easyVegan Link Sanctuary, 2008-11-24
November 24th, 2008 9:32 pm by Kelly G.Action Alerts
Center for Biological Diversity: Tell EPA to Regulate Greenhouse Gases Under the Clean Air Act
In response to the landmark Supreme Court ruling Massachusetts v. EPA, a high-profile case brought by the Center and our allies, the Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public input on the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act — a critically important step in solving the climate crisis. The Clean Air Act is one of our country’s most successful environmental laws, with four decades of achievement in reducing harmful air pollution. The Act also provides a highly effective regulatory structure that can be used right away to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, and that makes it crucial to the fight to curb global warming. Please, tell Administrator Johnson and the EPA that you support Clean Air Act regulations for greenhouse gas emissions by editing and sending the letter below. Ask your friends to do the same.
Dawnwatch: Thanksgiving turkey horror video in NY Times, plus Palin video and Newsweek article 11/19-11/22/08
With Thanksgiving coming up on Thursday, it’s no surprise that turkeys are have been in the news over the last week. The most widely circulated story is probably the one in which Sarah Palin, after pardoning a turkey, conducted a fun chatty interview as the other birds were being slaughtered behind her. Of greater import is the New York Times report on shocking undercover video taken recently at a commercial turkey farm.
Friends of Animals (FoA): Contact Green Mountain College in Poultney , Vermont and ask for sanctuary for six “food” pigs
As part of the Farm and Food Project, Green Mountain College in Poultney , Vermont , is planning to kill six pigs—whose flesh will be served to students in the college dining facility. The website for the Farm and Food Project boasts that it is “practicing the solutions” to “soil erosion, global hunger and malnutrition, agricultural pollutants in our drinking water, or climate change.” Raising, killing and commodifying animals is not part of the solution, it’s the problem itself. Friends of Animals is offering to find sanctuary for these six pigs. Please contact Green Mountain College’s farm manager, Kenneth Mulder, and politely request that the pigs lives be spared, and at the same time, suggest that the food project move in a truly progressive and radical direction—towards a plant-based agriculture.
In Defense of Animals (IDA): Fur Free Friday Call-in (and write-in and e-mail-in!) to Amazon.com – Tell Amazon.com To Stop Selling Fur!
Fur Free Friday is almost here and activists everywhere are hunkering down to finalize their plans for the most prolific Fur Free Friday yet! In fact, this year, events are taking place in over 75 cities on every continent besides Antarctica! Hopefully there is an event close enough for you to participate. If not, you can still help fur-bearing animals by asking Amazon.com to stop selling fur today! After receiving nearly 12,000 emails, Amazon.com’s competitor, Zappos.com, recently stopped selling all items with fur and pledged to stay fur-free. Now we need you to help us convince Amazon to follow Zappos’ lead and become fur-free, as so many other retailers – including Nike, Gap, J. Crew, Polo Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, and Forever 21 – have.
National Wildlife Federation (NWF): Sign the Petition — Set the Course for Our Children’s Future.
With a new president on the horizon, we have a renewed opportunity to take our country’s energy economy in a bold new direction that will confront the climate challenge with the clean energy technologies and jobs that will also protect and restore the natural world we leave to our children.
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS): Help Build a Clean Energy Future that Curbs Global Warming
We need to build a clean energy future that will break our dependence on oil, create millions of new jobs, and cut global warming pollution. President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to make clean energy one of his top priorities. But we know from experience that real change doesn’t just happen and we cannot underestimate the power of the oil and coal industries and the legislators who support them. Please urge the new president to propose a plan in the first 100 days of his administration that will Repower, Refuel, and Rebuild America. UCS will also deliver this petition to your members of Congress.
Carnivals
Carnival of the Green #155 @ The Tranquil Parent
Carnival of the Green #154 @ Fake Plastic Fish
Contests
Vegan Soapbox: A Challenge!
Take $10; Go to a convenience store; and Create a vegan meal for one or more persons just with ingredients from the store. Post your meal here! Pictures most welcome. Everyone is a winner, but one will be chosen to win the cookbook of your choice from the Vegan Soapbox Amazon Store.
Newsletters
Best Friends Animal Society: Breeding Bytes, Vol. 6 Number 1, November 2008
A Crash Course in Puppy Mills
Petitions
Thank the BC Government for Supporting the Vancouver Island Marmot!
Repower, Refuel and Rebuild America
Stop the Construction of Dirty Coal Plants
Let Vick PLay for the Humane Society
Upcoming Events
Dogs Deserve Better (DDB): The DDB Holiday Auction Has Begun – Annual Holiday E-bay Auction from November 20 through November 30th
Over 70 Items, from tiny earrings to large pet portraits, iPod, and Kodak Cameras! Start the Bidding…and Remember. Bid High, Bid Often, and Bid, Bid, Bid!
Fur Free Friday, November 28, 2008
Autumn is here, and “fashionistas” everywhere are buying, selling, or writing about fall wardrobes. Don’t forget an essential day in the fall “fashion season” – Fur Free Friday! Join us again this year as we urge shoppers to never buy fur, stores to stop selling fur, and media fashion writers to reveal the truth behind fur.
Buy Nothing Day, November 28, 2008
It’s coming. Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year. Last year, the weekend after Thanksgiving alone, Americans spent nearly 28 BILLION DOLLARS shopping. Stop the madness before it starts by celebrating Buy Nothing Day on Friday, November 28th.
Post Punk Kitchen: 4 Course Dinner For The Doggies – Fri 12/12
It’s on again! Join us at Sweetpea Bakery for a 4 course dinner to benefit Portland’s Family Dogs New Life Shelter, an non-profit no-kill dog shelter for, but not limited to, pups who are at risk of going to doggy heaven before their time.
Farm Sanctuary: A Winter Wonderland for the Animals, December 4, 2008
On Thursday, December 4, 2008, Farm Sanctuary will host a Winter Wonderland for the Animals fundraiser to support our work. I would love to celebrate this event with you, so I’m writing to ask you to be a special supporter of our holiday benefit this year.
Amnesty International’s 2008 Global Write-a-thon, December 5 – 14, 2008
In the days surrounding International Human Rights Day on December 10, tens of thousands of caring people around the world will take part in the world’s largest letter writing event. Please join this worldwide effort. Be a part of the Global Write-a-thon. During last year’s Global Write-a-thon, people in more than 30 countries sent over 150,000 letters, postcards and emails on behalf of prisoners of conscience, human rights defenders, and others at risk. At least three of the prisoners were freed because of your support.
The Humane League of Philadelphia: Holiday Party 2008, Saturday, December 13, 2008
Our biggest event of the year is on the way in just one month, and YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS IT! This year our annual holiday party will feature keynote talks from Bruce Friedrich (VP, PETA) and Heidi Prescott (VP, Humane Society of the US) on how to be a more effective voice for animals. Our special guests in attendance will also include Sarah Speed (PA Director, HSUS); Alka Chandra (Senior Researcher, PETA); Sen. Roy Afflerbach (Director, Humane PA PAC); Stu Bykofsky and Vance Lehmkuhl (Daily News); Rob Teti (Director, Chenoa Manor) and more! This fun, festive, and inspiring event will be taking place on the evening of Saturday December 13 at the Ethical Society Building in Center City Philadelphia.
Miscellaneous
Animal Person: On Gifts for Firefighters
Green is the New Red: Earth Liberation Front Press Office Returns, Issues Warning to Obama
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