Can I get in trouble for this?

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Doktormartini

Discussion Starter · Sep 20, 2007

Putting a vegan quote on pieces of paper and then a link to www.whyvegan.com and putting the paper around my college. Can I?

If anyone cares, this is the quote:

"Isn't man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife - birds, kangaroos, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes and dingoes - by the million in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billion and eats them. This in turn kills man by the millions, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative - and fatal - health conditions like heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer. So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year, sends out cards praying for Peace on Earth."- David Coats, Old MacDonald's Factory Farm

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Bof

· #2 · Sep 20, 2007

I suppose you might get busted for littering!

It's a great quote, which I've used on my New Year / Solstice cards, and could well plant a seed in people's minds.

Good onya for doing it.

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Nishani

· #3 · Sep 20, 2007

I doubt it. If you're worried, don't let anyone see it's you doing it. Just leave them around surreptitiously.

Iria

· #4 · Sep 20, 2007

If you're putting it on bulletin boards, you probably need the permission of the department that owns the building. Leaving things on counters in dorm buildings or just passing them out seems to be fair game at my school, but other than that you usually need someone's signature.

If it's a bigger school people probably won't care as much, because I'm sure there are a lot of papers around.

SuperChicken

· #5 · Sep 20, 2007

I've always loved that quote.

There must be community bulletin boards around campus, right? I would hit those, and any common areas of school buildings. I would not go so far as to litter or stick these things under people's windshield wipers or on personal property.

Doktormartini

Discussion Starter · #6 · Sep 20, 2007

No I'll just be walking around and putting them on the tables next to the chairs in the areas were students go during break to sit and study or chat or something. Like when I sit there, I see little pieces of paper with concert info for local bands so I figure that is kinda the same thing!

Willowriver

· #7 · Sep 20, 2007

Yes, depending on your school, you can get in trouble. In my school, leaflets in public places and on walls/bulletin boards have to have a dean's stamp of approval. I've never seen anyone request the stamp and be turned down though. It's mostly to keep our campus from being plastered with adds for the local pizza place and such I think. But do check your school's policies.

Skylark

· #8 · Sep 20, 2007

My alma mater required the dean's stamp, too. It's not like anyone in administration ever checked to see if the bulletin board posters were all approved, but maybe they had the rule just in case someone went around posting pro-Nazi stuff, so they'd be able to do something about it.

At the University of Barcelona, you could post whatever you wanted on the many bulletin boards, but if you wanted it to stay up, you had to be persistent: The boards were completely cleaned off by the night maintenance crews each and every night. I thought that encouraged a lot of waste, but it did give startup causes and announcements a fresh shot every day.

GhostUser

· #9 · Sep 20, 2007

I don't see it as differnt as leaving leaflets around. I guess you could ask someone in charge.

(Or just not let anyone see you

)

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TreeManEarthSteward

· #10 · Sep 20, 2007

I think this is a rocking idea, and I say in the politest way possible =screw permission!!

Do it and don't get seen.... You can then be but a fly on the wall, and have those who read your mans quote, light up in thought!! and THEN, if people start asking about it, you can consider you next step whatever that maybe..... (to further encourage people to provoke thought of a kind that when they see whats written either by you or any admirable person, the desired response is in that moment to have the reader drop everything and concentrate by surprise at the their finding, that which is written for them, that all of a sudden they find themselves relating to, or at least being thought provoked by)

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TreeManEarthSteward

· #11 · Sep 20, 2007

I think this is a rocking idea, and I say in the politest way possible =screw permission!!

Do it and don't get seen.... You can then be but a fly on the wall, and have those who read your mans quote, light up in thought!! and THEN, if people start asking about it, you can consider your next step whatever that maybe-- [[very cautious & hesitant of telling authorities I advise!!]]..... (to further encourage people to provoke thought and thought of a kind that when they see whats written either by you or any admirable person, the desired response is in that moment to have the reader drop everything and concentrate by surprise at the their finding, that which is written for them, that all of a sudden they find themselves relating to, or at least being thought provoked by)

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Doktormartini

Discussion Starter · #12 · Sep 20, 2007

Yeah, I mean what's the worst they could do if they found out? aha.

Bof

· #13 · Sep 20, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doktormartini

Yeah, I mean what's the worst they could do if they found out? aha.

DP?

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Willowriver

· #14 · Sep 20, 2007

You're right, they probably wouldn't do much, but it is disrespectful. I guess on a large campus anything goes, but at my school, we take our honor code very seriously. The fliers would definitely be allowed, and not just immediately thrown away as they would be without the stamp. It's not cool to get a judiciary board hearing here. But if people do that all the time about concerts and bands and stuff, your school probably doesn't have the same regulations, so it's probably fine to just go for it.

ginkgo

· #15 · Sep 21, 2007

No, pizza places do it all the time. Just do not use a mailbox since they are only supposed to be for mail that people have paid postage for. Remeber that humans also kill, rape, mutilate and torture other humans. I was at a meeting with lots of animal rights groups. They are having more success explaining with the numbers how becoming vegetarian does more for ecology and stopping global warming than anythig else. It invoves chemistry like the carbon dioxide and methane produced by animals.

Satya

· #16 · Sep 21, 2007

Thanks for sharing that quote. That's the first time I've seen it

Yeah, i remember being in college wanting to make all kinds of changes. I also put up Peta fliers and wore my veg shirts all over campus. I always wanted to get the food court area to stop using styrofoam, but never got around to it

I still regret that.

Anyway, good for you!! Keep it up!

Oh one thing you can try is to put fliers on people's cars or if unallowed pick a time when u & a friend can hand them out to people on their way to class.

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Doktormartini

Discussion Starter · #17 · Sep 22, 2007

Well right now the only thing I do is wear vegan related t-shirts. But I will try this out and see what happens.

Also, I got this idea after reading that quote because it is now one of my favorites (if not my favorite) other than the one in my signature.

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