help get vegetarian starter guides in newspaper stands around San Francisco

[Guest guest]

Hi everybody,

Some of you may have already seen that there are six newspaper stands around

San Francisco that are filled with vegetarian starter guides! This is thanks

to the generosity of PETA and local activists: Christine G., Gabe, Kim,

Laura, Nancy, and Ron. (Not sure if I forgot anyone?) These activists

maintain the stands to ensure that they are neat looking and filled with

vegetarian starter guides!

 

I am writing because there is an opportunity to significantly expand the

number of locations around San Francisco that have newspaper stands filled

with vegetarian starter guides! You may have noticed that the city recently

put in " pedmounts, " large dark green structures that hold many different

publications (as opposed to the individual plastic newspaper stands that we

currently have) right near Powell and Market. These stands are much better

than the individual ones because the city actually takes responsibility for

maintaining them, so activists filling that stand would not have to worry

about cleaning off graffiti or scraping off stickers or whatever other junk

people put on them that make the stands less appealing. This city is

building more of these " pedmounts " in the Castro and in Union Square, and we

have the opportunity to be in 20 different newspaper stands in these

fantastic locations!

 

This is where you come in! We need people to take responsibility for filling

these stands with vegetarian starter guides. What this entails is having

PETA send guides to your house (for free, of course) and then filling the

stands (however many you want to take responsibility for) as often as

needed-- probably once a week or once every two weeks. It's hard to say

exactly, but that shouldn't be too far off. This is something where it is

very advantageous to have a car since the guides can be heavy if you have a

few hundred of them in a box.

 

This is such a fantastic way to promote vegetarianism and it takes so little

work: just dropping guides off occasionally and replenishing them when

necessary. Just think about walking around in busy areas of San Francisco

and seeing vegetarian starter guides in newspaper stands everywhere you

look!

 

PETA has said that they will pay the $30 per stand (a ridiculously fantastic

price) it costs for as many stands as we can get people to fill in these two

locations: Union Square and Castro.

 

If anybody (a) would be willing or interested in finding out more about

stocking these stands, or (b) wants to donate any amount of money towards

this cause to save PETA the expense, please let me know!

 

Thank you,

Nora