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IDA EVENTS
1. McCartneys Join Canadian Seal Slaughter Protest
2. Gopher Gardening at Ocean Beach
OTHER BAY AREA EVENTS TO HELP ANIMALS
1. UCSF Demo - Stop Experiments on Dogs
2. Support Bill to Ban Blood Sport that Kills Rabbits
3. Compassionate Cooks' March Cooking Class: "Journey to India: Curry in a Hurry"
IDA EVENTS
1. McCartneys Join Canadian Seal Slaughter Protest
Former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife Heather Mills McCartney recently accompanied other animal advocates on a visit to the Canadian ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in hopes of halting the slaughter of over 300,000 baby seals for their fur. While there, they urged Canada's newly elected Prime Minister Stephen Harper to implement the will of the people by banning the annual seal massacre. "[The] majority of [Canadian] citizens - as well as those in Europe and America - are opposed to it," the couple has said. "We have complete faith that Prime Minister Harper will take swift and decisive action to end the slaughter of these defenseless seal pups for good."
If Harper doesn't intercede to save seals, Canadian fishermen will soon butcher hundreds of thousands of newborns in a frigid bloodbath. Even though the defenseless seal pups have only just been weaned from their mothers, fishermen will beat them with clubs and shoot them with rifles later this month. Last year, more than 98.5% of the seals killed were newborn pups less than two months old. Witnesses to the slaughter saw many seals skinned alive.
The McCartneys are joined by other famous animal friends such as Brigitte Bardot, Martin Sheen, Mick Jagger, Richard Dean Anderson, Kim Bassinger, Pierce Brosnan and even the Dalai Lama in publicly opposing the seal slaughter. The media attention these and other celebrities have drawn to the seals' plight creates widespread awareness of what is going on and stimulates people to speak out against it. These compassionate stars join thousands of hard-working activists and organizations around the world who are fighting to end the cruel slaughter.
What You Can Do:
Please join IDA's protest against Canada's cruel killing of seals in San Francisco.
What: Protest against Canadian seal slaughter
When: Wednesday, March 15th from 12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
Where: San Francisco/Silicon Valley Consulate General of Canada, 580 California Street, 14th floor, San Francisco
To RSVP and for directions, please contact IDA Campaign Coordinator Melissa Gonzalez at Melissa [at] idausa.org or (415) 388-9641, ext. 228. Also contact Melissa if you are interested in organizing an event in your own community.
Please also join Paul and Heather in urging newly-elected Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to end the seal massacre. Click http://ga0.org/campaign/SealMassacre to send an automatic message, or contact the P.M. by postal mail, fax or personal e-mail.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa
K1A 0A2
Fax: (613) 941-6900
E-mail: pm [at] pm.gc.ca
2. Gopher Gardening at Ocean Beach
Join the San Francisco Wildlife Protection Project, an effort by 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 usually takes place on the first Saturday of each month.
What: Gopher Gardening
When: Saturday, April 1st, 9:00 a.m. - 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 Karen Steele at karen [at] idausa.org .
OTHER BAY AREA EVENTS TO HELP ANIMALS
1. UCSF Demo - Stop Experiments on Dogs
Vigil For Animals will kick off their campaign to stop the use of dogs in experiments at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Since early 2004, animal advocates have been trying to stop three cardiology research projects involving dogs at UCSF from going forward:
- Dr. Michael Dae's project involving German shepherds has been terminated, but the university has yet to document what happened to dozens of dogs used in the project. Despite the filing of a California Public Records Act request for information on the project over a year ago and a lawsuit against UCSF for refusing to release this public information, the dogs' fate remains unknown.
- Meanwhile, Dr. Jeffrey Olgin's experiments have already resulted in the acquisition of at least 62 dogs and the suffering and death of over 40 of them. In the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Dr. Tahmassian, head of UCSF's Research Department, stated that Dr. Olgin's two projects will use fewer than 75 dogs. However, protocols for these projects indicate the planned use of 747 dogs over a three-year period.
- Olgin's other project has not begun. It is possible that it has been combined with the previously mentioned project.
What You Can Do:
Attend a protest against UCSF's use of dogs in experiments.
What: Vivisection protest
When: Wednesday, March 15th starting at 11:30 p.m.
Where: UCSF campus, near the Medical Sciences buildings at 513 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco (click http://tinyurl.com/jsvo2 to see a map)
Vigil For Animals will also host a sign-making party and meeting to discuss the upcoming demo. This will take place either on Sunday, March 12th (around noon) or Monday the 13th (in the early evening) at the Animal Switchboard office in San Francisco. Activists are also encouraged to make their own signs for the demonstration. Some examples include:
- We are dogs' guardians - not torturers.
- Stop cruel & unnecessary experiments on dogs.
- Stop using my tax $ for illegal experiments on dogs.
For more information and to RSVP, contact vigilforanimals [at] yahoo.com .
2. Support Bill to Ban Blood Sport that Kills Rabbits
Right after last month's Super Bowl, ABC News Channel 7 aired a special investigative report about open field coursing, a blood sport in which packs of specially-trained dogs are set loose in a field to chase and kill wild jackrabbits flushed out by spectators. The dogs (mostly greyhounds dressed in colored racing jackets) are scored by the agility and speed with which they chase down their prey, and rewarded for tearing the rabbits apart. Sometimes the rabbits escape through a hole in the fence or a drainage pipe, but most of the time the exhausted animals are caught and slowly torn apart in the dogs' jaws. The video investigation, presented by anchorman Dan Noyes, focused on a coursing event held in the Solano County city of Fairfield that was approved by the California Department of Fish and Game.
The National Open Field Coursing Association (NOFCA), founded in 1964, is an umbrella organization for 12 clubs from all over California that pursue this activity. They were supposed to host the Grand Course, dubbed the "Super Bowl" of open field coursing, on Sunday, February 19th near Lost Hills in Kern County. In response to widespread disapproval from a suddenly outraged public, it appears that NOFCA appears may have quietly decided not to hold the event this year. Their completely non-descript website ( http://nofca.org ) does not even mention the Grand Course or any other events. The entire site has been stripped down to a one-page statement in response to last month's ABC News report by Dan Noyes which broke the story.
What You Can Do:
California is one of the few states in America where the "sport" remains legal, but that may soon change. Assemblymember Loni Hancock (D - Berkeley) has introduced AB 2110, a bill to ban the cruel activity. "It's barbaric," she says. "It's a really horrifying thing and something that it's clear from the outpouring of mail we've gotten, the people of California don't think should be happening here." AB 2110 would make participating in open field coursing a misdemeanor punishable by six months in jail, a $1,000 fine or both. The bill is scheduled to be heard in committee on March 23rd. To see the current wording of the bill, visit http://www.theanimalcouncil.com/CABills.html and scroll down to AB 2110.
- Click http://ga0.org/campaign/BanOpenFieldCoursing to ask your Assemblymember to support AB 2110. You can also contact your Assemblymember personally. Click http://ga0.org/indefenseofanimals/home.html and enter your zip code to get the mailing address and phone number.
Solano County, where the coursing event in the ABC-7 investigation took place, is also considering a local ban. Supervisors discussed a report on open field coursing and the bill to ban the activity statewide at their February 28th meeting, and directed staff to craft an ordinance prohibiting open field coursing in the county.
- Solano County residents: please contact your Supervisors and urge them to support the ban. Click http://www.co.solano.ca.us/Contact/Contact.asp?NavID=468 for the Supervisors' contact information.
- See the ABC-7 News reports online. Sunday's report - http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=i_team&id=3874872 . Thursday's follow up report - http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=i_team&id=3893413 . Warning: parts of the footage are graphic.
3. Compassionate Cooks' March Cooking Class: "Journey to India: Curry in a Hurry"
Join Compassionate Cooks for their next vegan cooking class, "Journey to India: Curry in a Hurry," and learn to make five delicious, nutritious dishes, including Aloo Gobi (curried cauliflower and potatoes), Masoor Dal (spiced red lentils), Chana Masala (curried chickpeas), pumpkin curry with basmati rice, and naan (leavened North Indian bread). Using local, in-season, mostly organic ingredients, Compassionate Cooks features easy-to-prepare recipes and debunks myths about plant-based diets. Join the class in March for yummy food samples and a lot of fun!
What: Compassionate Cooks' February Cooking Class: "Journey to India: Curry in a Hurry"
When: Saturday, March 18th, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Where: The First Unitarian Church of Oakland, 685 14th Street (at Castro), Oakland (click http://www.uuoakland.org/directions.htm for directions)
Be sure to register in advance either online at http://www.compassionatecooks.com/reg.htm or by calling (510) 531-COOK. You can also mail a check to Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, P.O. Box 18512, Oakland, CA 94619. The $45 cost of the class includes instruction, food samples, copies of recipes and much more.
1. McCartneys Join Canadian Seal Slaughter Protest
2. Gopher Gardening at Ocean Beach
OTHER BAY AREA EVENTS TO HELP ANIMALS
1. UCSF Demo - Stop Experiments on Dogs
2. Support Bill to Ban Blood Sport that Kills Rabbits
3. Compassionate Cooks' March Cooking Class: "Journey to India: Curry in a Hurry"
IDA EVENTS
1. McCartneys Join Canadian Seal Slaughter Protest
Former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife Heather Mills McCartney recently accompanied other animal advocates on a visit to the Canadian ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in hopes of halting the slaughter of over 300,000 baby seals for their fur. While there, they urged Canada's newly elected Prime Minister Stephen Harper to implement the will of the people by banning the annual seal massacre. "[The] majority of [Canadian] citizens - as well as those in Europe and America - are opposed to it," the couple has said. "We have complete faith that Prime Minister Harper will take swift and decisive action to end the slaughter of these defenseless seal pups for good."
If Harper doesn't intercede to save seals, Canadian fishermen will soon butcher hundreds of thousands of newborns in a frigid bloodbath. Even though the defenseless seal pups have only just been weaned from their mothers, fishermen will beat them with clubs and shoot them with rifles later this month. Last year, more than 98.5% of the seals killed were newborn pups less than two months old. Witnesses to the slaughter saw many seals skinned alive.
The McCartneys are joined by other famous animal friends such as Brigitte Bardot, Martin Sheen, Mick Jagger, Richard Dean Anderson, Kim Bassinger, Pierce Brosnan and even the Dalai Lama in publicly opposing the seal slaughter. The media attention these and other celebrities have drawn to the seals' plight creates widespread awareness of what is going on and stimulates people to speak out against it. These compassionate stars join thousands of hard-working activists and organizations around the world who are fighting to end the cruel slaughter.
What You Can Do:
Please join IDA's protest against Canada's cruel killing of seals in San Francisco.
What: Protest against Canadian seal slaughter
When: Wednesday, March 15th from 12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
Where: San Francisco/Silicon Valley Consulate General of Canada, 580 California Street, 14th floor, San Francisco
To RSVP and for directions, please contact IDA Campaign Coordinator Melissa Gonzalez at Melissa [at] idausa.org or (415) 388-9641, ext. 228. Also contact Melissa if you are interested in organizing an event in your own community.
Please also join Paul and Heather in urging newly-elected Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to end the seal massacre. Click http://ga0.org/campaign/SealMassacre to send an automatic message, or contact the P.M. by postal mail, fax or personal e-mail.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa
K1A 0A2
Fax: (613) 941-6900
E-mail: pm [at] pm.gc.ca
2. Gopher Gardening at Ocean Beach
Join the San Francisco Wildlife Protection Project, an effort by 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 usually takes place on the first Saturday of each month.
What: Gopher Gardening
When: Saturday, April 1st, 9:00 a.m. - 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 Karen Steele at karen [at] idausa.org .
OTHER BAY AREA EVENTS TO HELP ANIMALS
1. UCSF Demo - Stop Experiments on Dogs
Vigil For Animals will kick off their campaign to stop the use of dogs in experiments at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Since early 2004, animal advocates have been trying to stop three cardiology research projects involving dogs at UCSF from going forward:
- Dr. Michael Dae's project involving German shepherds has been terminated, but the university has yet to document what happened to dozens of dogs used in the project. Despite the filing of a California Public Records Act request for information on the project over a year ago and a lawsuit against UCSF for refusing to release this public information, the dogs' fate remains unknown.
- Meanwhile, Dr. Jeffrey Olgin's experiments have already resulted in the acquisition of at least 62 dogs and the suffering and death of over 40 of them. In the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Dr. Tahmassian, head of UCSF's Research Department, stated that Dr. Olgin's two projects will use fewer than 75 dogs. However, protocols for these projects indicate the planned use of 747 dogs over a three-year period.
- Olgin's other project has not begun. It is possible that it has been combined with the previously mentioned project.
What You Can Do:
Attend a protest against UCSF's use of dogs in experiments.
What: Vivisection protest
When: Wednesday, March 15th starting at 11:30 p.m.
Where: UCSF campus, near the Medical Sciences buildings at 513 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco (click http://tinyurl.com/jsvo2 to see a map)
Vigil For Animals will also host a sign-making party and meeting to discuss the upcoming demo. This will take place either on Sunday, March 12th (around noon) or Monday the 13th (in the early evening) at the Animal Switchboard office in San Francisco. Activists are also encouraged to make their own signs for the demonstration. Some examples include:
- We are dogs' guardians - not torturers.
- Stop cruel & unnecessary experiments on dogs.
- Stop using my tax $ for illegal experiments on dogs.
For more information and to RSVP, contact vigilforanimals [at] yahoo.com .
2. Support Bill to Ban Blood Sport that Kills Rabbits
Right after last month's Super Bowl, ABC News Channel 7 aired a special investigative report about open field coursing, a blood sport in which packs of specially-trained dogs are set loose in a field to chase and kill wild jackrabbits flushed out by spectators. The dogs (mostly greyhounds dressed in colored racing jackets) are scored by the agility and speed with which they chase down their prey, and rewarded for tearing the rabbits apart. Sometimes the rabbits escape through a hole in the fence or a drainage pipe, but most of the time the exhausted animals are caught and slowly torn apart in the dogs' jaws. The video investigation, presented by anchorman Dan Noyes, focused on a coursing event held in the Solano County city of Fairfield that was approved by the California Department of Fish and Game.
The National Open Field Coursing Association (NOFCA), founded in 1964, is an umbrella organization for 12 clubs from all over California that pursue this activity. They were supposed to host the Grand Course, dubbed the "Super Bowl" of open field coursing, on Sunday, February 19th near Lost Hills in Kern County. In response to widespread disapproval from a suddenly outraged public, it appears that NOFCA appears may have quietly decided not to hold the event this year. Their completely non-descript website ( http://nofca.org ) does not even mention the Grand Course or any other events. The entire site has been stripped down to a one-page statement in response to last month's ABC News report by Dan Noyes which broke the story.
What You Can Do:
California is one of the few states in America where the "sport" remains legal, but that may soon change. Assemblymember Loni Hancock (D - Berkeley) has introduced AB 2110, a bill to ban the cruel activity. "It's barbaric," she says. "It's a really horrifying thing and something that it's clear from the outpouring of mail we've gotten, the people of California don't think should be happening here." AB 2110 would make participating in open field coursing a misdemeanor punishable by six months in jail, a $1,000 fine or both. The bill is scheduled to be heard in committee on March 23rd. To see the current wording of the bill, visit http://www.theanimalcouncil.com/CABills.html and scroll down to AB 2110.
- Click http://ga0.org/campaign/BanOpenFieldCoursing to ask your Assemblymember to support AB 2110. You can also contact your Assemblymember personally. Click http://ga0.org/indefenseofanimals/home.html and enter your zip code to get the mailing address and phone number.
Solano County, where the coursing event in the ABC-7 investigation took place, is also considering a local ban. Supervisors discussed a report on open field coursing and the bill to ban the activity statewide at their February 28th meeting, and directed staff to craft an ordinance prohibiting open field coursing in the county.
- Solano County residents: please contact your Supervisors and urge them to support the ban. Click http://www.co.solano.ca.us/Contact/Contact.asp?NavID=468 for the Supervisors' contact information.
- See the ABC-7 News reports online. Sunday's report - http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=i_team&id=3874872 . Thursday's follow up report - http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=i_team&id=3893413 . Warning: parts of the footage are graphic.
3. Compassionate Cooks' March Cooking Class: "Journey to India: Curry in a Hurry"
Join Compassionate Cooks for their next vegan cooking class, "Journey to India: Curry in a Hurry," and learn to make five delicious, nutritious dishes, including Aloo Gobi (curried cauliflower and potatoes), Masoor Dal (spiced red lentils), Chana Masala (curried chickpeas), pumpkin curry with basmati rice, and naan (leavened North Indian bread). Using local, in-season, mostly organic ingredients, Compassionate Cooks features easy-to-prepare recipes and debunks myths about plant-based diets. Join the class in March for yummy food samples and a lot of fun!
What: Compassionate Cooks' February Cooking Class: "Journey to India: Curry in a Hurry"
When: Saturday, March 18th, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Where: The First Unitarian Church of Oakland, 685 14th Street (at Castro), Oakland (click http://www.uuoakland.org/directions.htm for directions)
Be sure to register in advance either online at http://www.compassionatecooks.com/reg.htm or by calling (510) 531-COOK. You can also mail a check to Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, P.O. Box 18512, Oakland, CA 94619. The $45 cost of the class includes instruction, food samples, copies of recipes and much more.
For more information:
http://www.idausa.org
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