Animal day in Leeds, report

Beenandgone | 11.10.2007 16:17 | Animal Liberation | Social Struggles

What happened and where the money went.

On Sunday October 7th a small group of people organised an event to coincide with World Animal week. Along with some fantastic support from volunteers the day went well. There was an amazing chocolate stall from a local group of people in Wakefield, vegan cakes from Leeds veggies, animal sanctuaries and local campaigning groups.

One of the groups that attended came along from York, and amongst other things they're currently engaged in some great work for the campaign to end the sale of foie gras in England.

http://www.yafa.co.uk

We were also pleased to have Leeds ABC along to have a stall, and next to them Keith Mann was around to sign copies of his new book and give a talk on it's interesting and meandering journey to being finally completed earlier this year. If you missed it information can be found at:

http://www.fromdusktildawn.org.uk/

He dropped into this event whilst on a tour of the UK showing the film 'Behind the mask'

http://www.thethinkshop.co.uk/mask/trailer.asp

Thanks to everyone who came along and supported the event, we raised a total of £318.60 after giving some money to The Common Place.

Friend animal sanctuary received £100

http://www.friendsanimalrescue.org.uk/
Vegan Prisoner Support Group £60

http://www.vpsg.org
Tower Hill Animal Sanctuary £68.60

http://www.towerhillstables.com/
Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty £50

http://www.shac.net
Leeds Anarchist Black Cross £40

http://www.myspace.com/leedsabc

Thanks again for your support.

And there'll be a Leeds veggie group stall at the Hope Pastures open day on October 21st 10.30 - 15.00 serving up vegan savouries and cakes.
The sanctuary is located on Weetwood Lane.

For info on this:

http://www.hopepastures.org

Beenandgone

Comments

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letting them know publicly

11.10.2007 19:27

Given the current climate it may not be wise to spell out exactly how much donations were donated to who as filth (police to moderates) will be chuffed to have a look at who you are giving donations to...

shkril

Understood, but

11.10.2007 19:59

People have asked where the money was going and so we've shown where it was divided up.

In the interests of being open that was the choice made. The current State repression against animal rights groups and animal sanctuaries (!) is totally unacceptable, we openly show solidarity with groups that face this repression.

Of course, some of the groups where money was donated are of little concern to the State. Anyone could have come along to the event and seen the stalls and who was being represented, also they would have got a pretty good idea of where the money was going!

The info for most of this got sent round on various promotional material. If the cops were interested at all, i doubt that £50 to SHAC would raise an eyebrow, maybe £5,000 but unfortunately we weren't that well supported, and i seriously doubt they would have got that much anyway.

Leedsanimalday

Thanks

12.10.2007 16:54

Thank you to the organisers of this excellent event for inviting us along. It was a very worthwhile day, and we were pleased to be there. Thanks also for the kind donation of £40, which will be used for the direct support of prisoners.

And the cake was great!

Leeds ABC
mail e-mail: leedsabc@riseup.net