PETA’s weekly eNews (3/27/07) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

* Tell Iams That You Won’t Buy While Animals Die!

* Urgent: Five Dogs Dead on Their Chains in Georgia

* Help Stop the Bloody Seal Massacre

Also, more info on the Menu Foods recall:

Is Iams’ Dry Food Also Contaminated?

PETA has received queries from concerned dog and cat guardians who are worried that animals might fall ill after eating dry food, and as a result, PETA is demanding that Iams and Menu Foods also recall dry food products until they are chemically tested—and cleared—for safety.

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The latest issue of Dogs Deserve Better’s eNewsletter (which does not appear to be available online) includes the the following items of interest:

Eight States are Hard at Work on Anti-Tethering Bills

Pennsylvania, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, and Rhode Island

Maryland’s legislation is highest priority right now, if you live in Maryland, it’s critical for you to visit the site and start contacting your representatives to get the bill out for a vote. Most of the others are just getting started, and need all citizens help to progress. If your state is listed amongst these, please visit the link, below, and see how you get involved. If your state isn’t listed, visit the link anyway to see what kind of laws are being proposed this year, and get ideas for your state. It’s not too late for this legislative session!

More excellent legislative news: Troy City, Michigan, Middletown, Ohio, Texas City, Texas have all passed anti-tethering legislation in the past month! Lee’s Summit, Missouri, DeSoto, Tennessee, Denver, Colorado, Deerfield Beach, FL, New York City, Arkansas City, Kansas, and Austin, Texas are all considering anti-tethering legislation as we write as well.

Please visit DDB’s State Legislative Effort Page for current info and local calls to action.

Also, those in the PA area (specifically, Hollidaysburg) may want to attend the April 17 9AM pre-trial rally for DDB founder Tammy Grimes:

Come to a Rally for Grimes before the Motion to Dismiss Hearing April 17, 2007 at 9:00 a.m.

Can you come to a pre-trial rally at the Hollidaysburg Courthouse for Tammy Grimes at 9:00 a.m. April 17th?

The pre-trial hearing is at 10:30, so let’s be there at 9:00 a.m., sporting signs, listening to a few speakers, and in general showing support for Tammy and what she did for Doogie.

We’ll make sure we have new signs made from the Doogie material and buttons for everyone that comes. If you can come in from out of town, please try! The more people we have standing together, the better for our cause and for justice. To see Altoona hotels and motels, visit the Altoona.com site. If we have a lot of people who need rooms, we will see if we can get a cheap room block somewhere.

Background and additional info on the case is available here.

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Via The Wilderness Society:

Keep Wyoming Wildlife Safe!

The Pinedale Anticline in western Wyoming’s Upper Green River Valley harbors significant winter range for world class populations of mule deer, pronghorn and sage grouse, as well as large herds of moose and elk. It also occupies ground zero in the Bush Administration’s plan to sacrifice ecologically sensitive public lands to the oil and gas industry.

The Anticline is a highly profitable gas field outside the town of Pinedale where industry is seeking to radically escalate the level of development, from 500 wells now to more than 4,000 in the future. This, despite ample evidence that past drilling has pushed wintering mule deer off this crucial piece of winter
habitat.

The Wilderness Society is part of an effort to reduce the scale of this project. You can help by weighing in with the BLM. To send a letter and be heard, click here.

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Here’s the TOC from the 3/27/07 issue of The Sierra Club’s Currents.

You can read the whole newsletter online – just click here!

Sierra Club Currents – Permission Denied
Volume VI, #57
Tuesday, March 27,2007

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Quote of Note:

“You’re not making the rules. You used to when you did this [waves gavel]. Elections have consequences. So I make the rules.”

– Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) in response to Sen. Inhofe’s (R-OK) bad behavior toward Al Gore at a global warming hearing last week.

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(1) Victory: Permission Denied

(2) Chavez: Remembering a Great Man

(3) Take Action: Curb Global Warming!

(4) Take Action: Trade for a Better Environment!

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From: Feral Power! – alleycat [at] alleycat.org
Date: Mar 27, 2007 1:01 PM
Subject: Feral Cats in Syracuse, KS Need YOUR Help!

Large Feral Cat Colony in Syracuse, KS Needs YOUR Help!
100 barn cats in Syracuse, KS need new homes!

The owner of the farm where these cats have resided for years has moved to a nursing home. Feral cat groups in your community have intervened to save these cats. Relocation is the only option.

Friends of Felines in Sedgwick, Kansas, Cat Care Network in Raton, New Mexico, and Best Friends Animal Society have made plans to humanely trap, spay/neuter, and vaccinate these feral cats but they still need your help.

With the efforts of feral cat groups, concerned veteranians, and local citizens, these cats will find new and welcoming outdoor homes.

Friends of Felines is leading this effort and needs your help:

* Volunteers to help with trapping and transporting the cats

* RELOCATION SITES! Friends of Felines can assist with preparations at the relocation site. They will only relocate cats in groups of five or more

* Donations to purchase traps and carriers

If you are interested in joining others in your community to help these cats, please contact Ray Huff of Friends of Felines:

Email: info [at] felinefriendsks.com
Home: 316-772-0329
Cell: 316-305-8237
Pager: 316-281-0464

Donate on-line

Alley Cat Allies · 7920 Norfolk Avenue · Suite 600 · Bethesda, MD 20814-2525 · www.alleycat.org

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Via the Rainforest Action Network:

Real Forest Protection Now

Though ANZ is Australia’s third largest bank, it is the country’s leading financier of environmentally destructive projects. One of ANZ’s most controversial clients, Gunns Limited, is rapidly destroying Tasmania’s forests. ANZ recently developed a draft forests policy that was supposed to apply ethical criteria to its investments. Unfortunately, the policy doesn’t reflect our discussions with the bank and would allow the bank to continue funding destructive projects, including Gunns’ pulp mill in Tasmania and illegal logging in Indonesia.

Tell ANZ’s Sustainability Director Gavin Murray that his company should develop a real forests policy and commit to not funding the Gunns pulp mill project!

Then, head on over to The Wilderness Society of Australia’s web site for updates and a list of additional actions you can take.

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Volume 6.1 of the American Humane Association’s The Humane Review is now available online.

Contents of this issue include the following:

* “Be Kind to Animals Kid” Grows Up
* Call Off the Dogs: Working to End Dogfighting
* Families: Creating Solutions to the Problems Within
* Turner Classic Movies Animal Filmfest
* Social Capital
* Humane Philanthropy
* Snowbound — Animal Emergency Services Response

Download a pdf copy by clicking here. For a list of back issues, click here.

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From: Catherine Clyne – cclyne [at] satyamag.com
Date: Mar 27, 2007 1:07 PM
Subject: Important Announcement from Satya Magazine

Dear Satya Readers,

Below is a letter from Satya’s publisher, Beth Gould, about some big changes on the horizon. This is going to come as a surprise, so I urge you to just read on… and consider celebrating 13 years of Satya by sending us your letters or contributing to our final issue.

Subscription questions can be answered at www.satyamag.com, and we will be in touch directly with subscribers regarding refund options.

Please note, we decided to expand our April oceans issue into a double April/May issue, “Tides of Extinction.”

Thank you for all of your support.

Warmly,
Cat Clyne
Editor in Chief

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Via Defenders of Wildlife, a really cute but totally time-wasting, errr, time waster:

Visit YouWild.org and transform yourself — or a friend, family member, or pet — into a wolf pup, panda, sea otter, or one of our other adorable, majestic, or scary-looking critters!

Just create your personal animal morph page, and then share it with friends, family, co-workers and others to help us raise awareness about the plight of our imperiled wildlife.

YouWild.org is simple to use — you start by choosing one of twenty one different imperiled animals. Then, upload a photo of your own or choose a sample photo from our gallery of people and animals.

Finally, watch as the face you chose gradually transforms into your chosen animal. And if you like the results, you can save your morph and send it to your friends and family (and even post it on your website, blog or MySpace page)!

Here’s Baby Kelly morphing into a chimp. You can see the original photo on Flickr, where it was uploaded as part of my Bush Babies series (“Wow! Brazil is big!”).

Speaking of GW, here’s the obligatory Bush-or-Chimp? morph. Dunno how long the good Defenders will leave that one up, so you might have to create your own.

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From: Kinship Circle – info [at] kinshipcircle.org
Date: Mar 26, 2007 6:58 PM
Subject: KC DIGEST: Greek Tragedy, Cry From India, Dead Sled Dog + MORE

Kinship Circle Primary – PERMISSION TO CROSS-POST AS WRITTEN

3/26/07: Kinship Circle DIGEST / ALERTS FROM MEMBERS
Greek Tragedy, Cry From India, Dead Sled Dog + MORE

View recent KC Digest Newsletters, from activists worldwide:

www.kinshipcircle.org/digest/

MARCH 2007 KC DIGEST:

1. A Black Sunday in Ancona
2. Clock Is Ticking In Two Nations – Lives At Stake
3. Cry For Help From India
4. Experts Needed To Save Lions In Croatia
5. New England Animal Rights Workshop – 4/14/07
6. Presentation – Fate of the Chicken: Tropical Forest to Factory Farm
7. First Written Declaration On EU-Wide Bullfighting Ban
8. Teacher Says Iditarod Musher Was Slugging, Kicking Dogs
9. Urge South Africa to ‘Cull’ Elephant Killing From Policy
10. Nearly 2 Years Since Rescue, We Return To Same Place
11. Urge Department Of Defense To Help Animals In Iraq
12. National Lawyer’s Guild Green Scare Hotline Number
13. PETITIONS TO SIGN

Each DIGEST includes:

* NEWS and CALL-TO-ACTION, submitted by Kinship Circle members.
* CONTACT INFO to reply directly to the activist who supplied the alert.
* Related KINSHIP CIRCLE LINKS for more background information.
* Submissions are from KC members and do NOT originate from Kinship Circle itself.
* If emails for letter recipients fail, contact person who supplied alert — NOT KINSHIP CIRCLE.
* Send submissions for KC DIGEST to kinshipcircle [at] brick.net
* Please “clean-up” submitted alerts, and do not send chain of forwarded messages.

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