Events
Next meeting
Animals Count London will meet on 8 March from 6.30-8pm. For more details or if you are interested in attending, please contact us by Tuesday 2 March.
Jasmijn de Boo to speak at Eco Soapbox Election Special during Brighton Eco Veggie Fayre, 20 March
Animals Count leader Jasmijn de Boo has been invited alongside the 4 main political parties in Hove (Green, Tory, Labour and Lib Dems) to present a 10 minute speech highlighting their 5 main eco priorities to the audience at the Brighton Eco Veggie Fayre (in Hove actually). A show of hands at the end of the session will indicate which of the politicians has impressed the audience the most! It will start at 2pm in the Main Hall. The Lib Dems Paul Elgood (PPC for Hove) is the first to step up to the challenge, quickly joined by Conservative Councillor Ayas Fallon-Khan. The Green Party’ is reperesented by Ben Duncan, PPC for Brighton Kemptown, and Animal Count’s leader Jasmijn de Boo will close the special soapbox event.
Social veggie weekend in Brighton and Hove, 20-21 March
Conference: Animal(s) Matter(s): the Future of Critical Animal Studies, Liverpool, 23 April 2010
Animals Count Leader Jasmijn de Boo will be speaking at a conference at the University of Liverpool on 23 April 2010, which is sponsored by the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, the Society for Applied Philosophy, the Mind Association and the Department of Philosophy at Liverpool. Click here for further information
Speakers include:
- Alistair Currie (PETA) Gauging, Changing and Mobilising Public Opinion: Challenges for AR Advocates
- Prof Celia Deane-Drummond (Chester & CAFOD) Taking leave of the animal: transhumanity as transanimality
- Jasmijn de Boo (Animals Count) Animal protection on hold in conservative UK
- Prof Robert Garner (Leicester) In Defence of Sentiency: A Critique of One Version of Animal Rights
- Dr Simon James (Durham) Animal Minds and the Demand for Evidence
- Dr Dan Lyons (Uncaged Campaigns) Advancing animal protection: Strategic action in an adverse structural context
- Dr Karen Morgan (Cardiff) Ethical veganism and animal rights: learning from feminist research and activism
- Dr Anat Pick (UEL) Creaturely Ethics: Beyond the Discourse of Rights
- Dr Richard Twine (Lancaster) Putting the ‘critical’ in Critical Animal Studies. What does it mean?
- Dr Richard White (Sheffield Hallam) Building Alliances between academic and activist communities
Cost (including lunch and refreshments): £40 (waged); £30 (students and unwaged), payable to University of Liverpool.
Please contact Prof. Clark if you would wish to attend.
Further information from Stephen R.L.Clark, Dept of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, 7 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WY. Email: Stephen R.L. Clark.
Keep checking back with us for updates.
Past events
03/03/10: Animals Count spokesperson Andrew Knight gave two presentations at Manchester University.
22/01/10: Animals Count organised a fantastic and successful fundraising party which everyone enjoyed. View Richard’s speech here.
15/01/10: Jasmijn de Boo gave a speech during a protest outside the Japanese Embassy as a Japanese vessel had destroyed Sea Shepherd’s Ady Gil trimaran and to protest against Japan’s continued whaling and violation of international law
13/12/09: Animals Count Christmas Dinner
06/12/09: Speech at ARAN’s rally against animal cruelty in Dublin, Ireland
06/12/09: Stall at Christmas Without Cruelty Fayre
26/10/09: Meeting with leaders of the Green Party
19/09/09: Animals Count 3rd Party Conference (click here for further information)
06/09/09: Stall at London Vegan Festival
15/08/09: Stall at fair in Oxford
25/07/09: Animals Count workshop in London
On 1st June, EastEnders actor Nicholas Ball got the ball rolling for Animals Count. He joined Jasmijn de Boo and Richard Deboo on a trip to Towerhill Stables Animal Sanctuary in Essex where he witnessed cows and goats going to the polling station rather than the milking station.
On 24th May we launched our manifesto in High Beach, Loughton, Essex, where Animals Count President and veterinarian Andrew Knight provided free dog consultations. This was received very well by the public. A short video clip is on the Elections web page.
On 9th May we officially presented our election campaign and manifesto to our members at our second Party Conference in London. The members were moved by the election video clip and pledged their active support for the coming weeks.
On 2-3 May three fit vegans successfully climbed the three highest peaks in Wales, England and Scotland in 23h and 25 mins despite arctic conditions on Ben Nevis in Scotland, complete darkness and fog on Scafell Pike and lack of a non-climbing driver. Congratulations and many thanks!
