- Current and Upcoming Spring 2007 Events and Campaigns -



*Daily/Weekly- Tabeling on Sproul: Student outreach for animal welfare

*Weekly- Meethings Every Tuesday at 6:00 PM in 243 Dwinelle

*07 April- Activist Conference Panel: The panel will involve a variety of student activist groups that discuss their causes, how they overlap, and ways that the groups can work together. The day will be broken into 3 parts: Morning - speakers, afternoon - workshop, evening - videos. For more information, contact Jen: imhavingasmoothie@yahoo.com

*April- BOAA will be participating in the ASUC's Earth Week events, including a table with information on how animal food industries impact the environment. For more information, contact Lou: hummingbird_lou@yahoo.com

* We might tie our big food giveaway event of the semester, Meat Out, in with Earth Week. For more info, contact Katie: katie55@berkeley.edu.

*Mid-late April- Meat Out Monday: Every semester we have a big VEGAN food give-away event on upper Sproul to show students that you can have a cruelty-free and healthy diet while still eating delicious and satisfying food. We contact a variety of companies to ask for donations and we always end up with plenty of food to give away. We also provide people with information about veganism, vegetarianism, factory farming, and a other animal welfare issues. For more information, contact Bethany: gerdemann@berkeley.edu

In the past we have received donations from generous companies like:
WholeFoods
Rainbow Grocery
Safeway
Long Life Vegi House
Turtle Island
Sunflower Cookie Company

*Ongoing-Humane Education: Humane education involves going to libraries, afterschool programs, classrooms, and co-ops to provide information about animals, animal welfare issues, and vegetarianism/veganism. For children, we'll dress up in animal costumes and read animal-friendly kids books, and for high schoolers & co-opers we'll go more in depth about different animal issues (environmental impact of animal food industries, health benefits of veg diets, balanced veg diets, factory farming and animal agriculture, etc.). Right now the focus is on finding schools & libraries to go to. For more information, contact Richard: rjlechtenberg@gmail.com.

*Ongoing-Vivisection: The vivisection campaign has spent the past year and a half investigating the type and the extent of vivisection research that occurs on the UC Berkeley campus. We have researched who is performing animal experiments, what type of expirimentation, what kind of animals and how many animals are used in experiments, the proceedures are used, and we are currently evaluating whether these proceedures happen in humane ways and whether this research could have been conducted without the use of animals. This campaign also focuses on spreading awareness about animal experimentation at UCB around campus and educating students and community members about the treatment of vivisection animals. For more information, contact John: jpestrada@berkeley.edu.

Past Spring 2007 events:

*January - Vegan potluck at Lothlorien Co-Op


*14 February - Vegan Valentine's Day: Make and sell animal friendly cupcakes & cookies with little cards with fun animal pictures/facts/quotes to pass out or sell on Sproul from 10:00-1:00.
*08 March - Screening of Earthlings (click the link to watch it online, see the summary below) March 8, at 6:00 p.m. in 243 Dwinelle! Please come and tell all your friends.

Narrated by Academy Award Nominee Joaquin Phoenix and featuring music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby, EARTHLINGS is a documentary film about humankind's complete economic dependence on animals raised for pets, food, clothing, entertainment and scientific research. Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen footage, EARTHLINGS chronicles the day-to-day practices of the largest industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for profit. Powerful, informative, controversial and thought-provoking, EARTHLINGS is by far the most comprehensive documentary ever produced on the correlation between nature, animals and human economic interests.

Past events:

Daily/Weekly Fall 2006: Tabeling on Sproul
September 17 2006: Vegan Pot Luck
October 2006: Vegan Pot Luck, World Vegetarian Day in San Francisco
November 2006: Thanks-Go-Vegan Thanksgiving Event
May 3, 2006: Forum on PETA exhibit: 126 Barrows, 7 pm
May 5, 2006: Free movie screening: Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: 2040 VLSB, 7 pm
September 30, 2005: World Farm Animals Day [ photos ]
October 7, 2005: Potluck with Tony Dryak, head of the Cage Free Coalition [ photos ]
October 10, 2005: Chloe's vegetarian/vegan nutrition presentation
October 26, 2005: East Bay Animal Advocates Foster Farms Investigation [ ebaa | photos ]
October 27, 2005: Fundraiser for animal victims of Hurricane Katrina
October 28, 2005: Halloween Potluck [ photos ]
November 21, 2005: Thanksgovegan! [ recipes | photos ]
December 11, 2005: End of term party
February 20, 2006: Vegan pizza and ice cream party [ photos ]
March 7 - 10, 2006: Anti-Fur week
March 15, 2006: Jack Norris [ photos ]
March 20-22, 2006: Sproul exhibit
March 22, 2006: Great American Meat Out [ photos ]
April 18, 2006: Earth Day tabling
April 22, 2006: Cal Day

Student and community members welcome to all meetings and events. Admission is free for all special events, but donations are greatly appreciated for BOAA's events and campaigns.