Archive for the ‘Activism’ Category
Happy New Year and VegWorcester 2011 In Review
So, the new year is already in full force and you’ve likely started your new year’s resolution of cutting cheese out of your diet or turning your Meatless Mondays into Meatless Everyday. Heck, maybe you’re already vegan and your goal is to finally make that taco recipe from Terry Hope Romero’s Viva Vegan or spend [...]
January 16, 2012
Tags: 2011, review, Vegfest2011, worcester vegfest 2011 Posted in: 2011 Veg Dining Guide, Activism, Animal Rights, Events, Leafleting, Tabling & Outreach, Misc, Worcester VegFest 2011
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MIT PhD Student Files a Lawsuit to Challenge the Constitutionality of the “Animal Enterprise Terrorist Act”
An exciting lawsuit was recently filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of 5 animal activists, including Ryan Shapiro, a doctoral student at MIT in Boston. The five activists are arguing that the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) has had a real impact on their constitutionally-protected activism. When the bill was being discussed in [...]
December 15, 2011
Posted in: Activism
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6 Tips on How to be an Effective Animal Advocate from Alexis Fox of the Humane Society
This past weekend we had Alexis Fox give a presentation on becoming an effective advocate for animals before the monthly Loving Hut buffet. Alexis is the Massachusetts state director of the Humane Society and her workshop focused on how we all can exercise our power as voters and constituents to improve the lives of animals [...]
December 14, 2011
Posted in: Activism, Animal Rights
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Workshop + Loving Hut Buffet this Saturday [Events]
Don’t forget! This Saturday there are a few cool events happening. The Massachusetts state director for the Humane Society will be giving a presentation on Effective Animal Advocacy (facebook event) at Loving Hut at 11am. Right afterwards, there will the monthly all-vegan buffet fundraiser at Loving Hut (also on facebook). The workshop is free, but [...]
December 7, 2011
Posted in: Activism, Animal Rights, Buddha Hut, Events
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Effective Advocacy for Animals Seminar + Loving Hut Buffet [Event] – December 10
On Saturday, December 10 from 11am-noon, the Massachusetts state director of the Humane Society of the United States will be joining us in Worcester for a special (free) workshop on how to effectively get active for animals in our little Commonwealth. Followed by Loving Hut’s awesome monthly vegan buffet. Join Alexis Fox for Effective Advocacy [...]
November 29, 2011
Posted in: Activism, Animal Rights, Events
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The New Vegetarian Dining Guides Have Arrived – Fall 2011
Good news! We just received the 5000 copies of the new Fall 2011 edition of the Worcester Vegetarian Dining Guide. We are excited to get these distributed. Can you help us? This summer we started by ordering 5000 copies of our 2011 Veg Dining Guide. Some awesome people pitched in to raise the money to [...]
November 16, 2011
Posted in: 2011 Veg Dining Guide, Activism, Leafleting, Tabling & Outreach, Restaurants & Businesses, Veg Dining Guide to Worcester
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“Flesh is for Zombies!” Protest @ McDonalds (event)
Halloween is coming up, and we’ve got quite the fun action planned for all of you! Get into the holiday spirit and join local activists for a fun, light-hearted demonstration outside of McDonald’s on Saturday, October 22, at 12:00 p.m. in order to remind passersby that flesh is for zombies. That’s right: Eating corpses is [...]
October 20, 2011
Tags: Activism, costume, demonstration, event, fast food, flesh is for zombies, halloween, mcdonalds, PETA, peta2, protest Posted in: Activism, Events
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We handed out 700 veg dining guides this morning [Photos]
Today VegWorcester peeps gave out a big stack of Vegan Outreach booklets and our own tri-fold Veg Dining Guides to Worcester at a couple of colleges. We handed both leaflets out together, so it was a total of 700 people who got something from us today. Heck yeah! Account We met up at 9 and [...]
September 28, 2011
Tags: clark university, photos, Worcester, worcester state university Posted in: 2011 Veg Dining Guide, Activism, Leafleting, Tabling & Outreach
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Michael Budkie – Stop Animal Exploitation Presentation (Event)
Michael Budkie of Stop Animal Exploitation Now! will give a presentation at Loving Hut Chandler tonight, Monday, September 26th on animal exploitation and exposing the truth of animal experimentation in laboratories. Stop Animal Exploitation NOW! (SAEN) was founded in 1996 to force an end to the abuse of animals in laboratories. The event will begin [...]
September 26, 2011
Tags: Activism, Events, laboratories, Loving Hut Chandler, michael budkie, primates, saen Posted in: Activism, Animal Rights
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VegWorcester 2011 Focus
VegWorcester has been busy this year and we thought we’d share some of the projects we’ve been workin on… WINTER/SPRING 2011: Last winter we had a small awesome group putting together the entire 2011 WorcesterVegFest. Our group met weekly, organizing everything to do with a kick-ass vegan festival for about 3,000 people. We had several [...]
August 31, 2011
Tags: focus, outreach, overview, update, veg dining guide, vegfest, VegWorcester Posted in: 2011 Veg Dining Guide, Activism, Events, Leafleting, Tabling & Outreach, Misc, Veg Advocacy, Veg Dining Guide to Worcester
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