Posted by Catherine | Posted in General Animal Rights Stuff, Help Animals, Resources | Posted on 17-03-2010
Tags: animal rights protest, horse racing protest, organizing a protest, protest, protest checklist
As you may have read in my previous post, I am currently helping to organize a protest against horse racing. With between 18-20,000 horses from the racing industry slaughtered every year in Australia it is very important that people are informed about this issue.
I made a checklist for myself to be sure that I don’t miss anything when planning this protest. I thought you may find it useful for planning your own animal rights protests, whether big or small.
- Talk to people in your animal rights group to arrange the issue you wish to protest, along with a time and place to do a protest.
- Do a recce at the protest location and choose exactly where you will protest. Ensure that is safe and legal. It should be public land.
- If you are protesting an event call the venue (eg, racetrack) to find out time of event. You can then arrange with your group the best time to protest. For our racing protest it will be 1-2 hours over opening time and the first race.
- Call local and national animal rights groups with details of protest so that they can email their members inviting them to come.
- Email members of your animal rights group with final details of the protest including time and meeting place.
- Arrange for 1 person to talk to the media and 1 person (a marshal) to organize everyone on the day. The marshal should wear a fluorescent vest.
- Order and collect leaflets, or design and print them yourself.
- Make Banners (Bold and Clear)
- Decide on chants and borrow a loud speaker and drum
- Arrange to hire a horse costume (or whatever costume or props you need for your protest) and arrange for someone to wear it.
- Email fellow protesters with details about the issue we are protesting. Everyone should be fully informed, in case they are approached by the media.
- Contact media the week before protest and the morning of protest with press release.
- Meet protesters 15 minutes before protest to debrief.
- Take photos during protest and supply to media in case journalists do not turn up
So that is my action plan and I think you could apply it to any animal rights protest. Some protests may require you to hire security. This is especially true of events like rodeos, where many people will be drinking and have strong views very different from your own. Even though your protest is peaceful, their response may not be.
Is there anything you think I have missed out? Feel free to add it in the comments section. I would value your input.
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