Over the holidays we have only one potluck for November and December.

BYOF (bring your own food) and something to share if you like

This month’s presentation:

Compassionate Cities: Passing Local Animal Rights Legislation

with animal rights advocate Amber Cananvan

Dine with us from 5:30pm, presentation begins at 6:30pm

Amber will give an overview of her experience as an activist and what led her to work on legislative campaigns and then discuss local efforts to get the sale of new fur products and foie gras banned in Vancouver as well as fur sale and fur farming bans introduced and pass in Oregon and Washington.

Amber Canavan has been an activist for over 20 years after finding animal rights information on the internet from peta2.com. She has a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies and works in the Campaigns Department PETA for her day job. In her free time she is on the Advisory Board of Animal Rights Collective Portland and co-founded Compassionate PDX, which works to help pass animal rights legislation such as fur and foie gras sale bans in Oregon and Washington.