Welcome to ARK II West Coast!What's Happening
Dave is continuing his vegan and animal rights campaigning in Victoria, BC - check out www.TheVictoriaVegan.com if would like to be involved!
What's Happened
Some of our past activites:
2005
Monday October 1st & 2nd - “HOLIDAYS ARE MURDER ON TURKEYS” action
Monday, October 3rd at 7 pm at the University of Victoria Fraser Building in Room 157: The Student Animal Legal Defense Fund presents Erik Marcus, publisher of Vegan.com and author of Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating and Meat Market. You can hear Erik speak on A book signing and refreshments will follow. If you have any questions you can contact Shannon Elliott at sde@uvic.ca or visit www.law.uvic.ca/saldf
Saturday, October 8th - Thanksgiving/Turkey leafletting session, 1pm
Monday October 10th, Ethical Buying Co-op order deadline. See www.ethicscoop.ca for more information. (Local vegan and organic co-op!)
Sunday, October 16th - World Anti-McDonald’s Day demo, Douglas & View, 1pm
2004
December 2004 - We learned that Famous Players will not be carrying fur advertisements this year, congratulations Skinned!
Day of Action, August 12th - A full day of demonstrations, we visited the Market on Yates for a 'Vegan' and 'Missing Charlie' demo, Petcetera on Tillicum for an Iams demo, we held signs outside the KFC on Douglas, and visited Famous Players on Yates that evening.
Meatout 2004! Mar 19th & 20th, click here details and photos!
Let Crystal Garden Close! Activists held signs outside Crystal Garden encouraging people to think about the limited lives that the creatures in Crystal Garden live in captivity. Our suggestion is to move the animals to appropriate sanctuaries, rather than living in this zoo. More on our position available here. UPDATE: Crystal Gardens was closed.
- Iams Cruelty - Holly Fraser from PETA was in town, and we had a video display and handed out leaflets depicting the conditions of Iams labrotories, see www.IamsCruelty.com for more info.
2003
Missing Charlie, Dec 17th & 27th - see www.DairyInfo.ca, handed out over 300 of our Charlie leaflets
Info Table at Camosun, Nov 28th - John Bowers and Dave Shishkoff were up at Camosun for the day with a general info table.
Missing Charlie, Nov 12th - our second leafletting session, handed out over 300 of our Charlie leaflets
- Missing Charlie, Oct 30th - our first 'Charlie' demo, outside the Market on Yates, visit www.DairyInfo.ca for more info. Coverage in Monday Magazine viewable here.
Ember Swift @ Steamers, Oct 24th - we had an information table set up at this show, visit Ember at www.EmberSwift.com
Fur Appearing in Victoria - Oct 12th, 19th & 26th, Nov 9th & 12th, after protesting Famous Players, we hit a few other stores in Victoria (Nushin, W&J Wilson, The Bay, Collections and Sunday's Snowflake.) UPDATE: W&J Wilson have removed the fur from their store, and have promised not to sell any more fur!
Thanksgiving is Murder on Turkeys!, Oct 11th - we held signs that read GOBBLE VEGGIES NOT TURKEYS, pictures to be posted soon.
Thanksgiving with the Mad Cowboy, Oct 8th - Howard Lyman was in town, and we had a table for this event.
KFC Cruelty, Oct 5th & Oct 18th - Protested outside the KFC on Hillside, or Douglas.
World Farmed Animals Day 2003, Oct 2nd - 8 people made it out, where we held out demo outside McDonald's, in downtown Victoria.
Famous Players - here is the campaign page. We've been leafletting outside, March 29th and April 6th, 13th, 19th, 20th, 27th, May 4th, 18th, 25th, June 15th, Oct 12th & 19th, Nov 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th, and Dec 7th, with more dates to come! We're protesting Famous Players because of the Pappa's Furs ads they've been promoting. Click here to view a PDF (44k) of the leaflet to find out who you can write to. Contact us to get more info.
Downtown Carriage Horses, May 17th - we meet at Belleville and Menzies to disuade tourists from supporting this cruel 'attraction', letting them know how hard it is for their hooves, breathing in polluted air forced to pull tourists in the heat, cold or rain. Horses and traffic don't mix!
McDonald's - April 16th three activists held signs and handed out leaflets for two hours outside the McDonald's downtown.
Meatout 2003 - On March 20th we were tabling all day and a benefit show, check out the report and pics!
It's A Good Thing Animals Don't Care About Fashion! - Feb 15th - The theme for this years Anti-Fur demonstration, click here for more info and photos.
Give A Cluck demo, January 11th, 2003, outside the (former) KFC location downtown Victoria, over 576 million chickens are raised and killed for food in Canada each year. A second KFC demo was organized by Holly Fraser from PETA on April 10th.
World Farm Animals Day, Oct 20th 2002, demo outside McDonald's in downtown Victoria
If you'd like more information about Animal Rights in Victoria, or would like to get involved, please fill out the the form on the Contact Page. Thanks!
"Activism is my rent for living on this planet." - Alice Walker