Marin Peace & Justice Coalition Animal Rights Committee report

In 2004 the Marin Peace & Justice Coalition established an Animal Rights Committee and we have also just begun an Animal Rights presence on the MPJC web site. http://www.mpjc.org

This past year the AR committee did a number of things to help animals including:

-- Sharing a booth at the Green Festival with East Bay Animal Advocates and Bay Area EarthSave and together creating and distributing a brochure on the harm factory farms have on Humans, Animals and the Environment.

-- Taking12 members of the coalition to see Peaceable Kingdom at it’s SF Premier (three of which went vegan immediately after.)

-- Delivering a letter in support of SB1520 to ban the production and sale of forced fed Foie Gras in California to the California Assembly Business and Professions Committee members in Sacramento.

-- Submitting a number of powerful Animal Rights videos to the coalition’s video lending library.

-- Sending a number of letters for animals from active members including requests to the Canadian Government to stop the seal slaughter in Canada; to the FDA to stop the cruel agribusiness practice of force molting hens; to the Chinese Government to end Bear Bile Farming by the year 2008 and to the U.S. Patent and Trademark office to cancel a patent on beagle dogs.

-- Hosting a private screening of Peaceable Kingdom for a small gathering of MPJC members.

-- Enjoying SHAC Activist Kevin Jonas speak to its active members one Monday evening.

-- Creating and selling Animal Rights T-Shirts and buttons and distributing Animal Rights Literature at a number of Social Justice events during the summer.

-- Launching a call to boycott local San Anselmo restaurant Fork until they stop serving Foie Gras.


It is imperative to the animals’ future that we help make connections to other social justice movements thus increasing the power and momentum towards our goal. We need to help de-alienate the Animal Rights Movement and integrate it into all human-centered liberation movements as it is not separate from them but most deeply connected to them all. Extending rights to life and liberty to non-human animals is the future and the future is now.

Looking forward to an active 2005.


Marin Peace & Justice Coalition
P.O. Box 9458
San Rafael, CA 94912
415-721-2844
info [at] mpjc.org