300 Vegans for Independence

Goal: must meet goal by 7/4/2012 to purchase shirts/banner/flags

300 Vegans for Independence is an engaging, fun, artistic visual and educational as well as historical demonstration intended to build bridges to the existing vegan community support systems and create awareness to facilitate the expansion of vegan infrastructure.

Where: Goodale Park- Short North District of Columbus, OH

When: 4 July 2012 at 10:30am

What: We will represent vegans in the annual Doo Dah Parade

Purpose: Raise awareness of the rapidly gaining momentum and salient importance of the vegan social justice movement.

GOALS- Objectives:
* Get the vegan message on the backs of vegans as rapidly as possible by giving the Nonviolence United Vegan T Shirt to 300 participants
* Participants share important light, bright and tight "WHY VEGAN" and "HOW to go VEGAN" support literature with parade spectators
* Facilitate knowledge and access to vegan community support structures
* Make history and start a wave of organized demonstrations- This project is the first of its kind (specifically vegan centric message) that I'm aware of and I want to see this trend spreading and rallying cities around the globe.
* High Profile = Expectation of cultural acceptance and facilitation of vegan shift- The more visibility vegans have, the more rapidly and greater access to vegan infrastructure support will evolve.
* News headlines put vegan shift on the map of social dialog
* Large Demonstration = marketing photo op and sends message to political leadership that a vegan shift is an issue that people are gravitating towards.

Thank you in advance for your support!