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VegWorcester March E-news Now Online

The March 2010 VegWorcester e-news is now online.

In this month’s e-newsletter:

Upcoming Events
Worcester VegFest – Saturday, April 17, 2010

Speakers
Music
Sponsors

Upcoming VegWorcester Events

Wednesday, March 3, 5:30pm-7pm – VegFest volunteer party. Join us for a fun evening of volunteer tasks like preparing literature and making signs. Contact: kaylee@VegWorcester.com. (facebook event)
Thursday, March 4, 6pm-8pm – Free screening of The Cove at [...]

March 1, 2010   Posted in: Misc  No Comments

VegWorcester’s March 2010 E-News

March, 2010

In this e-newsletter

Upcoming Events
Worcester VegFest – Saturday, April 17, 2010

Speakers
Music
Sponsors

Upcoming VegWorcester Events

Wednesday, March 3, 5:30pm-7pm – VegFest volunteer party. Join us for a fun evening of volunteer tasks like preparing literature and making signs. Contact: kaylee@VegWorcester.com. (facebook event)
Thursday, March 4, 6pm-8pm – Free screening of The Cove at the Firehouse. Free vegan dinner. Call [...]

March 1, 2010   Posted in: Misc  No Comments

Today on WBUR 90.9: Melanie Joy Discusses Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows

Were you listening to 90.9 today?
On today’s edition of WBUR’s program Here and Now, Robin Young interviewed Melanie Joy, the author of Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows.
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Download the interview.
Earlier this year Joy released a video promo for the book. Her video points out the [...]

February 22, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Animal Rights, Misc  No Comments

Join the Animal Liberation Theory & Action Reading & Discussion Group

Want to broaden your understanding of the theory and philosophy that is the foundation of the animals rights movement? Want to discuss tactics and talk animal lib strategy? What about drawing connections to other social movements?

This Thursday, Feb 18 from 6pm-8pm, VegWorcester will hold the first meeting of the second annual Animal Liberation Theory & [...]

February 17, 2010   Posted in: Animal Liberation Theory & Action Reading Group, Animal Rights  No Comments

VegWorcester’s February 2010 E-News

February, 2010

“Those VegWorcester people really have it going on; every time I catch up with what they’re up to, they’re doing something fun and cool to promote vegan eating.” – Erik Marcus, blogging about the VegWorcester vegan mac & cheese cook-off

In this e-newsletter

Upcoming Events
Why did VegWorcester give away free vegan donuts in downtown Worcester?
New Book by Melanie [...]

February 6, 2010   Posted in: Misc  One Comment

Avoiding Cargo Cults [508 podcast]

On this week’s 508 podcast, Mike Benedetti–the blogging king of Worcester–and Brenden Melican talk about VegWorcester’s recent vegan donut feed-in (see photos).
Mike and Brendan discuss how Richard Feynman’s concept of cargo cults relates to activism and Worcester’s vegetarian renaissance. Mike’s analogy raises a question that we need to be constantly asking ourselves about VegWorcester’s [...]

February 3, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Activism, Events, Misc, Veg Advocacy  No Comments

Veg Books Top the Amazon.com Best Seller List

There are three notable veg books that are creeping up the Amazon.com 100 best sellers list. Each of them look like pretty kick-ass books, especially Jonathan Safran Foer’s. At a time when the United States is abusing and killing over 10 billion animals every year for food, it’s good news that vegetarianism is getting so [...]

November 5, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Animal Liberation Theory & Action Reading Group, Misc  2 Comments

Worcester’s Vegetarian Renaissance Continues: VegWorcester General Meeting + Potluck July 23

The Details
July’s monthly VegWorcester general meeting is happening on Thursday, July 23 at 6pm at Dynamy (27 Sever Street, Worcester). Dynamy is acting as Stone Soup’s temporary space and it located at 27 Sever Street, Worcester. It’s a potluck, so bring a vegan dish to share. (No worries if you can’t, there will be plenty [...]

July 15, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: 2009 Vegetarian Dining Guide, Animal Liberation Theory & Action Reading Group, Animal Rights, Buddha Hut, Events, Veg Advocacy  No Comments

Animal Lib Reading Group Tomorrow, Last Chance to Join

Tomorrow is the 2nd meeting of the Animal Liberation Theory & Action reading group.  It is also the last chance for new members to join the group. Tomorrow we are discussing the first 2 chapters of Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. We will meet every Thursday for the next 7 weeks at the Stone Soup [...]

February 18, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Animal Liberation Theory & Action Reading Group, Events  No Comments

Animal Lib Reading Group: Week One

Last night’s kick-off of the Animal Liberation Theory & Action reading group was awesome. There’s a solid group of people who are pysched about animal rights philosophy, how it relates to other aspects of the social justice movement and who want to critically discuss tactics and strategies to achieve liberation.
The group decided yesterday that over [...]

February 13, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Animal Liberation Theory & Action Reading Group, Animal Rights, Events  2 Comments