NIN Tour & KFC Protests! June 27, 2006
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When I was fourteen years old I had an amazing opportunity to see Nine Inch Nails live at Madison Square Garden in NYC. It was my first concert and remains one of the best shows I've ever seen in my life. Now, twelve years later, I'm actually out on tour with NIN tabling for peta2, and that is incredible!
We've been getting people to learn about the Chinese dog and cat fur trade, as well as showing "Meet Your Meat" and handing out all the usual What They Never Told You ... booklets, DVDs, and stickers. The response has been overwhelmingly positive since so many people have seen the video Trent Reznor narrated for PETA about the fur industry, plus this is a crowd of really open-minded people in general. We have about half a dozen shows left, so come on out and say hello to summer staffer Paul and yours truly! We'll give you a group hug. Promise!
In addition to tabling these shows, we figured some time spent protesting KFC would be pretty worthwhile (plus it impresses my KFC-hating girlfriend). In Portland, we had tons of kids out and we had television, print, and news radio coverage of the event. For about an hour, we had a huge giant crippled chicken hobbling across the crosswalk in front of the restaurant. We gave out info to so many people, and thankfully the rain didn't start until we left (seriously, have you ever smelled a wet chicken costume?!).
In Michigan, a bunch of radio stations covered the event where about a dozen of us protested to a pretty receptive town. A father and son duo decided it would be a good idea to eat buckets of chicken next to us. It didn't bother me, except for the fact that they refused to watch the video we had playing of animals being crammed into filthy warehouses, suffering from crippling diseases, and sliced open while still alive. It's one thing to disagree, but some people need to be a little more mature, don't you think? Anyway, their antics made a bunch of people driving by even more curious and clearly made our cause seem more credible. Hmmm, believe the people peacefully protesting against animal cruelty or the ones who are sucking on tortured animals' body parts?
Everyone keep up the good work on this campaign to save our homies, the chickens!
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