SPRING SEMESTER 2009
All events are free and open to the public. Please check back as we add more events!
January 14, 2009
S.O.S Meeting
Come help make plans for a new semester of advocacy and activism to protect animals. S.O.S has many exciting projects lined up and we need your help to be a voice of compassion for animals. All are welcome!
Miller Learning Center, room 245, at 7:30 pm.
January 28, 2009
S.O.S Meeting
Join us as we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the founding of S.O.S with vegan treats and a special speaker! Dr. Carrie Packwood Freeman, a founding member of S.O.S, returns to Athens to share her work on behalf of animals in a talk titled "This Little Piggy Went to Press: The American News Media's
Construction of Animals in Agriculture."
Dr. Freeman examines the representations of farmed
animals in national print and broadcast news in over 100 stories from
The New York Times, Time Magazine, CBS News, and CNN. The
presentation will show interesting examples of the three ways the news
objectifies animals, and the four ways that the news coverage is
helping to challenge the status quo view of farmed animals.
Miller Learning Center, room 245, at 7:30 pm.
January 28-30, 2009
Campus Outreach Days
Representatives from PETA2 will be visiting UGA to help spread the word about veg living and to gather petition signatures in support of making more vegan options available in the UGA dining halls. Email Jenny Aszman if you'd like to lend a hand!
January 31, 2009
Field Trip to Atlanta
S.O.S is planning a fun-filled field trip to Atlanta! We will be visiting Cosmo's Vegan Shoppe and having dinner at Harmony Vegetarian Chinese Restaurant. Our carpool caravan will depart Athens at 2:00 pm and we plan to arrive back in Athens around 8:00 or 8:30 pm.
Email Jenny Aszman if you'd like to join the fun or need a ride!
February 2, 2009
Meat The Truth
We kick off our fourth annual Through Other Eyes film festival with MEAT THE TRUTH,
a documentary that reveals the massive impact of livestock farming on the climate change problem. Presented by Dutch Member of Parliament Marianne Thieme, the film demonstrates that the livestock farming industry is one of the most important causes of global warming and is responsible for the emission of more greenhouse gasses worldwide than all cars, trucks, trains, boats, and airplanes added together.
See our Film Festival page for complete details!
Miller Learning Center, room 101, at 7:30 pm.
February 4, 2009
Student Activities Fair
Help staff the S.O.S table at the Activities Fair. This is a great opportunity to spread the word about S.O.S and reach out to students interested in getting active for animals! Free literature, stickers & DVDs!
Memorial Hall Ballroom, 10:00 am — 3:00 pm.
February 9, 2009
A Sealed Fate?
Our Through Other Eyes film festival continues with A SEALED FATE? which presents a look at the Canadian seal hunt from Nigel Barker, a world-renowned photographer, film director, and judge on the popular television show America's Next Top Model. The film chronicles Nigel's two trips to Canada — the first before the hunt started where he showed the world through his pictures the majesty of the seals and the seascape, and the second to broadcast images of the hunt itself. Images taken by Barker capture the brief lives and beauty of the baby seals that hunters target each year during the planet's largest marine mammal slaughter. See our Film Festival page for complete details!
Miller Learning Center, room 101, at 7:30 pm.
February 11, 2009
S.O.S Meeting
Miller Learning Center, room 245, at 7:30 pm.
February 16, 2009
Spay Day
In honor of Spay Day USA — an annual campaign to inspire people to save animal lives by spaying or neutering pets and feral cats — SOS is holding a bake sale fundraiser to benefit the work of UGA's Campus Cats. If you would like to volunteer at the table, or bring baked goods (vegan preferred) for the sale, please contact Joanna Randazzo.
Tate Plaza, 9:00 am — 3:00 pm
February 16, 2009
Best Friend Forgotten
The third feature in our Through Other Eyes film festival, the captivating documentary BEST FRIEND FORGOTTEN takes a behind-the-scenes look at the crisis of pet overpopulation. Hosted by David Duchovny of X-Files fame, the film tells the stories of Oreo the cat and Clover the dog as they face the harsh realities of pet overpopulation. Viewers of the documentary hear from animal control officers, shelter employees, veterinarians, rescue group volunteers, a senator, and others as the film illustrates the consequences of pet overpopulation. See our Film Festival page for complete details!
Miller Learning Center, room 101, at 7:30 pm.
February 23, 2009
Sharkwater
Our Through Other Eyes film festival concludes with SHARKWATER in which biologist and filmmaker Rob Stewart debunks stereotypes of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas. Filmed in visually stunning, high definition video, SHARKWATER takes you into the most shark rich waters of the world, exposing the exploitation and corruption that is decimating the world's shark populations. In an effort to protect sharks, Stewart teams up with renegade conservationist Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and risks his life to save these magnificent creatures from the brink of extinction. See our Film Festival page for complete details!
Miller Learning Center, room 101, at 7:30 pm.
February 25, 2009
S.O.S Meeting
Miller Learning Center, room 245, at 7:30 pm.
March 4, 2009
Carol Adams
Renowned author and activist Carol J. Adams will visit the University of Georgia to present a lecture and slideshow based on her classic book The Sexual Politics of Meat.
Her presentation provides an ecofeminist analysis of the interconnected oppressions of sexism, racism, and speciesism by exploring the way popular culture presents images of race, gender, and species to further oppressive attitudes in society.
Her presentation will be followed by a book signing and vegan banquet in the North Tower of the Miller Learning Center. This event is sponsored and funded by Speak Out for Species, Women’s Studies Student Organization, Institute of African American Studies, the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program, and the Institute of Women’s Studies.
Miller Learning Center, room 102, at 4:30 pm.
March 18, 2009
The Great American Meatout
S.O.S will have a table at Tate Plaza with lots of free vegan food samples and literature in honor of the Great American Meatout, a national celebration of vegetarian living and its benefits for health, animals, & the environment. Help us end animal cruelty by encouraging the UGA community to explore compassionate vegetarian alternatives!
Tate Plaza, 9:30 am — 3:30 pm
March 18, 2009
S.O.S Meeting
Another Inconvenient Truth
Environmental activist JC Corcoran will discuss “Another Inconvenient
Truth: Livestock Production is a Leading Cause of Global Warming.” He
will explain the global climate impacts of a meat-based diet, and he
will show how a few personal diet choices can make a big reduction in
the size of one’s carbon footprint. JC Corcoran is a long-time
environmental educator and activist. He has been leading programs on
plant-based nutrition and the environmental impact of our food choices
for over seven years.
Miller Learning Center, room 245, at 7:30 pm.
April 1, 2009
S.O.S Meeting
Filmmaker and musician Eleni Vlachos visits UGA on her national tour to screen her documentary film Seeing Through the Fence. Through a series of humorous and poignant interviews conducted across the US
and in Greece, Seeing through the Fence explores our attitudes about the role of food in modern society and our connection,
or lack of connection, with both the processes and animals from which our food originates,
asking the question, 'What prevents ethical principles from being advanced to action?' Read viewer quotes and testimonials & press reviews of Seeing through the Fence!
Miller Learning Center, room 245, at 7:30 pm.
April 15, 2009
S.O.S Meeting
Miller Learning Center, room 245, at 7:30 pm.
April 22, 2009
Earth Day Celebration
Help staff our S.O.S table at the Earth Day celebration and inform students about the impact of factory farming on our environment, and about wildlife issues such as endangered species protection, hunting, whaling, & fur trapping. Myers Quad at UGA, times to be announced.
May 2-3, 2009
Athens Human Rights Festival
Help staff our S.O.S table at the annual Human Rights Festival and promote the rights of all sentient beings, human and nonhuman alike. Many great speakers and bands featured!
College Square, downtown Athens. Times to be announced.
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