Veg Leafleting, Dalai Lama, Greek Theatre, Berkeley, 2009-04-25

[Guest guest]

Dalai Lama will speak on Peace Through Compassion 2009-04-25 at 2pm.

Doors open at 12noon. I will be on the sidewalk in front of the Greek

Theatre entrance from 11:30am-2pm handing out veg leaflets, and

talking to people about vegetarianism. Please join me for any part of

that time.

 

I will make a leaflet targeted at this audience. The leaflet will say

something like: Practice Compassion Through Vegetarianism; it will

connect Buddhist principles, non-violence & vegetarianism; and have a

small list of resources : BayAreaVeg.org, PETA.org, VeganOutreach.org

and my sites BayVajra.info & RawVeg.info. Please let me know in

advance if you want me to make leaflets for you, and how many. You can

use my leaflets, or bring literature from your favorite vegan group.

 

Before entering the theater, people get in lines to go through

security. It's easy to leaflet then. They wait in line, moving slowly

with nothing to do, you give them something interesting to read. After

the talk they exit all at once moving quickly, leafleting is not

successful then.

 

When the Dalai Lama taught in SF in 2007, we distributed 2,000+ veg

leaflets. When Karmapa (a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, and a vegetarian)

taught in Seattle last year, we distributed 1,000 veg leaflets. Those

were multi-day teachings, this time there is only one talk.

 

It's difficult to find Buddhists willing to do vegetarian leafleting,

so I really appreciate the help of BayAreaVeg activists. No knowledge

of Buddhism is needed, your kind intentions to help people and animals

are more than enough.

 

This activist effort is on official BAVeg event.

Event Listing: http://www.bayareaveg.org/events.htm?EID=2075#2075

RSVP: http://www.bayareaveg.org/rsvp.htm?id=2075

 

Jordan Rothstein

http://bayvajra.info/

http://rawveg.info/