IDA - Bay Area Alerts

IDA EVENTS
1. Volunteers Needed to Table with IDA at SF Green Festival
2. Gopher Gardening at Ocean Beach
3. Volunteers Needed to Help Stop Extermination of Exotic Deer
at Point Reyes
4. Join IDA for Fur Free Friday on November 25th

OTHER BAY AREA EVENTS TO HELP ANIMALS
1. Demonstration for Compassion Toward Animals at Stanford
2. Compassionate Cooks' November Cooking Class: "Thanksgiving
for the Birds"
3. "Yappy Hour" Cocktail Party to Benefit San Francisco's
Animals
4. Roberta Kalechofsky Reading and Book Signing

IDA EVENTS

1. Table with IDA at the San Francisco Green Festival and Get
FREE Admission

The 4th Annual San Francisco Green Festival is considered the
Bay Area's premier environmental event and celebration. This
year, more than 125 speakers will give talks on sustainability,
ecology, social change and other topics related to transforming
our lives and our world. Workshops on Green Careers, Socially
Responsible Investing and other interesting subjects are also
offered throughout the weekend. Visitors will also thrill to the
Giant Endangered Species Puppetry Pageant, and enjoy delicious
vegetarian and vegan fare (no meat is being served at the
festival). IDA joins over 475 non-profits, green businesses and
natural products vendors in the exhibitor's hall, and if you
volunteer to table with IDA for four hours you'll get FREE
admission to the festival for the entire weekend.

What: Tabling for IDA at the San Francisco Green Festival
When: IDA needs volunteers for four-hour shifts on Saturday,
November 5th between 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m., and Sunday,
November 6th between 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Where: Concourse Exhibition Center, 865 8th St. (between Brannan
and Townsend), San Francisco (click http://tinyurl.com/83xmg for
directions)

To volunteer for IDA's table at the San Francisco Green
Festival, contact Anjee Lang at anjee [at] idausa.org or (415)
388-9641 ext. 219. Click
http://www.greenfestivals.com/article.php?list=type&type=55 to learn
more about the festival.

2. 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 takes place on the first
Saturday of each month.

What: Gopher Gardening at Ocean Beach
When: Saturday, November 5th, 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 http://tinyurl.com/4hnh2 for directions to this
event.

For more information, please contact IDA's Bay Area Coordinator
Karen Steele at (415) 388-9641, ext. 217 or karen [at] idausa.org .

3. Volunteers Needed to Help Stop Extermination of Exotic Deer
at Point Reyes

The National Park Service (NPS) is planning to shoot 1,150 White
Fallow and Spotted Axis deer at the Point Reyes National
Seashore simply because they are not native to the area.
However, the NPS's Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)
does not present any scientific evidence that the exotic deer
are negatively impacting the environment or other species in the
park. Their management plan also does not include a non-lethal
alternative such as managing or reducing the number of deer
using contraception alone.

If you would like to work with others toward a humane and
sustainable solution to managing the deer, please attend one of
the two community meetings in Marin co-sponsored by IDA and the
Marin Humane Society and supported by the Jane Goodall
Institute. The purpose of the meetings is to recruit volunteers
for the effort to stop the NPS from exterminating the exotic
deer. Professor Susan Shideler from UC Davis, an expert in
immunocontraception who has experience with Fallow deer, will
attend the November 17th meeting.

East Marin
What: Community meeting to stop extermination of Point Reyes
deer
When: Tuesday, November 15th, 6:00 p.m.
Where: Marin Humane Society, 171 Bel Marin Keys Blvd., Novato
(click http://www.marinhumanesociety.org/main_contacts.html#anchormap
for directions)

West Marin
What: Community meeting to stop extermination of Point Reyes
deer
When: Thursday, November 17th, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Dance Palace Community Center, 503 B Street, Point Reyes
Station (click http://tinyurl.com/bqsqm for directions)

If you plan to attend one of these meetings, please contact
IDA's Bay Area Coordinator, Karen Steele, at (415) 388 9641,
ext. 217 or karen [at] idusa.org to RSVP.

4. Join IDA for Fur Free Friday on November 25th

Mark your calendar and save the date: Fur Free Friday is almost
here. Every year on the day after Thanksgiving for the last two
decades, thousands of people around the U.S. have held
demonstrations, marches, vigils and other activities for Fur
Free Friday to protest a global multi-billion dollar industry
that kills over 40 million animals annually.

IDA always takes an active role in Fur Free Friday, and this
year, we will be holding an outreach event in San Francisco's
Union Square from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. to promote compassion
for minks, foxes and all the other fur-bearing animals this
holiday season. Watch for more details in next week's Bay Area
Alert. To learn more about Fur Free Friday and how you can get
involved, visit http://www.furkills.org .

OTHER BAY AREA EVENTS TO HELP ANIMALS

1. Demonstration for Compassion Toward Animals at Stanford

To commemorate the Dalai Lama's upcoming visit to Stanford
University, the student group Animal Rights on the Farm (ARF!)
will urge compassion for the animals used in experiments on the
Stanford campus. In his book Beyond Dogma, the Dalai Lama
writes, "According to Buddhism, the life of all beings - human,
animal or otherwise - is precious, and all have the same right
to happiness. For this reason, I find it disgraceful that
animals are used without being shown the slightest compassion,
and that they are used for scientific experiments."

Animals used in experiments suffer silently in deprivation and
pain. Some of the experiments currently conducted at Stanford
involve sleep deprivation, maternal separation and addicting
animals to cocaine. After a miserable life as a research tool,
all of Stanford's animal subjects meet the same fate: death at
the hands of humans. Please help ARF! spread compassion for
these helpless animals in honor of the Dalai Lama's visit to
campus.

What: Demonstration against animal testing at Stanford
University
When: Friday, November 4th,12:00 noon
Where: Intersection of El Camino Real and Quarry Rd., Palo Alto
(click http://tinyurl.com/b4lxt for directions)

For more information and to get involved in the campaign against
vivisection, email arfstanford [at] yahoo.com . Visit
http://www.vivisectioninfo.org to learn more about animal
experimentation.

2. Compassionate Cooks' November Cooking Class: "Thanksgiving
for the Birds"

Join Compassionate Cooks for their next vegan cooking class,
"Thanksgiving for the Birds," which features a cornucopia of
delicious dishes that will impress friends and family members
alike while showing reverence to the 300 million turkeys killed
each year (45 million of whom are killed for Thanksgiving every
year).

Let the Compassionate Cooks show you how to make five delicious,
nutritious dishes for your vegan Thanksgiving feast, including
Harvest-Stuffed Winter Squash, Sensational Stuffing with Toasted
Nuts and Raisins, Mashed Potatoes with Carmelized Onions, Glazed
Garlic Green Beans, and Pumpkin Pie with Pecan Crust. Have lots
of fun while eating yummy food samples made from local, seasonal
and organic ingredients!

What: Compassionate Cooks' November Cooking Class: "Thanksgiving
for the Birds"
When: Saturday, November 12th, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Where: The First Unitarian Church of Oakland, 685 14th St. (at
Castro), Oakland (click http://www.uuoakland.org/directions.htm for
directions)

This is the Compassionate Cooks' most popular cooking class of
the year, so be sure to reserve your space while there's still
room. Register in advance by November 11th online at
http://www.compassionatecooks.com or call (510) 531-COOK. The cost of
the class is $40, and includes instruction, food samples,
copies of recipes and much more.

3. "Yappy Hour" Cocktail Party to Benefit San Francisco's
Animals

"Yappy Hour" is a chic and swanky party with cocktails, hors
d'oeuvres, premium "Doggy Bags" (full of gifts) for every guest,
doggy treats, and celebrities. Proceeds from the party will
benefit the Friends of San Francisco Animal Care and Control so
they can continue valuable programs like free microchipping of
San Francisco's dogs and cats. All dog lovers, with or without
canine companions, are welcome.

What: "Yappy Hour" Cocktail Party to Benefit San Francisco's
Animals
When: Tuesday, November 15th, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Where: Hotel Monaco, 501 Geary Street (at Taylor), San Francisco
(click http://www.monaco-sf.com/html/mapDirections.htm for
directions)

Admission to this event is $50 per person. To RSVP before
November 11th: (a) Mail a check or money order made out to
FSFACC to P.O. Box 2443, San Francisco, CA 94126-2443. (b) By
credit or debit card: Log on to http://www.Paypal.com and transmit
funds to HelpAnimals [at] FSFACC.org , indicating "Yappy Hour" in the
box provided. (c) Drop off cash, check or money order in an
envelope at Animal Care and Control, 1200 15th Street (at
Harrison), San Francisco. To RSVP after November 11th: Call
(415) 822-5566, then pay at the door with cash, check, money
order, credit card or debit card.

4. Roberta Kalechofsky Reading and Book Signing

Attend a reading by Roberta Kalechofsky, author of numerous
fiction and animal rights books and founder of Jews for Animal
Rights, from her latest collection of short stories, "Job Enters
A Pain Clinic," ( http://tinyurl.com/9ny3d ). The reading will be
followed by a discussion, book signing and reception with vegan
refreshments. A number of Kalechofsky's new stories deal with
animal and human experimentation and the impact of modern
medical technologies on how we live, themes increasingly
reflected in today's headlines (as seen in the recent SF Bay
Guardian expose [http://www.sfbg.com/39/52/index.php] of UCSF's animal
welfare violations).

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (author of When Elephants Weep) called
Kalechofsky's stories "remarkable," and Charles Patterson
(author of Eternal Treblinka) called her "a fearless chronicler
of matters of life and death." Eminent animal rights philosopher
Tom Regan once said of Ms. Kalechofsky, "[o]f all the historians
of ideas with whom I am familiar, if I had a choice between
listening to just one of them, I would not hesitate to choose
Roberta. She is that good, that worth spending time with...she
truly serves as an inspiration to all of us who aspire to make
our ideas clear - and to make them count." You won't want to
miss this intriguing literary event.

What: Roberta Kalechofsky reading and book signing
When: Tuesday, November 22nd, 7:00 p.m.
Where: 8425 Bel View Court, El Cerrito (click
http://tinyurl.com/7szp3 for directions)

To RSVP, call Karen Steele (415) 388-9641, ext. 217 or write to
karen [at] idausa.org and put "RSVP" in the subject line. Ms.
Kalechofsky's books will be available for purchase, and $5.00
from the sale of every book will be donated to IDA. Click
http://www.utoronto.ca/wjudaism/encyclopedia/e_k.html to learn
more about Ms. Kalechofsky, and
http://www.micahbooks.com/books.html#veg to read about her books. (Out
of consideration for those with chemical sensitivities, please
do not wear fragrances or scented products to the reading.)