Vegan Activism - Medellín, Colombia // We are the voice of the voiceless ✊ #VeganHeroesContest

in veganheroescontest •  7 years ago  (edited)

In Medellin, the antiespecist movement is very new, but it has gained impressive strength in a very short time, just two years ago there was no vegan activism in the city, there were some vegetarian groups, other anti-bullfighting groups and many defending dogs and cats, these movements are also important, but in our hearts we knew that we have to venture into the vegan activism in the city.

The beginning

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It all started with a project called "revegan", several vegans joined together and started sharing information on social media, creating content for youtube and writing articles ... Then some of us attended the first vegan fest in Colombia, we traveled to Bogotá and there we had the opportunity to learn a lot about vegan activism (we were even able to launch our brand of shirts there and that was super cool).

You can skip the intro and the ending, cause those are in spanish 😅in a couple days when I came back from a short trip I will put some english subtitles 😊

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We also made our first DxE (Direct Action Everywhere) in Bogotá during the Festival

A lot of ideas

So one of the friends who attended the festival with me and I, we contacted an Uruguayan girl named Azul, and the three of us with all the ideas we had, started doing activism in the city, we wanted to do 3 activities basically: Earthlings Experience, DxE and The Save Movement.

So we started with Earthlings Experience:

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Over time this idea matured and we joined the international NGO Anonymous For The Voiceless, so we started making the famous "cube of truth"

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Other activities

it took us a little time to start doing other activities, since we needed to meet more activists willing to participate, however, with time and a lot of research work, we were able to bring DxE to Medellín and recently The Save Movement too.

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Today

Today we continue to do a "cube of truth" every Friday, we are starting to do a biweekly DxE and The Save Movement monthly, Revegan also continues as an educational medium, now also a new society was born called "Unión Vegana Medellín" from which we are doing events every month and a half in the city, for now we do workshops and bazaars with vegan companies and at those we share information about activism, we reproduce videos, we expose photographs and others ...

"Vegano 21" was also born, which is a hybrid of Challenge 22 and in which we already carried out the first cycle with 25 people and we have another 80 registered for the following ones.

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I hope this can be an inspiration to many people in cities where vegan activism is very small or doesn't exist. You can make a difference! You can change the world! You can spread the message! Just dare and start.

All photos were taken by activist friends or by ourselves (Revegan) and you are free to use them too if you want 🖤

Follow all these awesome initiatives on social media

ReVegan https://www.facebook.com/ReVeganCOL/

Earthlings Experience https://www.facebook.com/theearthlingsexperience/

Anonymous For The Voiceless https://www.facebook.com/anonymousforthevoiceless/

Direct Action Everywhere Medellín https://www.facebook.com/DXEAccionDirectaMedellin/

Save Movement Medellín https://www.facebook.com/savemovementmedellin/

Vegano 21 https://www.facebook.com/retovegano21/

Unión Vegana Medellín https://www.facebook.com/unionveganamedellin/

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A wonderful post! You have my support.

Decided to resteem to my 1984 followers! Keep up the great work.

Thank you so much for your support 😊💙🎉

This is a brilliant post! It's so heartening to hear about all of the different initiatives going on in your city, @auracosmica. Resteemed. ❤

Thank you!! I'm glad you liked it 😊 I send you a hug and thank you for resteemed ❤❤❤

This is awesome! My husband and I just watched a documentary about anonymous so to see your post, is very cool. “Cube of truth” looks interesting too. Thanks for sharing ✌️

Thank you so much 😊 yeah, anonymous is preatty cool and the cube of truth is such a good way to make activism, it is very efective 🖤

Genial historia Aura, que bueno que cada día hay más iniciativas como estas y que la hayas llevado a Medellín. En Venezuela esperábamos con ansias el Vegan Fest pero por un tema de dinero no se pudo hacer. Yo También tengo mi historia de héroe. ejejeje

Muchas gracias bella 😊 Qué lástima lo del Vegan Fest, pero seguro podrá hacerse en otro momento, veo mucho movimiento vegano en Venezuela, qué bonito ❤ Pasaré a ver tu historia de héroe 😄💚

A huge hug to all the activists out there! I always love to see how people engage and make a differens.
I try to do my part but I have yet to be part of some kind on site activism.
Great post my friend

Thank you!!! I'm glad you liked it 😊I think everything is activism, even only being vegan, there are some silence activists everywhere 😊✊🧡

That is so true :) Even if we are just being vegans we are setting and example for other people :)

This is so amazing and inspiring! Our city is so lame on activism and vegans only seem to care about where to by the cheapest soy milk :( Unfortunately I cannot organise such events now because I have a small baby, but I definitely will in the future!

Also it's awesome that you don't only show the truth about animals, but as well - how to eat vegan, how to switch to the new lifestyle. It's super important! Keep it up, guys!

Thank you very much for your sweet words and support ❤ I'm really glad you liked it!! What is your city? I'm pretty sure you will make some good changes over there very soon 🧡 You can do it! 💪💙

small city called Rostov-on-Don in Russia, near Ukraine :)

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