New Year's Resolutions

[Guest guest]

Thanks for posting your resolutions, Tammy! Great idea.

 

In 2006 I watched a lot of PETA videos, most notably China Fur

<http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=fur_farm> and Earthlings

<http://www.petacatalog.org/prodinfo.asp?number=VP546>. What happens to

animals is simply inexcusable and as Tammy said, most people wouldn't

support it /if they knew about it/. That's all it takes for most

people--education and speaking out. I am so grateful for the people who

did the undercover investigations and A/V work necessary to make the

videos available today. I could never do what they did, but I can at

least do my part to get those videos out to the public.

 

So my New Year's Resolution is to hand out a minimum of 3,000 Vegetarian

Starter Kits:

http://www.alexbury.com/index.php?title=making_72_new_vegetarians_in_one_year & mo\

re=1 & c=1 & tb=1 & pb=1

<http://www.alexbury.com/index.php?title=making_72_new_vegetarians_in_one_year & m\

ore=1 & c=1 & tb=1 & pb=1>

I'm making this a public announcement because then I'll have to do it!

 

 

I just finished my kick-off first four events for this project (yes, I

know, it's not 2007 yet but I wanted to get going) and they were soooo

fun I'm embarrassed.

http://www.alexbury.com/index.php?m=20061215

http://www.alexbury.com/index.php?m=20061224

http://www.alexbury.com/index.php?m=20061225

http://www.alexbury.com/index.php?m=20061231

 

 

They were more like four fun parties than " activism, " which sounds so

serious and difficult. I'll do at least one leafleting event a month

but I hope to do two or three most months. The next one is January 7:

http://www.bayareaveg.org/events.htm?EID=1509#1509

Be there or be totally, completely, miserably square.

 

My other resolutions are related. I made sure to combine things I like

doing and things I want to do with my activism. Leafleting events will

help me achieve most, if not all, of my resolutions:

1. Spend more time walking around the Bay Area, both to exercise and to

get to know these great cities.

 

2. Spend more time with really excellent people, to deepen friendships

and form alliances for doing activism together--it's much easier to do

something when you're with a friend. Plus if I have more friends then

I'll have more people to eat with, people who will cook for me, and way

more gossip.

 

3. Make myself do fun things at least once a month, so I don't get

burned out. Today's leafleting was " work, " but it sure didn't feel like

it, and I was refreshed (and hyper) at the end.

 

4. Meet Gavin Newsom and Jerry Brown at least once.

 

5. Cooking: Spend more time sharing tips and recipes for _easy_ vegan

cooking, so that people considering a vegan diet can do it with a

minimum of fuss and bother. There's lots of great vegan cookbooks and

restaurants and products out there, but many of them are too complicated

or too rich/expensive/unhealthy for quick, satisfying everyday home

cooking.

 

6. Support PETA and Bay Area Vegetarians more. PETA is the best large

group in existence and gets the veg word out to millions of people every

single month, if they have the support they need. And BAV is the best

local group, reaching thousands of people in the Bay Area. Nice

combination of macro and micro. Riding their coattails, both PETA

and BAV, means my efforts will be magnified and simplified. For

example, why should I bother putting together veg information when PETA

has already has the Vegetarian Starter Kit? And why should I try to

start a new group for local leafleting when I can work through BAV and

reach 4,000 people on their mailing list? I have met the best people I

know, and done the best advocacy for animals, through these two groups.

 

7. Appreciate every single day I have with my 14 and 1/2 year old dog,

Myshkin.

 

8. Talk both PETA and BAV into using Myshkin's image on important

publications like calendars, annual reviews, etc.

 

9. I would be OK meeting Matt Gonzalez, too.

 

10. Think up and memorize new jokes and sarcastic responses so that I

can finally hold my own during the post-leafleting dinners. Any help

with this would be much appreciated.