Toronto Pig Save (TPS) is holding a series of protests at what we dub "The Un-Royal Agricultural Winter Fair" because of its treatment of enslaved mammals, aka "livestock."

Specifically, TPS will protest the five animal slave auctions and barbaric rodeo taking place at this year's Un-Royal Winter Fair.

Artworks by Caitlin Black and our special handout for the Un-Royal Fair appear on our homepage at www.torontopigsave.org

This week we will be protesting at the following times and locations:

* Friday, Nov 4th: Protest 2-5 pm at Lakeshore & Strachan then enter the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair and bear witness to the pig auction from 5pm - 6pm, followed by a cow auction at 6:30 pm. We will also be in front of the Princess Gates.

Toronto Pig Save, TARVE, and other groups will be giving out free veggie dogs and fruit juices in a neighbourhood overshadowed by a pig slaughterhouse. It's time to take back the neighbourhood and show what is possible.

We will be promoting an alternative vision for the Niagara neighbourhood. Instead of a pig slaughterhouse, Toronto Pig Save is advocating for a just transition for workers on Labour Day - safe, fulfilling, and meaningful jobs needed to support a food economy that is local, organic, and whole grain and plant based (that is, vegan).

There will be pig puppets and costumes, story telling, face painting for kids, and music.

Humberto da Silva presents a workshop on Guerrilla Video.

Video production and broadcasting, essential to the culture wars, used to be available exclusively to corporate interests through their media networks. All of that has changed. The mobile device in your pocket now has the potential reach more people faster than a television network 30 years ago. Revolutions are being televised LIVE by the agents of change. We can do it, we need to do it, and we will do it better. Become a guerilla broadcaster -- join the Revolution!

A group workshop… To film one video, working together, in 3 hours. The emphasis will be on working together, quickly, to conceptualize and then film an artfully crafted mini documentary, which explores & unearths the concerns of the surrounding community. The goal for the video:  a tool for community outreach at the political level, to send it to local politicians and community leaders – to spark a new dialogue about the slaughterhouse; to bring to light the issues from the community. In doing so, the video should also expose the cold hard facts about slaughter: the number of pigs slaughtered each day, the conditions...