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Re: [vegan-512] any thoughts on "thanksgiving" day??

From: njjay5764
Sent on: Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 11:10 AM
Certainly, back in the good old days when I was a full time veggie activist we always got lots of media coverage for Thanksgiving Dinners. We did a Thanksgiving Dinner at a place called The Alive Restaurant in the early 70s, it was near the NYC Public Library on 42nd street near 5th avenue. Louis Marvin, heir to S&H Green Stamps, the person who brought a live cow into McDonald's to prove that only dead cattle were allowed there, came and he brought a live turkey. His message was, where are the turkeys at a veggie Thanksgiving? They are ALIVE !. The media loved it. They love visuals. Some years later I got hundreds of people during the day when I did an all day veggie Thanksgiving dinner with the Sivananda Yoga Center in Chelsea. Wherever anyone does an event we should try to get radio, tv, and U-Tube and other social media coverage, as well as traditional press coverage. Do some videos, post them on U-Tube, hope they will go viral, make them viral so that everyone sees them. We had a demonstration in the early 70s in New England outside a place that was going to start selling horse meat, people brought live horses to the event, the media covered it. When I gave the key world hunger speech at the World Vegetarian Congress in Orono Maine in 1975 the late H. Jay Dinshah, founder of the American Vegan Society, and then head of the North American Vegetarian Society, dubbed the evening's event a FUNERAL FOR FAMINE, we rented a hearse for the event, the visual was compelling. the theme was that by going veg we could free enough food to feed everyone. We had 2,000 people there live and all three networks ABC, CBS and NBC carried excerpts from my speech on their national nightly news programs. The media loves visuals. At the very least every veggie should be calling every talk show there is all the time, especially now with Thanksgiving coming up, and talking about where Veggie Thanksgiving Dinners will be.