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DESCRIPTION:SuperSealWoman is “flying high” at 367 Bay Street in North Beach, 
 snatching a sealer’s club and saving a helpless harp seal pup. On 
 December 20, 2006, at noon, SuperSealWoman will arrive in person to show 
 ordinary San Franciscans how they can become superheroes to the seals. 
 \n\nThere is still time to prevent another slaughter of over 300,000 baby 
 harp seals in Canada. Please join SuperSealWoman (a.k.a. Sky Valencia, of 
 the Vegan Vixens), Ian Robichaud, founder of Harpseals.org, and fellow 
 animal/seal activists on December 20, 2006 in San Francisco to promote the 
 Canadian seafood boycott (especially vegan alternatives) and help bring 
 about a quick and permanent end to the massacre of helpless harp seal pups 
 in Canada.\n\nWho: SuperSealWoman and you, seal superheroes of the San 
 Francisco Bay Area\n\nWhat: Outreach in San Francisco – stroll along Bay 
 Street by the Harpseals.org SuperSealWoman wall mural, distributing 
 seal-inspired gifts, activist cards, and information on the seal slaughter 
 and the Canadian seafood boycott\n\nSee the Harpseals.org SuperSealWoman 
 wall mural at 367 Bay St. throughout the month of December.\nMeet 
 SuperSealWoman in person on December 20, and help encourage San Franciscans 
 to take the message of compassion to Safeway, Trader Joe’s, hotel dining 
 rooms, and all the restaurants of San Francisco that have not yet joined 
 the Canadian seafood boycott. To date, over 30 San Francisco restaurants 
 have joined the boycott. With the encouragement of San Francisco’s new 
 seal superheroes, Harpseals.org expects dozens of additional seafood 
 vendors to join in.\n\nThe annual seal “hunt” is the largest slaughter 
 of marine mammals in the world and takes the lives of over 300,000 baby 
 harp seals each year. Seals just a few weeks to a few months old are 
 bludgeoned or shot to death, hooked and dragged while alive and conscious, 
 and even skinned alive.\n\nThese baby seals are killed primarily for their 
 skin, which is made into fur coats, gloves, purses, and boots by such 
 fashion corporations as Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, and Versace, also targets 
 of a boycott. Harpseals.org is promoting a boycott of the Canadian seafood 
 industry for three primary reasons:\n1.	Almost all sealers are fishermen. 
 Sealing is an off-season activity that provides very little of their 
 income.\n2.	The fishing industry of Canada, as a whole, lobbies for the 
 continuation of the seal slaughter and for ever-increasing kill quotas. The 
 Canadian government has said that the slaughter will not end until the 
 Canadian fishing industry wants it to end.\n3.	Americans buy about 70% of 
 Canada’s seafood exports. By taking our dollars away from the Canadian 
 seafood industry, Americans can be superheroes to the seals and bring about 
 a permanent end to the seal “hunt.”\n\nHarpseals.org is an 
 all-volunteer organization based in southern California and is the only 
 organization dedicated exclusively to ending the annual massacre of baby 
 harp seals in Canada. Along with In Defense of Animals, based in San 
 Rafael, HSUS, Animal Alliance Canada, and several other organizations, 
 Harpseals.org is educating consumers about the plight of the harp seals in 
 Canada and how Americans can help.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/13/18337526.php
SUMMARY:Join SuperSealWoman in San Francisco to Save the Seals
LOCATION:Meet at 367 Bay Street. Stroll on Bay Street between Powell and Taylor in 
 North Beach.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/13/18337526.php
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