Project Animal Freedom - Waterloo, IA

👩‍🦽💚🧠 Thank you to the over 60 vegan and disability rights advocates who joined us for our first annual Disabled Vegan Expo!

Together, we:

• celebrated the contributions of disabled vegans to the animal rights movement
• raised awareness about the connections between ableism and speciesism
• advanced disability rights within the animal rights movement

We would also like to thank our incredible speakers who made this event possible. Their insightful talks equipped us with crucial knowledge about the underexplored intersection of disability rights and animal liberation, in turn helping us overcome the oppressive forces of both ableism and speciesism.

Thank you all, once more, for making this event a reality. We hope you found it as valuable, instructive, and uplifting as we did.

We look forward to seeing you next year as we continue fighting to build a just, equitable society where everyone can thrive, regardless of ability or species!

Disabled Vegan Expo 2024 Presenting Project Animal Freedom's first annual Disabled Vegan Expo!This event brings together leading academics and activists at the intersection of disabi...

🐷🎨😍 Just two weeks remain before Worldwide Vegan Chalking Night 2023! Get excited, and register to lead a vegan chalking event near you. REGISTER HERE ➡️ https://projectanimalfreedom.dm.networkforgood.com/forms/wwvcn-organizer-registration-form

🥳🤩🎉 One week to go before FreedomFest!

🌱 WHO? 40 all-vegan vendors!
✊ WHAT? A vegan-themed social justice festival!
⏰ WHEN? Saturday, May 28th, from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.!
🏞️ WHERE? Northeast quadrant of Tower Grove Park!
🐷 WHY? To promote liberation for all Earthlings!

We look forward to seeing you next Saturday!

🗣️🗣️🗣️ Thank you for coming to our TED talk.

🐔🐔🐔 Happy !

What does veganism mean to you?

Dear friends:

After much deliberation, we have decided to postpone our Worldwide Vegan Climate March to Saturday, September 17th.

There are three major reasons motivating this change. First, COVID-19 continues to rage in countries across the world, even as COVID-19 rates plummet in the US. Second, the war in Ukraine is dominating the news cycle, making it considerably more difficult to attract media attention. And third, we need more time to successfully execute an event of this scale.

With the added time, we will forge partnerships with fellow animal rights organizations, secure endorsements from organizations and individuals, and recruit as many major cities as possible to host their very own Vegan Climate March.

If you were planning to hold your march on April 16th, we recommend postponing your event to Saturday, September 17th, exactly six months from now. You will now have more time to coordinate your event locally and build momentum in the leadup to Saturday, September 17th.

We are grateful for the incredible support you have shown us, and we hope this change does not pose a significant inconvenience to your efforts to organize a Vegan Climate March in your community.

Here's to an even larger, more impactful day of action on September 17th!

📆✊🚺 This , we would like to recognize all the mothers treated like machines by the animal abuse industry, as well as express our solidarity with the struggle for women’s rights worldwide.

🍣🦪🍤 Each year, fishing kills:

• 300,000 dolphins and whales
• 350,000 seals
• 250,000 sea turtles
• 720,000 sea birds

And these are only indirect deaths caused by “bycatch,” nontarget animals captured by fishing nets. There are an additional 1-3 trillion deaths caused by the fishing industry as a whole each year.

If you care about the conservation of marine wildlife, there is no way to knowingly support this horrifically cruel, environmentally catastrophic industry.

This , please pledge to eat fish-free!

🌎✊🐮 Join the Worldwide Vegan Climate March movement today! REGISTER HERE ➡️ https://bit.ly/VeganClimateMarch

🐟🐬🐡 Fish are sentient beings, not products!

Sign the Petition Ban the sale of fur in St. Louis!

🐷📓🎯 INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Would you like to gain valuable experience in the nonprofit sector? Are you interested in building a career in animal rights, environmental protection, or social justice advocacy more broadly? Or do you just want to enrich your life by making a meaningful difference for animals? Then we have the perfect opportunity for you!

Namely, our team at Animal Freedom is currently searching for interns to assist with our marketing, communications, fundraising, campaigns, leadership recruitment, and other operational efforts for the June-December season. As an intern, you would work alongside Kyle Luzynski, our Executive Director, and two exceptional, soon-to-be-determined senior interns.

Here are some of the benefits to interning with us:

• You will gain valuable experience in the nonprofit sector, which can translate into future employment and career advancement opportunities at both nonprofit organizations and for-profit companies
• You will build your animal rights, environmental protection, and social justice advocacy credentials, helping you find a highly sought-after career in the movement
• You will develop skills in your intended career sector, preparing you for your future career and a life of service
• You will have the opportunity to work with the fastest-growing animal rights organization in the entire Midwest

And, most importantly:

• You will help us build the mass grassroots movement necessary to enact sweeping change for millions of animals across the Midwest and beyond

But why intern with us when you can intern with other organizations? Here are some reasons why you should prioritize joining our team:

• We are the only animal rights organization explicitly dedicated to advancing animal rights across the Midwest, the most neglected region for animal advocacy in the US alongside the South
• We are working to become the fourth major chapter-building organization in the entire animal rights movement, enabling us to spare millions of animals from a lifetime of suffering
• We have a unique strategy for building the largest, most resilient activist network the animal rights movement has yet seen

What are you waiting for? Unleash your potential, revolutionize the Midwest, and maximize your impact for animals today all while gaining valuable, hands-on experience that can even count for college credit! APPLY NOW ➡️

Project Animal Freedom · Vegan Talent Search Do you despise animal cruelty? Do you wish for the end of factory farms and slaughterhouses? Would you like to find more meaning in your life by fighting for animal liberation? Then apply today to join the fastest-growing animal rights organization in the entire Midwest!

🗺️🌎🐷 This , we have a surprise for you: we have at least one supporter on our mailing list in each of the 40 green states featured above! More amazingly still, we have supporters on our mailing list from 29 different countries.

40 states. 29 different countries. We are succeeding in building the grassroots movement it will take to topple the trillion-dollar animal abuse industry from its pedestal of tyranny, but we need your support more than ever.

Given the sheer volume of work we are taking on, our monthly operating costs keep rising. We managed to cut our spending to roughly $500/month toward the end of last year to conserve resources, but our spending has since exploded to roughly $1,000/month to accommodate our rapid growth.

The problem? Most of the expenses we could cut without significant impacts to our activism have already been cut; downsizing would therefore be difficult and potentially devastating.

Fortunately, we do have a solution: our monthly giving program. Through this program, dubbed our Movement Builders Program, you can donate $5, $10, or more per month to support our compelling activism in St. Louis, Springfield, and soon enough far beyond.

Our goal is to start raising $500/month to sustain our most crucial operations, and our eight current Movement Builders contribute a total of $120/month to support our mission of building a fully vegan Midwest by 2056.

Could you pitch in $5, $10, $20, or even $50 a month to ensure our engine for social progress can continue running at full speed by becoming a Movement Builder today? The average donation is $15/month, and you can help us make a world of difference for animals across the Midwest.

DONATE NOW ➡️ https://www.projectanimalfreedom.org/movement-builders

💸💸💸 FUND YOUR ACTIVISM 💸💸💸

This , our team at Animal Freedom would like to announce Leslie Barcus, the Executive Director of , as an official presenter at our first annual World 2056 summit, as well as inform you about the vital role plays in funding activists in our movement.

👩‍💼 ABOUT LESLIE:

Leslie Barcus has extensive governance and senior management leadership experience in nonprofit and private enterprises around the world and her professional exposure spans more than 40 countries, including work in animal rights and welfare, biodiversity conservation, higher learning and adult education, microfinance, financial education, behavior change, organizational capacity building, international economic development and corporate, and retail and small business banking. Informed by her breadth of experience, Leslie’s professional philosophy is that innovative business models, products and services, and creative approaches for appealing to human reason and compassion can bring into fruition a healthier and more generous world for people, animals, and the environment. Leslie is a graduate of Miami University in Ohio and has a master’s degree in international economic development.

🗣 ABOUT HER SPEECH:

VegFund has had the privilege and honor to support thousands of vegan outreach events around the world since 2009. The energy and compassion of the global activist community manifests in many forms, from street vigils to VegFests to community film screenings and food samplings, online campaigns, nutrition and humane education, and student initiatives. Leslie Barcus, VegFund Executive Director will discuss how vegans from many walks of life are interacting with their communities to spread the word about the benefits of vegan living for people, the planet, and all animals and how you, too, may take action with VegFund's support.

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VegFund is all about you. They exist to support you, a member of a global community of vegan advocates in your efforts to inform the public about the benefits of vegan living. VegFund provides grant funding for food sampling, film screenings, VegFests and health fairs, conferences, learning events, and innovative outreach initiatives. What are you waiting for? Fund your outreach idea today! APPLY NOW ➡️ https://vegfund.org/apply

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Project Animal Freedom · Events

Dear friends:

As part of our campaign this month, we have joined hundreds of animal rights organizations around the world in urging people of every background to try veganism.

Not only did we screen Vegan 2020, the latest edition in a five-year series produced by Plant Based News, but we also screened The Invisible Vegan on MLK Day. We have also produced a series of blog posts, from the story of one of our interns who dramatically improved her running endurance after going vegan to the story of another one of our interns whose chronic UTI’s and endometriosis symptoms disappeared completely after making the switch.

Our hope is to inspire as many people to embrace veganism as possible, but we need your support now more than ever. As we work to make the Midwest a more compassionate place for all animals, we invite you to donate on our newly refurbished donation page, linked below.

Project Animal Freedom is 100% volunteer-run and 100% donor-funded. Everything we do is directed toward our overarching mission of building a fully vegan Midwest by 2056, and we could not realize our mission without you. Together, let’s make Veganuary last all year.

Donate — Project Animal Freedom Your support can make a profound difference for dozens if not hundreds of animals simply by donating a fraction of your time, talent, and treasure to the noble cause of animal rights. Please consider donating to support our groundbreaking activism, volunteering at one of our upcoming events, or join

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