Deep Roots: Animal Rights Blog

I’m excited to announce that I am going on tour with Microcosom Publishing. I will be promoting my new mini-comic, “The Ice Cream Man Cometh,” and talking about creative resistance. The comic, as some of you may have guessed, is based on Good Clean Fun’s song by the same name. It is about a group of young people who get creative and convince an ice cream vendor to sell only vegan goods. I will also be promoting two new zines from Deep Roots; one about the necessity of predator species and the other about why start an animal sanctuary. The comic and zines will be available on this website very soon.

Here is the information about the Tall Tales Tour. If you live in or near one of these cities, stop by the table and let me know you found out about the event through this blog. I’ll hook you up with something special. Hope to see you soon!

I really should have mentioned this earlier, but things have been busy around here. This weekend, June 6-8th, we are hosting the Stop I-69 Pledge Camp and Music Festival. I will write more later about why Deep Roots is excited to work with the Stop I-69 campaign, but for now here is some info about the Pledge Camp and Music Festival from stopi69.wordpress.com:

Join folks from around Indiana for a weekend of socializing, sharing skills, discussion, and music! It is a critical time for opposition to Interstate 69, so let’s get together, meet one another, and learn skills and information to help us stop this road. As a culmination of the efforts and energies of hundreds of people who have over the past year signed pledges to resist construction of the road, this camp is sure to be an exciting and empowering space. The Pledge Camp and the I-69 Music Festival have teamed up for a wonderful weekend of education and fun!

On June 14th, the Bleeding Heartland Rollergirls‘ All-Star team, the Flatliners, will kick off their 2008 season against the Cincinnati Rollergirls in the Scars and Stripes bout at the Bloomington Sportsplex.

Why do we care? Well, the BHRG have been supporters of us since we first bought land (not to mention one of the Flatliners, Unicoroner, is a core member of Deep Roots). In addition to individual support, we’ve been working with the BHRG to host a rollergirl workday here at Deep Roots. Now they are helping to spread the word about our work and are offering a discount on their great clothing for anyone who brings cat or dog food to the bout (you can also bring rat food, we’ll need lots of that soon).

You can buy tickets online at Brown Paper Tickets or off-line at any of the following Bloomington vendors: Sunrise Box Office, Amused, Landlocked Records, Plan 9, Be Hair Now, or The SportsPlex.