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Purpose
Animal Liberation Victoria Inc. is a non-profit animal rights organisation founded in 1978 by Patty Mark and incorporated in 1984 under the Victorian Associations Incorporation Act. ALV is an abolitionist organisation dedicated to helping all animals with a strong focus on those factory farmed. The underlying goal of ALV is to abolish the property status of animals.
Activities / Campaigns
Campaigns include: Go Vegan; Battery Hens; Broiler Chickens; Protests outside KFC; Animal Experimentation; Fur; Puppy; Farms; Live Export; and the Annual Cruelty Free Expo.
Get Involved:
Check out the ALV guide to vagan living; join the Action Animal Rescue Team and help save lives; help find homes for rescued animals; join in events such as the Cruelty Free Expo, Vegan Bus Tour and protests (there's a protest every Saturday outside KFC in the city; sign up to the email list to hear about upcoming events
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Purpose
Barricade Books and Infoshop sells a range of anarchist and radical books, badges, comics, CDs, pamphlets, patches, posters, stickers, T-shirts and zines. We organise meetings and public discussions, monthly film screenings, and host an extensive anarchist and activist resource library. Barricade also facilitates Anarchist Black Cross letter writing to political prisoners every last Sunday of the month from 5.30pm. Being collectively run, Barricade is not only one modest but practical example of how anarchist principles can be used to organise communities and workplaces, but also a dynamic and evolving creation of those who form its membership.
Activities / Campaigns
We recognise that the land on which we stand belongs to the Wurundjeri people and we participate alongside the Koori community in the struggle for land rights and self-determination. We work for the creation of a society that encourages cultural diversity and we reject all forms of racial and ethnic prejudice, nationalism and patriotism. We are not patriots, we are revolutionaries. We advocate the abolition of capitalism and the wages system and their replacement with workers’ self-management of the means of production and the distribution of goods and services according to need not profit. We recognise that our natural environment is under continual assault from the forces of capitalist industrialism and support its defence by any means necessary. We look forward to the creation of a free society in harmony with nature.
Get Involved:
as an information resource centre, Barricade is a place where interested people can go to chat, debate, read, meet, and (hopefully) learn. Come in and see us! We are open Monday, Friday, Saturday 2-6pm.
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Purpose
FNB exists across the Americas, Europe and Australia as a statement about the amount of money spent on weapons manufacture as opposed to feeding people. FNB address this imbalance by redistributing resources to those who need them. Not only this, they do it on the basis of environmental sustainability, counteracting the culture of waste of consumer society. Rather than simply campaigning for environmental and social justice, FNB are an active force for change.
Activities / Campaigns
Activities include: collecting, cooking and serving free organic vegan meals through street kitchens;
re-distributing fresh organic produce that would have otherwise been discarded to people who need it; composting organic waste; catering for environmental and social justice events including large events such as the Friends of the Earth Annual Ball; hosting rocking benefit gigs and film nights.
Get Involved:
FNB cook regularly at Irene's Warehouse in Brusnwick and are always looking for new cooks, as well as people to do food pick ups and drops. Street kitchens- when and where to eat:
Mondays 12:30pm crn Brunswick and King William St Fitzroy
Mondays 7:30pm outside Western Bulldogs Barkly St Footscray
Tuesdays 7:30pm crn Gertrude and Brunswick St Fitzroy
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Purpose
The AVS aim to increase the number of vegetarians in Australia in order to stop cruelty to animals, benefit human health, protect the environment and preserve world food resources. We promote the vegetarian way of life by campaigning, education, information and research.
Activities / Campaigns
The Society was founded in the late 1800s to spread the principles and benefits of vegetarianism and the ideal of a humanitarian way of life. Since its inception, it has played a major role in promoting vegetarianism throughout Australia by organising public meetings, lectures, films and videos as well as publishing and distributing literature. Together with The Natural Health Society of Australia, we publish the quarterly magazine Natural Health and Vegetarian Life. We also organise the yearly National Vegetarian Week (1-7 October).
Get Involved:
the website provides a multitude of information on vegetarian nutrition, restaurants and events. Join the Society and receive 'Natural Health and Vegetarian Life' quarterly.
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Purpose
Vegans Unite! is an opportunity for Melbourne vegans to meet each other, share ideas, information and each other’s company, and to reduce the feelings of isolation that some vegans still experience in our community. Through our website, vegans and those interested in becoming vegan are invited to come along to dinner at a range of Melbourne's excellent meat-free restaurants.
Activities / Campaigns
Activities include: promoting the vegan lifestyle in Melbourne and beyond; giving vegans the opportunity to meet each other and to establish a wider vegan network throughout Melbourne and beyond; showing vegetarian restaurants that vegans are an important part of their clientele and that vegans must be kept in mind when determining menu items; having fun and eating great vegan food!!!
Get Involved:
just come along to a Vegans Unite gathering, meet everyone and get involved. Events are usually dinners that take place on Friday nights, once or twice a month.
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Purpose
Vegetarian Network Victoria (VNV), established in 1998, is a volunteer-based, non-profit organisation in Melbourne. It is run by people who care about human health, animal welfare and the environment. Our aim is to promote the many benefits of vegetarianism, and provide quality service, information and support to vegetarians and vegans
Activities / Campaigns
Activities include: promoting vegetarian lifestyles as a more healthy, humane and "environmentally friendly" way of living; providing and distributing up-to-date information relevant to vegetarians and those interested in vegetarianism
Providing support to vegetarians by answering questions (via email, telephone, post); providing a support network for vegetarians
Organising regular social events.
Get Involved:
check out the VNV website for stacks of information on vegetarianism, going vegan, where to find veggie things in Melbourne, health, news, issues, links etc; join in a VNV event and meet more veggies;join the emial list to stay updated.
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