Fw: Register now for The Strength of Many Conference!

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Kim Stallwood

nikkigreen

May 05, 2006 21:07

Register now for " The Strength of Many " Conference!

 

 

 

October 6 - 8, 2006

 

Renaissance Montura Hotel

 

Los Angeles, California

 

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Dear Nicola,

 

 

 

Join Tom Regan and Kim W. Stallwood at The Strength of Many: the 21st

Annual International Compassionate Living Festival. This unique conference is

once again coproduced by the Culture and Animals Foundation and ASI and is

taking place on the west coast for the first time.

 

 

 

 

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Register Now for Early, Discounted Registration!

Nicola, act now to take advantage of the special early, discounted

registration rate of $139. Registration includes the conference program,

exhibit hall, bookstore, and five vegan meals: the Friday evening welcome

buffet, breakfast on Saturday and Sunday, lunch on Saturday and the keynote

dinner Saturday night.

 

 

 

Register Now for Early, Discounted Registration!

 

 

 

 

 

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The Strength of Many

 

 

The animal rights movement has achieved momentous moral and practical

victories in the last two decades. The voices of its supporters have grown from

anguished cries to shouts of triumph as we have realized innumerable successes

year after year. Animal protection advocates have raised the collective

consciousness of the entire nation regarding the use and abuse of animals in all

segments of society.

 

 

 

Our social justice struggle has much in common with those that have come

before. American history has proven time and again that although human beings

are capable of inflicting unspeakable atrocities on members of our own and other

species, we are likewise capable of righting our wrongs.

 

 

 

As Tom Regan so eloquently states in his book, Empty Cages:

 

 

 

Our faith in a better world is deeply rooted in history. There was a

time when many thought it was utopian, unrealistic and hopeless to achieve equal

rights for Native Americans, African Americans, women, the mentally challenged

or the physically disabled.. Nevertheless, the verdicts of history teach that

entrenched social practices not only can change, they have changed. But never

without a struggle.

 

 

 

 

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Keynote speaker Jeffrey Masson

 

 

Jeffrey Masson, the internationally acclaimed author of When Elephants

Weep and other books about animal emotions, is our Saturday evening keynote

speaker. Jeffrey will be making a rare U.S. appearance.

 

 

 

Matthew Scully, author of Dominion, says Masson's latest book, Raising the

Peaceable Kingdom, is a

 

wise and charming parable of human kindness, goodwill, and fellowship

with other creatures. Only Jeffrey Masson would actually carry out the project

described here, and only he could tell the story with such humor, insight, and

beautiful writing.

 

 

 

 

 

Farm Sanctuary generously sponsors Jeffrey Masson at The Strength of Many.

 

 

 

Read more about Jeffrey Masson!

 

 

 

 

 

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Keynote Speaker Dan Piraro

 

 

 

Dan Piraro, creator of the award-winning, pro-animal, syndicated comic

strip, Bizarro, will be our Friday evening keynote speaker. The New York Times

describes his one-man show, " The Bizarro Bologna Show, " as " a shrewd tour of a

cartoonist's imagination. It is silly and, as it should be, wildly applauded. "

The Humane Society of the United States generously sponsors Dan Piraro at The

Strength of Many.

 

 

 

Take a Trip to Bizarro!

 

 

 

 

 

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The Strength of Many Program

 

 

Our expert speakers will focus on those animals who are most like us -

nonhuman primates - and those who are most abused - poultry. We will learn from

Sarah Baeckler, primatologist; Theo Capaldo, NEAVS; Karen Davis, UPC; Mia

MacDonald, Worldwatch Institute; Erica Meier, COK; Miyun Park, HSUS; Bruce

Wagman, ALDF attorney; and Paul Waldau, Tufts University.

 

 

 

Christine Chavez Delgado and Julie Chavez Rodriguez - granddaughters of

vegan farm labor activist Cesar Chavez - will discuss Latino issues as they

relate to animal protection. Christine works for United Farm Workers and is a

current candidate for the California State Assembly, and Julie works for the

Cesar Chavez Foundation.

 

 

 

We will also deepen our understanding of the animal protection movement

with scholar Bart Gruzalski - an expert in nonviolence - and historian Diane

Beers, who will explore the animal protection movement's past. Completing the

line-up will be CAF's Tom Regan and ASI's Kim W. Stallwood.

 

 

 

The Strength of Many is also made possible by the generous support of

Lantern Books, The Animals Voice, VegNews Magazine and the Doris Day Animal

League.

 

 

 

Register Now for Early, Discounted Registration!

 

 

Nicola, Tom and Kim look forward to you being part of The Strength of

Many!

 

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