ARCPDX Social & Community Meeting - July 2024

🌮✊ Come make new friends, enjoy award-winning authentic Mexican food, visit with some of our Pro-Animal city council candidates, chat about current ARCPDX campaigns, discuss upcoming events, and more. All are welcome. Bring your questions and ideas! 🇲🇽 Chilango PDX is a woman-owned vegan restaurant that merges the rich flavors of their beloved Mexico City, their long-time home, with the vibrant community of Portland, their new home. In addition to creating delicious food, they are deeply committed to sustainability, fair wages, social responsibility, and supporting the vegan/AR community. https://chilangopdx.com/ 👀 You may have noticed that our meeting has been moved to the 3rd Tuesday of the month. This is because Chilango PDX has graciously offered to host our meeting on the day they are usually closed. Given the growth of our group and meetings, we are grateful to have the entire restaurant to ourselves! 🥰 Their wonderful owner Vane recently sustained an injury and the restaurant could really use some community support right now. So please come hungry and bring a friend! Join us for the social, the meeting, or both! 🗓 Tuesday, July 16th ⏰ 6:15-8:30pm | Social @ 6:15pm, Meeting @ 7pm (arrive anytime between 6:15-7pm) 📍 Chilango PDX (2215 NE Alberta St, Portland) 🗣️SCHEDULE 6:15pm Socialize and order food (do not have to purchase food to attend) 7:00pm Welcome to Animal Rights Collective Portland (ARCPDX) 7:05pm PRESENTATION #1: “History and Future of the Portland Foie Gras & Fur Ban Campaigns” - Dani Rukin, Compassionate PDX & Animal Rights Collective Portland (ARCPDX) 7:20pm PRESENTATION #2: "How we can build political power for animals through the upcoming Portland City Council race" with Eva Hamer, Supporting Pro-Animal Portland City Council Candidates campaign lead. The overhaul of Portland’s City Council includes new districts, a much larger council, ranked-choice voting, and a great opportunity for us to get involved in supporting some of the candidates who have animals’ best interests in mind. Learn more about our campaign and hear from some of the pro-animal candidates in the race, including Steph Routh in District 1 (www.steph4eastportland.com @steph4eastpdx), Jaime Dunphy in District 1 (www.jamiedunphy.com @jamiedunphyforPDX), Jonathan Tasini in District 2 (www.jonathantasini.com @jonathantasiniforcitycouncil), Marnie Glickman in District 2 (www.marnieglickman.org @marniemix), and Angelita Morillo in District 3 (www.angelitaforportland.com @pnwpolicyangel). ​8:00pm Updates on current campaigns and upcoming events (see our full list of upcoming events here: https://www.facebook.com/arcportland/events) - OHSU Stop Using Live Pigs In OBGYN Training campaign - Adidas Stop Killing Kangaroos campaign - Book Club (last Tues of the month). June 25 & July 30 book: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - Massive outreach with several PNW AR groups at the Olivia Rodrigo concert in Seattle on August 6th. Carpooling? 8:10pm Open forum to discuss other ideas and local activism events and campaigns that are in line with the ARCPDX mission and guidelines - Updates from Yes on IP28 - Updates from Northwest VEG - Updates from Food & Water Watch Oregon - others? ​8:25pm On IG, FB, or Slack? We want to hear from you! Help build community and visibility by posting content and interacting with others through - LIKING, SHARING, COMMENTING & SAVING. All of these drastically help the algorithm and visibility of community-driven groups. 8:28pm Wrap up & good-byes 🌟 Please contact Chelsea V Davis with agenda ideas or if your group would like to "co-host". 🤝 ARCPDX Code of Conduct and Anti-Harassment Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Huvz3k-v_R41Qi80iF2ZXh88RetNiBh4qQBxjVgP9RI/edit?usp=sharing 📝 Meeting Agendas & Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QI86RLYTPUjPJYYc18CrRFaEA4mEWN72hglEZ33-VTM/edit?usp=sharing