Special
Events
Please
join us!!!!
Contact
us if your group has other events you'd like publicized.
Note - these are specific events. As always, we have perpetual
need for assistance with letter-writing campaigns, fund-raising,
working on sponsors and promotions for the wildlife conference
we hope to have in Chester County on the fall, enhancing our
photo exhibit, office work, etc. Any help, any time is appreciated. Write to this email address
or info@mobilizationforanimals.org,
or call 215-727-2762.
We are also looking for Earth Day events in which to participate,
send information if you know of one near you!
A
Spring yard-sale/fundraiser will be held in front of the office,
date to be announced. Items in saleable shape (no clothing) are
needed.
More
volunteer meetings and a spring volunteer picnic/ “thank-you” get
together is in the works, stay tuned for details!
Ringling
Bros. Circus will be in Philadelphia soon,
and the animals need YOU to show up for them!!
Demonstrations are planned for every evening and weekend show. Our goal is
make circusgoers aware, in a nonconfrontational and educational
way, of the animal suffering Ringling Bros. causes. Among other
things, we will have volunteers depicting life as a Ringling
Bros. animal - here is your big chance to be a tiger or an
elephant (costumes provided)!
At every
demonstration, you will be supplied with literature containing
information detailing animal cruelty under the big top and
DVDs containing graphic undercover footage depicting the violent
training endured by animals enslaved in the circus. We
will also have plenty of signs and banners for you to choose
from if you prefer to avoid direct interaction with circusgoers
- just standing and holding a sign is very effective.
Please
review the demonstration schedule below. This is your chance
to show up for these animals who have no choice, please don't
let them down!
Wed,
April 16 6:00 -7:00 PM
Thu, April 17 6:00 - 7:00 PM
Fri, April 18 6:00 - 7:00 PM
Sat, April 19 10:00 to 11:00 AM, 2:00 -
3:00 PM, and 6:00 - 7:00 PM
Sun, April 20 12:00 to 1:00 PM and 4:00 to
5:00 PM
Wed, April 23 6:00 to 7:00 PM
Thu, April 24 6:00 to
7:00 PM
Fri, April 25 6:00 to 7:00 PM
Sat, April 26 10:00 to
11:00 am, 2:00 to 3:00 PM, and 6:00 to 7:00 PM
Sun, April 27 12:00
to 1:00 PM, and 4:00 to 5:00 PM
Saturday,
April 12th
Bird Paradise
551 E Rt 130 South
Burlington , NJ
Educate
the public about the horrible lives experienced by birds who are
bred and transported so they can be sold for profit and spend the
rest of their lives confined in tiny cages. Join us for a demo
at Bird Paradise in NJ. More details to come, email Rachel (justroar@comcast,net)
Jenny (mfajenny2@yahoo.com)
if interested.
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April
15th
Tax
day - many people at the post offices! Get them on the way
out, not the way in!
April 22nd
Pennsylvania Primary - great place to get people
who are registered to vote. Right now we are planning on Norristown,
East Goshen and some other hot-spots in Montgomery and Chester
County.
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April 24th
FARM
SANCTUARY PRESIDENT TO
APPEAR AT READING AND BOOK-SIGNING
Contact: Lydia Chaudhry; lydiachaudhry@gmail.com;
610.570.3858
WHAT: Reading and book signing
WHERE: Chester County Book Company, 975 Paoli Pike; West Chester,
PA
WHEN: April 24th, 7pm
ETC: Free and Open to the Public. Coffee and light vegan fare will
be available.
West
Chester, PA: Gene Baur, President of Farm Animal
Sanctuary, the nation’s leading farm animal protection
organization will be at Chester County Book Company on April
24th at 7 pm. Gene will speak and read from his new book, “Farm
Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food”.
In his book,
Gene addresses the ethical issues involved in the production
of beef, poultry, pork, milk and eggs – and
what each of us can do to stop the mistreatment of farm animals
and promote compassion. Agribusiness is an influential player
in state and federal legislative bodies and has successfully
advanced policies to exempt farm animals from basic humane protections. Factory
farms take advantage of preferential consideration in lax environmental,
health and labor laws, and obtain billions of dollars in government
support. Our cheap food system is actually very costly.
This
event is being co-sponsored by CARE (Compassion for Animals,
Respect for the Environment), a West Chester based group dedicated
to promoting ethical veganism.
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Saturday
April 26th:
"An Afternoon for the Farm Animals"
1-4pm Newark , DE
"Farm Animals Have Feelings Too!"
All FREE and Open
to the Public
University of Delaware , Newark
A Talk on Factory Farming: Its Affects on Animals, your Health, and the
Environment
Room Kirkbride 100 (KRB100) - Right across the road from Trabant Center 1:00pm
- 2:30pm
After the talk, take a peaceful short walk down Main Street in Newark to honor
the farm animals.
Walk will conclude at 3:00pm at Newark Natural Foods
Co-op, where a Vegetarian Festival will
be held. Free samples of delicious vegetarian food, Veggie Starter
kits, and free Veggie recipes. All are warmly invited!
For more info, go to www.da4a.org
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Saturday,
May 3rd
Mt. Airy Day
As usual, we will have an information
table and flea market items set up at this very well attended
community event. Set-up, tabling and clean-up help needed
for the full day. Please sign up for a shift!
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Wellness
Fairs - great opportunity for vegan
outreach. Help needed to create and organize displays and materials
for these events, and to set up and handle the tables:
Saturday,
May 17 - Wellness Fair at Kimberton Whole Foods (Downingtown)
May 17, from 10am to 3pm. Set-up by 9:30 a.m. Store will open
for set-up at 6:30 am. We will have 8' x 8' available to display
information, as well as movies about animals. We can also sell
things (suggestions welcome - no food since they’ll have
their own) and take donations.
There will be over 100 other vendors at this event as well as
lectures, cooking
demos and live music. Unfortunately, the Philadelphia Zoo will
be there
with live animals. WE’LL NEED to have some educational
info such as “Zoo Checker” available. The contact
person is Greg, Store Manager, 610-873-8225. Call him if you
or your group wants to set up a table.
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Action Alerts
Support Bill to Stop Cruel
Pigeon Shoots
Among our many barnyard residents, Farm Sanctuary is home to
several dozen pigeons - refugees from the cruel pigeon
shoots held in some parts of rural Pennsylvania. Thankfully
legislation in Pennsylvania is now under consideration to stop
this cruel “sport.” If passed, H.B.2130 and S.B.1150 will
stop people from using live animals, including pigeons, as
target practice. We need you to contact
your legislators today to urge passage of this
bill.
Outreach
for League of Humane Voters (LOHV) Help us get out
there and sign people up. We are looking for people who want
to be informed about pending humane legislation, as well
as candidates who are most likely to support them (or not).
As a 501(C)(3), we cannot endorse candidates or lobby for
legislation, but LOHV can, and as individuals we can get
out there and find others who want more positive actions
for animals on the political front. If you have any time
available on either of these Tuesdays (PA Primary Day, April
22nd) will be more important), please pick a post office
or polling location and LOHV will get you sign-up sheets
to take with you. Contact LOHV Philadelphia via their website: http://www.lohvphilly.org
At
various times during the fall and winter hunting seasons, MFA
and NOA (Non-Lethal Options for Animals) will be patrolling
at Bunny’s Wildlife Refuge to keep hunters
off of this 10-acre sanctuary. More details to follow soon.
Mobilization for Animals PA and PETA
(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) have joined hands to fight against the City of Philadelphia's use of rat poison in center city parks. The campaign has included this bill board on 19th and Cherry Streets. Hundreds of animals-small mammals and birds-have cruelly died while pets and children have been put at risk from the highly toxic pesticides. Dogs have been sickened and dead squirrels have tested positive for rat poison. Almost all of the squirrels in Rittenhouse Square have died. A complaint was filed with the regulatory agency, the PA Department of Agriculture, which subsequently levied civil penalties against the city for the misuse of the rat poison. The city is currently appealing the penalty and still using rat poison in the parks.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Contact Mayor Street and Councilmen DiCiccio (Washington Sq. area) and Clarke (Rittenhouse Sq. area) to demand that rat poison be banned in city parks like Rittenhouse and Washington Squares. Tell them that the PA Dept of Agriculture has determined that it is a dangerous toxin not intended for use in parks or forests where wildlife, pets and children can die or be sickened from exposure to the poison.
To find out who your City Councilperson is go to:. http://www.hallwatch.org/faxbank/
philadelphia. For non-residents address you letter as "City Councilpersons at Large".
Contact Information
Mayor John F. Street
Room 215, City Hall, Phila., PA 19107
Phone: 215-686-2181 Fax: 215-686-2180
Councilman Frank Dicicco
Room 332, City Hall, Phila., PA 19107
Phone: 215-686-3458 Fax: 215-686-1931
Councilman Darrell Clarke
Room 484, City Hall, Phila., PA 19107
Phone: 215-686-3442 Fax: 215-686-1901
Council-at-large
Councilman David Cohen
Room 588, City Hall, Phila., PA 19107
Phone: 215-686-3446 Fax: 215-686-1927
Councilman Wilson Goode, Jr.
Room 316, City Hall, Phila., PA 19107
Phone: 215-686-3414 Fax: 215-686-1928
Councilman Jack Kelly
Room 594, City Hall, Phila., PA 19107
Phone: 215-686-3452 Fax: 215-686-1925
Councilman James Kenney
Room 330, City Hall, Phila., PA 19107
Phone: 215-686-3450 Fax: 215-686-2013
Councilman Juan Ramos
Room 592, City Hall, Phila., PA 19107
Phone: 215-686-3420 Fax: 215-686-1930
Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown
Room 580, City Hall, Phila., PA 19107
Phone: 215-686-3438 Fax: 215-686-1926
Councilman Frank Rizzo, Jr.
Room 582, City Hall, Phila., PA 19107
Phone: 215-686-3440 Fax: 215-686-1929
For
a "What You Can Do" Package
of informaion, call 1-866-6ANIMAL
(1-866-626-4625) or email Barb Riebman.
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