We hope everyone had a great a summer! We are getting our new year under way with a couple fun events next month!

October 2nd
Party in the Blocks! Stop by our booth at the Party in the Blocks event at PSU. Starts at 11:00AM in the Park Blocks near PSU.

October 11th
Animal Rights Movie Night! Come join us at the PSU movie theatre (I’ve heard they have done renovations during the summer!) Free popcorn but feel free to bring your own snacks! We will be showing SharkWater.

When: Friday, October 11, 2008
Time: Doors open at 7:00PM, starts at 7:30PM
Where: PSU’s 5th Street Cinema
Donation: Suggested donation of $5

October 26th
Let Live – The Series! That’s right, this will be a monthly event with different speakers leading up to the Let Live Conference in 2009!

When: Sunday, October 26, 2008
Time: 2:00PM - ?
What: Vivisection A-Z (Including in-depth local information)
Where: Smith Memorial Student Union Room 228 (2nd floor)

Resources:
Campus Map
Driving Directions
Parking: Free after 7PM on the street. Weekends you can park in the PSU parking structures and pay for a daylong fee.

As always, feel free to email us for any questions or concerns.

Thanks,
Vegans For Animal Advocacy

Come watch "I Am An Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA" from PETA2.

First, there will be a vegan potluck at 6:00PM. Bring a vegan dish or snack and meet people with a common interest in saving animals! Then, the screening of "I Am An Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA" will begin at 7:00PM. Finally, there will be a discussion with PETA2's Pulin Modi.

"In I Am an Animal, you'll meet the woman who founded PETA and changed the world, get a glimpse inside her daily life, and find out what makes her tick. Watch a sneak peek of the film that won the award for "Best Documentary" at the Hamptons Film Festival before its HBO premiere, and see what Ingrid has to say about it." – Patricia Trostle

When: Monday, June 30, 2008
Time: 6:00PM (Potluck), 7:00PM (I Am An Animal), 8:15PM (Discussion)
Where: PSU-Smith Memorial Union #294
Donation: Suggested Donation of $3-5

You heard right, we will be holding monthly movie nights at Fifth Avenue Cinema. This month we will be showing "The Witness" which tells the inspiring story of Eddie Lama, a tough construction contractor from Brooklyn whose chance encounter with a kitten completely transforms his life. Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of the Los Angeles Times, Howard Rosenberg, said: “The Witness is one man’s truth that cries out for mass exposure… may be the most important film about animals ever made.”

Lama's remarkable change in consciousness, from loathing animals to devoting his life to their protection, seems to be contagious. “I feel as though I have been walking around with a bag over my head, and my heart,” said one viewer in Albany, NY. “The difference those 43 minutes made in my perceptions are earthshaking for me.”

“The Witness touches something very deep in audience members,” says producer LaVeck, “because it shows how any person, from any background, can change. Eddie Lama is living proof of something that we all hope and pray is true, that one person’s change of heart can change the world.” LaVeck and the film’s director, Jenny Stein, founded their non-profit production company Tribe of Heart, to fill an unmet need for films that explore the human potential to respond to injustice with creativity and non-violence. Tribe of Heart’s second film, Peaceable Kingdom, is currently on the film festival circuit and recently won a festival award for “enriching the human spirit through film.”

We are asking for a $5.00 donation for the Let Live: Northwest Animal Rights Conference (the darn thing is expensive!) Although there will be free popcorn (we checked the ingredients and it looks vegan…no promises), you are more than welcome to bring your own snacks! The doors open at 7:00PM and the movie starts at 7:30PM. So PLEASE try and make it!

Just a reminder about Mia MacDonald coming to discuss the environment and our diets! Please be there to learn about the effects of the animal production industry on the global level Come no matter what you eat!

Which is more destructive to the environment—what you eat or what you drive? The answer may surprise you. International public policy expert Mia MacDonald, executive director of New York-based “action tank” Brighter Green, provides fascinating and compelling evidence on how animal agriculture is at the root of a host of environmental problems, including deforestation in the Amazon, desertification, and climate change. At the same time, meat consumption is soaring as McDonald’s, KFC, and Burger King and huge “protein producers” like Tyson and Cargill expand into markets in Asia and Latin America. It’s not all doom and gloom, however. Just as we can develop alternatives to fossil fuels, we can also change our agricultural practices and eating habits. It all comes down to recognizing the true costs of our lifestyles and adjusting policies and practices accordingly.

When: Friday, May 9, 2008
Time: 1:30PM to 2:45PM
Where: SMSU 229

Come watch "Behind The Mask" from Uncaged Films... a documentary on the ALF. Donate some cash for SHAC 7 and even register for the "Let Live" NW Animal Rights Convention. Bring your own snacks, although there may be some provided!

When: Friday, April 25, 2008
Time: 7:00PM
Where: 5th Avenue Cinema (510 SW Hall St.)
Donation: Suggested Donation of $3-5 (Come on you know you want to donate!)

We had our first successful meeting on Friday; seven of us were in attendance at the Food For Thought Café. We ate, chatted, and worked out details on our goals for this term. Our first goal is doing as much as we can to save the Bonneville Sea Lions. We will be posting up signs very soon on campus, so please help spread the word! We also discussed plans for our first Potluck and recipe-sharing event; it will be Feb 22nd from 6PM to 7PM. We are working on a room and give notice when we secure the exact location.

Come one, come all! We will have a table set up with lots of good information! Vegan starter packs as well as our own info sheets. Make sure to stop by and say hello!

When: Thursday, Jan 24, 10:30AM
Where: PSU Blocks

The Vegan Mini-mall is opening tomorrow the 7th! I am very excited for this event and will be attending. If you would like to meet let me know, we all should come out to support our local vegan shops! Sweet Pea has THE best-baked vegan goods (try their brownies!), Food Fight is much larger and now has a nacho cheese dispenser, Herbivore has the best vegan gear and you can’t forget about Scapegoat Tattoo with all of our favorite vegan tattoo boys! I’ve heard there will be different events at each shop, bands and of course just general vegan fun. Please come out, no excuses - work it around your schedule!