments every day. WHO IS SHAC? In the Spring of 2000, SHAC USA

was formed to target the New Jersey laboratory and the shareholders based in

America, where the largest are located. SHAC has organized regular protests

outside the New Jersey lab, and have launched significant campaigns against

Stephens Inc. and the Bank of New York, two of HLS's biggest investors. ARDAC

San Francisco is a grassroots animal rights group campaigning against animal

abuse in the Bay Area. Please join us August 4th at 8 pm to learn more about

the campaign to shut down Huntingdon Life Sciences and help us smash animal

research! For more information, send an email to: animal_humanlib

8/5/2001 Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (Sonoma County CA) Benefit

Vegetarian Buffet Lunch August 5 2001 Noon - 5pm Summer Feast Under the Oaks:

A Mid-Summer Benefit Celebration! Tickets: $25-$100 Come join the Sowing

Circle family as we gather with old and new friends to celebrate mid-summer

and support the efforts of OAEC. This festive informal afternoon under the

oaks will feature a buffet lunch cooked with the bounty of the glorious

summer garden. We hope you can take this opportunity to enjoy the beauty of

early August and support the Center with whatever contribution is right for

you. www.oaec.org

8/12/2001 BAY AREA JEWISH VEGETARIANS Second Sunday August 12, 2001 HIGH

NOON Sumptuous Buffet at: Layonna Kitchen 358 11th Street Oakland (near the

12th Street BART station) Ham, chicken, pork, vegetables, and much more at

our next Jewish Vegetarians' event! Yes, this is all acceptable for our

ethical, environmental, healthful, thoughtful vegetarian lifestyle as

everything is vegetarian. Please RSVP by August 11, noon to: E-mail:

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8/18/2001 CONTRA COSTA VEGETARIANS' VEGAN POTLUCK! SATURDAY, AUGUST 18TH

6:00 P.M.: GATHER; 6:30 P.M.: EAT The Keys Condominiums’ Clubhouse N. Civic

Dr in Walnut Creek home of Diane E Harrison: 925-938-3856; dianeliz

8/25/2001 SolFest 2001, sixth annual weekend solar celebration to be held

August 25-26 at the Real Goods Solar Living Center in Hopland, CA, just 94

miles north of San Francisco on Highway 101. The two-day festival celebrating

renewable energy and sustainable living will offer provocative speakers and a

diverse selection of educational workshops on the natural home, solar energy,

alternative building, permaculture gardening, electric vehicles, and much

more. Fabulous live music, exciting children's activities, tours of the Solar

Living Center, great organic food, and Earth-friendly product vendors will be

featured during the weekend festival. Come join us. It's the most fun you can

have in the sun! http://www.solarliving.org/solfest2001.cfm

8/25/2001 Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (Sonoma County, CA) Aug 25 and

26 2001 9am - 5pm Fall & Winter Garden Plant Sale Admission is free. One of

the great underappreciated joys of living in Northern California is that we

can garden all year round and create fall and winter gardens that are

diverse, interesting, productive, beautiful and tasty. Now is the time to put

fall and winter seedlings into the ground while the soil is still warm! Come

and choose from hundreds of varieties of California Certified Organic

heirloom brassicas, lettuces, salad greens, rainbow chards, leeks and herbs,

as well as old-fashioned sweet peas and other annual flowers. Select from an

impressive array of ornamental and edible perennials propagated from our own

collections. Optional Tour info: The OAEC garden staff will be on hand to

tell you about our diverse selections and offer a tour of our gardens, where

many of these plants are featured. Please RSVP for the two-hour tours, which

cost $6.00 and begin promptly at 10:00 and 11:00 am each day. www.oaec.org

Month Number: 9

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9/15/2001 United Poultry Concerns is Pleased to Announce Our Third Annual

Forum: Do Animal Welfare Campaigns & Reforms Hurt or Help Animal Rights &

Abolition? September 15-16, 2001 Nedim Buyukmihci, VMD, President,

Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights Bruce Friedrich, Vegetarian

Campaign Coordinator, PETA Lee Hall, Attorney, Baltimore Joe Miele, New

Jersey Animal Rights Alliance Kirsten Rosenberg, Managing Editor, The

Animals' Agenda Gary Yourofsky, Director, ADAPTT Norfolk, VA

http://www.upc-online.org/forum2001.html

9/16/2001 NATIONAL VEGAN FESTIVAL (UK) Sunday 16th Sept 2001 (10am-5pm),

Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1, England. For the greatest gathering

of Vegans anywhere in the world! Including Music, Guest Speakers, Campaigning

and Rescue Groups, Ethical Suppliers and of course Vegantastic Food.

www.VeganFestival.freeserve.co.uk C U There!

9/29/2001 ISTANBUL TURKEY - EUROPEAN VEGETARIAN UNION CONGRESS - Sept 29 to

Oct 5. Will explore " the miracle of raw food " as well as ethics and the

global impact of individual choices. For details contact:

www.evu2001istanbul.org

9/29/2001 The Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Committee on

Legal Issues Pertaining to Animals will present its 7th Annual Conference on

Animals and the Law on Saturday September 29, 2001 (9:30 am to 5:30 pm) at

the House of the Association, 42 West 44th Street (between 5th and 6th

Avenues), New York, NY 10036. Political Animals This full day conference will

explore the tools and techniques needed by individuals and organizations

working to obtain legislative change for animals through the political

process. Included will be detailed discussions of the workings of legislative

bodies at the federal, state and local levels, as well as the fundamentals of

lobbying, PACs and other tools of political change.For further information,

call 212 382-6653, or, to receive registration information by mail, send your

snail mail address to marisul.

9/30/2001 WORLD VEGETARIAN DAY - FORT MASON - BUILDINGS A and C.

Celebration will be even bigger and better than lastyear! Dr. John McDougall

and Dr. Alan Goldhamer will speak. Entertainment will include the Children of

the Congo (returned by request), children performers of Taiko (Japanese

drums) and much more. Food classes and sampling. With expanded space there

will be more choices. PLEASE let us know if you can recommend a speaker,

performer or vendor. Also need artwork for flyers, publicity, coordinators

and staff day of event. Call Jennifer Doob at 415 861-5244 to sign up.

Donations for the event will be mentioned on flyers and programs. Patron

$1000. Sponsor $500 Donors $100. ATTEND FUND RAISING DINNER June 10 (see

listing) Donations may be sent to SFVS, Box 2510, SF, CA 94126-2510

9/30/2001 WorldFest (Veg - Eco Fest Event) Los Angeles Event Date:Sunday,

September 30, 2001 Time: 10:00 am - 6:30 pm Woodley Park in Van Nuys,

California Celebrity appearances by Linda Blair, James Cromwell, Grace Slick,

Casey Kasem, Alexandra Paul, Rebekka Armstrong , Natasha Allas Directions:

AT: www.worldfestevents.com/LAdetails.html

Month Number: 10

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10/12/2001 Oct. 12–14, (Friday evening - Sunday noon) Pepperwood, Sonoma

County Conceived by deep ecologists Joanna Macy and John Seed, the Council of

All Beings is a ritual designed to raise human awareness of the larger

ecological community to which the human species belongs. Participants are

invited to take on the persona of some part of nature (other than human) and

to speak for that being " in council " . To that end, the Council ritual

involves story-telling, meditation, mask-making and listening to voices from

the many beings of our world. Co-facilitated by deep ecologists Aryeh Shell,

Be Rettenwender, and David Graves Limited to 20 participants, bunkhouse and

camping accommodations only www.deep-ecology.org

10/13/2001 FIRST ASIAN VEGETARIAN UNION CONGRESS - GOA, INDIA. Oct 13 to 20.

For info email: asia

10/13/2001 PHOENIX AREA WALK FOR FARM ANIMALS October 13th, 2001 Walk to

benefit the animals at Farm Sanctuary. (www.farmsanctuary.org) The Walk will

be held at Tempe Beach Park, on Mill Ave. and Rio Salado Parkway. For more

info on the Walk check out www.azvegan.com or e-mail azvegan

10/14/2001 13th Annual LONE STAR VEGETARIAN CHILI COOK-OFF. Old Settlers

Park, Round Rock, Texas. Noon to 5:00. Trophies and cash prizes up to $250

for vegan chilies. Celebrity judges and popular vote. Chili tasting, live

entertainment, door prizes. Info on vegetarianism. Admission $6, children

under 12 free. Host: Vegetarian Network of Austin, (512) 896-5018,

www.vegnetaustin.org, contact.

10/20/2001 Join The Orange County Interfaith Coalition for the Environment

for our fourth Annual Caring for Creation Conference on Saturday, October

20,2001 at Santiago de Compostela Roman Catholic Church, 21682 Lake Forest

Dr., Lake Forest, CA 92630. This is a gathering to foster the relationship

and cooperation between the spiritual and environmental communities toward

solving common concerns.We will share resources and ideas, and provide tools

to increase knowledge of environmental groups and projects. We also hope to

increase an awareness of the many faiths living together in harmony with the

earth. Keynote speaker the Rev. Jim Conlon, Director/Chairperson,Sophia

Center,College of Holy Names Oakland,CA. Author of: “Geo-Justice: A

Preferential Option for the Earthâ€, “Earth Story, Sacred Story†& “Lyrics

for –Re-Creation†Additional activities include; An Earth Celebration

service, small group sessions, Networking opportunities, and a Display and

Resource center. For additonal information please visit our website at

http://www.ocice.org .

Month Number: 11

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11/21/2001 VOLUNTEER VACATION IN FLORIDA Combine sun, beaches, and side

trips (Everglades, Keys) with helping Floridians for Humane Farms to table

and get petitions signed at fairs and special events. Never before has

legislation been enacted in US to improve treatment of farm animals. This

would force factory farms to make size of gestation crates for pregnant pigs

(where they live 4 to 5 years) large enough that they could turn around. This

groundbreaking project is sponsored by H.S.U.S. and Farm Sanctuary. You will

have plenty of free time and your housing/transportation will be provided. If

you want to have FUN while really making a difference Contact Enid at

earlnenid for details.