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DxE Toronto – January Global Day of Action – A Letter for the Animals
To start off the New Year, activists with DxE will be delivering a letter for animals, asking businesses across the world to stop the violence against the innocent. We will be doing a disruption inside a business ending with chanting and a brief traffic blockade, followed by a social with a catered feast!
Wielding a large banner with fraudulent marketing (e.g. HUMANE MEAT) on it – activists go in as a group, and place themselves in a line behind the checkout counters (facing the counters/rest of the store). A leader leads the mic check, one line at a time, the remaining activists echo each line with signs held up.
At the end of the mic check, activists tear in half the banner – symbolizing animal activists no longer endorsing this store’s (or other animal abusers’) false compassion for animals.
At the end, activists chant while exiting through the store.
Example mic check here: https://www.youtube.com/
Example blockade here: http://tinyurl.com/p389v7z
MIC CHECK:
Mic Check!
This store/restaurant says they care about animals.
Their marketing relies on
their supposed compassion for animals.
A recent investigation
of a top tier rated farm
revealed a brutal hypocrisy
It revealed
that disease and death is prevalent
in every farm
It revealed
that under the guise of compassion
Stores/restaurants like this one
are profiting from violence against animals.
Practices allowed
by so-called humane farms
include:
Castrating baby pigs, without anesthesia
Snapping birds’ necks by hand
Using hot irons to sear the heads of baby calves
And of course:
Killing animals no different from the dogs we love
Killing animals who do not want to die
Violence and murder is inherent in every farm.
We therefore ask you
to end fraudulent marketing,
to stop deceiving consumers,
and to truly live up to your own values
of animal compassion.
ABOUT DxE EVENTS
DxE’s organizers around the world build empowered networks for animal liberation. Based on the most innovative scholarship on social change and the recent successes of the animal rights movement in countries around the world, DxE’s model focuses on building the kindling for a true social movement to be set ablaze. We do this by: (1) supporting activists locally in speaking strongly for animals under our organizing principles – http://
Animal rights activists in over 134 cities and 27 countries have united under the banner “It’s not Food. It’s Violence” since our campaign started in October 2013.
But we need your help to keep up the momentum. Join us at this event as we demand an end to atrocities against innocent animals.
SAFER SPACE POLICY – Full details here https://www.facebook.com/
DxE has a Safer Space Policy to facilitate an immediate response to any oppressive actions by attendees of our official events. Oppressive actions include: Discrimination on the basis of race, sex, age, size, class, ability, reproductive choice, sexuality, and gender identity; and, promoting disrespect or violence towards nonhuman animals. We strive to create a community that is safe and welcoming, and which prioritizes the needs of people who are typically marginalized by society.
All DxE Toronto events will be drug-and-alcohol-free due to safety concerns.
CONSENT FOR SOCIAL MEDIA:
DxE events are social media intensive. Photos and videos are regularly taken at actions, open meetings, and other activities. If you do not consent to appear in photos and videos, please let our media personnel know at the beginning of events. We will also remind attendants of this policy at each event.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
As settler animal rights/liberation activists uninvited to the traditional, ancestral, unceded and occupied territories of the First Nations and peoples, we acknowledge that we are unable to do animal advocacy work without using the resources from this land, and are often complicit in colonial systems that perpetuate violence against Indigenous Peoples. We must continue to learn and take responsibilities to help decolonize.