Meassage from Pamela

VivaVegie did make it out to the San Gennaro Feast on Saturday,
September 16, and the pro-vegetarian literature we brought was
flying from our hands. We distributed several hundred copies of "101
Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian"
(http://www.vivavegie.org/vv101/index.html).

Check out at least one image from the event:
http://www.vivavegie.org/vvs/jun2002/index.html

As always, San Gennaro is one of our best venues. People are
surprisingly receptive to taking our pamphlet at this event, sausage
feast though it may be.

Unfortunately, after much trouble - it's always a big production -
our Penelo Pea Pod pooped out after a short while. The human beneath
the costume had not planned his time to best advantage and called it
quits, just when we were doing so well.

Which tells me that we need backup, more activists, more
pamphleteers. So come on guy and gals, here's your chance to get
involved...

If you've ever wondered what it'd be like to take part in vegetarian
street outreach, consider this, no one as yet has bitten my head off
as I promoted vegetarianism on the street. In fact, talking with
people about vegetarianism is normally a highly satisfying
experience, I've found.

With signs, such as "ask me why I'm a vegetarian" and "give peas a
chance," the pedestrian passersby get the picture right away. They
know what you're about in an instant. Anyone coming up to an activist
knows the score. In fact, VivaVegie outreach activists are never
aggressive. We never shove literature into people's hands. We in fact
wait for people to reach their hands out to us first. And this
techniques works in two ways:

One, the people who get our flyer are receptive to the information
inside of it, and, two, very few pamphlets end up in the trash or
littered on the sidewalk. VivaVegie does not as yet have the
financial resources to unload flyers to unwilling recipients.

So, if you please, people, vegetarians on this list, get with the
program. Join the VivaVegie Society in its vegetarian street
outreach. You wont find anything more satisfying, and, I dare say,
enjoyable.

Peas & luv,
Pamela Rice