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Contact: PAMELA RICE, 212-242-0011
FIRST VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE IN AMERICA
May 18, 2008
Greenwich Village, NYC
www.veggieprideparade.org
The First Veggie Pride Parade in
America will take place in Greenwich Village, New York City, on
May 18, 2008.
The procession will begin at 12 Noon in
the Old Meat District (where 9th Ave., Gansevoort St., Greenwich
St., and Little West 12th St. intersect).
The parade will culminate in Washington
Square Park (Eastern end), where a festival of rock music,
speakers, and exhibitors will take place.
Parade participants are encouraged to
dress up in costumes and to wear sign boards announcing their
pride in their vegetarian lifestyle.
Local restaurants will represent
themselves with banners. And otherwise, contingents from all
walks of life are encouraged to get involved.
Participants may be animal-rights
activists, environmentalists, or people simply concerned with
their health. They may be bricklayers who just so happen to also
be vegetarians (just one example). But on May 18, 2008 all will
come together with one voice, one expression, of veggie pride.
The parade is fashioned after, and will
take place the same weekend as, the Veggie Pride Parade in
Paris. The Parisian parade was the first of its kind ever to
take place in the world and has been going on annually since
2001.
Visit
veggieprideparade.org
for additional details:
- Find information about the
Parisian roots of the parade as well as the genesis for the
New York spin-off.
- Get involved through volunteering
and sponsorship.
- Find maps with start location and
parade route as well.
- For the official Veggie Pride
Parade (USA) blog, calendar, volunteers' listserve, and
costume page. And so much more...
