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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Such a nice song. A nice thing to hear at the end of a long day. Thanks to
Chris for the link.
"'We are so happy to be at a place like Compuware Sports Arena,' said Baligian. 'There's enough room there to fit the many
meat lovers and allow us to celebrate the greatness of Meat, plus it's the home of the OHL Champ Whalers and a fantastic sports venue.'"
Just came across this. If you want to know why we don't carry all the stuff you want us to because of the sugar.
Monday, July 30, 2007
New vegetarian bistro! Mostly vegan.
Sweet Lemon Vegetarian Bistro
4888 NW Bethany Blvd. K6
Portland, OR 97229
503-617-1419
Hours: Mon-Friday : 11am-8pm
Saturday : Noon-8pm
Sunday : Closed
"Hmm. So let’s get this straight. If an animal rights activist makes sweeping comments about how he feels violence is justified against researchers, then lawmakers and industry groups go through the roof, he has his home raided, and cops are on red alert. If a born-again Christian makes sweeping comments–and targeted death threats–about how he feels violence is justified against researchers, then lawmakers and industry groups don’t have much to say, and cops aren’t even sure it’s “necessarily a crime.”"
"A judge held that the Home Office was acting unlawfully in licensing invasive brain experiments on marmosets at Cambridge University on the basis that 'moderate' rather than 'substantial' suffering was likely to be caused."
"why do love hunting accidents. I dont understand why you like to see people hurt enjoying the outdoors "
That is an exact quote.
"International animal organization Viva! is kicking off a global boycott of Adidas by coordinating an international day of action against the sporting goods company due to its subsidizing the slaughter of millions of kangaroos whose skins are used for making soccer cleats. Events are scheduled in Portland, Oregon on Friday, August 30, 2002 and Saturday, August 31, 2002."
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Check out this growing section of downloadable pamphets. Nice service provided by CrueltyFree.com.
Check out the new cheap (note: cheap = affordable, not poor quality) soap. Available in singles or in a even cheaper 3-pack. Wash up, you stink.
Order a shirt! Nice, no? Yes! Order!
Saturday, July 28, 2007
For educational/entertainment purposes only.
Just came across this. Can't hurt to give them a call, right?
Of course we find out about these things too late. Not sure what is planned for this. I hope one of our local groups is working on something, but we don't know anything for sure. Anybody know anything?
Here is something we learned about at the conference. Pretty awesome.
Welcome Back Us!
So... yeah, we're back from our trip down to
LA for the AR2007 Conference. Glad we went down. Heard some good speakers, but more importantly got to meet some inspirational people doing great work like
Will Potter,
Patrice Jones,
Lauren Ornelas, and a pile of others. The conference did it's job and got us all pumped up.
So now it's time to all step things up around here. Gotta get active. Gotta organize. All this wasted potential. Let's all do some brainstorming or something. It's gotta be about more than potlucks and buying donuts and jerky, right? Any ideas? Shoot 'em our way. Would anybody be into helping with a grassroots AR Conference in the NW? Hmmm?
Friday, July 27, 2007
Abandoned mice!
Some idiot kids just threw a bag of domestic mice over the fence in the playground next to the store. Now we have like 8 mice and don't know what to do. Does anyone out there know of a shelter that takes in mice? Please help!
Please keep writing Josh Harper.
Joshua Harper
29429-086
FCI Sheridan
Federal Correctional Institution
P.O. Box 5000
Sheridan, OR 97378
Write all of the SHAC7
www.shac7.com
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Here's a really easy thing you can do to help. Donate a couple of hours of your time and make this big task easier.
"We're nearing the end! With a small handful of dedicated volunteers, we have completed nearly three-quarters of the enormous task of scanning 113,000 pages of monkey records from the Oregon National Primate Research Center into PDFs for review by primate experts. We have a good scanner that can do up to 50 pages at a time, so it's not difficult, just time consuming.
Please sign up to volunteer -- an hour, a few hours, a day -- and help us finish this part of the project so we can review these records and see what is happening behind OHSU's locked lab doors. Bring your favorite music and some headphones and the time will fly by.
Please contact Connie or Matt at (503) 249-9996 or connie@idausa.org or matt@idausa.org if you can help."
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Perhaps this story can help the AR community feel less guilty about putting this "venerable institution" out of business.
"Gregg told Mark that a
private detective had tailed him and found that he'd been hosting
women of questionable integrity at after-hours booze parties in the salon."
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
A letter from Daniel McGowan.
"A growing boy can't live on bok choy alone! Besides, we both feel that he's too young to be making these kinds of lifestyle decisions on his own."
If only they knew that their kids were just more evolved and smarter than they are.
So, yeah, our freezer broke again. Getting a new one in a few days, but until then things are crappy. Also, we're getting 2 shipments of frozen stuff before the new freezer arrives. We need to make room. So... want 15% of stuff in the freezer? Come in today only and take stuff off our hands. Don't see what you want? Just ask, we may have some in our storage room. Thanks.
PS. If you don't remind us about the discount we might forget, so please remind.
Anybody out there want a vegan food cart?
Check out this totally winnable campaign. Drop a letter or call or something.
Monday, July 16, 2007
"Portland People!
A West Coast
Shut Them Down tour of demos against
HLS is going to be happening July 24 - Aug 2! All of you on or near the west coast, please try to make it out for one or several of these dates! On the east coast, the tour went extremely well with a lot of people coming out and a lot of comraderie and good networking going on, plus of course dozens of hard hitting demos.
For a lineup of the dates, please visit
www.CloseHLS.net and click on the link for "Shut Them Down - West Coast". The tour starts in San Diego right after the end of AR-07 and goes up through CA to Portland and Washington.
Anyone interested in info, and ESPECIALLY anyone in Portland, San Francisco, or Seattle who can help promote events in those cities, please contact westcoastSTD@riseup.net ASAP!"
Anybody have any Sacramento area (or around there on I-5) floor-sleeping-space-hookup for us? Wednesday night around 9pm? Leaving bright and early Thursday morning?
Just came across this site. They'll be at the AR Conference next weekend alongside us and Alicia Silverstone and the guy from "rock band Boston!"
So, help us clean house. All we have left in these long sleeve shirts are Unisex Medium (one left), Large, X-Large and Women's Medium, Large, and X-large. But look how cheap!
Congrats to Cosmo's for opening up a retail storefront in Atlanta. High-5 dudes.
It's official, Lita foods, maker of our ham tube, chicken burgers, and (sob) chicken nuggets has gone out of business. Time to get to work finding some replacements. If you have any ideas, let us know. Send us as much info off of packaging as you can. Easy to find product, hard to find distributors. Sad days.
No, not our window, our stupid shitty freezer. Uggh. Bad timing. Leaving to LA for the AR2007 Conference in 2 days....
Our friend Aaron is cooking this, it'll be awesome and help out the Red and Black at a difficult time. Make a reservation you fools.
"
What: Benefit Dinner for the Red and Black Cafe
Where: Red and Black Cafe, 2138 SE Division
When: Saturday, July 21st, at 7 pm
How Much: Sliding Scale $10 to $20 dollars
Why: Because you love the Red and Black and you love yummy vegan food
The Menu1st Course:
Tomato, Petite Greens, and Corona Bean Salad with Basil, Olive Oil, Red Onion, and Lemon
Main Course:
Zucchini, Yellow Squash and Mushroom Stuffed Eggplant with Cilantro-Walnut Pesto
Basil Oil Rubbed Flatbread with Roast Fennel, Red and Yellow Peppers, Olives, and Garlic
Sweet Corn and Hot Pepper Polenta Crisps with Red Onion Jam
Final Course:
Berry Tarts
Menu is subject to change"
Oh yeah, call 503-231-3899 to make the reservations.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
"you are invited to
sugar crash's next big bakery bonanza event on friday july 27th from 6-11pm. a candlelit romantic dessert feast featuring only the finest vegan pastries and benefiting
pigs peace
sanctuary. this is our second event, and as you may know, our may event for josh harper raised over $600. (see photos from this event at
here)for a $10 dollar donation, seduce your palette with homemade vegan ice cream, chocolates, and fancy cakes, while listening to live music and dj's. please rsvp to ensure a spot (and to help us know how much to bake!)
by e-mailing sugarcrashbakery@gmail.com. the event will be located on capitol hill at 1410 14th ave at 14th and union (across 14th from chop suey)
we are still looking to fill up some musical slots, so if you or anyone you know might be interested in playing in exchange for delicious vegan pastries, let me know, or e-mail sugarcrashbakery@gmail.com.
tell your friends! the only way we can make this a success is if you come!
katrina"
Announcing next month's benefit movie night! BLOODSPORT!
Featuring an introduction by
Mr. Josh Harper.
When: 8/12/07 @ 8pm
Where: The Artistery, 4315 SE Division
How Much: $3 a person
Why:
for these folks
Saturday, July 14, 2007
"“We’ve got to cut the number…” Mrs. Clinton responded. “I think there was an effort by our campaigns to do that … it got somehow detoured. We’ve got to get back to it,” and added, “our guys should talk.”"
Friday, July 13, 2007
Summer's Summer Sunday bake sale!
Hi all. Our customer/neighbor/friend, Summer, is having a bake sale this Sunday (vegan of course) and you should all go. She lives just a block away on 42nd ave. next to the schoolyard. And from all the great baked goods she's given us since we've known her, it'll be worth your time to buy some of her stuff. Here's her info:
"Hey Portland friends...
Since I've been perfecting my vegan baking and am also in need of some money, I will be holding a bake sale this Sunday!
The bake sale will feature such items as:
-Chocolate Peanut Buttter Banana Cupcakes
-Cookies & Cream Cupcakes
-Vanilla & Strawberry Cupcakes
-Mega Chocolate Chip Cookies
-Glazed & Sprinkled Donuts
-Chocolate-Covered Donuts
-Lavender & Strawberry Lemonade
It will be held from 11 to 5 on Sunday, July 15th at:
2302 southeast 42nd Ave. (one block from Food Fight)
Bring friends....
Rock on!
tea & cake,
Summer
P.S.: If you make music and want to play some songs outside, let me know!"
Fresh batch of sticky buns just arrived.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
See if this strikes your fancy.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Great idea to raise some money for Daniel McGowan. Make a pledge!
Skittles, while supplies last!
We got a very limited supply of Skittles here right now. They're the little bitty bags, and since it's been slow, we're giving one bag away with a purchase of $20 or more. Same goes for ONLINE purchases! Please shop.
Another dog needs a home!
Hi everybody. Thought we'd try again and see if anyone would want to adopt or foster a lovely dog.
A couple of customers from California on a road trip stopped by yesterday. They found her running along a lone highway in California wearing a shock collar. No doubt, the poor girl was either dropped somewhere or ran off from a bad situation. But they can't keep her, and they're only going to be in town a couple days, continuing their 2 month long road trip.
She's such a nice nice dog. We're guessing she's still a puppy, only 1 years old. They said she's been around other dogs since finding her, and all she wants to do is play. She's one of those really awesome, playful, loving dogs that would fit into any good home perfectly.
Please get in touch!
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
"'When eaters pick the fresh meat with their chopsticks, they can watch the fish's stirring mouth,' the report said."
Monday, July 09, 2007
Added those new Krinkle Sticks things. Love 'em. Some are stuck in my teeth as I type.
We just set up a profile over at CrueltyFree.com. Seems pretty cool so far. Weeds out a lot of the turds that float around the MySpace toilet bowl. Why don't you join and keep us company?
Vote for "Capitol Area Animal Welfare Society" and have Burger King throw them some money instead of that Catholic School.
Thanks for everybody who came out last night for benefit movie night. Good time, and you we raised like $185 or so. Not bad for just hanging out, right?
Sunday, July 08, 2007
Never asked permission. Totally ripped us off. The only difference is it's on a black t-shirt.
You might know this guy as someone doing good work, and yeah he is, but we know a lot about him business-wise, and his reputation is not good. He's known for ripping off so many groups' designs: Herbivore, PETA, Microcosm, Food Not Bombs. Yeah, it's for AR, but, he does make personal money off his stealing, too.
It's tiring to see other people's hard work being taken without permission. He has to know one person creative enough to come up with their own designs, right?
So crappy.
"Eat cocaine off America's gravestone."
"Its total carbon footprint, including the artists and spectators' travel and energy consumption, was likely to have been at least 31,500 tonnes, said John Buckley of Carbonfootprint.com - more than 3,000 times the average Briton's annual footprint. One viewer of BBC2's Newsnight complained online: 'Would you hold a hog roast to promote vegetarianism?'"
This looks awesome. We're gonna try and get some, but you should just order it directly now. More money going directly to those in need and not filtered down through credit card companies and us buying french fries.
So, today = potluck blowout here today at 1pm and "One Crazy Summer" movie night at 8pm at The Artistery. Cancel everything else.
Saturday, July 07, 2007
NYT thingy on Farm Sanctuary. Kinda nice, right?
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Check out the jackass writing over at the Willamette Week. Go hang out at Herbivore on Saturday just to spite 'em.
"They're out of school, out on Nantucket, and out of their minds. With this crowd, anything can happen!"
We've completely flaked on promoting this. Help us out by coming and bringing a friend or two. Or seven. Please?
You're welcome. Hope you day is going well.
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Closing up at 2pm to go celebrate our American pride and guard Sweet Freedom's door. Let the Eagle Soar!!!
Got some of this stuff too. Pretty tasty for a jacked up energy drink.
Got a couple of these things in too.
Also in today, vegan lasagna, stuffed manicotti, and stuffed shells. Whee!
Damn, these shits is good.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Want to adopt a cat that our friends are fostering? They'd love for it to go to a good vegan home, so, mention you saw this from our site and get preferential treatment. Come on, what's another cat in your home, right Dave?
"Yesterday, July 2nd, Daniel McGowan self reported to prison in NYC and is now in custody. Daniel went to MDC Brooklyn yesterday morning to self surrender but they did not have him designated to that facility yet. He was advised to instead report to the US Marshals (at the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse) who agreed to transport him to MDC last night. Please take a minute to write a supportive letter to him."
"USE YOUR LIPS
To defend queer rights
In response to the June 8th incident where 2 teenage girls were kicked off the #12 Trimet bus and called “sickos” for kissing, the queer community of Portland is uniting in protest. We are protesting the driver’s homophobic actions, and we are protesting Trimet’s mild response to the situation. We are calling for a formal apology from the driver to the entire queer community, and we are calling for additional sensitivity and diversity training for Trimet staff. All orientations and genders welcome!
***************** The Great Kiss-In ****************
Sunday, July 8th
2 pm
Outside of Trimet offices (701 SW 6th Ave., b/t Morrison and Yamhill)
Come with your honey or come alone, just come there and kiss someone!
Questions? Email greatkissin@yahoo.com"
"Here's your chance to unload that tacky Christmas gift hidden in your closet or that pile of clutter under your bed-
Donate it to our next garage sale to benefit animal rescue and the Out to Pasture animal sanctuary. Bring it to 2907 NE Weidler Street. Leave it on the porch or call Kit Collins to have it picked up at (503) 493-9155 (work).
The next sale is scheduled for the end of July. The animals thank you."
"Who: Cookie lovers in Portland, Oregon.
What: A vegan cookie contest to decide once and for all who has the best vegan cookie recipe. The hopefuls are all esteemed cookbook authors like Isa Chandra Moskowitz from Vegan with a Vengeance & Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, Dreena Burton from Vive le Vegan, Sarah Kramer from How it all Vegan, and more! Doesn't sound like your thing? Then think of it as FREE VEGAN COOKIES. Sample eight cookies crafted lovingly by local vegan heroes.
Where: The Herbivore Store
5519 NE 30th Ave
Portland, OR 97211
503.281.TOFU
When: Saturday, July 7, 2007 -- 2pm
Why: Because finding out what the fine vegans of Portland (aka the vegan mecca) think the BEST vegan cookie is will be fun."
Don't eat 'em. Bring 'em back for a refund if you have some from us.
Check out our pal Lantz's art opening on Friday night at The Red and Black Cafe. Free hanging out. See you there?
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Check out the new letter we just got from Josh. Then write a letter of your own.
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