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Shark Fin Soup Protest SF Chinatown

by Lawrence Groth (sharksafe [at] comcast.net)
The Shark Safe Project is organizing a shark fin soup protest Demonstration in Chinatown.
The Shark Safe Project is starting 2009 “The Year of the Shark” with a protest demonstration in San Francisco’s Chinatown on January 25th at noon.
Please join us as we will be picketing several establishments including restaurants that serve shark fin soup and shark fin markets.
This is intended to be a peaceful demonstration yet an aggressive protest to convince these establishments to cease offering all shark products.

We will be carrying signs and handing out leaflets (written in English and Chinese). Our immediate goal is to educate the local population of the dangers of consuming shark fins and the devastation that shark fining is causing to our oceans. Hopefully convincing many local citizens to stop consuming shark fin soup and other shark products and to stop patronizing establishments that offer such products. Our long-term goal will be to have city ordinances passed to prohibit the import and distribution of all shark products in the city of San Francisco. Making San Francisco the first “Shark Safe” city in the USA.

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