{"id":25,"date":"2011-05-30T01:41:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T01:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nzvegan.wordpress.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2011-05-30T01:41:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T01:41:31","slug":"hello-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nzvegan.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Welcome to NZ Vegan, inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abolitionistapproach.com\/the-abolitionist-approach-in-a-nutshell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abolitionist Movement for Animal Rights<\/a>, based on the theory of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abolitionistapproach.com\/about\/#.UWff4b92Z5g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Abolitionist Approach To Animal Rights<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abolitionistapproach.com\/about\/gary-l-francione\/#.UWff9792Z5g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Gary L. Francione<\/a>. The Abolitionist Movement for Animal Rights is\u00a0a world-wide movement of creative, nonviolent abolitionist vegan advocates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NZ Vegan aims to create a grassroots vegan movement in New Zealand that is devoted to <em>unequivocal<\/em>, nonviolent\u00a0<strong>vegan<\/strong> advocacy. \u00a0To gain a better understanding of what unequivocal nonviolent vegan advocacy is, please read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abolitionistapproach.com\/about\/the-six-principles-of-the-abolitionist-approach-to-animal-rights\/#.U3gAqV7Dqv8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">six principles of the abolitionist approach to animal rights.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzvegan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/My-Vegan-Story.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MY VEGAN STORY<\/a> &#8211; by Elizabeth Collins. This was written in April 2011 for a book of vegan stories but it didn&#8217;t end up making it into the book. \u00a0\u00a0I am sharing it with you here in order for you to gain some insight on how I became first a vegan, and then an abolitionist vegan advocate, in the hopes it will inspire you to do the same.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Here are some examples of what you can do in New Zealand: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Community activism: Street and Market Stalls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.276639349104662.45617.124140001021265&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1197\" title=\"free cupcake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nzvegan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/free-cupcake1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0We welcome volunteers who have ideas about creative nonviolent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abolitionistapproach.com\/about\/the-six-principles-of-the-abolitionist-approach-to-animal-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abolitionist\u00a0<\/a>vegan education (using the theory of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abolitionistapproach.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Abolitionist Approach to Animal Rights\u00a0by Gary Francione<\/a>)\u00a0or who want to get involved in any of our activities or who want to learn more about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abolitionistapproach.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Abolitionist Approach to Animal Rights\u00a0by Gary Francione.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Podcast<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nzveganpodcast.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-39\" title=\"nzvp.logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nzvegan.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/nzvp-logo3.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Elizabeth Collins.<\/p>\n<p>Available in iTunes: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/nz\/podcast\/nz-vegan-podcast\/id301301820?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NZ Vegan Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NZ Vegan Facebook Page:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NZVegan\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-604\" title=\"nzveganlogo1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nzvegan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/nzveganlogo11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NZ Vegan YouTube Channel: &#8220;Francionista&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NZVeganPodcast\/featured\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1063\" title=\"youtube\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nzvegan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/youtube-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<em>*NZ Vegan logo and banner design by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/emmyjames.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emmy James Design<\/a><\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to NZ Vegan, inspired by the Abolitionist Movement for Animal Rights, based on the theory of The Abolitionist Approach To Animal Rights by Professor Gary L. Francione. The Abolitionist Movement for Animal Rights is\u00a0a world-wide movement of creative, nonviolent abolitionist vegan advocates. NZ Vegan aims to create a grassroots vegan movement in New Zealand &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nzvegan.com\/?p=25\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzvegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzvegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzvegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzvegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzvegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nzvegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzvegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzvegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzvegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzvegan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}