ROAR (Rhodes Organisation for Animal Rights) and the Dean of Students Division are proud to announce the first ever Rhodes Animal Rights Awareness Week which will run from the 5th-12th October. The line-up is as follows:
***MONDAY 5 OCTOBER (Animals used for clothing)***
10:00 - 14:00 Shirt Printing (on the lawns next to Main Admin). Bring a shirt and R5 for the cause and we?ll screen print your choice of design.
18:30 ? 19:00 ?Wear your own skin? protest. Meet outside the AMM (Journ Dept), protest will end at Eden Grove.
19:00 ? 21:00 The Annual Animal Rights Debate: ?This house would ban leather and fur?, Eden Grove Blue. Refreshments will be served.
***TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER (Domestic Animals)***
13:15 ? 14:00 Talk by Jenny Coply, Senior Inspector for MaNDELA (Makana and Ndlambe Donkey Equestrian and Livestock Association) and animal behaviourist
19:00 ? 21:00 "Animal Rights Shaking Paws with Welfare" by Nicolette Armansin, Manager of the Grahamstown SPCA, Eden Grove Blue. Refreshments will be served.
All day ? come to the Day Kaif to buy a colourful ?Kind Food? bracelet and for information on local animal welfare organisations.
***WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER (Animals used in science - Vivisection)***
11:00 ? 14:00 Anti-vivisection protests on campus
13:15 ? 14:00 "Testing Animals" by Henriette van Zyl (RU Psych Dept and Rhodes Animal Ethics Committee), Eden Grove Blue
19:00 ? 21:00 "Selling your body to science before you're dead: can vivisection be justified?" by Les Mitchell (Director of the Hunterstoun Centre of Fort Hare)Eden Grove Blue, refreshments will be served.
***THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER (Animals used for Food)***
19:00 ? 21:00 Keynote address by Patricia Glyn, Eden Grove Blue, refreshments will be served.
***FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER (Take action! Make the ethical choice)***
13:15 ? 14:00 Talk by Samantha Vice (Rhodes Philosophy Dept) on ethics and animal rights, Eden Grove Blue
19:00 ? 00:00 ROAR AGM and Animal Rights Week closing party, Venue TBA.
***MONDAY 12 OCTOBER***
19:00 - 21:00 Dr David Bilchitz (Director of The South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC)) to deliver his paper: Animals and the Constitution, Eden Grove Blue. Refreshments will be served.
All events are open and free of charge. There will also be a photographic exhibition by Nina Bekink in the Eden Grove Complex all week.
See Studentzone throughout the week for daily updates.
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Dear ROAR
Thank you for a very interesting and challenging week of talks.
Here is a poem that says it all.
RAILWAY JUNCTION - Nerine Desmond ( d.1993)
I will not look
At the horned cattle in trucks
Standing at railway stations
Flanks pressed by horns
And horns in flanks
The crucified ranks
That travel to cities
With waterless moans
For the long sweet grass
That whispers farewell
As they slowly pass
De Aar 1959
The age of steam, with De Aar being a major South African railway junction, may have gone. Trucks replace trains but other than that has the landscape changed ?
Capricorn
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