Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/07/2016 - 07/10/2016
12:00 am
Location
Sheraton Gateway Hotel
Categories
The Animal Rights National Conference is the U.S. animal rights movement’s annual national conference. It is also the world’s largest and longest-running animal rights gathering, hailing back to 1981. It is the only conference open to all points of view on achieving animal liberation.
AR2016 will take place July 7 – 10 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel located at 6101 West Century Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90045.
Why Attend?
The Animal Rights National Conference is designed for people who wish to improve their animal advocacy skills or simply to network with other animal activists. The Conference offers a number of educational and networking opportunities, including:
- Sessions on animal advocacy, organizing, tactics, and issues
- Nearly 100 speakers from 60 organizations
- Eyewitness reports on key campaigns
- 100+ free exhibits
- Video premieres
- Newcomer Orientation
- Nightly networking receptions
- Awards Banquet on Saturday evening
- Closing celebration on Sunday evening
- Post-conference protests on Monday
How to Register?
Registration details are available here.
The Exhibit Hall is free — simply check in at the registration desk on site and we’ll issue you a Visitor’s Pass, which also comes with one free daytime session.
Where to Stay and Eat?
The Sheraton Gateway Hotel offers discounted sleeping rooms with cruelty-free beddding at $140 (plus tax) with single, double, triple, quadruple occupancy and a complimentary shuttle to and from LAX airport. Dogs are welcome!
All food offered at the conference is vegan (free of animal products). The conference offers free continental breakfast and evening snacks. Vegan lunch and dinner buffets will be prepared by the hotel and pre-sold with registration.
Who Are the Organizers?
The Animal Rights National Conferences have been organized since 1981 by Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) with some breaks between 1987 and 2000, then every year since 2000. They are typically co-sponsored by more than a dozen national organizations.
Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) is a national non-profit organization working to end the use of animals for food through public education and grassroots activism. We believe in the inherent self-worth of animals, as well as environmental protection and enhanced public health. Find out more at www.farmusa.org.
Find out more on the event website at: http://www.arconference.org/