Direct Action Everywhere: People Who Love Animals


Sunday, July 13 | 11am–2pm | 50 United Nations Plaza, SF
Join us for a powerful day of compassion and action—for both animals and people.

Every day, pigeons in San Francisco suffer from painful injuries caused by string and hair wrapping tightly around their toes, cutting off circulation and causing infections, amputations, and intense suffering. With your help, we’ll gently capture injured birds, carefully remove these hazards, provide basic first aid, and release them back to their flocks.

As we walk the streets in search of injured pigeons, we’ll also be distributing food to our unhoused neighbors—and offering food and toys for their beloved companion animals.

No experience necessary! We provide all the training and supplies you’ll need. Just bring your compassion, comfortable shoes, and a willingness to help those often overlooked.

Arrive on time! We begin promptly at 11am with a quick but essential safety and training briefing.

Meet at 50 United Nations Plaza, by the large fountain.
Questions? Contact Carla at carla@dxe.io

Join us as we ask Kings County to take action regarding the illegal dead pile and criminal animal cruelty at Vera Goat Dairy then proceed to public property near the farm for a vigil to honor the lives lost there. We'll meet at Berkeley Animal Rights Center (2414 Sixth St, Berkeley) to carpool at 9am and depart at 9:15am sharp!

Through drone videography, DxE investigators discovered a mass graveyard of dead goats at Vera Goat Dairy in early 2025. Repeated visits showed it was not a singular event. Large numbers of goats were routinely being dumped in the dead pile in violation of state water protection regulations.

In fact, investigators soon learned this illegal dumping of animals has been happening for years. Vera Goat Dairy, which was formerly called Milk Flow Dairy, was cited by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) in 2021 for illegally disposing of dead animals on site. DxE's latest investigation shows the violations are continuing, and the authorities are failing to protect the environment or the animals -- despite literal mounds of evidence.

DxE repeatedly documented and reported the graveyard of goats, including covered dirt mounds filled with the bones of these deceased animals.

DxE investigators commenced a months-long investigation to find out why such huge numbers of mother and baby goats were dying or being killed at this supposedly "Certified Humane" farm.

This is what they found:

Frequent coughing and sneezing among the animals in the barns
Goats with engorged and distended teats, an indication of potential mastitis infections

Necropsy testing of two deceased goats from the dead pile found both had suffered from coccidia parasites and "marked emaciation with no fat reserves" and muscle atrophy. These results suggest that these animals may have starved to death. One of the babies had a severe respiratory infection, bacterial bronchopneumonia, most likely caused by Escherichia coli bacteria. The large quantity of thick foam found in this same goat’s trachea suggests that asphyxiation may have been her immediate cause of death.

Cows from a neighboring facility were documented grazing on top of a recently covered dead pile and dogs were documented eating the bodies in the dead pile, putting these animals at risk of contracting or spreading disease from the deceased goats.

Hidden-camera footage from the birthing pen shows workers handling animals roughly, including lifting up a mother goat by her neck and tail area to throw her into a trailer

DxE investigators saved Sarah from a mother's worst nightmare.

During the course of the investigation, two DxE investigators rescued a sick mother goat and her baby who was attempting to nurse but was unable to due to the mother's distended and inflamed udders, as well as a second baby who was lethargic and in a state of respiratory distress with nasal discharge. The mother, whom rescuers named Sarah, and the second baby, named Castiel, were both found to have pneumonia and received medical treatment. Sarah got pain medication for her inflamed udders and both babies were able to nurse from her.

But little Castiel was not doing well. He had a high fever and was still quite lethargic even on medication. For weeks, he had to be bottle-fed and carefully monitored until finally, he beat his infection.
Now, Sarah, Johnny, and Castiel are healthy, safe, and free to frolic through flowers and climb over rocks and hills.
Every animal deserves the same freedom and care.

But the goats at Meyenberg's Vera Goat Dairy are living a nightmare. Many of the mother goats, already in pain themselves, must watch their sick babies suffer, unable to do anything to help. Eventually, many of these babies will end up in a mass grave. But the mothers will get no reprieve. They will once again be impregnated and carry new babies to term, stuck in a cycle of violence -- all so that their bodies keep producing milk for Whole Foods to market as "humane" and sell to deceived customers.

Right now the most vulnerable individuals are being exploited on a massive scale and it will only get worse if we don’t take action now. But can we as ordinary people really make a difference to help them? The answer is YES.

In this workshop, we’ll share the fundamental DNA of DxE - our story, strategy, structure, and culture - and give you tools and information you need to join our network and take action for animals. Get inspired by past social movements, dive into our plan to enact an Animal Bill of Rights, empower yourself to push your boundaries, and meet like-minded people.

Animals suffer not just from weak laws but from their near-total invisibility to the legal system. At this Meetup Christopher Berry, the Executive Director of the Nonhuman Rights Project, will explain how the Nonhuman Rights Project is working to secure legal rights for animals through strategic litigation, drawing parallels to other movements that overcame initial judicial resistance through persistence and education.
He'll discuss how past cases for nonhuman rights—despite being considered "losses"—have already set important groundbreaking precedent while laying the groundwork for tomorrow's breakthroughs.

Where: Berkeley Animal Rights Center West (2414 6th St, Berkeley)
When: Saturday, July 19th 11am-12:30pm
What: Community hangout