Posted August 12, 2008 by Ryan Huling
You know, people often ask me “How did you get started in all of this?” and “What was the first step?”
Well, for me it began with a circus protest. Since I had signed up for the peta2 Street Team a few months earlier, I received an email in the fall of 2004 stating that the UniverSoul Circus was coming to town, and bringing their horrific record of animal abuse with them. I promptly emailed peta2, and requested posters and leaflets to hand out to attendees. I also gathered a few of my friends together, to hopefully show people the seedy underside of “The Big Top”.
Since I had recently started a student group at my school, and I knew that those notorious uber-douches Ringling Bros. were coming to town, I got on Facebook and started organizing.
- Ryan!
peta2 Street Team Coordinator + lover of vegan food, cats, animal rights, Dawson's Creek, and Harry Potter.
Hello! My name is Nina, and I am a musician-in-training, and I play 7 instruments. I am a liberal, an LGBT activist, avid reader, composer, singer, and poi spinner. I am vegan, and a strong supporter of animal rights.
Born and raised in Mexico. I love vegan food and animals!
I was born in Canada and love peta2. I table every month and meet new people:older and younger. I love music and play the recorder. I'm a 6 year spelling bee champion. Again I love peta2!
I'm tall, I love sewing, fashion and the environment, also I'm vegetarian (wannabe vegan.) Obviously, I love animals! :)
Jersey girl now I'm all country.
718 days ago
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My brother and I just protested for the first time tonight. It was only us two for this circus performance, but the circus is here until Sunday. I have an event for it on facebook and have had a lot of encouragement from my friends, but I honestly don’t expect anyone else to help my brother and I. Tonight, I was harassed by an old man living across the street from where we were protesting (it’s the Kelly Miller Circus, btw)… “harassed” meaning he made a point of being rude to us and he called me fat! It was almost a silent protest, we didn’t speak to anyone unless they spoke to us first. This guy was so mean, though, I feel extremely discouraged. I live in NH in a city called Laconia. Some people commented to us that it was sad, but continued to walk on in anyways… Advice? Please help.
1769 days ago
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hehehe fur is a drag! i love it dude!!!
I can’t wait … threee more years and i’ll be moving to a big city where iam so tooootalyy doing this!
1771 days ago
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“Fur is a Drag!” Loves it!!
I can’t wait until I get to do my first protest…there aren’t really too many opportunities to do so in Alabama, though. =[
There’s a little fur shop right next to my apartment complex, I hope to one day do a demo there or something.
1771 days ago
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I like the idea of the fur protest. Nice costume!
1771 days ago
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Awesome!
I really hope I can do a demo…the circus is coming to my town in September. Just gotta get the right away from the parents, which is hard.
1771 days ago
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Sounds like wicked fun! Love the pictures.