Happy 42nd Birthday Animal Liberation Victoria (ALV)!
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FROM Patty Mark, ALV Animal Liberation Victoria
December 7, 2020 Facebook post

I was so delighted with the turnout and remember telling those present, that we'd have to be patient as it may take us two years!

Animal Liberation Victoria

Happy 42nd Birthday Animal Liberation Victoria (ALV)!

This rented house below is where it all started on December 7, 1978. I had put a handwritten sign in a St. Kilda Milk Bar near here that said: HELP THE HENS! Below these large black letters I wrote the address and time of meeting. The goal was to ban the battery cage for laying hens.

A Sun newspaper journalist saw the sign and wrote it up in what was the largest selling Victoria newspaper at the time as a joke. But the coverage worked and 17 people showed up in my lounge room for what was the first meeting of ALV.

I was so delighted with the turn out and remember telling those present, that we'd have to be patient as it may take us two years! I was 29 years old with two toddlers. I sincerely thought we'd do it.

Animal Activism is definitely a marathon, not a sprint, but there's nothing else I'd rather do/have done with my life.

Solidarity to animal activists everywhere!


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