Animal Times - Spring 2003 : ACTIONS & UPDATES

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Spay & Neuter, Por Favor

Hispanic celebrities Constance Marie (The George Lopez Show, Selena) and Diego Luna (Y Tu Mama También, Frida) joined forces to lend their talents to PETA’s spay/neuter ad campaign.The concerned stars want to help reach the Hispanic community with the message that animal “birth control” is essential to preventing suffering.

Dime Take Steps to Stop Cruelty at WalkAmerica

In April and May, the March of Dimes, which continues to fund cruel animal tests, will be hosting its annual fundraiser, WalkAmerica, throughout the U.S. Please help PETA organize a peaceful, educational leafleting event at your local walk. PETA is asking donors to earmark their contributions for programs that help save babies’ lives but don’t hurt animals, such as a birth-defect registry.

You Can Help Contact PETA’s Brandi Valladolid today to set up a protest: 757-622-7382, extension 1330; BrandiV@peta.org.

Kids Bite Back!

Help children make a difference for animals by signing them up to get PETA’s kids’ magazine, Grrr! Order a free subscription for your school, club, church, community center or library. Call PETA’s Literature Department at extension 1418 or log onto PETAKids.com for a free copy.

Let’s Streak Again Like We Did Last Summer

Don’t like the idea of panicked bulls breaking legs in the annual “Running of the Bulls” in Pamplona, Spain? Neither did the international group of PETA members who jogged through the city au naturel last year to start their own “tradition”—and help retire one that would have ended decades ago but for tourist curiosity. Join this year’s “Human Race” and convince Pamplona’s mayor to join the cities of Calonge, Tossa de Mar, Vilamacolum and La Vajol, which have outlawed bullfighting and bull runs.

Nude Run

You Can Help Sign up to join us this summer—or bring a whole group—at PamplonaHumanRace.com or call 757-622-7382, extension 1464.We can help with travel arrangements and provide further information.

Ask the mayor of Pamplona to replace the Running of the Bulls with the “Human Race:” Honorable Sra. Dña.Yolanda Barcina Angulo, Alcaldesa-Presidenta,Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Plaza Consistorial, 31001 Pamplona, Spain.

At PETA, Helping Aninmals is a Full-Time Job

If you would like to put your skills to work making a difference for animals, consider joining PETA’s team of committed employees at our international headquarters in the seaside community of Norfolk, Virginia.

PETA is recruiting for a variety of positions. Enjoy the personal satisfaction of working for a cause you believe in.

Submit your résumé and cover letter to PETA today:

PETA
Attn.: Human Resources
501 Front St.
Norfolk, VA 23510
Fax: 757-628-0789

Internship opportunities are also available. For more information, visit PETA.org.

Helping Animals 101—Enroll Now!

"Helping Animals 101,” PETA’s U.S. traveling animal rights classroom, debuts this summer with two days of tips, ideas and advice on how to make the world a more compassionate place.Attendees will learn everything from how to stage a protest to making animal-friendly choices in daily life.

First dates: June 7-8, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; July 26- 27, Las Vegas, Nevada; October 4-5, Birmingham,Alabama.

You Can Help Register early and bring a skeptical friend for half price! For information, contact Sarah Withrow at 757-622-PETA, extension 1586, or e-mail her at SarahW@peta.org. You can also visit HelpingAnimals101.com.

True Blue Friend

NYPD Blue’s Dennis Franz knows that people who are cruel to animals often don’t stop there. They go on to turn their violence against humans. The FBI has found that a history of cruelty to animals routinely appears in records of serial rapists and murderers. A study conducted by Northeastern University found that people who hurt animals are five times as likely to commit violent crimes against humans as those who don’t. The majority of inmates scheduled to be executed for murder at California’s San Quentin penitentiary “practiced” their crimes on animals.

When signing two new cruelty-to-animals statutes into law, Illinois Governor George Ryan remarked, “As a society, we cannot tolerate cruelty towards animals. People inclined to inflict pain and torture upon animals may have a predisposition to violence against both animals and humans.”

To help raise awareness about the link, Dennis has taped a TV spot for PETA, urging viewers to report to authorities anyone seen harming an animal.

You Can Help Go to HelpingAnimals.com or write for our booklet to share with law enforcement. Visit TeachKind.org for information on getting the message into schools.

Victorious!

Here are a few of our recent victories. Thanks to your support, we did the following:

Convinced the Spinners Baseball Club of Lowell, Massachusetts, to cancel all events featuring a traveling zoo.
Generated hundreds of letters to the Reno, Nevada, Convention & Visitors Authority protesting a promoter’s plan to bring a “Running of the Bulls” to Reno. The agency told the promoter,“Not interested.”
Helped the CU Dog Lab Campaign convince the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center to suspend dog vivisections in physiology labs for first-year medical students (up to 36 dogs would have been killed).
Urged the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to reject Miami Seaquarium’s proposal to recapture Keiko the orca from Norwegian waters. NMFS turned down the application.
Refuted claims that a colony of prairie dogs might be endangering the water supply of Lubbock,Texas, helping dissuade the city from poisoning them.
Urged, with the help of “Golden Girl” Bea Arthur, the West Hollywood City Council to adopt a resolution to ban declawing, which passed unanimously.
Convinced the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority not to hire a trapper to kill a colony of beavers and instead to install an exclusion device that prevents beavers from damming the culvert.
Prevailed on Cleburne County, Arkansas, to create an ordinance to prohibit keeping exotic and dangerous animals within county limits after four lions were shot to death near a menagerie.
Convinced Erie, Pennsylvania, officials to pass an ordinance banning farmed animals within city limits because of the filthy conditions in which they were kept.