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Upcoming Events

Sunday, June 3rd

  1. BVA Basics 1
    • Calendar: BVA
    • Start time: 02:00pm

    • The first in our three-meeting cycle, this BVA Basics meeting deals with the BVA's moral position on animals and veganism, looking at what makes animals morally relevant, what we mean by 'animal rights', and so on, promising to elaborate on some concepts in the next meeting.

      We'll start the meeting with some brief intros around the room, then spend the bulk of our time on the topic, followed by a discussion and Q&A period.

      There are three meetings to try to make it to, total, in any order and at any time you can make them. So, if you missed the last meeting, you can pick up with this one! We hope everyone will partake in these meetings to begin with, even if you are not a newcomer.

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  2. Advocacy Practice Meeting
    • Calendar: BVA
    • Start time: 04:00pm

    • Advocacy practice meetings are publicly held monthly meetings for discussing new and interesting readings and sometimes videos relevant to vegan advocacy work, to talk about and practice various advocacy strategies, and to engage in hands-on peer advocacy training. These meetings are open to everyone.

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Our Mission

The Boston Vegan Association (BVA) is dedicated to educating the public and its volunteers about veganism and animal rights advocacy, toward the end of abolishing all forms of animal use. The BVA holds that all forms of animal use are wrong and that each person has a moral obligation to be vegan.
The BVA rejects all forms of advocacy that seek to reform, regulate, or otherwise make the human use of animals more humane, on the grounds that such activities are counterproductive to the goal of ending animal use. For the same reason, the BVA rejects all forms of advocacy that seek to end only particular uses of animals. Instead, the BVA commits its resources exclusively to nonviolent vegan education. The BVA holds that educating people about veganism and vegan advocacy is the only way to make progress toward ending animal use.
For its volunteers, the BVA runs reading-and-discussion groups on animal rights ideology, as well as an ongoing advocacy-practice group intended to help give volunteers the tools necessary to succeed as advocates. For members of the public, the BVA hosts a variety of reading groups, film screenings, debates, and public discussions.

Accordingly, the Boston Vegan Association (BVA) seeks to:

  • Create and distribute vegan literature, such as our Respecting Animals pamphlet and our vegan nutrition guide.
  • Offer reading groups to expose vegans to animal rights theory.
  • Educate and support transitioning and new vegans.
  • Speak to students about animal rights and veganism.

The BVA is a project of the International Humanities Center, a 501(c)(3) Charitable Trust (ihcenter.org):

The core mission of the International Humanities Center (IHCenter) is to foster those efforts that are devoted to a vision of ecological and humanitarian stewardship that benefits all of creation. IHCenter seeks to reverse the current situation of disconnection - which has led to so much misery for all lifeforms on the planet - by assisting projects that are focused on creating a civilization centered upon peace, trust and natural harmony.