RMAD Weekly Announcement - February 27, 2005

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RMAD Blog Spot

RMAD's weekly updates from our Executive Director, Dave Crawford, are now archived on the Blogspot. Check it out at: http://rmadblog.blogspot.com/


Best of Boulder!

It's once again time to vote online in the Colorado Daily's Best of Boulder poll. RMAD activists have twice received the Best Activist Award. RMAD has received the Best Nonprofit Award and the runner-up to that award.

Please vote today! You don't have to live in Boulder.

You'll find the poll at http://www.coloradodaily.com/best_of_boulder/

You'll find these two key categories under the Local People heading.

We humbly recommend RMAD as best nonprofit (enter "RMAD" "Rocky Mountain Animal Defense").

We also recommend Matt and Barb Bear as best activist. Matt and Barb volunteer day in and day out for the animals.

A few other recommendations for friends of RMAD:

Best Hair Salon: Lather

Best Bagel: City Street Bagels

Best Veg Restaurant: Café Prasad

Best Dentist: Ann Birnbaum

Best Independent Business: Chinese Shao-Lin Center

Best Natural Food Store: Boulder Co-Op


Westminster Prairie Dog Petition

During the last couple of years, losses on private and most disturbingly on City owned properties (Academy School, Jeffco Standley Lake School, Windsor Park, Cobblestone Park, Park site at 115th behind Life Fellowship Church, 120th between Federal and Zuni, on the NW corner or 100th & Wadsworth – all areas that support local eagle habitat) have greatly increased. These losses of our local wildlife and wildlife habitat are NOT acceptable.

We believe Open Space should be a safe place for ALL of our native wildlife and have been greatly disturbed at our City’s seeming lack of interest in maintaining or providing protection for these wild residents without a voice. We believe our City has lost touch with the values we want to see represented by our local government.

ALL of these animals, from the majestic bald eagle to the humble prairie dog (a keystone prairie species) are more than a little deserving of our protection. We have placed our trust in our City representatives and feel our interests have not been protected or adequately represented.

We ask for greater protection for our native neighbors, great and small!

If you agree with this, please sign our petition at the petiionsite:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/397862963


RMAD Events:

The RMAD Calendar (http://rmad.org/calendar.html) is full of great events coming up and all summer long! Work parties, fairs, meetings, and more. These events are great ways to get involved with RMAD and helping animals in the Rocky Mountain Region.


Dr. Michael Greger (the Vegan MD)

The Health Project of RMAD will be hosting Dr. Michael Greger He will be speaking at the Boulder Book Store on Wednesday 6 April at 7:30 PM about his new book Carbophobia and he will do
his cancer talk on Thursday 7 April at the West Alameda Vitamin Cottage in Lakewood at 7 PM.

These are quite different talks, so please plan to attend both!


"Living on Burrowed Time" - A Prairie Dog Coalition Event

A Photo Exhibit & Auction
An Earth Day Event Sponsored by the Prairie Dog Coalition

Save the date! April 22, 2005. 7pm-10pm.

Boulder, Colorado
Naropa University - Nalanda Campus - 63rd & Arapahoe

Please join us for our First Annual Fundraising Event!



Other Events:

This section lists events that might be of interest to local Animal Rights supporters. These events may or may not include RMAD people but they are not sponsored or presented by RMAD. Please contact the people listed below for more information.


Sinapu Event, "Wolves & Stewardship in the New West"

Sinapu invites you to join us!

Tuesday, March 1 at 7:00 p.m. in Boulder

Featuring Rob Edward,
Sinapu's Director of Carnivore Restoration
Location: Humane Society of Boulder Valley at 2323 55th Street
This event is sponsored by Sinapu and the Humane Society of Boulder Valley.
(Free & open to the public)


Peaceable Kingdom Screening - THIS Wednesday!

RMAD and other local animal rights groups and farm sanctuaries invites you to a special screening of the award-winning documentary Peaceable Kingdom

Wednesday, March 2nd at 6:30 pm
Denver University
2000 E. Asbury, Sturm Hall - Classroom 451

Followed by panel Q&A session with Mark Reinhardt (Rocky Mountain Animal Defense), Stephen Billig (Vegetarian Nutrition Society of Colorado), Michelle Alley-Grubb (Peaceful Prairie Animal Sanctuary), and Marisa Miller (Vegan Activist w/Global Green Foundation).

Free and open to the public/Free refreshments

Peaceable Kingdom, a 70-minute documentary that is currently showing at film festivals across the country, highlights the struggles of people who have come to a point in their lives where they must follow their conscience, even though it means giving up their livelihood, their community, and all they were raised to believe and do.

It's about a fourth-generation Montana cattle rancher who experiences an epiphany during a health crisis and resolves to devote his life to undoing the damage done by his agribusiness empire. It's about a Michigan beef farmer whose childhood wounds are healed by the unexpected affection of a sanctuary cow. And it's about a young couple who stumble upon a massive injustice hidden away by the factory farming industry, and find they cannot turn away, even though they can only help one animal at a time.

An inspiring story of personal redemption, compassion, healing and hope, Peaceable Kingdom recently received the Ojai Film Festival theme award for "enriching the human spirit through film." The film had its World Premiere at Lincoln Center in Manhattan and has been selling out theaters and receiving standing ovations in major cities where it has been shown.

To learn more about Peaceable Kingdom, visit http://www.tribeofheart.org.

For questions about the event, contact Jennifer Grout at jenimac21@yahoo.com.


SpeakUp!

(From Matt Bear, please contact him for more info)

Hello!

Do you want to become the most effective communicator for your cause that you possibly can? We all do! Whether it's talking to your co-workers, your family, outreach opportunities, the general public, the media, small groups or large groups, we want to help you break free from fear and speak the truth with clarity and conviction.

Next SpeakUp!
Monday March 7, 2005
7pm-9pm
Solstice Institute, Boulder

More info at http://www.TruthSayers.com.
RSVP to mattbear@neaforever.org (only if you'd like to attend).

Thank you!
matt :)

Matt Bear, Director
National Endowment for the Animals
"Helping those who help the animals."
http://www.NEAforever.org
mattbear@NEAforever.org


Compassion Club

(From Matt Bear, please contact him for more info)

Compassion Club will meet again in March, so mark your calendars...

When: Monday March 14 @ 7-9pm
Where: Naropa University Campus www.naropa.edu
Room: Sycamore 8130 http://www.naropa.edu/tour/sycamore.html
Map: http://www.naropa.edu/naropamap.html

For those of you at the last meeting -- this building is right next door.

Compassion Club is a group of Animal Advocates getting together and sharing with each other our troubles and successes in coping with the difficult images, efforts and awareness that come with being activists. The conversation is driven by *you*.

I hope you'll join us not only if you're having troubles or questions, but also if you've got successes and strategies you can share with the rest of us.

Thank you to Chris Jones in the RMAD office for booking the place to meet!

See y'all then!

Best,

matt :)

Matt Bear, Director
National Endowment for the Animals
"Helping those who help the animals."
www.NEAforever.org
mattbear@NEAforever.org

Ongoing:


Shop with www.AnimalRightstuff.com

AnimalRightstuff.com has a wonderful variety of animal rights shirts, stickers, buttons, and all kinds of great stuff to show off your animal friendliness!

Shopping there will also help RMAD, just put "RMAD" in the code when you check out and we'll get a small percentage to help with our animal friendliness!



Other RMAD Efforts

RMAD is involved with many other local Animal Rights and wildlife issues. To learn more about some of our other efforts, please check out these websites:
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