People come from all over to attend this five day event at the Westin Hotel. These five days are packed with workshops, exhibits, movie premieres, and even early morning yoga. They have various concurrent tracks for people that come for different reasons.
Various Tracks:
- Issues Track -covers different types of animal abuses and the underlying issues (they recommend this for newcomers).
- Organizational Track - Suggests improvements in personal and organizational effectiveness.
- Tactics Track - Addresses campaign tactics and outreach to various constituencies.
- Campaign Reports - Offer reports on activities and successes by leading national and local organizations.
- Rap Sessions - encourages participation in open discussions about controversial issues facing the movement.
- Videos - new video premieres with question and answer by their producers.
Along with all these tracks they have a newcomer orientation, awards banquet, networking receptions, and free exhibits. While I wish I was able to go to all of these, I only was able to make the free exhibits due to my budget. Next year though I am looking forward to trying to make the whole event. Since the registration for this event can be any where from $65 for a single day to $160 for all five days there a couple of ways to get into this event at a discounted rate or even for free.
Here are some options for those of you on a budget:
- Earn money by promoting the conference in your area
- Sign up as staff to get free registration
- Apply for low-income registration discount.
- Apply for a full scholarship.
- Use their Travel Board to get a ride
- Use our Lodging Board to split the cost of a room
- Sign up for our $20/night floor accommodations - do NOT contact the hotel.
- Take advantage of our free morning and evening snacks.
- Bring your own food & drinks.
What do they do exactly?? I mean its not like they can stop people or factory farming or anything!
ReplyDeleteMany of the people who attended this event work for nonprofit agencies, are authors, activists, or even just interest in the subject matter. People at this event are often political activists and/or lobbyists. They often seek to educate others as well as themselves, and hopefully change some laws in the process.
ReplyDeleteSuppose you're a vegan mother who has an infant child. You want to raise the child on a vegan diet. Do you give the child milk from your breasts or would you give them soy milk right from the beginning? Is it okay to give soy milk to an infant instead of breastfeeding?
ReplyDeleteThe best way to go is breast feeding for it has all the nutrients a baby needs. There are also soy milk formulas, but they really should not be used to replace breast feeding until after the first year, for it does not contain the right nutrients for a new born baby. The soy milk formulas for babies is also a big controversy so I would do a little bit of research and decide for yourself what you think is best.
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