Action Alerts

Dogs Deserve Better (DDB): Ohio Man To Get Abused Dog Back! Tell Prosecutors To Appeal Decision!
Otis Clark does not deserve to have China back - please help stop this injustice!!

In Defense of Animals (IDA): Veterinarian Charged With Cruelty to Animals
Urge State’s Attorney to Prosecute Woman to the Fullest Extent for Starving Dogs

In Defense of Animals (IDA): Federal Judge Bars Navy Sonar Blasting
Thank Judge Cooper for protecting endangered marine mammals

In Defense of Animals (IDA): Guess? To Stop Selling Fur in 2008
Tell Clothing Retailer You Won’t Buy While Animals Still Die

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Protect Yellowstone and the Greater Rockies
Tell the Bush administration to reject the proposed Desert Rock power plant.

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From: Cathy Liss, Legislative Director - action [at] saplonline.org
Date: Jul 18, 2007 11:34 AM
Subject: SAPL eAlert: SPEAK UP FOR WHALES AND DOLPHINS BEFORE JULY 24

If you are unable to view this eAlert please visit: www.saplonline.org/Alerts/071807.htm

PLEASE HELP PROTECT WHALES AND DOLPHINS FROM DEADLY SONAR

July 18, 2007

We need your help to urge the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce to deny permission to the U.S. Navy to use its dangerous Low Frequency Active (LFA) Sonar systems in the world’s oceans. As you may recall, under a court order and resultant settlement, the Navy is currently only permitted to use this extremely loud active sonar in a limited area of the Pacific Ocean.

Now, the Navy wants to double the number of platforms that use LFA sonar, and to deploy it across vast ocean basins throughout the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea. The NMFS is poised to issue a rulemaking that will allow the Navy to use the LFA as it pleases for the next five years. The NMFS proposal can be downloaded at www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/permits/lfa_proposedrule0707.pdf. The Navy documents can be downloaded at www.surtass-lfa-eis.com.

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From: Kinship Circle - kinshipcircle [at] brick.net
Date: Jun 24, 2007 1:39 AM
Subject: Animals ­ Unseen Collateral Damage

RELIEF GLOBAL / KINSHIP CIRCLE ANIMAL DISASTER RELIEF LIST

KINSHIP CIRCLE COLUMN, 6/24/07
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Columns & Articles: www.kinshipcircle.org/columns_articles/

Animals - War’s Unseen Collateral Damage
By Brenda Shoss, 6/24/07, www.KinshipCircle.org

Kinship Circle’s column runs in The Healthy Planet. Ms. Shoss is also a contributing writer for The Animals Voice, Satya Magazine, VegNews, and other publications. To reprint this column, please request author permission at info [at] kinshipcircle.org

LEFT PHOTO: 8/5/06, network.bestfriends.org/middleeast/news/6547.html
– BETA rescued this little kitten, Louli, from the war zone.

RIGHT PHOTO: 6/4/07, from BETA Team, listmaster [at] betabeirut.com — Car bombs and hand grenades went off in Beirut. The first bomb exploded very close to one of our cat shelters in Ashrafieh area…

War devastates. We grieve for soldiers lost and the involuntary destruction of civilian life. But headlines rarely publicize war’s other collateral damage.

Animals, crimeless and naive, dodge mortars and armored combat vehicles. Their lives explode in a flurry of desertion, starvation, injury and death.

A month into last summer’s Israeli-Hezbollah war, bombs rain over Beirut’s southern suburbs. Israel’s military hopes to defuse Hezbollah’s command post, so Lebanese officials can assert autonomy along the border. Meanwhile, Hezbollah launches rocket strikes inside Haifa and northern Israel.

Helena Hesayne, a Beirut born architect, has little patience for the politics behind battle. Her mission is clear: To rescue animals abandoned in Lebanon’s exodus of one million people. In late July 2006, Hesayne and three others from Beirut For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (BETA) navigate smoldering rubble in a small convertible. Israeli soldiers eye their car full of dog and cat food.

Hesayne displays BETA’s accreditation papers. She has no fear, only stark resolve to retrieve four cats and one puppy seen locked inside a pet shop. “These animals are banging against the glass door, trying to get out. They are without food and water. I don’t know how long,” Hesayne recounts.

The women persuade another storeowner to unlock the pet shop for them. They are without crates, so they ferry animals toward their car under a downpour of bombs. “The entire time, this tiny puppy just licks our faces. It is the most amazing thing,” Hesayne says.

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From: Kinship Circle - kinshipcircle [at] brick.net
Date: Jun 4, 2007 8:40 PM
Subject: [RELIEF GLOBAL] No Ceasefire For Animals In Middle East

KINSHIP CIRCLE ANIMAL DISASTER RELIEF - PERMISSION TO CROSSPOST

6/4/07: [RELIEF GLOBAL] No Ceasefire For Animals (And Rescuers) In Lebanon
PAST NEWSLETTERS: www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/default.html

IN THIS ALERT:

1. Clashes Disrupt BETA; Bomb Explodes By Cat Shelter
2. Ceasefire Hopes Vanish As Fighting Rages In Lebanon
3. Kinship Circle’s Interview With BETA
4. Surviving Against All Odds

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Via the Center for Biological Diversity:

U.S. Military Base in Okinawa Threatens Rare Dugongs

The critically endangered Okinawa dugong is under siege and needs your help.

The U.S. and Japanese governments are planning to destroy the best remaining habitat of a unique and critically endangered marine mammal — the Okinawa dugong. This dugong, a relative of the manatee, is a rare marine mammal that feeds in the seagrass beds and coral reefs of Okinawa’s Henoko Bay. Fewer than 50 individual dugongs remain in an area described by the United Nations Environment Program as “the most important known dugong habitat in Japan.” If the U.S. military proceeds with its Camp Schwab construction plan this exceptional, rare animal will lose the best habitat it has left and begin its last slide toward extinction.

Click here to learn more and take action.

Dugong sighting via Frank Gloystein

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Here’s the TOC from IDA’s 5-02-07 newsletter.

Click on the links to take action, or read the whole newsletter online.

IDA Action Alerts

Endangered Species Act in Danger; Urge your Representative to oppose attempt to weaken law that protects animals

Tell Army to End Rodeo Sponsorship; Taxpayer-supported soldier recruitment gimmick hurts animals

Congress Moves to Protect Horses; House and Senate take action on bills to stop horse slaughter

Campaign News & Updates

IDA’s Guardian of the Month for May - Steve Dauley; San Franciscan integrates animal rescue and recovery into daily life

World Week for Animals in Laboratories a Success; See a photo journal documenting events held around the world

Two Dogs Tortured and Slain in Ohio Shelter; IDA offers reward for information leading to killer’s arrest

An archive of past IDA eNews newsletters is available here.

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PETA’s weekly eNews (4/13/07) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

* Dog Rots Away in Lonely Oklahoma Back Yard

* Texas Prosecutor Refuses Even to Confirm or Deny Charges for Boy Accused of Fatally Shooting Cat

* Tell the U.S. Army to Buck the Rodeo!

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Here’s the TOC from IDA’s 3-28-07 newsletter.

Click on the links to take action, or read the whole newsletter online.

IDA Action Alerts

Alaska Offers Wolf Bounty: $150 Each; State may bring in helicopters to meet predator-control kill goals

Help IDA Save Elephants Ailing in Zoos; Give today to stop the exploitation of Earth’s largest land mammal

Navy Proposes Training Marine Mammals for Undersea Warfare; Enlistment could endanger welfare of dolphins and sea lions

Campaign News & Updates

Victory for the Heber Horses; IDA and others win court battle preventing wild horse roundup in Arizona

IDA Uncovers Horse Starvation Case; Man charged with cruelty after animal found near death

IDA’s Portland Meatout Events Spread Message of Compassion; Free Vegan Starter Kits and food samples open minds and please palettes

An archive of past IDA eNews newsletters is available here.

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From: Kinship Circle - info [at] kinshipcircle.org
Date: Jan 19, 2007 9:31 PM
Subject: Latest Casualty: Soldiers Torment Crippled Dog In Iraq

Kinship Circle Primary - PERMISSION TO CROSS-POST AS WRITTEN
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1/19/07 — Latest Casualty: Soldiers Torment Crippled Dog In Iraq
KINSHIP CIRCLE ACTION CAMPAIGN
www.KinshipCircle.org

SOURCE OF INFORMATION:

Demand Criminal Investigation of U.S. Soldiers Caught on Video Abusing Dog

The Military’s War On Animals

U.S. Department of Defense

VIDEO: Soldiers taunt crippled dog in Iraq

PETITION: U.S. Soldiers Taunt Crippled Dog In Iraq VIDEO

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