Help - I Need Help Finding An Environmental Group for the Green Festival!!

September 21, 2004

Hi Earth Animal Friends,

I need help finding an Environmental Group to booth with The Marin Peace and Justice Coalition and East Bay Animal Advocates at the Green Festival in November this year. My personal efforts with this project is the educate, integrate and de-alienate the AR movement by working side by side with Human Rights and Environmental Justice Groups to show that the issues are all related, integrated and cannot be looked at thoroughly without the AR perspective included. The cost to split the booth is $184 for each group. We table at this event for two days with our own materials but primarily focus on one issue that we develop visuals and copy for together. For example if the issue is Factory Farming, The Environmental Group will work to provide the group with information on the impact of factory farming on the environment, the AR group will provide the information on the impact of factory farming on animals and the Human Rights Group will provide the information on the impact of factory farming on humans. Following is what I have sent to many environmental groups in Marin. Please feel free to send it to any groups you know of. Time is running out. I know there is a perfect fit out there. Groups welcome from any where in the Bay Area.

Date, 2004

Dear XXX,

My name is Kate Danaher and I am writing on behalf of The Marin Peace and Justice Coalition. We have reserved a booth for the Green Festival this November in SF and we would like to extend an invitation to you and your group to co-booth with us and an Animal Rights Group called East Bay Animal Advocates. Our goal is to have a Human Rights, an Animal Rights and an Environmental group work together to create a piece of print collateral which focuses on one issue and integrates the content and visuals to include the impact on Humans, Animals and the Earth. Each group may table their own materials as well. We would split the cost of the booth three ways. The total cost of the booth is $550. Split three ways would cost each group $184. Each group would also receive approximately 5 free tickets. 19,464 ticketed attendees...plus exhibitors, volunteers etc. passed through the San Francisco Concourse last year. It was massive.

About Green Festivals

Green Festivals is a movement building event. Our intent is to diffuse an economic model based on life affirming values, an economy built on human rights, equity, art and an understanding that all life is interconnected and interdependent. The most important outcome of these events for us is to get more people involved in the green economy movement. These events are so ecologically expensive, no matter what efforts we take toward sustainability, that the only way we can offset our footprint is by helping facilitate opportunities, networks and connections that strengthen organizations, new businesses or inspire individuals to find more ways to make a difference. This is an amazing time of transformation from a life destroying to a life affirming culture. We hope that as part of this transformation, Green Festivals is a catalyst helping to chart a course through the reorganization of our economy so that we can heal our biosphere and nurture all communities, all people, all species.

I look forward to hearing back from you. Please email or call me as soon as you can with your thoughts.

Best wishes,

Kate

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Kate Danaher

San Rafael, CA 94901 USA

415.459.1149 voice

415.459.5441 fax

katedanaher

2004 Green Festival Information

San Francisco Green Festival Dates: November 6 & 7, 2004, Saturday 10AM - 9PM , Sunday from 11AM - 7PM

San Francisco Concourse, 8th & Brannan