Liberation Comes to Brown University and GMU! October 14, 2009
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A few days ago, we told you about the exciting events we've been hosting on college campuses recently, but that was just one piece of the story! Also taking the country by a storm is Adrianne, who coordinates peta2's Liberation Project exhibit. The traveling display draws the parallels between the abuses humans have inflicted on each other throughout history, with the abuses we currently inflict on animals.
She's been traveling all semester to different college campuses, talking about animal rights issues, and helping people understand how the decisions they make in their lives have a very real impact on whether animals suffer or not.
Earlier in the fall, she visited Michigan State University, followed by Concordia University in Montreal (home of The People's Potato—a vegan soup kitchen on campus!)
The past two weeks though, she's been hammering the message home at two key East Coast schools: Brown University and George Mason.
At Brown—an Ivy League university—the display was hosted by the Brown Animals Rights Club (BARC). Some students were skeptical about the message at first, but after speaking with Adrianne and the student group members, people really started to think about the issues more critically.
In fact, the student newspaper editors wrote a fantastic piece about the display, in which they said:
"Brown students, keep an open mind. The display may be shocking, but the care its creators put into it turns what could be offensive into something potentially of great value. A short stop at the conversation booth might be well worth your time."
At GMU, the display was hosted be the brand-new Animal Rights Collective on campus—which gained 140 new members over the course of the week!
At the end of the week, we also hosted a screening of our short film, titled "Liberation". What's that? You haven't watched it yet? Well, get on it!
The tour has been a huge success so far, but we've still got tons of states to hit, so keep your eyes out!
What do you think: How would people at your school react to our animal rights display?
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People at my school would think:
WTF has katie done now?!
(since I'm the ONLY vegetarian in my entire school!!)
I think it would open a lot of people's eyes to what actually goes on - so many of them are naive to the truth. This should be available, and I think, compulsory, worldwide. Everyone has to know and learn about the injustice forced on to animals.
I think it would change a lot of people's views, yet some might choose to try and ignore it still.
I'm no longer at school but at my previous university I think this would've really created some debate and made people think more about what they eat.
Posted by: Little_Lotte at October 15, 2009 7:01 PM@ Kirsty
"This should be available, and I think, compulsory, worldwide."
You mean in third world countries too, or just the lucky industrialized ones?
But you're right, we should definitely have a debate on whether or not an animal should live one more day in freedom while a child starves to death.
-Naive Bob
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That's awesome!
Posted by: Annie at October 14, 2009 3:43 PMI'm doing conferences where I live in different highschools and I always use the "Liberation" video