AAM: The Plant-Based Treaty
« There has never been a more urgent need for a Plant Based Treaty. Animal agriculture, alongside fossil fuels, is a driving force behind potential catastrophic climate change. The grand strategic objective of the Plant Based Treaty is to develop a plant-based food system that would enable us to live within our planetary boundaries and reforest the Earth. Modeled on the Fossil Fuel Treaty, the Plant Based Treaty aims to create bottom up pressure by getting endorsements from millions of individuals, tens of thousands of groups and businesses and dozens of cities.
Besides endorsements, our campaign is building a support base and developing site specific Plant Based Treaty teams working on implementation at the local city level. In this workshop we will go over « How to start a new cities campaign » including building a team, creating a petition and email letter, meeting with city officials, organizing direct action and street theatre, building a coalition and sending councilors and mayor a pitch, draft motion, briefing document, and template letter.
Guest Speaker Bio: Anita Krajnc is Executive Director of the Animal Save Movement, a worldwide network of Save groups bearing witness to farmed animals and promoting veganism and love-based, grassroots activism. Anita oversees the animal, climate and health save branches and helps coordinate global campaigns such as the Plant Based Treaty. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto and is a staunch follower of Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi and Cesar Chavez. Anita has also been an assistant professor at Queen’s University (Ontario) and has published extensively on social movements and environmental politics in peer-reviewed journals and is co-author of a forthcoming book, “The Secret Life of Pigs: Stories of Compassion and the Animal Save Movement” (Lantern).
Zoom link for this workshop to be posted here as the date approaches.
Organisé par Animal Activism Mentorship