easyVegan Link Sanctuary, 2008-12-10
December 10th, 2008 9:17 pm by Kelly G.Action Alerts
Center for Biological Diversity: Tell Congress to Make Fuel Efficiency Part of the Auto Bailout
Congress is expected to vote any day now on a financial bailout for U.S. automakers Ford, GM, and Chrysler. The first $15 billion are expected to come from a fund set up by Congress last year to encourage investment in fuel-efficiency technologies in the automobile industry. But, with a stunning lack of foresight, the current proposal includes no measures to foster the fuel-efficiency or technology development needed to make the Big Three competitive again in the marketplace.
Defenders of Wildlife: Stop the Death Sentence for Prairie Dogs, Ferrets
Wildlife-friendly ranchers like Larry and Bette Haverfield have worked hard to preserve the American grasslands that they own and lease. That’s why they volunteered their land for the reintroduction of the once-thought-to-be-extinct black-footed ferret. But last week, commissioners in Logan County, Kansas put the ranchers on notice: forced prairie dog poisonings could happen as early as this Monday, December 15th — a move that would destroy the state’s largest prairie dog town and effectively end black-footed ferret recovery in the state.
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Stop Bush’s Giveaway of America’s Redrock Wilderness
Tell the Bush Administration to cancel the December 19 auction of Utah’s Redrock wilderness to oil and gas speculators. These natural treasures belong to the American people in perpetuity. They are not Bush and Cheney’s to give away. Once the drilling begins, this majestic wilderness can never be restored. Please send your message opposing this disastrous plan.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Tell Ross University to Stop Cutting Up Healthy Animals!
Many other veterinary schools around the world—including St. Matthew’s University on St. Kitts’ neighboring Grand Cayman Island—train students without forcing them to perform harmful, invasive, or terminal surgeries on healthy animals. In the U.K., killing healthy animals for veterinary surgical training is illegal. The law in St. Kitts forbids causing the “unnecessary suffering” of animals, yet at Ross University, healthy animals are needlessly suffering from invasive procedures. Your help is urgently needed. Please send a letter to St. Kitts, DeVry, and Ross University officials demanding that they take immediate action to help animals who are being cut open at Ross University.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Exposed: Pigs Are Dying Aboard U.S. Military-Bound Cargo Ships
Recently, PETA exposed outdated trauma training exercises in which pigs were shot, mutilated, and killed at Schofield Barracks Army Base in Hawaii. Now we have learned from government documents how some of these pigs may suffer and die on barren and crowded cargo ships during their more than 2,000-mile, five-day ocean journey to Hawaii. Please send a polite e-mail to Schofield Barracks Army Base, Matson, Alexander & Baldwin, and DMI. Insist that they stop importing pigs to Hawaii where many are used for trauma training exercises.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Keep Sugar Gliders From Being Sold Like Trinkets
The Country Christmas Western Gift Expo is being held at the Las Vegas Sands Expo and Convention Center December 4 to 14. One exhibitor is selling sugar gliders and promoting them as great Christmas gifts. Sugar gliders do not make good pets. Please use the form below to write a short note to the organizers of this event and the hosting facility asking them to eliminate any booths offering live animals for sale.
The Sierra Club: Ask Obama to Adopt The Day One Clean Energy Agenda
There are four decisions the President-elect can make on Day One of his new administration, independently of Congress, that will have an immediate impact on cutting global warming pollution and spurring a clean energy economy. We’re calling these four The Day One Clean Energy Agenda and we need your help to make these four issues a priority by contacting President-Elect Obama today.
The Sierra Club: Support a Green Stimulus Package
It is time to jumpstart America’s clean energy economy. Investments in transforming our energy infrastructure, updating clean water infrastructure, boosting transit funding, and training our workforce will yield significant economic growth and job creation. In fact, “green” investments, on average, create twice as many jobs per dollar invested than traditional fossil fuel-based generating technologies.
The Sierra Club: Rebuild a Clean, Efficient Auto Industry
The auto industry has the potential to become the cornerstone of a clean energy economy; now Congress must give them a push in the right direction. After decades of producing gas-guzzlers it is clearly time for a change. It’s critical that any financial assistance to automakers not only puts people back to work, but put them back to work building more fuel efficient vehicles and ends automaker lawsuits against vehicle emission standards.
Campaign Updates
Best Friends: BREAKING NEWS: Iconic Pet Store shuts its doors for good!
Yesterday, the upscale Beverly Center Mall in Los Angeles announced it will terminate the lease of the Hollywood pet store institution, Pet Love. Since last July, Best Friends staff and members like you have been at the Beverly Center educating potential customers that those cute puppies at Pet Love really come from cruel puppy mills.
Ecological Internet / Forests.org: RELEASE: Oregon’s Governor Stymies Bush’s “Midnight” Forest Raid
President Obama now has chance to protect America’s forest legacy, and allow Oregon and the nation’s overworked forest biodiversity and carbon stores to recover ecologically: President Bush’s anti-forest crusade stopped in Oregon (Seattle, WA) — Ecological Internet (EI) welcomes Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski’s decision to block Bush administration plans to sharply increase logging on 2.2 million acres of BLM forests in Western Oregon. Kulongoski concluded that President Bush’s hastily arrived at logging plan did not conform to federal environmental laws such as the Endangered Species Act, and failed to protect and restore mature forests to sequester carbon. It would have locked in Bush’s anti-environment, industrial forestry model for decades.
Newsletters
The Sierra Club: Club Currents, Volume VI, #141, Dec 9, 2008
Rebuild a Clean, Efficient Auto Industry
The Sierra Club: Club Insider, December 9, 2008
Our Best Tips for Holiday Savings
United Animal Nations (UAN): eJournal, VOLUME 4 :: NO. 12 :: December 2008
Cat meets dog — see our photo contest winners
Vegan Outreach: E-Newsletter, Dec. 10, 2008
Three Weeks Left to Save Twice as Many Animals
VegCooking.com: Recipe of the Week, December 10, 2008
Carrot Cake
Woodstock FAS: eNewsletter, December 10, 2008
Woodstock Sanctuary: Great Gifts
Petitions
Save the Honduran Emerald Hummingbird from Extinction
Force Austin’s Leaders to Invest in Green Energy
Vancouver Restaurants and Food Service Industries: Call to Stop Using Polystyrene
Upcoming Events
Farm Sanctuary: Online Holiday Auction, December 2-16 2008
Consider doing your Holiday Shopping ONLINE where you can bid now on fantastic items like: A Yoga Class with Russell Simmons; Backstage Tickets to see Shawn Colvin; Lunch with the Legendary Alice Walker ; or a 1-Week Stay at the Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach! Not only will you find the most unique gifts for your loved ones, you will be 100% supporting the animals of Farm Sanctuary! Please consider bidding on one of these unique items now.
Snow Leopard Trust: Online Art Auction, December 4-13, 2008
The Snow Leopard Trust’s first online art auction has started! Our artist partners: painters, photographers, sculptors and more contributed their unique works to help us raise funds and awareness this holiday season. The auction will end at midnight PST on December 13th, so be sure to get your bids in before it’s too late. Browse the amazing artwork for sale at www.snowleopardauction.org, and don’t forget to tell friends to make their bids too!
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.
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.
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.
The Gentle Barn: Winter Wonderland, Sunday, December 14, 2008
On December 14th from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. we are hosting our second annual Winter Wonderland, complete with real snow for sledding, hot apple cider, live music, delicious food, an xmas tree to decorate, candles to light, and a silent auction where you can purchase all your holiday gifts. Adults get in for a $20 donation and children, ages 12 and under, get in for a $10 donation.
In Defense of Animals (IDA): The 1st Annual Nationwide “Adopt, Don’t Shop!” Day, December 20, 2008
The Saturday before Christmas is the biggest puppy-buying day of the year. This year, In Defense of Animals is teaming up with activists in dozens of cities around the country to educate the public about the horrors of pet factories (puppy mills) and encourage people to adopt a homeless animal from a shelter or rescue group instead of buying one from a pet store.
Born Free USA: National Bird Day, January 5, 2009
Born Free USA united with Animal Protection Institute in coordination with the Avian Welfare Coalition (AWC) is calling on activists around the U.S. to take action on behalf of captive birds by drawing attention to the exploitation of other countries’ native birds by the U.S. pet industry on January 5 — National Bird Day.
Miscellaneous
Alliance for Climate Protection: This is Reality
I Blame the Patriarchy: Spinster aunt likes deer
The Washington Times: Feingold urges Obama to reverse Bush measures
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