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There Are More Than Two Sides To Every Story

by Cameron Blewett on 30 April 2013

in General stuff

It seems that in the days since the publication of the article titled Vegan Animal Rights Group Refuses To Promote Veganism there has been all sorts of discussion regarding the circumstances behind the event that lead to the article being written.

As can be expected there are some who have taken sides, saying party A or party B is at fault, then there are those who have taken the ‘neutral’ position of sitting on the fence because they don’t know all the facts.

Whilst on one hand, it could be hard to blame them for not wanting to get involved in something like this, especially when based on the words of an alleged trouble maker such as myself.

That being said, what you can blame them for is not asking questions.

In people’s rush to demonise me as the cause of these events, and say that I am part of the problem not part of the solution, a few important things have been overlooked.

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Vegan Animal Rights Group Refuses To Promote Veganism

by Cameron Blewett on 25 April 2013

in General stuff

The night of Tuesday 23 April 2013 will forever be remembered as one of the most disgraceful nights in the history of the animal advocacy movement in Queensland, if not Australia.

It was the night that an alleged vegan animal rights group, aggressively ejected two individuals for wanting to promote veganism and to help other animals.

The shameful series of events took place at the screening of the movie Maximum Tolerated Dose on Queensland’s Gold Coast.

The public screening was a collaboration between Animal Liberation Queensland and the Facebook group Coast To Coast Animal Friends, two organisations that a reasonable person would think would be interested in promoting veganism and educating others on where to buy products that haven’t been tested on or contain animal products.Yet this wasn’t what happened.

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Revised on 3 May 2013

Podcast 11 April 2013

12 April 2013

Finally, after a bit of procrastination, and a few motivational emails, I am jumping back into the world of podcasting again. Here are the links that are mentioned in this episode. Animals Australia: Prime Minister accepts meat-free challenge! Animals Australia: 2,204,459 Animals Saved From The Terror of Live Export  Sydney Morning Herald: I spy with [...]

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Expansion of AusVegan.com

4 April 2013

AusVegan.com is going through a little bit of a change at the moment, and I thought I would take this opportunity to let everyone know what is happening. Over the years the site has become a place where the vegan status quo has been challenged and questioned, and some of the articles a little unpleasant [...]

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Raising Awareness By Raising Your Voice and Placards, Or So They Say

29 March 2013

Regular readers of this site will know that over the past few weeks, I have been discussing the alleged effectiveness of noisy, placard waving protests at increasing awareness to the plight of other animals. In a previous piece, I compared these protests to union picket lines and how they are intimidating to the worker who is [...]

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Don’t You Know Who WE are? We Are Beyond Reproach!

28 March 2013

How would you handle it if you became aware of an ‘animal rights’ group that was deliberately misrepresenting events to deceive people? What if those furphies were substantially different to what actually happened at an event? Would you or could you be the one to raise your voice and say that what they said was [...]

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Will A Noisy, Placard Waving Protest Further The Discussion For The Animals?

27 March 2013

March 2013 saw two separate protests being held on Queensland’s Gold Coast about circuses. Lennon Bros Circus was the target of these two, as they were the first ones to take advantage of the Gold Coast City Council’s decision to lift a ban on the use of exotic animals on council land. The organisers of [...]

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Forget About Rational Discussion, Let’s Bully And Harass Instead.

25 March 2013

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. Yesterday, Sunday 24 March 2013 I attended, as an observer, the Animal Liberation Queensland/Coast To Coast Animal Friends organised protest against Lennon Bros Circus on the Gold Coast. It was also the first time in my nearly [...]

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To Protest Or Not To Protest – Part III

20 March 2013

Following on from the previous two protest related pieces I have written, part I and part II, this third and final piece contains a few suggestions of what your average vegan activist can do to raise awareness about the plight of ALL animals, and promote veganism. Sadly, there isn’t much glory – actually there is [...]

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To Protest Or Not To Protest. Part II

19 March 2013

Following on from the previous article, To Protest Or Not To Protest. That Is The Question, this piece will discuss the issue a little more. Though before I do, I would like to draw your attention to some of the comments made here. Once you have had a read of that, I strongly recommend listening to [...]

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