BOAA Weekly email, MEETING WEDNESDAY 6:30

[Ruby Yoon]

Hey folks,

Apologies for the lack of meeting last week, there was an event that conflicted with our meeting time, and there weren't enough responses or availability to hold a meeting at a different time. But we're back on for this week! Wednesday at 6:30, at Free Speech Movement Cafe (the outdoor area). If for some reason there's another event happening (hopefully this is very unlikely), we'll meet out in front and then relocate. Then, for interested people, the meeting can migrate to Unit 2 around 7:30, to join in on the Meatless Mondays planning meeting that is happening with RSP and the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition. This means the meeting will have to be efficient, if people are wanting to go over and join the MM meeting!

This is the listserve that generally receives only one email a week, with a reminder of our meeting time, as well as info about upcoming animal advocacy related events in the Bay. We also have a "gossip" listserve, which receives emails more frequently, and is a place for the active members to coordinate amongst ourselves for event planning, ask questions, share info or events, etc. If you would like to be added to the BOAA gossip listserve, please email me back with the email you would like to have added.

Agenda
1. Pay Per View - Ryan from FARM has proposed Tue 10/9, Wed 10/10 or Thur 10/11. Figure out which date works best for interested folks, and get a sign up sheet going with time slots between 10-3. In case you haven't seen it, here's FARM's new video for PPV: http://10billionlives.com/
2.Tabling - Are we still wanting to do it? Only two people filled out the doodle. If there's still interest, maybe we can figure out another way to coordinate it happening.
3. Description of BOAA on campus club website, what do we want it to say? Look at the current one, draft a new one, and send it over to Amman, as he is the one that can make the changes.
4. Flyering for Critical Animal Studies Conference - Let's start organizing this!
5. Upcoming events: check out the list below, and see if ya'll want to coordinate amongst yourselves to attend any of them as a group.
6. Anything else not listed here that people want to talk about.


Announcements/Events
1. The Animal Studies Working Group is holding its first planning meeting this Thursday, Sept. 27th @ 5 PM in 306 Wheeler. 
Some things we are tentatively planning to read over the year are Cary Wolfe's What Is Posthumanism?; Donna Haraway's When Species Meet; Mel Chen's Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect; and selections from Noreen Giffney and Myra Herd's Queering the Non/Human. 

Please come by if you are interested, or email r.taz...@gmail.com for more information

2. 4th Annual World Farmed Animals Day - Saturday, Sept 29, Vegan Outreach and Slaughterhouse Vigil, Petaluma
Petaluma’s animal agribusiness is emblematic of a violent and broken food system with its meat, dairy and egg production facilities as well as its two slaughterhouses and live animal auction yard. In memory and honor of the victims of our food choices; in protest of the unnecessary and cruel exploitation of beautiful, innocent farmed animals worldwide; and to assist humanity’s transition to a plant based diet, please join us for a day of compassion and celebration of kinder, healthier and truly sustainable food choices - because all animals are friends and family - not food.

11:00AM-8:00PM - Slaughterhouse Vigil, Rancho Veal Corp (cows and pigs killed here), 1522 Petaluma Blvd North, Petaluma, CA 94952, (we will be sitting in quiet reflection with the animals all day & lighting candles at sunset)

11:00AM-6:00PM - Vegan Outreach Table, Copperfield’s Bookstore, 140 Kentucky Street, Downtown Petaluma, CA 94952
(we will be handing out vegan starter kits & food samples downtown)

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
We need your help to hand out vegan starter kits & food samples in downtown Petaluma as well as sit with the cows at the slaughterhouse.  If you are interested in taking a 2 hour or more shift at either or both please contact kated...@animalearthhuman.org with your preference. Thank you!

3. SF Veg Fest - October 6th-7th, SF County Fair Building,1199 9th Avenue, SF
$10 or free for students with i.d. Children’s Corner, Green Lifestyle Film Festival, Healthy Food Demos with Recipes & Samples, International Speakers & Workshops, Live Entertainment, Vegan Cuisine to sample or buy, Urban Gardening. Catered Vegan Dinners: Saturday & Sunday, 6:45 p.m. $26 each
http://worldvegfestival.com/

4. "One Struggle: Intersectionality and Critical Animal Studies" Conference. Saturday, October 20th, 11:00am. UC Berkeley Tan Oak Room on the 4th Floor in the MLK Building.
We have witnessed a surge in academic scholarship that examines how human identities, lived realities and histories are inextricably linked to the positioning of animals in human societies. The field of Critical Animal Studies (CAS) formed to investigate and challenge the complex structural, institutional and discursive dynamics surrounding human-animal relationships. CAS exists to facilitate the end of both human and nonhuman exploitation, oppression and domination based on this intersectional analysis of human and animal oppression. Hosted by the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, the first interdisciplinary scholarly nonprofit dedicated to furthering CAS in higher education, the conference will contribute to the formation of this new and exciting field of study and encourage critical dialogue about its potentials.
http://www.facebook.com/events/151677358306686/

5. Farm Sanctuary's Walk for Farm Animals - October 13th, San Francisco
The Walk for Farm Animals raises vital funds for Farm Sanctuary’s lifesaving work and brings together thousands of people to change hearts and minds about farm animals.
http://www.walkforfarmanimals.org


Thanks for reading and have a great meeting!
-Ruby