Forwarding a message from Victoria....
Hi-
The Red Lobster protest from last year was organized by an individual who I have lost contact with so no-I do not have any signs but I understand Harpseals.org is more than happy to send out materials to any volunteer organizer. I'm really glad to see other people taking initiatives here and maybe even co-ordinate a Red Lobster protest. My only concerns which may not be real concerns...just my perception maybe...is that people are FED up with hearing about seal hunt protesters...I was surprised to hear the comment about people becoming more anti-hunt this year. I guess these weren't the people reading the Ottawa Citizen with each report/editorial containing misleading lies and ridiculing of protesters. Did others catch that disgusting comment by Jan Arden at the Junos about her brassiere being made of seal eyelid?..to which the entire Halifax audience cheered loudly (oddly enough Halifax residents had previously just voted more opposed to the hunt than in favour of in their local newspaper) Also, in case anyone hasn't heard- the Canadian coast guard recently arrested a team of HSUS observers and confiscated their tapes. Plus the govt just announced a new 'initiative' of some sort to encourage aboriginals to become involved...to further promote the misconception about aboriginals and the hunt. If there's any good stuff I don't know please feel free to let me in! In the mean time, I think that the only way a RL protest could work is if maybe we somehow try to incorporate the idea of the 'Number 5'! or in other words....the fact that the seal hunt represents no more than 5% of a sealers income. I am sooooo extremely sick of hearing government and media lies that the hunt is the sealers entire livelihood and that their families would all die etc. if they didn't kill seals. I really feel this is the number one lie related to the seal hunt that is keeping people pro-hunt.. Maybe we could have some girls and guys wearing 'number 5s' and not too much else?....Also I feel we must get some media to make it worthwhile and so some very attention grabbing props would have to come in. Lastly, I'll mention that the action last year was regrettably not very successful because we were not able to acess any customers without walking off the sidewalk on St. Laurent right onto the property of RL. So the leafletting lasted all but 10 minutes and after that our only audience was cars quickly driving by (please note that the closest sidewalk by the Merivale Red Lobster is even farther from the restaurant) Anyways, I would personally advise a MEDIA event with media oriented props....unfortunately what sells as far as media interest in protests is, in a nutshell- scantilly clad people, confrontation, extremism, arrests...sad but true as I've learned from 3.5 years from doing media events! Occasionally we've been lucky and a smaller paper has picked up a lighter themed protest. Anyways, that's my two cents..I was also serious about the dancing number 5s! Offbeat can work the media too..
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From: vaalea
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Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [4animals] KFC Demo Update
Maybe we could/should consider a red lobster protest in light of the seal hunt (early May?)... and have a KFC protest a month later? Perhaps Kyle's "back to back" idea.
OAA did a red lobster protest another year I think (or was it officially organized by another group??.... Victoria if we did a seafood/sealhunt/red lobster protest, do you have materials for that? signs from last time?) there is more information on the Red Lobster protest/boycott here: http://www.harpseals.org/boycott/redlobdemolist.html
hmm..... I also just found this info for this year??... http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:PpaCNU03Y8sJ:www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/protect_seals/why_a_boycott_of_canadian_seafood/red_lobster_day_of_action_schedule.html+red+lobster+ottawa&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=6
Ottawa
Time: 12 noon-2 p.m.
Location: Red Lobster, 1499 St. Laurent Blvd.
Sponsored by the Animal Alliance of Canada
Contact Karen Levenson at Karen at animalalliance.ca or 519-821-6163 or 519-766-3610
I'm ccing Karen Levenson in this email so maybe she can tell us more.
- any emails, can you make sure to include the 4animals at ottawaveg.com mailing list (hit "reply all")? because there are a bunch of people on there who I'm sure would like to be kept up-to-date on potential future events/actions/protests.
(http://lists.ottawaveg.com/mailman/listinfo/4animals)
thanks!
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From: Kayla Rideout
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Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 5:01 PM
Subject: [4animals] KFC Demo Update
Hey everyone,
I regret to inform you all once again that I must re-schedule the demo for personal reasons. I just lost my job today so I'm going to be extremely busy with finding a new one as well as being busy with the new apartment and cats, etc etc. I know it must be frustrating to have it being re-scheduled a bunch of times but it's out of my hands. I will start thinking about a new date so if anyone has any suggestions or comments on anything please feel free to contact me.
Also another thing. As a part time extra cash maker I will be doing pet sitting/dog walking in Ottawa and possibly surrounding areas. Please contact me for any info. Thanks
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