What's up, everybody? This is Gary Yourofsky, and this is my baby Doyle with the pretty face. Oh he's so gorgeous
We're going to talk to you about some
Educational based activism ideas now as most of you know
My philosophy is without education there can be no liberation
That's why since
2002 I have focused solely on giving lectures to meat dairy and egg eating students around the nation I've given more than
2,500 lectures in 30 states and
186 schools I would send mass emails to philosophy ethics
composition public speaking women's studies
Nutrition professors asking them if I can come and speak in their classes, I'm going to encourage you not to contact
Animal rights organizations student groups because you want to go into a class of non Vegans
What's the point of preaching veganism?
To a bunch of Vegans you gotta focus on the non vegans now if you don't have the means to travel most people don't
I got a better idea for everybody. How'd you like to be Gary for a few days?
Maybe a few weeks. Maybe a year or two maybe longer depending on if you can pull this off in
2000 when I was hanging out with some friends we were talking about some ideas and somebody said I should be a substitute teacher
So I can talk about animal rights to the kids during class when I was subbing
We laughed about it, but later on I thought man. That's a damn good idea
I'm a man of action so three days later. I head on over to the city of Detroit in
Pontiac both in Michigan I filled out an application
And I was hired now. I did focus on Detroit and pontiac because they're very impoverished areas
I'm gonna ask you to do the same thing when you go to the impoverished area
They're gonna be more likely to hire just about anybody who wants to sub because nobody ever wants to sub in these areas
But those are the place where we need to do some real
educational based activism when it comes to animal rights issues
I got hired sign up to be a sub for
Kindergarden through Twelfth grade students now depending on which class I was in
That would depend on what I would talk about that day now as you know. I always talk about veganism because
98% of animals who are abused and killed on this planet and our abused and killed by the meat dairy and egg industries
but if I was talking to kindergard en kids or first and second graders
it was kind of pointless to a degree to talk about Veganism only because
Mommy and Daddy have the final say over what they're going to eat
So again they would get a lecture about veganism what they're eating that bacon is really pig flesh
Bisteak is really Cow flesh I would always tell them that but when I was talking the younger ones
I probably focus on circuses and Zoos
So when their birthday parties came around they can tell their mom and their dad no
I don't want to go to the circus with all my friends not going to want to go to the animal prison
That we euphemistically referred to as a zoo now when I got to the older kids 10th 11th and 12th graders
My tops are pretty much solely focused on veganism now even though mommy and Daddy have the final say for them to
When you're older you can have a little more push back you can argue a little better
And you can maybe convince them to allow that
vegan diet to take place
Regardless they got an education that they would have never gotten if I wasn't there
So I'm gonna ask you all my garre minions
Go out and get hired as a sub go find an impoverished area and by the way
They pay pretty good money to be a sub
Detroit and Pontiac would pay
$100 a day to be a sub I get paid to teach animal rights to all these students now
It's not gonna last too long
They're probably gonna figure out what you're doing, but that's not the point do it as long as you can I?
lasted a year and a half
Before they figured out that I was spending half the class time talking about animal rights
And only half in the class assignment now always made sure they finished their assignments
I would just rush them through it because I would encourage them and say hey if we get done with this in 20 25 minutes
I'm just gonna Chitchat with you guys about some
animal stuff that I'm actually involved in and of course the kids always want to talk about animals here about the animal stuff, so
do it as long as you can make it happen you're going to get paid doing it and
Education is the way to go without education there can be no liberation
This is Doyle and Gary signing off