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From: Kinship Circle – kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Nov 8, 2007 6:13 PM
Subject: ACT/ No More Dogs For Dinner In The Philippines

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DID YOU GET OUR RECENT ALERTS?

1. 11/2/07: Outlaw Korean Dog/Cat Meat Trade For Good
2. 10/26/07: Mass MO Dogfight Raid, In Shadow Of Vick Case

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11/8/07: No More Dogs For Dinner In The Philippines
KINSHIP CIRCLE ACTION CAMPAIGN

www.KinshipCircle.org

PHOTO: Sirius Global Animal Organisation, sirius.2kat.net/
Dogs crushed in small cages can barely breathe during the journey to illegal slaughterhouses in the Philippines.

SOURCE OF INFORMATION:

Help Stop The Philippines’ Illegal Dog Meat Trade

VIDEO

DogMeatTrade.com

Republic of the Philippines Government Officials / Contact Information

PETITION: Save Dogs from the DOG MEAT Trade

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From: In Defense of Animals – takeaction [at] idausa.org
Date: Nov 7, 2007 6:51 PM
Subject: IDA eNews: 11-7-07

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November 7th, 2007

IDA Action Alerts

Take IDA’s Thanksliving Pledge!
Go turkey-free to save lives & win prizes this holiday season

bebe Agrees to Go Fur-Free…but Not Quite Yet
Take Action to urge fashion retailer not to wait until 2008

Sponsor IDA’s Anti-Fur PSA for Fur Free Friday
TV spot shows viewers the animal cruelty fashion industry tries to hide

Campaign News & Updates

IDA’s November 2007 Guardian of the Month – Christine Dorchak
Greyhounds’ best friend has the dog racing industry on the run

IDA-Project Hope Adoption Spotlight – Dottie
Darling Dalmatian is one of 28 animals recently spayed/neutered by vet students at the sanctuary

Victory: Cape May Adopts Plan to Protect Both Feral Cats and Endangered Birds
IDA joins coalition that helped convince New Jersey town to preserve TNR program

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Action Alerts

The Center for Food Safety: Support Amendment to Stop Animal Cloning in the Farm Bill!
The FDA will soon make a final decision on whether food from cloned animals is safe to enter our food supply.

Common Cause: Help us kick off the Fair Elections Action Week
I support the Fair Elections Now Act (S.1285), the bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate that would create a voluntary system of publicly funded elections.

CREDO Action: Tell Your Senators: Don’t Cave on the Energy Bill
According to our sources, the leaders in the Senate are negotiating a compromise energy bill. This compromise would sell out clean energy for wind and solar and include huge subsidies for ethanol and nuclear power. (Formerly Act for Change.)

Democrats.com: Begin Impeachment Proceedings in Judiciary Committee
It is time for Speaker Pelosi and the members of the Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on the impeachment of Vice President Cheney. Congressman Kucinich’s H.Res. 333, Articles of Impeachment for Vice President Dick Cheney, has 22 co-sponsors. On 11/6/07, 86 Democrats and 165 Republicans voted for a floor debate.

Democrats.com: It’s Time to Poll on Impeachment
After the Downing Street Memos proved George Bush lied about Iraq’s WMD’s, Democrats.com began lobbying corporate media polling organizations to include impeachment questions in their polls.

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Action Alerts

American Freedom Campaign: Tell Schumer and Feinstein you are disgusted by their approval of Mukasey
On November 6, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee — on an 11-8 vote — forwarded President Bush’s nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey, to the full Senate for final confirmation.

Corporate Accountability International: Tell Coke to come clean
Today, people across North America are calling on Coke to follow Pepsi’s lead and reveal the source of its Dasani bottled water.

DawnWatch: Animal activism in faith communities — LA Times 11/6/07
“For all of God’s creatures; Activists for animals are finding a receptive audience in the faith community, including on the religious right”

DawnWatch: Shocking dolphin slaughter on prime time television — November 2007
The annual dolphin slaughter has been on again in Taiji, Japan, over the last few weeks. Former Flipper trainer turned dolphin advocate, Ric O’Barry, and other wonderful activists have been at the killing coves documenting the horror and trying to get the world to take notice.

Defenders of Wildlife: Help Farmers Help Wildlife!
Tell your Senators to support key amendments to the 2007 Farm Bill to boost conservation programs that help save wildlife that depend on healthy habitat to survive. Hurry — a vote could come as early as this Thursday!

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From: Shawna Seldon – shawna [at] rosengrouppr.com
Date: Nov 5, 2007 9:24 PM
Subject: invite/event listing (11/16): Dream, a monthly drum & bass benefit event for The International Fund for Animal Welfare.
To: easyvegan [at] gmail.com

We hope you will list this upcoming event to benefit The International Fund for Animal welfare and the endangered North American right whale which is entering its migration/breeding season now.

Best regards,

Shawna Seldon
212.255.8455

CALENDAR LISTING: Friday, November 16

Contact:
Shawna Seldon
212.255.8455 ext. 212
shawna [at] rosengrouppr.com

DIRECT DRIVE and MOTHER OF PEARL present DREAM: A Monthly Drum & Bass Benefit Event to Benefit The International Fund for Animal Welfare

—The Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale enters Breeding Season and Begins migration to Southern Waters perils punctuate the species Fragile Existence—

—Reductions in boat speeds of just 10 knots could save a species—

Who:

DJ’s EMPRESS (Royale | Contagious Musiq | New Identity); I-CUE (Ingenious Musiq | Plan B | Konkrete Jungle NYC); GHOSTRUNNER (Understand Inc. | No Drama Stateside); ODYSSEY (Digital Konfusion | Ingenious Musiq); PATRICK KANE; with your host MC DYLZ (St8cyde Jump Up | Team Ewok)

What:

DIRECT DRIVE and MOTHER OF PEARL present DREAM, a Monthly Drum & Bass Benefit Event, to benefit The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW, www.ifaw.org); 21 to enter; $7 B4 Midnight, $10 After; Proceeds to benefit the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the right whale.

When:

Friday, November 16, 2007; 10:00 p.m. – 4:00 a.m.

Where:

Bar Bleu @ Café Deville (downstairs)
103 3rd Avenue (@ 13th Street); New York City

Why:

Proceeds from the November edition of the monthly drum & bass Dream will benefit The International Fund for Animal Welfare and the right whale. With only 350 right whales remaining, the right whale is poised to follow the fate of the baiji—a white dolphin found off the coast of eastern China, and the first large aquatic mammal driven to virtual extinction since hunting and overfishing killed off the Caribbean monk seal in the 1950s—as legislation that could save the right whale languishes with the Administration. As the primary cause of mortality is vessel strikes, the National Marine Fisheries Service has proposed a Ship Strike Rule, calling for reductions in boat speed limits to 10 knots–an impact of $116 million a year, less than four-hundredths of one percent of the $300 billion East Coast shipping trade. Top scientists all concur that this rule must be enacted in order to save the species. The final rule was expected to be issued in June 2007, yet it remains held by the White House’s Office of Management and Budget—which has offered no public explanation. Lawmakers—including Senator John Kerry, Senator Olympia Snowe, and Senator Edward Kennedy—are joining in the effort to push the Ship Strike Rule forward. Tell your Congressman what you think, get more information at www.ifaw.org, and come out to support the cause on Nov. 16.

For more information, contact Shawna Seldon at 212.255.8455 ext. 212 or shawna [at] rosengrouppr.com.

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Action Alerts

Consumer’s Union: Sign up to be a Safe Shopper!
Sign up to be one of the tens of thousands of volunteers out spreading the word to retailers to “Get the Lead Out This Holiday Season!”

Greenpeace: Cut Out Illegal Logging
A bipartisan bill – the Legal Timber Protection Act (H.R. 1497) – is now pending in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill would put trees and plants under the protective umbrella of the time-tested Lacey Act that shields America from imports of illegal wildlife.

MoveOn.org: Hillary wants to know what you think on energy
Tell her that her energy plan is a good start, but she still needs to address one of the biggest contributors to climate change – meat consumption!

The Sierra Club: Take Action to End Illegal Logging Worldwide
As one of the world’s largest consumers of timber and wood products the U.S. has a responsibility to stop the trade of illegally harvested timber.

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Action Alerts

Center for Biological Diversity: Support Fossil Creek Wild and Scenic Designation!
The Fossil Creek Wild and Scenic bill, S.86, will be heard in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Thursday, November 8.

Environmental Defense: Support Conservation Funding in the Farm Bill!
At least $6 billion in new conservation funding is needed to help farmers help the environment and the Senate is considering a Farm Bill that falls short of that goal.

New American Dream: Carbon Conscious Consumer: C3
This Month: Beat the Heat, Wash in Cold

The Wilderness Society: Protect Bitterroot National Forest from ORVs
Unmanaged and unchecked off-road-vehicle use has proliferated in the Bitterroot, damaging soils, fragmenting wildlife habitat, spreading noxious weeds, and threatening future wilderness designation for a worthy landscape.

The Wilderness Society: Help us strengthen the proposal for Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep critical habitat!
When first listed as endangered eight years ago, only 125 Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep remained in the wild. Today, thanks to federal protections, these sheep have been pulled back from the brink of extinction, but still number just 400 in the wild.

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UPDATE, 11/11/07:

For the most recent info, see this alert: Kinship Circle: Mexico Floods: Updates & Groups On Ground.

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From: Kinship Circle – kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Nov 4, 2007 12:24 PM
Subject: Animal Aid In Mexico Floods? “Just Like New Orleans”

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RELIEF GLOBAL
11/4/07: Where Is Animal Aid In Mexico Floods? “Just Like New Orleans”
KINSHIP CIRCLE’S DISASTER VICTIMS SITE:

www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/

LOOK:

PHOTO: A man rescuing a dog crosses flooded street in Villahermosa on Nov. 1. By Manuel Lopez, Reuters.
[Source.]

FROM KINSHIP CIRCLE, Brenda Shoss: Familiar? This flood is happening RIGHT NOW in the state of Tabasco, in southeastern Mexico. Tabasco’s governor has called the massive flooding “Just like New Orleans.” People and animals stranded atop homes and swimming down streets make the comparison inevitable. 700,000 (and counting) people affected. Similar story, different country? [MORE PRESS PHOTOS BELOW]

YET, WHERE IS THE ANIMAL DISASTER RESPONSE? I’ve scanned the internet and consulted personal rescue contacts for two days now, but have found nothing about local/national/international groups on the scene to aid animals.

Normally, Kinship Circle Animal Disaster Relief brings you a resource directory so we can all network supplies, volunteers and donations for animal victims — as we just did for the California wildfires — but this time we need everyone’s help.

Anyone with leads, links, or contact information — for local, national or international animal aid in Mexico — PLEASE SEND ME WHAT YOU HAVE FOR CIRCULATION ON KINSHIP CIRCLE’S DISASTER NETWORKING EMAIL LIST.

This list was born of Katrina. We’re linked by a spiritual and functional network that drove us (literally and figuratively) to the Gulf Coast. Let’s keep the network alive and do something FOR DOGS, CATS, HORSES, FARM ANIMALS…stranded, starving, afraid…in Mexico’s worst flood in 50 years.

Send any leads, links and/or contact information for local, national, or international animal rescue operations in Mexico’s flood to:
Brenda Shoss, kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net

In the meantime, I’ll keep looking for answers too!
I’m sure some group is there, or mobilized to go…

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From: DawnWatch – news [at] dawnwatch.com
Date: Nov 4, 2007 4:03 PM
Subject: DawnWatch last minute tip: The Ivory Wars on 60 Minutes, 11/4/07

On CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday, November 4:

Ivory War
Correspondent Scott Pelley goes to Africa to see firsthand the endangered elephant herds and confront the careless poachers who slaughter them for their ivory tusks.

You can go to www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/main3415.shtml and hit Watch video under the “Ivory Wars” heading for a 30 second preview.

If you miss the show, or if you are not in the US, you should be able to watch it this week on that site.

Positive feedback for animal friendly coverage encourages more of it, so please be sure to thank 60 Minutes for covering this issue. The show takes feedback at: 60m [at] cbsnews.com

I send thanks to Amy Mayers for making sure we knew about the upcoming segment.

Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn

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Action Alerts

DawnWatch: Huge New Yorker story on Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd 11/5/07 edition
The November 5 edition of the prestigious New Yorker magazine, on stands now, touts its lead story on the cover with the headline, “High-seas vigilante.” Raffi Khatchadourian’s article inside (p 56), almost a novella at 13,000 words, is headed “Neptune’s Navy: Paul Watson’s Wild Crusade to Save the Ocean.”

Ecological Internet / The Rainforest Portal: Mayor Bloomberg: We Love New York, But Hate Your Government’s Rainforest Destruction!
New York City is one of the biggest consumers of ancient rainforest timbers; and their use of tropical hardwoods must end to protect global climate, ecosystems and biodiversity.

National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA): Send a Message to the President–Restoration Matters.
Congress finally passed WRDA, which contains critical restoration projects for the Everglades and the Great Lakes, and President Bush vetoed it.

National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA): Teddy is Making Parks a Priority- are They?
Now’s the time for the other presidential candidates to demonstrate their support for our national parks. Let the candidates know you think our parks matter.

National Wildlife Federation (NWF): Protect Florida’s Everglades from Development
There are five development projects underway–including two massive golf course communities–which threaten to destroy an estimated 1,140 acres of wetlands.

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From: Kinship Circle – kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Nov 3, 2007 1:17 PM
Subject: Cave Dogs Safe…Stop More Killing In Ethiopia!

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11/3/07: Cave Dogs Saved From 30 ft. Abyss. Stop More Killing In Ethiopia!
KINSHIP CIRCLE DISASTER VICTIMS SITE:

www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/

FROM KINSHIP CIRCLE, Brenda Shoss: At AR2007 this summer, I chatted with Dr. Anteneh Roba, the Houston doctor who helped orchestrate the rescue of dogs tossed into a cave to die in Ethiopia. Thanks to Dr. Roba and Homeless Animal Protection Society (HAPS), Ethiopia’s ONLY animal rescue/welfare group, these four dogs are on their way to forever homes in the U.S. And incredibly, government officials closed the cave (where 20-30 unwanted dogs perished each month) due to publicity about the four saved dogs. Still, more homeless dogs in Ethiopia now face death by strychnine. Please support Dr. Anteneh Roba with donations through his Amsale Gessesse Memorial Foundation. He is the stuff tireless and brilliant animal activists are made of!

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA / HOUSTON, TEXAS
AMSALE GESSESSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

Dr. Anteneh Roba: 713-213-5952 * AAmsale [at] aol.com

www.amsalefoundation.org

11/2/07, from Anteneh, AAmsale [at] aol.com — My name is Anteneh. I have been involved in a rescue of 4 dogs from a cave in Ethiopia. After the rescue they were staying at the only shelter for homeless animals run by an awesome organization called HOMELESS ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY (HAPS).

Unfortunately due to lack of funds they are closing down their operation. Nowhere to go the dogs who went without food or water for 2 months thrown into a cave about 20 to 30 ft. deep…were going to end up killed or homeless. So, I decided to get them to the USA for adoption, but also to raise awareness about the terrible plight of animals in Africa and to see if I can get money to help reopen the only shelter for homeless animals in Ethiopia. If there is anything you can do to help it would be appreciated.

PHOTO: Dogs tossed into cave pit outside of Addis Ababa saved from death.

www.network.bestfriends.org/unitedkingdom/news/18071.html

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From: Kinship Circle – kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Nov 2, 2007 5:56 PM
Subject: Fire Exposes Farm As Dog Mill For Research

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HAVE YOU RECEIVED RECENT KINSHIP CIRCLE ALERTS?
11/2/07: Outlaw Korean Dog/Cat Meat Trade For Good
10/26/07: Mass MO Dogfight Raid, In Shadow Of Vick Case
10/17/07: Puerto Rico’s Massacre At The Bridge

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KC MEMBER ALERT
11/2/07: Fire Exposes Farm As Dog Mill For Research

www.KinshipCircle.org

ALERT FROM / REPLY TO:
Netanya Nathan, rodsandra [at] gulftel.com

BACKGROUND:
Blaze rages at ‘dog farm’ / Peter Wynne 10/18/07

EDITED FOR LENGTH

Last Friday’s fire at Alder Ridge Farms Inc., a dog-breeding facility on Reynolds Road near Lakewood, has focused attention on a business that has usually managed to avoid such exposure.

The smoky, early afternoon fire raged for more than four hours, requiring the efforts of firefighters from nine different volunteer companies to bring it under control. The blaze destroyed a metal building said to have been 450 feet long and 70 or more feet wide, making it one of the biggest in northern Wayne County.

The fire also caused the death of an untold number of animals, which Alder Ridge Farms normally would have sold for use in biomedical research.

For many area residents, the existence of such a business in northern Wayne was news. No sign along unpaved Reynolds Road announces Alder Ridge Farms; no street numbers identify the place as No. 442, the company’s address. Some residents knew about the “dog farm,” but had little idea about the scale of the operation or what goes on at the 290-acre hilltop property…

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From: Kinship Circle – kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Nov 2, 2007 4:37 PM
Subject: ACT/ Outlaw Korean Dog-Cat Meat Trade

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11/2/07: Outlaw Korean Dog/Cat Meat Trade For Good
KINSHIP CIRCLE ACTION CAMPAIGN

www.KinshipCircle.org

PHOTOS: Dogs and cats in Korea’s outdoor meat markets.

SOURCE OF INFORMATION:

A Closer Look at Korea’s New Animal Protection Law

www.koreananimals.org/info/news/apl2.htm

International Aid For Korean Animals

www.koreananimals.org/help/letters.htm

Dogs – www.koreananimals.org/animals/dogs.htm
Cats – www.koreananimals.org/animals/cats.htm

PETITION: Eating cats and dogs in Korea

www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/443306262

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From: API Newsletters – donotreply [at] apiforanimals.org
Date: Nov 2, 2007 1:48 PM
Subject: Binox for Birds, Dan Piraro Designs at API’s CafePress Store

Alerts at a Glance:
* Binoculars for the Birds
- Send API your used or new binoculars to help Indonesian schoolchildren learn that birds are more beautiful wild.
* New Designs Available at API’s CafePress Store
- Check out our newly available National Bird Day CafePress designs — featuring the work of cartoonist Dan Piraro, creator of the popular, nationally syndicated “Bizarro” comic.
* Other Ways to Help Animals
** Lori Faye Bock: This popular animal artist’s paintings touch your spirit, enliven your space — and help API continue our valuable work.
** MessageProduct checks: Attractive personalized checks with which you can easily support API’s mission to help animals.

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From: In Defense of Animals – takeaction [at] idausa.org
Date: Nov 2, 2007 11:40 AM
Subject: Maggie Arrives Safely at PAWS Sanctuary

Maggie Arrives Safely at PAWS Sanctuary
U.S. Air Force pilots successfully complete Operation Maggie Migration

After 25 years, Maggie has finally made the move from a tiny enclosure at the Alaska Zoo to her new home at the Performing Animal Welfare Society elephant sanctuary in Northern California. This is a great day not only for Maggie, but for IDA and everyone else who has worked to secure her freedom. We offer our sincerest thanks and congratulations to everyone who helped make this victory possible.

This historic trip included a five-hour flight in a temperature-controlled crate aboard a United States Air Force C-17 cargo plane from Alaska to Travis Air Force Base, followed by an 85-mile drive in a flatbed truck to PAWS. Maggie arrived safely on schedule at the sanctuary at 6:30 this morning.

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Action Alerts

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): Mukasey Can’t Dodge Torture, Spying Questions
The attorney general is supposed to enforce the law, not equivocate and dance around clear-cut legal issues. Yet Mukasey has evaded straight answers — not only on torture — but on government spying as well.

Audubon: President Vetoes Vital Ecosystem Restoration Projects
Please write to your members of Congress and urge them to help restore America’s natural resources by overriding the veto of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 (H.R. 1495) by President Bush.

Campaign for American Wilderness: Tell the BLM to protect wilderness-quality lands from off-road vehicles!
Tell the BLM to fix its plan and not turn wilderness landscapes into sacrifice zones for dirt bikes and other off-road vehicles!

Center for Constitutional Rights: Waterboarding is torture. No to Mukasey!
President Bush’s nominee for Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, supports torture, illegal spying on Americans and limitless powers for the Executive Branch.

Change.org: Help Stop the Illegal Wildlife Trade in Thailand
Illegal wildlife trade totals billions of dollars a year globally, but conservationists say the problem is most acute in Southeast Asia.

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From: Kinship Circle – kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Oct 29, 2007 11:40 PM
Subject: #1: OCT. KC DIGEST – Killing JFK Cats, Shot Iraq Dog, Petitions…

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10/29/07
PART 1: OCTOBER KC DIGEST – Alerts From Members
View past KC Digest Newsletters: www.kinshipcircle.org/digest/

PART 1: October KC Digest
1. Extermination Of JFK Airport Cats Begins Today! (10/29)
2. PETITIONS & ONLINE CAMPAIGNS, part 1
3. CHINA: Cruel Animal Olympics Start Again
4. Miami-Dade Police Officer Accused Of Killing K-9 Partner
5. Groundbreaking Effort for Farm Animals Underway in California
6. American Soldier Shoots Yet Another Poor Dog In Iraq?
7. “REACH” To Test 30,000 Chemicals On Millions Of Animals

PART 2: October KC Digest
SENT IN SEPARATE EMAIL
If you did NOT get PART 2, request it: kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
8. PETITIONS & ONLINE CAMPAIGNS, part 2
9. Ensure Vick’s Dogs Are Spared, As Promised
10. Protest Dog Starved To Death For Art Show
11. Best Friends Religious Summit
12. Join The Thankful Turkeys Celebration
13. Help Benevolent Society For Animals In Ghana
14. Seal “Ambassador” Killed By Marine & Coastal Management

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From: In Defense of Animals – takeaction [at] idausa.org
Date: Oct 31, 2007 7:08 PM
Subject: IDA eNews: 10-31-07

Having trouble viewing IDA eNews? View it online.

IDA Action Alerts

IDA Seeks Whistleblowers at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
$2500 reward offered for evidence of animal cruelty at amusement park

Port Authority Exterminating Feral Cats at NY’s JFK Airport
IDA joins coalition to save cats and stop the killing

Rhode Island Woman Severs Stolen Parrot’s Leg
Take Action to urge prison sentence for animal abuser

Campaign News & Updates

Stay In Touch with IDA on Facebook
Networking site promotes friendship and animal advocacy

World GO VEGAN Days Wrap-Up
IDA holds outreach events, awards prize to winner of our e-Card contest

Cold Snap: Tips for Keeping Animals Safe & Warm This Winter
Protect your furry friends from frostbite, hypothermia & other seasonal health hazards

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From: In Defense of Animals – takeaction [at] idausa.org
Date: Nov 1, 2007 11:20 AM
Subject: Writing Alert: Breeding elephants doesn’t protect them

The Pittsburgh Post Gazette printed an opinion piece about the Pittsburgh Zoo’s new elephant breeding facility. Please write a letter to the editor thanking them for publishing the piece and addressing the zoo conservation myth. Send letters to letters [at] post-gazette.com.

Read “Breeding elephants doesn’t protect them” online.

Breeding elephants doesn’t protect them

Zoos like those in Pittsburgh should help preserve the animals’ native habitat instead

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
By Marianne Bessey

During this month’s ground-breaking ceremony at the Pittsburgh zoo’s proposed elephant breeding facility in Somerset Country, lots of lip service was paid to “conservation.” It is without question that elephants, endangered in Asia and threatened in Africa, desperately need help. But will spending millions of dollars on breeding a handful of elephants actually help elephants — or just the zoo’s bottom line?

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Action Alerts

Act for Change: Tell your Senators: Support Senator Dodd, No Retroactive Immunity for Illegal Wiretapping
Will you send a message to your Senators asking them to support Dodd’s stand against amnesty for Bush’s telco cronies?

American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS): Ask Revlon to Join the Leaping Bunny Program
Write to the President and CEO of Revlon, David Kennedy, and politely encourage him to certify Revlon through the Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics’ (CCIC) Leaping Bunny Program.

American Freedom Campaign: Tell your senators to oppose the nomination of Michael Mukasey to be the next attorney general
After the disastrous tenure of Alberto Gonazales, our next attorney general must be committed to upholding the rule of law. Unfortunately, Michael Mukasey has demonstrated that he will place the whims and desires of the executive branch above both domestic and international law.

Campaign for America’s Wilderness: Tell the BLM that Teshekpuk Lake is too precious to drill
After being halted by the courts last year, the BLM is again moving forward with its risky, shortsighted plans to sell leases for oil and gas development in Alaska’s Teshekpuk Lake region.

Democrats.com: Oppose Mukasey: No Waterboarding, No Dictatorship
Mukasey refuses to say that waterboarding is torture because Dick Cheney won’t let him – otherwise he would have to prosecute Cheney and Bush as war criminals . Mukasey also believes the President can ignore FISA and the Constitution and wiretap American citizens without a warrant, which makes the President a Dictator.

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