Veggie Pride Parade 2014 plain-text promo material to post to your online social network ....

Veggie Pride Parade 2014 plain-text promo material to post to your online social network .... 


[Sunday, Mar. 30, 2014]
March from the Olde Meat District to Union Square Park
Mark your calendar, take part, support, & spread the word.
First, register your attendance at the Facebook page: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/262998593863099/
Now, subscribe to our Twitter page: 
https://twitter.com/VeggiePrideNYC
Visit and bookmark the HOME PAGE: 
http://www.veggieprideparade.org
From the home page, find all links:
=> official press release
=> downloadable poster
=> exhibitor list
=> speaker/performer list
=> volunteering info
=> videos/images pages
=> media links
=> blog
=> bulletin board
=> maps
=> e-mail-list sign-up page
=> sponsorship/donation info
=> costume-contest prize-donation page
=> goals & why-we-march pages
Map for line-up/start point and route can be found at: 
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/maps.htm 
for map.
Special features at post-parade rally & expo?
=> 40 exhibitors
=> 20 speakers
=> soapbox testimonial station
=> Pay-per-view: Watch a veggie video, get a buck & a free DVD
=> entertainment, music, & vegan food
=> costume contest @ 2 p.m.

Thank you, one and all,
Pamela Rice
organizer, Veggie Pride Parade

Veggie Pride Parade 2013 links page, click all aspects from one page

Veggie Pride Parade 2013 links page

Click all aspects from one page:

Links page, Veggie Pride Parade 2013
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/clicklist2013.htm

Donate: MATCHING-FUND FUNDRAISER 2014
https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/3bzj3/ab/c20xL4

Home page, Veggie Pride Parade
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/

Veggie Pride Parade NYC 2013 -- Sunday, March 24

Veggie Pride Parade NYC 2013 -- Sunday, March 24

Veggie Pride Pride Parade NYC 2013
[Sunday, March 24, 2012]

March from the Olde Meat District to Union Square Park

Mark your calendar, take part, support, & spread the word.

Visit and bookmark the HOME PAGE:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org
From the home page, find all links:

=> official press release
=> Facebook & Twitter links
=> downloadable poster
=> exhibitor list: this year's list to be posted shortly
=> speaker/performer list: this year's list to be posted shortly
=> volunteering info
=> videos/images pages, past parades
=> media links
=> blog
=> bulletin board
=> maps
=> e-mail-list sign-up page
=> sponsorship/donation info
=> costume-contest prize-donation page
=> goals & why-we-march pages

Frequent F.A.Q.s:

Where/when is the line-up/start point? And what is the route? Go to
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/maps.htm for map.

Special features at post-parade rally & expo in Union Square Park, north end?

=> 40 exhibitors
=> 15 speakers
=> soapbox testimonial station
=> Pay-per-view: Watch a veggie video, get a buck & a free DVD
=> entertainment, music, & vegan food
=> costume contest @ 2 p.m.

Thank you, one and all,
Pamela Rice
organizer, Veggie Pride Parade

VIDEOS, IMAGES, LINKS posted

VIDEOS, IMAGES, LINKS posted

VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE NYC 2012

GO TO THE HOME PAGE • PUSH OUR BUTTONS:

http://www.veggieprideparade.org

volunteers, contact
info@vivavegie.org

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to LEAFLET for VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE in Union Square Park

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to LEAFLET
for VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE in Union Square Park

Teams being formed now.

Call 212-966-2060 to get involved.

VOLUNTEERS,
CONFIRM BY EMAIL: 

info@vivavegie.org

HOME PAGE, VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE:

http://www.veggieprideparade.org

Click, Print, and Post Poster EVERYWHERE!

Click, print, & post. Click HERE to for promo poster for VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE 2012. Put 'em up everywhere: at school, at the store, all around the neighborhood. We need everyone to promote the parade.  It's all about the numbers, gettiing huge crowds to the parade and in the park later.

Presenters, Veggie Pride Pride Parade NYC 2012

On-Stage Presenters
Veggie Pride Parade, NYC
2012

• Mickey Z
• Pamela Rice, organizer, Veggie Pride Parade
• Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns
• Derek Goodwin, soapbox testimonial station emcee
• Bob DiBenedetto, Healthy Planet (Long Island)
• Sister Vegetarian (Donna Michelle Beaudoin), author, educator
• Joan Wai, GreenCompassion.us
• Richard Schwartz, Jewish Vegetarians of North America
• Kathy Stevens, Catskill Animal Sanctuary
• skit by Jasmin Singer and Marisa Miller Wolfson
• Dr. Natural, Temple of Illumination
• Edita Birnkrant, Friends of Animals
• Jenny Brown, Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary
• Wilson Morales, elder, Seveth Day Adventists
• Rynn Berry, author, lecturer, vegan historian
• Jamin Singer, ourhenhouse.org
• Dave Warwak, activist, writer

http://www.veggieprideparade.org

April 3, 2011: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to LEAFLET for VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to LEAFLET
for VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE at the:

NYC Vegetarian Food Festival - April 3, 2011 

"Foodies, locavores, vegetarians, vegans, flexitarians, and those who simply want to find out more about living a healthy, sustainable lifestyle, this is the festival for you! Vegetarian food companies, restaurants, and health and wellness vendors will congregate in New York City to celebrate the delight of vegetarian food and cruelty-free living for the NYC Vegetarian Food Festival."

The Festival will be held on April 3, 2011 at The Altman Building located at 135 West 18th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues in New York City (http://nycvegfoodfest.com/).

VOLUNTEERS,
CONFIRM BY EMAIL: 

info@vivavegie.org

HOME PAGE, VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE:

http://www.veggieprideparade.org

WED., MAR. 9: Volunteers meeting tonite, Veggie Pride Parade

Volunteers meeting tonight for VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE

BONOBOS in NYC, 18 E. 23rd St. @ Madison, 6 p.m. 

All info at: http://tinyurl.com/6bvt7xw

Don't not come because you can only do a little bit.  

Or call the office to discuss volunteers options:

212-242-0011 

Email contact: info@vivavegie.org 

WED., MAR. 9: Volunteering POW-WOW, Veggie Pride Parade

Wed., Mar. 9: Big volunteers POW-WOW, VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE

RE-POST FREELY & WIDELY

ALL INFO, CLICK HERE:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/volunteering.htm
Volunteers meeting, VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE
Description
WHAT: Big meeting, volunteering for VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE 2011
WHERE: BONOBOS, 18 E 23rd St. New York, NY 10010
DATE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2011
TIME: 6 P.M.
We'll eat, then get to work divvying up the responsibilities.
Go to the following link to review a list of important things you can do to help make this parade a great success:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/volunteering.htm
RSVP, Pamela Rice: info@vivavegie.org

Following is the 

Speaker list for Veggie Pride Parade NYC 2011

Doctor Michael Klaper
Bruce Friedrich, PeTA
Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns
Tony Avella, state senator
Doctor Natural
Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.
H.K. Shah, Vegetarian Vision
Victoria Moran, author

Fan Fu dancer Ying Ming Yick

Bob DiBenedetto, Healthy Planet
Joan Wai, Green Compassion
DJ Cloud (Claudia Costa)
Kathy Stevens, Catskill Animal Sancturary
Patrick Kwan, HSUS
Dave Warwak, vegan activist/blogger
Dawn Moncrief, A Well-Fed World
Freya Dinshah, American Vegan Society
MC Pamela Rice, parade organizer

Veggie Pride is Tweeting and Facebooking

VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE IS ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK

Click images or URLs to get linked:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/VeggiePrideNYC 

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155820117783982

We'll be Twittering away during the parade. If you can't be with us, you can feel our tweets!

WE HAVE A DATE (May 15) / WE HAVE LINKS

CONFIRMED DATE FOR 2011 NYC VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE

SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2011

Find all the following links at the
HOME PAGE, VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE: www.veggieprideparade.org

• OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
• DOWNLOADABLE POSTER
• VOLUNTEER TO HELP INFO
• DONATE INFO
• VIDEOS
• EXHIBITOR LIST
• SPEAKERS / PERFORMERS LIST
• SOAPBOX: INFO/IMAGES
• COSTUME CONTEST: INFO/IMAGES
• GEN'L IMAGES: 2008, 2009, 2010
• MEDIA: 2008, 2009, 2010
• MAP: START POINT
• BLOG
• MAILING LIST INFO
• LINKS
• BULLETIN BOARD
• SPONSORSHIP INFO
• EXHIBITOR GUIDE
• WHY WE MARCH
• GOALS
• CONTACT INFO

Speaker/Entertainer List, Veggie Pride Parade NYC 2011

Following is the 

Speaker/Entertainer list for Veggie Pride Parade NYC 2011

Doctor Michael Klaper
Bruce Friedrich, PeTA
Karen Davis, United Poultry Concerns
Tony Avella, state senator
Doctor Natural
Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.
H.K. Shah, Vegetarian Vision
Victoria Moran, author
Fan Fu dancer Ying Ming Yick
Bob DiBenedetto, Healthy Planet
Joan Wai, Green Compassion
DJ Cloud (Claudia Costa)
Kathy Stevens, Catskill Animal Sancturary
Patrick Kwan, HSUS
Dave Warwak, vegan activist/blogger
Dawn Moncrief, A Well-Fed World
Freya Dinshah, American Vegan Society
MC Pamela Rice, parade organizer

For images of speakers from years past, click HERE.

Tentative Exhibitor List, Veggie Pride Parade NYC 2011

Following is the 

Tentative Exhibitor List, Veggie Pride Parade NYC 2011

These are the invited exhibitors. 

Exhibitors are by invitation only.

A Well Fed World
American Vegan Society
author's table, Rynn Berry
Black Vegetarians of New York
Catskill Animal Sanctuary
Compassion Over Killing
Deliciious TV
DoNotEatUs.org
F.A.R.M.
Farm Sanctuary
Bruce Friedrich, speaker
Friends of Animals
Green Compassion / Youth Buddhism Communications
Healthy Planet (Long Island)
Hearts for Animals
Humane Society for the United States
Integral Yoga (food donation)
Jewish Vegetarians of North America, JVNA
Dr. Michael Klaper, speaker
Lantern Books
Meetup Dot Com
Menu table
Mercy for Animals
Micah Books
Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society
Misc. food donations
Victoria Moran
NAVS
North American Vegetarian Society
NY Animal Rights
PeTA
Raw Revolution (food donation)
Sadhu Vaswani Center
7th Day Adventists
Supreme Master Chang Hai, Int'l.
Team Organic, vegan triathletes
United Poultry Concerns
Vegan Outreach
Vegan Radio / Vegan Bus
Vegetarian Resource Group, VRG
Vegetarian Vision
VegOut
VivaVegie Society
V-Spot (food donation)
Whole Earth Bakery (food donation)
Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary

For images of exhibitors from years past, click HERE.

Income statement for 2010 Veggie Pride Parade

Veggie Pride Parade has just uploaded its income statement for the past 10 months. This period best represents that time for which transactions for the 2010 parade were made.

Click on the following link for Web page with all information, including links:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/VPPincomestatement.htm

Or simply read the following:

2010 Veggie Pride Parade, sponsored by VivaVegie Society

Parade income
(Oct. 1, 2009–Jul. 31, 2010)

• Contributions designated for the parade, $4,012
• Contributions from groups with exhibit tables at the post-parade expo: $980
• Grants for parade, specifically: $10,500
• Program guide, $5,515

Parade expenses
(Oct. 1, 2009–Jul. 31, 2010; overhead not included)

• Rental of tables, tent, chairs: $1,385
• Printing of program guide (5M copies): $3,976
• Business cards: $30
• Food (V-Spot; Whole Earth Bakery): $1600.
• Liability insurance (one day, required by city): $962
• Print advertising (3): $1,434
• Sound technician (planning and day-of): $500
• New parade banners & posters: $746
• Stationery supplies, mailing, public officials: $168
• Postage, mailing, public officials + misc.: $261
• Photocopies, fundraising presentations: $56
• Port-o-pottie: $125
• Volunteers meeting, pre-parade, room rental $88
• Rental for 4 ladders, special photographic shots of parade: $60
• Clean-up crew: $160
• Videographer: $200
• Web site: $274
• Permits, Parks Dept., NYPD (sound): $77
• General day-of expenses, including table substrate, outreach bags, laminated signs, etc.: $57
• Professional services (parade organizer): $2,300

Other revenues
(Oct. 1, 2009–Jul. 31, 2010)

• Sales, 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian, other donations: $2,125.

General overhead expenses
(Oct. 1, 2009–Jul. 31, 2010)

• Rent, telephone, utilities (electricity) p.o. box, gen'l office, computer, bank charges, plus misc.: $7500

NOTE: VivaVegie Society, 501(c)3, sponsoring organization of the Veggie Pride Parade, NYC, has not, does not, and promises never to in the future, share its database or contributors's list.

Veggie Pride Parade NYC 2010 a roaring success

The Third Annual Veggie Pride Parade NYC 2010 was a rip-roaring success. Nearly a thousand people marched in the streets of Greenwich Village on May 16, 2010, for compassion, for environmental sanity, and for health awareness. Our numbers easily swelled to 1,500 once we reached Union Square Park (north end), the end-point for the parade and location of the vegan-happy rally & expo. There, costume-wearing vegan-proud individuals were treated to a dozen inspiring speeches, 38 noncommercial exhibitors, cart-loads of free vegan food, live entertainment, as well as heartfelt exhortations from people at the soapbox testimonial station. Click HERE to go to the Veggie Pride Parade Web site, where you can view images, videos, a listing of media posts, and lots lots more. Bookmark the site, because we plan to post huge amounts of content over the weeks to come.

Fabulous program guide 2010 available online!

The fabulous program guide for the upcoming 2010 Veggie Pride Parade NYC is available online! Click HERE to download a PDF (3.2 mb). Everything's there: A list of speakers, exhibitors, entertainers, donors of cash, food, and prizes, the latter for the costume contest. There are two articles, a list of volunteers, and, of course, the program of events! Oh, and many many ads from the generous sponsors of the Veggie Pride Parade. This is not to be missed.
Five thousand printed program guides are due to arrive in our office at One Union Square West, #512, NYC 10003 on Friday, April 30. Volunteers are encouraged to pick up handfuls (and even shopping bags full) of guides to distribute at their favorite veggie haunts (restaurants & health-food stores, mostly). Call 212-242-0011 for more information on how you can help in this very important way to get the word out about our wonderful parade and post-parade rally & expo. Peas & luv, Pamela R.

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New posting poster, Veggie Pride Parade

A new posting poster is available with a nice big map of the start point for the parade. We've placed a nice big zip code in the map, for those of you driving in with GPS devices. Just plug in that zip and you're good.
We really hope people are downloading this poster, getting it printed at the local copy shop and placing it around your haunts and neighborhoods.
Now, you want a good crowd at the Veggie Pride Parade. We are stronger in numbers--remember?
See you at the parade! Click on the image and scroll down. Click on map for a PDF of the poster. Or just send the link to your printer!

You loved the VEGGIE PRIDE PARADE. It's time to show it.

PLEASE CROSS POST

Let me guess: you loved this year's Veggie Pride Parade, which took place in May:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/

You had a great time. You might even say, you felt elated to walk in the parade
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/veggiepride2009/DSC04502sm.jpg

...and to enjoy the festivities in Union Square Park later.
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/images/parkwideshot.jpg

(Note: we're up and running for another parade in 2010.)

Now it's time to put your money where your sentiment is:

Give back to the organization that gave it all to you: VivaVegie Society, 501(c)3
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/donations.htm

See all that the parade's organizer did to put the show on the road:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/pamelascontribution.htm

Here's your chance, before 2009 comes to a close, to do the right thing and to get a tax deduction at the same time.

Remember: Veggie Pride Parade NYC won the coveted
VegNews's Veggie Award two years in a row (2 for 2).
(And you have this event right in your back yard!)
Go to:
Favorite Veg Event (readers' choice): Veggie Pride Parade, NYC (2009)
http://www.vegnews.com/web/articles/page.do?pageId=1069&catId=6
Event of the Year (editor's choice): NYC's Veggie Pride Parade (2008)
http://www.vegnews.com/web/articles/page.do?pageId=143&catId=6

VivaVegie Society is not your average veggie group. Who else can say they brought together 35 exhibitors and over a dozen speakers to a post-parade rally & expo? ... including:

Exhibitors:
American Vegan Society, Catskill Animal Sanctuary, Earthsave, F.A.R.M., Farm Sanctuary, HSUS, Mercy for Animals, PeTA, United Poultry Concerns, Vegan Outreach, Vegetarian Resource Group, & Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary.

See images and links for all 35 exhibitors at:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/exhibitors.htm

Speakers:
Paul Shapiro, HSUS, J.P. Vaswani, Sadhu Vaswani Mission, Peter Anderson, Future Leaders Institute, Marianne Thieme member of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands, Tony Avella, New York city councilman from Queens' 19th district, Cheryl Hill, entertainer, Karen Davis, Ph.D., United Poultry Concerns, Joan Wai, Youth Buddhism Communications, Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D., president of the Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA), Christine Vardaros, world-class vegan cyclist, Mickey Z, vegan author, speaker, activist, & Dave Warwak, poet, and writer, former tenured middle school art teacher.

See all 13 speakers at:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/bios.htm

The Veggie Pride Parade Web site offers a treasure trove of information:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/

Please visit the following Web pages and see why if you're giving end-of-the-year support to your favorite veg groups, you need to give to VivaVegie Society. Please be generous:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/donations.htm

Place an ad in the 2010 program guide:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/program.2010.htm
(Early-bird discounts available now.)

Sponsors' page:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/sponsors.htm
(Donation over $300)

Volunteers' page:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/media.htm

Donate a prize to the 2010 costume contest:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/contests.htm

Here's how you can volunteer for the 2010 Veggie Pride Parade
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tzHsWX2dhre1gjpIDSrr1qw&output=html

Images from the 2009 Veggie Pride Parade:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/images.htm

Veggie Pride Parade blog:
http://www.vivavegie.org/prideblog/index.html

Veggie Pride Parade bulletin board
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/media.htm

Media coverage:
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/bulletin.htm

REPORT OMISSIONS, ERRORS:
mailto:pamela@vivavegie.org
212-242-0011

We got our wide-angle crowd shots

Success! We now have our wide-angle crowd shots of not only the parade but the post-parade rally & expo in Union Square Park. We had about 700 marchers (we counted them with a hand-held clicker). But once we reached the park, our numbers easily grew to a thousand. In the park, we had 40 hand-picked exhibitors, over a dozen inspiring speakers from a wide constituency of veg-adherence, free vegan food, and a super-fun costume contest with 18 prizes donated from a healthy bevy of veggie businesses. Click image at right to see larger version of the park crowd shot. Click on it for an even larger image.

Documenting Veggie Pride Parade, NYC, 2009. Your help needed

Our parade was an incredible success! We had 38 exhibitors, over a dozen speakers (including NYC mayoral candidate Tony Avella), 7 booths with free vegan food, live music from vegan singer/songwriter Cheryl Hill, and an incredible costume contest award ceremony!

Now we need to go about the task of documenting the day.

We're adding image-set links to our images page; and we're tracking down media stories and blog posts.

Report in to the Veggie Pride Parade planning committee with your link sitings of interest. We will post to our Web site. Contact, Pamela at info@vivavegie.org

2009 program guide is now available

The Veggie Pride Parade Program guide is now posted to the Veggie Pride Parade Web site. Find a schedule of events, a list of speakers, a list of exhibitors, a list of prize donor for the costume contest, an essay by vegan historian Rynn Berry, and, of course, ads from vegan organizations and businesses from all over the region.

Click HERE to go to where you can download a PDF of the entire guide.

Speakers, entertainers set for Veggie Pride Parade, NYC, 2009

	Paul Shapiro is the senior director of the factory farming campaign of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). He has spearheaded numerous successful campaigns on behalf of farmed animals. He directs the effort to convince retailers, food service providers, and universities to expand their vegan options. Prior to working for HSUS, Paul founded Compassion Over Killing (COK), where he helped lead campaigns such as the successful effort to end the use of the misleading "Animal Care Certified" logo on battery-cage egg cartons nationwide. At COK, Paul worked as a farmed-animal cruelty investigator, primarily documenting conditions on egg and broiler factory farms, livestock auctions, and slaughter plants. He will bring our parade crowd to life with his powerful oratory abilities.
	J.P. Vaswani is one of India's most recognized nonsectarian spiritual leaders and the head of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission. For the past 43 years, Dada, as he is affectionately known, has been a tireless advocate for animal rights and non-violence. He is the author of over 100 books, many in multiple translations. Cultivating his ideals from his mentor and guru Sadhu T.L. Vaswani, who it the founder of the mission that carries his name, he is today an accomplished orator, philosopher, educationalist, and philanthropist. Dada has held audience with the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, and Pope John Paul II, as well as other prominent world leaders. His message of global harmony and peace has captivated audiences at the World Parliament of Religions, the British House of Commons, and the UN World Peace Summit. Dada lives in Pune, India, where he oversees the multi-faceted charitable programs of the Sadhu Vaswani Mission. Dada is forever there to speak for the defenseless, which of course includes all the animals on Earth.
	Peter Anderson is the principal of Future Leaders Institute, a progressive charter school in Harlem. He's worked in education for over 15 years and holds graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and New York University. For the kids, the emphasis is on leadership training and character development. "Go hard or go home," are words he lives by and projects at every opportunity. And part of what he passes along at his school: the wisdom of healthy eating. Partnering with New York Coalition for Healthy School Food (NYCHSF), they provide 2 plant-based meals per week prepared at the school by Chef Jorge from Candle 79 Restaurant. Each month NYCHSF hosts a Family Dinner Night with a plant-based meal, hands on learning activities, and a cooking demo. "True education is holistic," says Anderson.
	Marianne Thieme is a member of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands and the leader of her party, the Party for the Animals. She is the on-stage narrator for the pro-vegan DVD Meat The Truth, which presents a hard-hitting but popular presentation of the vegan environmental arguments, emphasizing, in particular, livestock's heavy influence on global warming. Ms. Thieme's career in animal protection began as a fauna consultant for the Dutch Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Recently, she became the director of Stichting Wakker Dier, an organization that campaigns for the abolition of the factory farming industry. In her capacity as director of this organization, the agricultural magazine Farm proclaimed Ms. Theime the most influential woman in the Netherlands with respect to the social and economic position of farmers.
	Cheryl Hill returns to the big city from her current home on Austin, Texas, where her entrepreneurial spirit is marketing vegan smoothie recipes, spearheading publishing projects, and playing gigs with the band that bears her name. She will entertain us with her operatically trained voice and poignant chords and lyrics. Cheryl is the composer of our parade's awesome theme song, Get Your Green On. Cheryl is one hot guitar player, but New Yorkers may also remember her as the wise woman of Vegan Wellness TV. Visit her Web site: www.cherylhill.com
	Tony Avella is a New York city councilman from Queens' 19th district. He heads five council committees and is a leading advocate of animal rights and animal welfare in city government. The 2007 scorecard of the NYC League of Humane Voters gave Tony a 100 percent rating, but it might as well have been 110 percent. He's taken heroic stands in, no-less, leadership rolls with the Horse Drawn Carriage Ban, the Pets in Housing bill, and humane education in the city's schools.
	Karen Davis, Ph.D. is president and founder of United Poultry Concerns. She is the founding editor of UPC's quarterly magazine Poultry Press and the author of numerous books including Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs. Ms. Davis maintains a sanctuary for rescued poultry birds in Virginia. She in an inductee to the U.S. Animal Rights Hall of Fame. Since 1999, Ms. Davis and UPC have hosted eight annual conferences on farmed-animal advocacy issues. At www.upc-online.org/karenbio.htm one can find a seemingly endless list of Ms. Davis's victories and accomplishments as she has for so many years worked on behalf of what society casually relegates to the "lowest of the low" (modern poultry birds).
	Joan Wai is the founder and chief executive director of Youth Buddhism Communications, a New York City-based group fully committed to compassionate meatless living. She is the organizer of the 1,000-strong all-vegan banquet put on by the group every year. She is also the director of a community center run by the organization.
	Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D. is professor emeritus at the College of Staten Island. He is the author of Judaism and Vegetarianism, Judaism and Global Survival, and Mathematics and Global Survival, and over 130 articles at JewishVeg.com/schwartz. He is the president of the Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA) and the Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians (SERV). He is the associate producer of A Sacred Duty, a powerful, pro-vegan DVD production. He is director of Veg Climate Alliance. Dr. Schwartz may be reached at president@JewishVeg.com.
	Christine Vardaros is a world-class vegan cyclist. She's writes fitness columns for VegNews magazine, Cyclo-Cross magazine, and the Marin Independent Journal. She is an official spokesperson for In Defense of Animals, a founding member of the Marin County Bicycle Coalition, and is a member of the athlete's advisory board for the Stone Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis Research. And she's never owned a car.
	Mickey Z will wax eloquent in poetry and prose in his most inimitable style at the post Veggie Pride Parade rally and expo. Proudly armed with his high school diploma, born and raised in Astoria, New York, part working class, part radical vegan, Mickey Z is probably the only person on the planet to have appeared in both a karate flick with Billy Blanks and a political book with Noam Chomsky. He has been a vegan for 14 years and can be found on the Web at www.mickeyz.net. Look for his blog posts at Plant Green (planetgreen.discovery.com/tv).
	Dave Warwak is a meditator, philosopher, humanitarian, artist, musician, poet, and writer. Formerly a tenured middle school art teacher, he became an animal rights activist after he was notoriously fired for teaching kindness, i.e.: veganism, to his students. Warwak's mission has since been tell children the truth about our world. Read trial transcripts that document his fight to keep his job, which includes testimony by T. Colin Campbell, in Peep Show for Children Only. Dave will perform the baby-vegetable (children in vegetable costumes) naming ceremony on stage after the parade at the post-parade rally and expo.
	Pamela Rice is the author of "101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian"—both book and pamphlet. She is the founding director of the Vegetarian Center of NYC and the organizer for this event. She is the founding director of the VivaVegie Society (www.vivavegie.org), the parade's sponsoring group. She is also the erstwhile publisher of The VivaVine: The Vegetarian Issues Magazine. Pamela will award prizes for best costume and signboard contest at the post-parade rally and expo.