Brighton Animal Action regularly holds events to highlight various campaigns. This page reports on those events and acknowledges those who have helped us in organising and running the events.
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RECENT EVENTS
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CHRISTMAS WITHOUT CRUELTY FAIR - OVER £750 RAISED FOR THE LEGAL LIBERATION APPEAL
The first Brighton Animal Action Christmas Without Cruelty Fair which was held on 10th December was a great success. The aim of the fair was to raise awareness about living a cruelty free lifestyle, especially at Christmas when so many products that involve animal suffering are sold. In addition to this the funds raised from the fair are to be used to help finance the Legal Liberation Appeal. Media coverage before the event included a fantastic article in the Argus which not only advertised the event but also highlighted the appeal. The slant taken by the Argus was that our visiting turkeys (who joined us in the garden for the afternoon) were there to raise awareness about our other feathered friends (the hens we will liberate in April) and importantly that even free range chickens are slaughtered after 72 weeks as the supermarket demand for perfect eggs renders them no longer commercially viable after this time.
Stall holders travelled from as far away as Manchester to attend the event, which included, as mentioned live turkeys in the garden, a vegan café & free food samples, an auction, kids games and Santa Claus himself!
Brighton Animal Action would like to all of the stall holders for supporting this event, all of the local businesses who donated items for our auction, Carla Lane’s Animal Sanctuary for bringing their rescued turkeys, Redwoods, Beanies and Cauldron Foods for their food parcels and our not so undercover police officer who exposed himself not once but twice when he accidentally showed his badge when getting out his wallet (you know who you are!) |
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Behind the Mask - Worthing Screening
On Thursday 19th October Behind the Mask was shown at the Charles Dickens pub in Worthing. Keith Mann spoke about the film and ways to promote it further. The night was very successful with a good turn out and lots of interest from the public. There are plans to show it in other local areas in the near future so watch this space. |
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200 take to the streets
The animals
The cage from Shamrock Farms
One of the reasons we held this event |
World Day for Incarcerated Animals
On Saturday 30th September Brighton Animal Action hosted the first ever World Day for Incarcerated Animals. The aim of the day was to bring people together, raise awareness about animal rights and remember the millions of animals worldwide that suffer and die at the hands of man every year.
The day started brilliantly with many stalls setting up in Preston Park covering all aspects of animal rights from campaign groups and animal sanctuaries to anti-war groups - animals die in war too. There were a number of animals present too including 2 rats, a cow, a chicken and two inflatable sumo chickens! The idea of the sumo chickens was to highlight the suffering of broiler chickens and how they are bred to grow unnaturally fast and unnaturally big.
Speeches started at around 1.00 with a Brighton Animal Action representative introducing the day and explaining that this is the first of what is planned to be an annual event worldwide. Following BAA were speeches from Keith Mann – Former Animal Rights Prisoner, Mel Broughton- SPEAK Campaign, John Curtin – Ex Animal Liberation Front, André Menache - Veterinary Surgeon and Scientific Advisor to Animal Aid and Colleen McDuling – MSc (Molecular Biology). A particularly moving moment in the speeches was Coleen’s excellent poem, that she wrote after she lost her PhD for liberating mice from her workplace that were destined for vivisection. People were also shocked and appalled when they were shown the cage which was once used to hold primates in Shamrock Farms.
We then took to the streets to march and leaflet the general public. Around 200 people some dressed as animals followed a huge banner which read World Day for Incarcerated Animals along an excellent route which encompassed 3 main roads in the centre of Brighton. The traffic was stopped as we walked in the road chanting and handing our leaflets – even to people in their cars! When we reached the clock tower we marched in silence down West Street to the seafront and then along to the SeaLife Centre where we stopped and held a minutes silence to remember not only the animals inside this underwater prison but also all of the other incarcerated animals from neglected pets to factory farms.
Finally we headed to the Unemployed Centre where we ate some delicious vegan curry and Keith showed Behind the Mask.
The day was a great success and we would like to thank all of the stall holders, speakers, our cooks, everyone who dressed as animals, everyone who attended and all those involved in organising this great event. We would also like to thank Cetacea Defence for their excellent review of the day and SEAR for the amount of help they gave publicising the day. And surprisingly we would also like to thank the police for their laid back attitude and low profile throughout the day. They have since thanked us in a letter in the Argus. The media coverage we received before the day was great with an article in the Argus and coverage in sound bites on Southern FM.
All in all it was a great day and a great foundation for next year which will be bigger and will spread into Europe (Sat 29th September 2007 – keep it free!). |
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Free Food and Film night – A Great Success!
On 6th September BAA hosted its first themed public meeting – a night of food and film. Around 40 new faces came along and enjoyed some delicious vegan food. A talk and short film on live exports was followed by lots of ideas on what can be done to bring this vile trade to an end.
A massive thank you to everyone who came along and of course everyone who helped out who not only provided some delicious food but also came with loads of energy.
Since the night we have been told of one person who has gone veggie and two go vegan!
There are plans for another similar event in the coming months so watch this space.
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