IDA's Bay Area Events

Table of Contents:
1. Get a FREE IDA Car Top Ad Box for Animals
2. Boycott Canadian Seafood: Attend Red Lobster Protest
3. Gopher Gardening at Ocean Beach
4. International Day for Korean Dogs and Cats


1. Get a FREE IDA Car Top Ad Box for Animals

Send a powerful pro-animal message as you cruise in your ride with IDA's new car top advertising box. It comes with a variety of signs about different animal issues, and it's absolutely FREE to animal rights activists. The box easily fits on top of almost any car, with or without a roof rack. There are only two qualifications you need to meet to get one:

1. You must be an animal rights activist.

2. The box must only be used to promote pro-animal causes.

To get your free advertising box, please contact Alfredo Kuba at (650) 965-8705 or bkind2animals [at] comcast.net


2. Boycott Canadian Seafood: Attend Red Lobster Protest

The horrific slaughter of over 300,000 harp seals each year by Canadian fishermen continues despite massive worldwide protests. Now is the time to put an end to this atrocity once and for all by hitting the seal hunters where it hurts: their paychecks. While Canadian exports of seafood to the U.S. are worth at least $3.3 billion, Canadian fishermen make a mere $16 million from the seal hunt every year - a fraction of a percent of their total annual income. By boycotting the Canadian seafood industry, we can ensure that Canadian fishermen pay a high price for choosing to continue the cruel seal hunt.

A boycott against Canadian seafood is already well underway, with restaurants and retailers such as Legal Sea Foods, Down East Seafood and Whole Foods Market on board. Now it's time for Red Lobster - one of the largest importers of Canadian seafood - to stop supporting the seal hunt.

What You Can Do

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is coordinating a day of action against Red Lobster on June 25th, when activists will be organizing demonstrations at Red Lobster locations across North America. Please join IDA at a protest in the SF Bay Area to let the public know that the franchise's purchasing decisions directly subsidize the inhumane seal massacre.

What: Canadian seafood boycott protest at Red Lobster
When: Saturday, June 25th from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Where: The Red Lobster at 1210 El Camino Real, San Bruno (click http://tinyurl.com/98wng for directions)

For more information and to RSVP, contact Alicia Moore at (415) 388-9641 ext 228, or Alicia [at] idausa.org. You can learn more about HSUS's campaign to stop the seal hunt at http://www.protectseals.org


3. Gopher Gardening at Ocean Beach

Join the San Francisco Wildlife Protection Project, a joint effort by IDA and the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, to create a wildlife "sanctuary" along the Great Highway. By landscaping the area according to the Parks Department's specifications, volunteers create a habitat for native gophers and prevent them from being trapped and killed. This is an ongoing monthly effort, and happens on the first Saturday of each month. Please give us a hand so we can help the gophers.

What: Gopher Gardening
When: Saturday, July 2nd from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Where: Corner of the Great Highway and Wawona Street, San Francisco, at the small brick Recreation and Park maintenance building. Click here (http://tinyurl.com/4hnh2) for directions to this event.

For more information, please contact Kevin Connelly at (415) 388-9641, ext. 226 or kevin [at] idausa.org


4. International Day for Korean Dogs and Cats

On July 15, 2005, IDA and other animal protection groups will hold worldwide protests to coincide with the first of Korea's "Bok days," which literally means the hot, dog days of summer. South Korean's dog meat consumption increases during this time of year because some superstitiously believe they can keep cool by eating animals that do not sweat. Some Korean men - apparently insecure about their masculinity - even gather in groups to violently beat and hang dogs to death in hopes that consuming the tortured animals' flesh will make them more virile.

Although consumption of dogs and cats is technically illegal in South Korea, the Government doesn't enforce the law. Actually, they are trying to effectively legalize it by regulating dog meat sanitation, which amounts to endorsement of the torment and killing of millions of dogs and cats. The Government's stamp of approval is particularly indefensible given that the vast majority of Koreans find the consumption of dogs and cats disgusting, and are ashamed that the practice has not yet been banned in their country.

What You Can Do

If you live in the SF Bay Area, please join IDA for a protest against these atrocities:
What: International Day for Korean Dogs and Cats Protest
When: Friday, July 15, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Where: Korean Consulate, 3500 Clay St., San Francisco
For more information and to RSVP, contact Alicia Moore, the protest coordinator, at alicia [at] idausa.org or (415) 388-9641.

Click http://www.idausa.org/campaigns.html for more information on IDA's Korean Dog campaign.