ALY Animal Liberation
Victoria
July 2017
ALY hopes to form a supportive and active community where youth from around Australia and the world can find relevant information through social media content, talk to each other, ask questions, vent about issues, frustrations and upsets that come with the awareness of the harsh realities vegan activists face, as well as join in with planned meet up and activism events.
More and more we are seeing young people learning the truth about where
their food comes from, and as a result making the compassionate choice to go
vegan.
ALY is for youth, the powerful people in our world who hold the future in
their hands.
Young people face unique challenges in taking action for animals. We have
less independence as well as more school and personal commitments to balance
along with our activism.
As a young person it can also feel very hard to be heard. Discouraging,
unsupportive, judgemental, belittling and aggressively ‘anti-vegan’
attitudes from parents, teachers and peers are common factors that
discourage many potential young activists from standing up for the rights of
animals.
ALY hopes to form a supportive and active community where youth from around
Australia and the world can find relevant information through social media
content, talk to each other, ask questions, vent about issues, frustrations
and upsets that come with the awareness of the harsh realities vegan
activists face, as well as join in with planned meet up and activism events.
With the creation of a
Facebook group and Instagram (@animalliberationyouth), ALY, run by
Animal Liberation Victoria volunteers and fellow young activists, we hope to
create helpful and inclusive content that encourages youth to keep on
standing up for what is right. We hope to not only have a social media based
community, but also a community that can meet in real life, help form
friendships and the next generation of activists.
We hope to create positive, safe, important and truly effective actions full
of young people. We believe that young people are incredibly powerful, and
deserve, in fact need a space to be heard. What matters to the youth of
today will greatly shape the world for future generations.
If you are interested in getting involved with ALY, you can find us on
Facebook under Animal Liberation Youth and on Instagram as
@animalliberationyouth.
We hope to work with you all towards a more compassionate future!
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