The First Earthlings Experience, Leicester Square of 2025
Schedule
Sat Jan 04 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
By Empire Casino. | London, EN
Grassroots vegan street activism spreading the truth about animal rights issuesEVENT INFO
Welcome to Earthlings Experience London, where vegan activists come together to spread the truth about animal rights issues. We show footage, and engage with members of the public who stop to watch.
Depending on the time of year, we use a projector & screen or TV(s) and other devices.
We sometimes take the outreach to London’s underground during very rainy weather.
We hold two fixed events a week:
Wednesdays from 6PM ’til 8PM by Shakespeare's Head, Carnaby Street/Great Marlborough Street W1F 7HZ.
Saturdays 6PM ’til 8PM by Empire Casino, Leicester Square.
If you would like to bring a device, please feel free to download any of the videos from this link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gHM9Fq2O_LjfPpf-wsoUMlJqMiKHTKbt?fbclid=IwAR3Rx1e8TxKnOGxezVQhE66QgvMTOMLZk9nNdyod3gELbvbke7hGbef7oXY
We have posters and placards to hold and information to hand out, but please feel free to create and bring your own posters.
We also have plain full-face masks for those who wish to wear them.
While there’s no dress code for Earthlings Experience, please remember that our focus is on raising awareness for other animals. It’s important that our presence and conversations reflect that priority. Let's ensure the focus remains on the cause, rather than on personal appearances. Our primary goal is to advocate for the end of speciesism.
The outreach is strictly abolitionist.
Abolitionism is about being morally consistent.
Be they land, water or air animals, we must recognise that they have moral value and are not things.
It is not only a matter of not causing other animals to suffer, we must stop using them as resources of any kind.
We must stop exploiting them.
The Earthlings Experience welcomes vegans to become active. Scroll down for the meaning of veganism.
Those new to this type of street activism are asked to hold a device or placard, or to shadow another activist until they’re ready to have conversations with members of the public. Holding a device or placard is as, if not more, important than chatting with the public simply because they are often seen first.
Meaning of veganism.
Veganism is not a diet. A plant diet is only a part of what it means to be vegan and you cannot be part vegan.
Veganism is a "way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose." ~ The Vegan Society.
The word ‘vegan’ “specifically implies moral concern for animals ... extend[ing] to more than ... diet. Vegans don't wear leather, fur, wool or silk and are against zoos, circuses, rodeos, animal testing and any other industry that exploits or abuses animals." ~ enki village.
Donald Watson coined the term 'vegan' and formed The Vegan Society in 1944. He didn't give a concise definition like the one used today because he was busy as treasurer, secretary and writer, and proving plant-based food alone wasn't bad for human health.
Those who started the vegan social movement (inc. Watson) in the late 1940s saw veganism as a peace movement, a justice movement, a movement for nonviolence, and the moral evolution of humanity through the liberation of others. So veganism is much broader than the definition currently used by today's Vegan Society. The original definition is that given by The Vegan Society and includes the benefit it has for the human race.
