Setting Up and Running a Vegan

Gazebo Information PointRoger Yates

VegFest Bristol 2016

Roger Yates – Vegan Information Project[ethical] vegan since 1979

1980s…hunt saboteurBUAV executive committee member (1982)

Fur Action GroupHazleton Action Group

Edelson Action Group

Sea Shepherd crew

Animal Liberation Front Norther Press Officer

Merseyside Animal Rights Committee

academicMA – British Animal Advocacy Movement

PhD – Support pillars of Cultural Speciesism

VEGANINFORMATION

PROJECTDUBLIN

This is what we wanted to avoid

We wanted something BIGGER & BETTER

The single-gazebo stall

conversations a-plenty

Neville the van – sandwiches and pies/leaflets/posters/zines

“love is” mini-zine

POSTERS

Display board, featuring The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan

Video booths (can be used for pay-to-view-DVD players-more light-big screen.

DOUBLE GAZEBO EXCEPT 1!

Anarchist T-Shirt Store

Grassroots work engages the community – gets the message straight to the people – not via the mass media – or through the materials of the national groups.

ISSUESAccess – permissions – health & safety – public liability insurance - transportation – staffing -

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