Action Alerts

Organic Consumers Association: Restore Freedom of Speech for Farm Workers and Animal Rights Activists! Repeal the AETA!
It’s time to repeal AETA. Please personalize the letter below and use our one-click action alert system to send it to your Senators and Congressperson. You may have a few choice words for your representatives if they are on the following list of AETA cosponsors.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Demand a Permanent Halt to Dolphin Slaughter in Japan!
Please join us in urging the Japanese government to permanently stop the cruel and unnecessary dolphin slaughter.

Public Citizen: No NAFTA Trucks on our Highways!
The administration is continuing its push to expand the NAFTA trucking program — the controversial “pilot program” giving Mexico-based trucking companies full access to U.S. roads, without adequate measures to ensure public safety. President Bush is continuing this program even though he signed a bill into law cutting off all funding for it.

Campaign Updates, Press Releases, etc.

Oil Change International: Follow the Oil Money
Follow the Oil Money is an interactive tool that tracks the flow of oil money in US politics. Click on one of the search tools on the right to find out which companies are pumping their dirty oil money into politics, who is receiving it, and how it correlates to key climate, energy and war votes.

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From: Kinship Circle – kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:03 AM
Subject: Homes & Help Needed For Flood Survivors

KINSHIP CIRCLE ANIMAL DISASTER AID NETWORK – PERMISSION TO CROSS-POST
Networking resources for animal disaster victims + companion animal campaigns

RELIEF GLOBAL * www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters
3/22/08: Missouri Floods – Homes & Help Needed For Animal Survivors

IN THIS ALERT:

1. UPDATE: Piedmont, Missouri Flood Disaster
2. Foster Or Adopt A Feline Flood Survivor!
3. Illinois Shelter Faces Rising Floodwaters

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From: Kinship Circle – kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Subject: Cat Cleanup In China, Death-Style

KINSHIP CIRCLE PRIMARY – PERMISSION TO CROSS-POST AS WRITTEN

Be counted. Send a letter.
3/22/08: Cat Cleanup In China, Death-Style

www.KinshipCircle.org

EMAIL kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net FOR WORD DOC OF A FORMATTED LETTER.
Easily modify letter and copy/paste it into an email or print out to fax or mail.

A cat begs mercy from her captor… Terrified cats crammed tightly into cages are hauled off to a meat market in Guangzhou.

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From: Kinship Circle – kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:49 PM
Subject: [GULF COAST] Your Last Hard Day Was Yesterday

KINSHIP CIRCLE ANIMAL DISASTER RELIEF – PERMISSION TO CROSS-POST
Networking resources for animal disaster victims + companion animal campaigns

GULF COAST
3/21/08: Your Last Hard Day Was Yesterday

www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/

IN MARCH GULF COAST NEWSLETTER:

1. Tour For Life 2008: April 9, At SAF In New Orleans!
2. March 29-30: SpayMart Super Adoptathon In NOLA
3. Feedback: Missouri Floodwaters Rising
4. Highlights & Updates
5. Dear Sabrina, Your Last Hard Day Was Yesterday
6. A Second Chance For St. Bernard Parish Animals
7. A Nursing Mom’s Tragedy & The Power To Act
8. Certification As A First Responder For Animals

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Action Alerts

Ecological Internet / EcoEarth.Info: South Korea’s Proposed “Grand Canal”, to Link Major Rivers, a Grand Ecological Disaster
South Korea must be convinced not to sacrifice its natural river ecosystems for a cross-country concrete canal that will severely damage the nation’s water security.

Rainforest Action Network (RAN): Will ADM Sign the Rainforest Pledge?
Last week, the Rainforest Agribusiness campaign and children from around the world asked Patricia Woertz, the CEO of ADM, to sign a pledge to stop cutting down rainforests for biofuels. She refused. Watch the video and then ask Patricia Woertz to stop destroying rainforests!

World Wildlife Fund (WWF): Thank Some Cool Companies
All activists: Sign our petition to thank businesses that are taking ground-breaking actions to curb global warming.

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From: Drew Bush
Date: Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:11 AM
Subject: 26 Conservation Groups Send Letter Denouncing Bush Administration’s Rush To Develop Oil Shale And Tar Sands At Expense of Local Communities, Wild Lands

Sent By The Wilderness Society

For Immediate Release: March 20, 2008

Contacts:

Steve Smith, 303/650-5818 x106, steve_smith [at] tws.org
Chase Huntley, 202/429-7431, chase_huntley [at] tws.org
David Alberswerth, 202/429-2695, david_alberswerth [at] tws.org
Drew Bush, 202/429-7441, drew_bush [at] tws.org

BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S RUSH TO DEVELOP OIL SHALE AND TAR SANDS ENDANGERS LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND WILD LANDS IN COLORADO, UTAH, AND WYOMING

–26 Conservation, Citizen, Local Government and Recreation Groups Denounce Lease Plan That Could Affect 2 Million Acres of Public Lands

(Washington, D.C.)—Thousands of local residents and more than 2 million acres of wild public lands such as western Colorado’s Piceance Basin and Utah’s San Rafael Swell will experience fouled water, disrupted wildlife, polluted air and damaged habitat if the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) hurtles forward with a plan to open these lands to oil shale and tar sands development, according to a letter submitted to the BLM today by a diverse coalition of conservationists, citizens, local governments and recreation enthusiasts.

“Based on the BLM’s analysis, local lives and livelihoods would be irreparably affected by commercial development activities involving oil shale or tar sands resources,” the letter states. “A wide range of environmental values, including clean air, clean water, climate, recreation, water supply, and wildlife habitat” would also see adverse impacts, according to the letter.

Oil shale is a rock that yields an oil-like substance when heated to extreme temperatures, and tar sands contain extremely heavy oil mixed with sand and clay. While tar sands are present only in Utah, oil shale is present in all three states.

New technologies for the safe commercial exploration of oil shale are at least a decade away, according to industry experts. Despite the need for additional years of research, the Bush Administration’s BLM is rushing before it leaves office to complete public comment on a draft environmental impact statement that could pave the way for commercial–scale leasing. The BLM is taking this step even while it manages a robust research and development program meant to overcome significant technological obstacles posed by the commercial development of oil shale and tar sands.

“The BLM is putting their socks on over their shoes,” said Steve Smith, The Wilderness Society’s assistant regional director for Colorado and Utah. “This move toward commercial leasing would likely lead to the imprudent transfer of tens of thousands of acres of federal lands to international oil companies and oil shale speculators. Oil shale development in its current form has devastating impacts on the land and the people who live nearby.”

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And since Dr. Stephen Colbert, DFA is just as refreshing as the wet stuff (and also due in no small part to the crazy amount of yard work I have to do today), I’ll let him give you the lowdown on WWD. Here are all five segments of Thursday’s Colbert Report Special ReporT, “Watershift Down: Getting the Sea Monkey off America’s Aqua-Back.”

If you’d like to learn more about World Water Day (this year’s theme: Sanitation), check out www.worldwaterday.org and www.worldwaterday.net. Also, you can read more about the awesome Dean Kamen here. (If you only watch one clip, make it Stephen’s interview with Dean, which is the fourth one down below.)

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Action Alerts

Born Free USA / The Animal Protection Institute (API): Huge Opportunity in U.S. Congress to Protect Bears and Primates
Your Representative needs to hear from you immediately, urging him or her to cosponsor H.R. 3029, the Bear Protection Act, and H.R. 2964, the Captive Primate Safety Act.

Born Free USA / The Animal Protection Institute (API): Tell Subaru You Oppose Its Use of Chimpanzees in Commercials
Please work with us to put an end to Subaru’s use of nonhuman primates in its advertisements. Take a moment today to let the company’s president know that you do not agree with Subaru’s use of chimpanzees and other wild animals for entertainment and profit.

DawnWatch: Important animal testing stories in American Spectator and Baltimore Sun 3/19 – 3/20/08
On Wednesday, March 19, The American Spectator Online included a heartening piece about the move away from animal testing. And today’s, Thursday, March 20, Baltimore Sun includes an op-ed urging the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to get with the times and dump its live animal labs.

Defenders of Wildlife: Oppose the Yukon Flats Land Swindle
Since the Bush/Cheney Administration knows it can’t simply allow drilling on a Wildlife Refuge, it is attempting to trade large areas of Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge to make oil and gas development in the area easier. Under this cynical proposal, Doyon, Ltd. would get over 200,000 acres of pristine wildlife habitat and subsurface rights for oil and gas exploration and development land and mineral rights that are currently part of Yukon Flats wildlife refuge.

Environmental Defense: Help Promote a New Energy Future Today
Urge your legislators to help propel us into this new energy future by supporting a national cap on global warming pollution this year.

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From: Kinship Circle – kinshipcircle [at] accessus.net
Date: Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Subject: Animal Shelter Underwater! Piedmont, MO

KINSHIP CIRCLE ANIMAL DISASTER RELIEF – PERMISSION TO CROSS-POST

www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/

RELIEF GLOBAL
3/18/08: Animal Control (& Town) Underwater! Piedmont, MO

IN THIS ALERT:

1. PIEDMONT ANIMAL CONTROL UNDERWATER – EMERGENCY
2. Piedmont, Missouri Evacuated for Flooding
3. Animals Saved From Floods At Southern IL Shelter

Kinship Circle has just learned tonight (3/18) that the town of Piedmont, in rural Missouri, has evacuated due to severe flash flooding. We are posting as much information as we have at this time and will follow-up with more verified facts as they become available.

We know, but have not yet confirmed:

* The town’s animal control is underwater, animals evacuated. Some died in floodwaters.
* Stray Rescue St. Louis (active in Katrina rescue) appears to be headed to Piedmont.
* It has rained nonstop 48+ hours and other Missouri/Illinois shelters may need help.

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Since I posted about the Iraq War over on my other blog today (blogging it over there so we don’t have to blog it over here; and oh yeah, today is Shock & Awe’s 5-year anniversary, donthcha know?), I wasn’t planning on a second post for you guys and gals. Then I saw that Elaine (of Elaine Vigneault fame) blogged about war’s toll on non-human animals, specifically pointing to Kinship Circle’s Animals: War’s Unseen Collateral Damage factsheet, a thumbnail of which I often come across as I crosspost most of KC’s email alerts.

You can read the entire two-page factsheet (and download a high-res copy) here. Please do, and forward a it on to your friends and family as well. It’s important that we remember the human and non-human victims of dubya’s War on Terror war on terra, today and always.

And if you need an lol, check out my anniversary post at Smite Me!: Shocked and Awed and LOLed WTFed all over. And then check out some of the actions you can take to help end dubya’s war. Or at least let him know how naughty he’s been. Not that her cares either way, but still.

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