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10 February 2020

Announcing UPC's 9th Annual Conscious Eating Conference

Making Connections: Overlapping Oppressions

Saturday, February 29, 2020
David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA

United Poultry Concerns' Conscious Eating Conference features bold, informative
speakers sharing their expertise on issues affecting farmed animals. This year
we explore overlapping oppressions with these questions: What is the best way
for us to represent veganism and animal advocacy that recognizes multiple,
overlapping oppressions? How do different forms of oppression prop each other
up? How can we create supportive alliances? Please join us for this exciting day
that includes the Animal Rights Herstory Panel detailing the struggle for animal
rights since the 1980s.


Featured Speakers:

Jasmine Leyva, Filmmaker
The Invisible Vegan: A Journey of Compassion

Growing up in inner-city Washington DC at a time when drugs, poverty, and the
prison system were consuming black lives, Jasmine C. Leyva was not in a
landscape that fostered animal rights as a priority. In fact, she was introduced
to animal rights from an adversarial space- these white people care more about
animal lives than black lives. And to reinforce that idea, she saw only white
people associated with the movement. Ironically, she moved to Los Angeles,
transitioned to veganism and directed The Invisible Vegan, a documentary that
champions animal rights. Jasmine will share how she reconciled her past beliefs
and went from adversary to advocate.

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Carol Adams, Author and Activist
On Trying To Be an Antiracist Vegan Feminist

Multi-oppression analysis has been available for at least 40 years; but as the
animal rights and vegan movements promoted the voices of white men, those
analyses were silenced. Recent studies have shown that whites take up more
climate space than people of color, but whites in the vegan movement also take
up more theoretical and conversational space. Trying to be an antiracist vegan
feminist involves decentering whiteness in theory and practice. Decentering
whiteness requires being aware of our own white privilege and how the animal
rights and vegan movements often maintained white privilege rather than
disturbing it.

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Christopher Sebastian McJetters, Author and Activist
White Meat: How Did Animal Exploitation Become a Signifier for White National
Identity and How Do We Fight It?

The resurgence of white nationalism in the 21st century has been observed in
many ways, but few have documented how it shapes our relationships with other
animals. In this lecture, Christopher Sebastian will provide key examples of how
the alt-right uses animal exploitation as a calling card and why solidarity with
other animals is necessary to collectively resist discrimination and bigotry
against all persons irrespective of species membership.

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Don't miss this year's exciting conference!

Conference Schedule & Registration:
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For more information contact Hope Bohanec at:
[email protected] or 707-540-1760

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United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization that promotes
the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl.
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