NAP Weekly Update! Last Classroom Meeting this Week!
RASHAD LAVIGAE TIAM WATT
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Happy Monday, NAPpers!
Last Week’s Events
We had a great time painting, making lip scrub, and writing self-love affirmations with the Gender and Women’s Studies Club! Some pictures from the event are attached to this email, so check those out! Let us know if you’re in a club you’d like NAP to collaborate with next semester.
Below, we linked the slides from last week’s meeting about welfare campaigns. If you don’t know much about different types of animal activism or are skeptical of advocating for farm animal welfare rather than strict abolition of farming animals, you might find this presentation interesting!
Last Classroom Meeting (Potluck, Movie, Pajama Party!)
This Wednesday, December 5th at 7pm in Ingraham Hall 222, we’ll be having our annual NAPsgiving potluck. It’s going to be chill with finals season upon us! Please make or buy a Thanksgiving-themed vegan dish to share if you can (try to remember serving utensils, and we encourage you to bring dishes from home), and feel free to wear pajamas and snuggle a pillow/blanket in honor of NAPping!
We will just be hanging out, eating great food, watching The Life of Pi, and raffling gift cards to Fair Trade Coffee House and Ian’s Pizza for two lucky dues-paying members (you don’t have to be present to win- it’s the end of the semester, we understand)!
Upcoming Events (Food Sampling, Farm Animal Welfare Work Party)
Vegan Eggnog Sampling/Giveaway
Monday, December 3rd 12:00pm-1:00pm @ Library Mall
Today, we will host another vegan sampling event! Since the holiday season has arrived, we are offering Califia Holiday Nog and Silk Nog to our fellow students on their cold journey to class. We would love to see you whether you volunteer or grab a sample, because these events always spread joy and open minds. Text Claire at 6512601772 if you cannot find us!
McDonald’s Campaign Work Party
Evening 7-8pm @ Liz’s Place: Round House Apartments, 626 Langdon St, Unit 203 (buzz in)
This weekend, we will eat snacks, listen to music, and flood the mailboxes of McDonald’s executives to demand more humane treatment for the tortured chickens in their supply chain! Such easy campaign actions have already convinced dozens of companies including Starbucks, Subway, and Burger King to change their policies, and we are asking McDonald’s to catch up: source healthier breeds of chicken and allow them more room to move, cleaner housing conditions, and the opportunity for natural behaviors.
See this article for more thoughts on corporate campaigns:
Want to help animals? Focus on corporate decisions, not people’s plates. -Vox
That’s all for this week, but stay tuned for one last group dinner at Shortstack and an event to celebrate the life of Lizzie Sexton, a well-loved, highly active member of Madison’s vegan community who spread hopeful energy everywhere she went until she recently passed away.
Have a fantastic end to the semester!
Peace and plants,
Rashad and Claire