The Wirral Veggies are going to be out on Sunday, why not join them ?

What ?

The Wirral Vegetarian & Vegan Social Group Picnic

Where ?

Royden Park, Wirral     >Map

When ?

Sunday May 25th, 2008
From 1pm

More info:

Veggie Picnic, bring your own or bring and share picnic. Safe off road area with facilities, playing fields and miniature railway within the park. Family friendly.
Royden Park, Wirral. Meet at 1:00 - 1:15pm.
Further details on the website: www.wirralveggies.org.uk
If you bring to share please mark veggie or vegan on container.

What ?

The monthly ScouseVeg social gathering.

Where ?

The Egg Cafe, 16-18 Newington, Liverpool   Map/Directions

When ?

Friday May 2nd, 2008
From 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

More info:

Scouseveg’s monthly meeting at The Egg Café in city centre Liverpool. Join us for an informal gathering, and meet some like-minded people. Families welcome! The Egg Cafe is completely vegetarian and has a good choice of vegan dishes as well. Prices are very reasonable and you can bring you own wine but there is a charge for corkage. Alternatively, you can sample the juices or hot drinks available. We will be there from 8pm onwards, look out for The Vegetarian magazine on the table. Update:The table is usually upstairs in the gallery now. Please contact us if you are thinking of attending as we may need to reserve a table (or two)

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What ?

The monthly ScouseVeg social gathering.

Where ?

The Egg Cafe, 16-18 Newington, Liverpool   Map/Directions

When ?

Friday April 4th, 2008
From 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

More info:

Scouseveg’s monthly meeting at The Egg Café in city centre Liverpool. Join us for an informal gathering, and meet some like-minded people. Families welcome! The Egg Cafe is completely vegetarian and has a good choice of vegan dishes as well. Prices are very reasonable and you can bring you own wine but there is a charge for corkage. Alternatively, you can sample the juices or hot drinks available. We will be there from 8pm onwards, look out for The Vegetarian magazine on the table. Update:The table is usually upstairs in the gallery now. Please contact us if you are thinking of attending as we may need to reserve a table (or two)

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—————–Send a message to ScouseVeg:————–

Name:: Tony Moore
Subject:: The Grand National
Website: http://www.faace.co.uk

Message::

Fight Against Animal Cruelty in Europe (FAACE) in conjunction with Animal Aid have organised a Demo against the 2008 Grand National.

This will take place on Thursday 3rd April from 12.00hrs to 14.00hrs opposite the main entrance to the Aintree Racecourse on the A59. This is in front of the Aintree railway station entrance.

Could you spread the word and try and get as many there as possible?
Best wishes,
Tony Moore
Chairman
Fight Against Animal Cruelty in Europe
29 Shakespeare Street
Southport
Merseyside
UK PR8 5AB
www.faace.co.uk

Tel + 44 (0) 1704 535922
Mobile + 44 (0) 7795 202770

Jane sez:

If you love listening to live music, then you are in for a treat. Over the Easter weekend there will be some music events.

The main event will be on Saturday 22nd March, but the day before - Friday the 21st March there will be a ScouseVeg Swiss music treat.

- It will take place in the upstairs area of The Egg Cafe where ScouseVeg holds its regular monthly meeting, there will be gathering but with music from Linda & Tobynius.

Starting at 8pm until 10.30pm.
The Egg is located on the 2nd Floor, 16-18 Newington, Liverpool L1 4ED.
» More info on The Egg including map and directions

Then on Saturday the 22nd - a fundraising event in aid of Merseyside Animal Rights - campaigning for a better world, at Next to Nowhere, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool City Centre, L1 4HY (Entrance to the event is next to News From Nowhere) » Map/Directions

Starting at 7.30pm there will be a mix of different bands who are as follows:

Scribble - Folk/other
Linda & Tobynius - folk music duo from Switzerland
Sugarblues - jazz
Low Risers - alternative/folk/rock

There will be a £3 entrance fee and vegan buffet (by donation)
Monies going to Merseyside Animal Rights.

» Download a flyer

Then finally on Sunday 23rd March, Linda & Tobynius will also be playing at Stamps Wine Bar in Crosby, Liverpool.
Times will be confirmed nearer the date. Location details are as follows:
» Website
» Map/Directions


What ?

The monthly ScouseVeg social gathering.

Where ?

The Egg Cafe, 16-18 Newington, Liverpool   Map/Directions

When ?

Friday March 7th, 2008
From 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

More info:

Scouseveg’s monthly meeting at The Egg Café in city centre Liverpool. Join us for an informal gathering, and meet some like-minded people. Families welcome! The Egg Cafe is completely vegetarian and has a good choice of vegan dishes as well. Prices are very reasonable and you can bring you own wine but there is a charge for corkage. Alternatively, you can sample the juices or hot drinks available. We will be there from 8pm onwards, look out for The Vegetarian magazine on the table. Please contact us if you are thinking of attending as we may need to reserve a table (or two)

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Channel 4 will be repeating the Liverpool installment of the Come Dine With Me tv show all this week at 2pm.

Niki’s starring role will appear on Wednesday.

- But in case you miss it you can watch it again on ScouseVeg TeeVee

» Previous CDWM coverage

[A repost which will be repeated every Saturday until they stop selling fur]

March 31st Update: Hey here's something - Look at the search results when you type in Cricket shop Liverpool


April 21st Update: Previous coverage here

May 21st Update: Protestor arrested at the Cricket demo

June 16th Update: Visit the campaign website:
Fur Free Liverpool

November Update: Vivienne Westwood goes fur free

We like locally owned and operated businesses. We try to support them by shopping there and recommending them to our friends. But what we don’t like is when they sell fur.

In the Cavern Walks is a clothes shop called Cricket who stock the latest fashions (some of the WAG’s have been seen in there), but they also have furs, such as coyote, mink, fox and raccoon.

To get their fur some of these animals are farmed and skinned alive…

Nearly all the retailers has seen sense now and do not sell fur anymore. Fashion wise, wearing fur these days is very unpopular. But there are still some shops that want to profit from this cruelty and try to sell it. In Liverpool, Cricket is that shop.

Every Saturday there will be protests and demonstrations outside the store to alert the public about this and if you have some time to join in they’ll be there from 12.30 onwards. (There will be a demo outside the shop every week until Cricket see sense and stop selling this stuff. )

Excerpt from a previous article »

In February 2006, Liverpool ‘fashion store’ Cricket told the Liverpool Echo that, following protests, it would no longer include real animal fur in it’s collection. This Winter, Cricket went back on it’s word, stocking Coyote, Mink, Fox and raccoon fur.

Mink Fox and raccoon are reared on factory farms in conditions which lead them to go mad, self-mutilate and attack cage mates. Coyotes are caught in barbaric leghold traps, banned in dozens of countries worldwide.

Local campaigners have been picketing the shop since November (and receiving lots of harassment from the local police as a result) Cricket will not enter into dialogue with the protesters and insist they will continue to sell real fur.

For more info on fur go to -
» http://www.peta.org/
» http://www.caft.org.uk/
» http://www.furfreeliverpool.co.uk/

You can contact the shop and let them know how you feel about this is by writing to:
Justine Mills at 10 Cavern Walks
Mathew Street
L2 6RE
0151 227 4645

or using the contact form on their website.

If you want to register your protest via the written word please be polite and point out to them that this is very bad form - and bad publicity for them.

Previously on ScouseVeg »
http://www.scouseveg.co.uk/?s=cricket

What ?

The monthly ScouseVeg social gathering.

Where ?

The Egg Cafe, 16-18 Newington, Liverpool   Map/Directions

When ?

Friday February 1st, 2008
From 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

More info:

Scouseveg’s monthly meeting at The Egg Café in city centre Liverpool. Join us for an informal gathering, and meet some like-minded people. Families welcome! The Egg Cafe is completely vegetarian and has a good choice of vegan dishes as well. Prices are very reasonable and you can bring you own wine but there is a charge for corkage. Alternatively, you can sample the juices or hot drinks available. We will be there from 8pm onwards, look out for The Vegetarian magazine on the table. Please contact us if you are thinking of attending as we may need to reserve a table (or two)

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Add to your diary:

» The event is taking place on Sat January 26th at the Sachas Hotel, Tib St, just off Piccadilly Gardens. It is a free event with loads of free info and food samples available, aimed at everyone who is exploring the vegan lifestyle as a positive way to reduce their environmental impact.

The event will mark the 50th Birthday of Manchester animal rights/green campaigner Neil Lea, founder of the Realfood website who sadly died earlier this year.

There will be a whole range of small businesses and campaigning groups, whose stalls will offer a tasty range of snacks and cakes, fair-trade clothes, books, ethical cosmetics and other stuff. Please get in touch if you’d like to have a stall or help out on the day.

» More info