we are here at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn at the first ever New York City
Animal Rights Music Festival we're here with Rachel Lin she is one of
our performers Rachel how long have you been vegan it will be seven years so you
have a very beautiful track that is about you no animals in the
slaughterhouse when did you write that I wrote that a couple of years ago
actually and it was a really cool way to sort of make art my activism we put out
a lyric video for it that was created by all vegan artists so it really became
like a community project sort of it's got a lot of visual art in it so it's a
lot of visual artists and we approach different outlets on different vegan
outlets and publications to sort of get the word out about it and there was a
really positive response and it sort of just validates this whole artists
activism so is is that track on the CD that tracks actually not on this CD it's
a single all by itself all the proceeds from the sale are being
donated on an ongoing basis to Mercy for Animals so it's sort of its own little
entity and I have got download cards with me today for a dollar so people can
just sort of be donating on an ongoing basis
well it's a beautiful song guys definitely go check out Rachel Rachel
Lin on YouTube it's a beautiful video beautiful song
and we're going to hear her performant to night and thanks so much for joining
us
this is a really pretty elephants and rhinos who are being poached at great
grades and this one that global March for elephants and rhinos contest which
allowed me and a friend to go to Africa for two weeks and see them in their
natural habitat and I never want to go in a zoo again because once you see
where I'm free you just you just it's never the same right so this is called
where will the Giants
this fear is
see
I'm here with music and he is gonna be our deejay for this evening music thank
you so much for joining us how long have you been vegan I've been vegan since
last November so November 2017 and how long have you been an activist around
the same time I got into it Manhattan there was like this huge thing for they
were holding like an art exhibit and there was a bunch of mice underneath
like this floor board and so that was like my first real demonstration but
brazeau and a couple other buddies walked in and I was like oh because they
thought I was working with the guy I was like trying to tend to the mice it was
kind of like a secret agent but yeah I just like wanted to make sure they were
all right so they arm they added me took a bunch of Facebook and like being
events and stuff and then I just started from there started coming out to like
more demonstrations reaching out to people and I got in touch with hey it's
all them it's that's how I got like introduced to all this cool so the type
of music that you do I love it I think it's it's really cool and you call it
wildlife music and every track kind of correlates to an animal in the wild
when did you start creating this good question I actually started a while back
I was actually in college making music I went to a college it didn't really work
out for me but the music kind of remained and so like I'd be posting on
and off line like just different tracks and eventually I realized like I could
put it to a different use and ID once I had become vegan I started putting it
towards towards animals so all my tracks were renamed from the past they were
kind of remixed remastered and then I just brought them on to my new song
called channel cool and on a scale of one to ten how excited are you for this
event probably a thousand that I'm also a thousand nervous it's my first
performance but you're gonna be great thank you so much for joining us
people that should not be is not active tonight all the money goes in center
lane are the money goes are these red applauses this is what we raised money
for folks all this taxpayer all this red shit you don't need you know raise money
for the record mrs. anyway I'm gonna shut up listen sweetheart
I'm here with Steve grant Steve you are from Florida yes and how long did it
take you to get here to that I would say about two-and-a-half hours or so and
then add another hour so I guess I guess three hours by plane
yes plane then car and then a bunch of other madness of vehicles yes but so you
you're you'd pretty much do anything for the animals yes definitely yes and how
long have you been vegan you gonna say about going on six years now yeah how
long have you been an activist activist probably about eight years yeah
even outside of veganism as well so I'm on like all topics across the board full
spectrum of what needs to be done so yeah and you do a lot with anonymous for
the voiceless and the cubes how long have you been doing the the cube works
pretty much when it started I mean once we saw the you know the the expansion of
the anonymous for the voiceless blow-up since the South Florida chapter started
popping up I'd say almost two years maybe roughly a year and a half I think
yeah about that yeah and you're gonna perform one of your tracks tonight that
also has a music video on YouTube and it's you know there's a lot of like
animal footage and how is the feedback for that video been feedback from that
video has actually been surprisingly pretty tremendous because a lot of
people that normally follow me for other reasons that has nothing to do with
veganism or even understanding how the animal agriculture or the industry of
how the treatment of animals are in the first place they finally got to see that
and they were struck so hard and they never really realized that because
they've researched and they've been exposing many many other issues of what
we deal is just the people in general in the system and for them to see me
connect on that level that was like a big whoa kick back and it was able to
actually connect with a lot of people and kind of like shift them in the right
way to when they start making it you know more health conscious decisions and
also make the compassionate connection with these animals because like I said
before like they don't unless you're able to see it that's why I made the
video like that and that's what also why I made the video like about 7 minutes
long I didn't want to be a regular song two or three minutes I wanted to
actually draw this out so I wanted them to really realize that this is a very
long you know brutal drawn-out situation for
these creatures and you know seven minutes is nothing compared to what they
really get to go through yeah see thank you so much for joining us we're so
excited to see you perform and thank you again for coming up and being a part of
this that's really and I appreciate everything you've done and as well as
fili I'm sure I'll see him in a few whatever he's at and you know really
really amazing that you guys were able to create this event and bring someone
like me shooting all the way over from South Florida you know just to do this
for this bigger cause that's beyond all of us so thank you very much thank you
y'all are gorgeous Dan what was that about
okay you got some pipes to fuck with that means the dumb question of the
night who's being
this man we're staying yo shadow brother right here in Connecticut voiceless and
every man is in the streets let's doing the work that needs to be done
I'm here with super composure super composure on a scale of 1 to 10 how
excited are you for this event 10 absolutely super excited and you're all
you're all set up and you're ready to go what are we gonna be hearing from you
tonight soundcheck everything's ready to go
we'll be hearing a set of original music with a strong animal rights message and
how long have you been vegan when we get 2000 so you've been vegan you've been
doing it for a while and how long have you been an activist I've been active
activist as a recent you know there's been a surge of activism and it's been
really credible and I've been active for at least a couple years now okay awesome
well you're also you're the guy who shows up at the cubes with like the suit
and everything and you look really you look really professional and put
together so we appreciate you here we appreciate your activism and thank you
so much for joining us absolutely you know spread the message
you know fight foot animals you know this obligation
what would you say if you were talking to somebody about not eating animals
anymore maybe switching up to a plan
I'm here with Neil Kohn is another one of our performers Neil thank you so much
for joining us thank you so much for having me
so we've interviewed you before but I'm gonna ask you this question again how
long have you been vegan I guess it's about 18 years now
so I'll give it 18 more years and see how I feel just decide whether I want to
stick with it or not and how long have you been using your music as your like
vegan the activism probably at least that long or longer
I've back in nineteen you know somewhere around there I thought it would be cool
we we used to do a lot of DIY stuff and make flyers and pass them out
you know anti meat anti this and I did a lot of PETA stuff back then because
there weren't as many groups and now there's just an amazing amount of groups
an amazing amount of activism coming from all different angles and everyone's
putting their own spin on you know the same concept is that you know animals
are not ours and we're here to protect them but we used to do it with flyers
and we used to put stickers on you know meat in the supermarket and
flyers and go to McDonald's and you know fuck shit up at McDonald's and you know
take it to the streets pretty much some real punk some real punk shit very punk
aesthetic yeah that's that's how it was done back then and now you know kind of
doing the same thing but now we have a lot of social media stuff and different
ways of doing it and different ways of connecting with people that are doing
the same thing and it's cool because especially this is we're all coming
together for the common good all different kinds of music every every
every way that we think about activism is all kind of converging so I'm happy
about it and glad to be here so what are we gonna hear from you tonight we're
gonna hear some acoustic versions of some worship angel songs so normally I
play with a full band and everything but tonight it's just gonna be a
stripped-down set I'm gonna do a few a few songs and I have them written down
and I'll look at it later but I figured it out today I go with what mood I'm in
so I wrote down some songs and yeah there there are songs that are gonna be
on the record which is a full length war show angels record and one of them is
also on home on the range which is a farm animal sanctuary benefit with Yoko
Ono and Joan Jett and Moby and pretenders which is what I think we
talked about last time yes yes the last time we interviewed you well Neil thank
you so much for joining us and for being here and for everything that you've done
to help us out we really appreciate it oh absolutely I'm glad I could help out
and we'll see you inside sounds great thank you so much thank you
the judges
see the protests you know saying and this some of you in the house tonight my
dad I can't even say your names because people are not supposed to know about
you know this and I'm serious people in high schools know about you because in
our movement there's things that have to be done for the animals where we risk
our freedom where we risk a livelihood where we risk our reputation and there's
some of you want a house tonight which will remain nameless that do that
that do that yeah
if you are on the battlefield already maybe I'll see you next time you know I
mean because you can't stop just just can't stop that veganism can't just stop
the eating animals they were seeing we gotta you gotta take it a step
further because let's say you convert one vegan away which is amazing amazing
to compare one a week in a week but you know what if you comfort one thing you
know with that only means that you converted 50-plus vegans in one year you
know what that means does anybody know what that means no
that means that you will never see a vegan world in your lifetime because
there's 7 billion people on this planet so it's not just enough to be able to
convert 1 recompete
you've got to do whatever you can you got to get to the next step you guys
you're not saying break most take it further take it further you know saying
and that's it and that's it love you
see you next shit thank you guys so much for coming to keep the party going if
you guys are interested yes cute what no I'm done I'm drinking now you're crazy
come on
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