RMAD Weekly Announcement - March 7, 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!

 


Fur Demo This Saturday — Please Join Us

Each year traps in the United States injure and kill millions of nontarget animals, including domestic dogs and cats. For more on this story, visit http://www.infurmation.com/crimescene/acciden.htm.

Please be their voice!

What: Fur Demo
When: Saturday, March 12, 2005
Time: 11:30 - 1:30
Where: Marks Lloyds Furs, Josephine; between 2nd and 3rd in Cherry Creek
Directions: From I-25 take Speer South to University. Turn left (North, see Whole Foods Market on your right after you turn on to University). University turns into Josephine after you cross 2nd. Marks Lloyds will be on your left just before 3rd. Don't forget to buy a parking ticket to place on your dashboard from one of the green parking boxes marked with a (P) that are located on each block. Call 303-807-1886 the day of the demo if you need directions.

Number of animals used to make an average length fur coat
Bobcats 15
Chinchillas 100
Ermine 125
Lynx 11
Otters 14
Raccoons 27
Ranch Minks 35
Red Fox 18
Rex Rabbits 30
Sables 40
Silver Fox 11


See http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=fur_farm&int=breaking_enews.

From: ElizabethA@peta.org

Dear Animal Friends,

When undercover investigators made their way onto Chinese fur farms recently, they found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal's leg, the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut.

The globalization of the fur trade has made it impossible to know where fur products come from. Skins move through international auction houses and are purchased and distributed to manufacturers around the world, and finished goods are often exported. China supplies more than half of the finished fur garments imported for sale in the United States. Even if a fur garment's label says it was made in a European country, the animals were likely raised and slaughtered elsewhere possibly on an unregulated Chinese fur farm.

Please take a few moments to view the video footage at http://www.furisdead.com/feat/ChineseFurFarms/.

Publications everywhere have been printing articles about the so-called revival of fur. If you find articles in your local publications about fur, please keep this new information in mind and take a few minutes to speak out against this atrocious industry.

Thank you all for your hard work and efforts to help animals.

Sincerely,

Liz Abbott
PETA
Join our Activist Network and find out about local protests you can attend - http://www.animalactivist.com/actjoin.asp!



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.



Peaceable Kingdom Screening: March 8, 9, 11 in Durango

   

"Peaceable Kingdom is a masterpiece."
—Dr. Jane Goodall, U.N. Messenger of Peace

Peaceable Kingdom at the
Durango Film Festival

followed by Q&A
with filmmakers
(Tues & Weds screenings only)

Tues, March 8, 9:30 pm
Weds, March 9, 11:30 am
Fri, March 11, 4:30 pm


Jenny Stein and
James LaVeck
Director & Producer

 

Durango Arts Center
802 East 2nd Avenue
Durango, Colorado

Tickets: $8, cash only
(Under 18 & Students w/valid ID: $5)

About the film
Audience Response
Fest Tour 2005
HeartBeat E-Magazine 

           

You are invited to come see an unforgettable documentary filled with life-changing stories of courage and personal transformation...

Please join us for the Durango Film Festival screenings of Peaceable Kingdom, followed by a discussion with award-winning filmmakers Jenny Stein and James LaVeck. Stein and LaVeck are the founders of Tribe of Heart, a non-profit organization that produces films celebrating the human potential to respond to injustice with creativity and non-violence. Their first film, The Witness, was a film festival favorite, receiving ten awards, including six for Best Documentary.

Peaceable Kingdom is a 70-minute documentary highlighting 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. 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 family farmer whose childhood wounds are healed by the unexpected affection of a rescued cow at a sanctuary. 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 had its World Premiere at Lincoln Center in Manhattan and has been selling out theatres and receiving standing ovations in major cities where it has been shown. Recently, Peaceable Kingdom received the Ojai Film Festival theme award for "enriching the human spirit through film."

"What viewers are saying about
Peaceable Kingdom:

I really felt at the end of the film that I was part of something very revolutionary and bigger than me.

It was one of the most moving experiences of my life.

Never before has a film made such an impact on my thoughts, dreams and feelings in the days following its viewing.

Most important film I have ever seen. I will no longer live my life the same way... thank you.

The movie truly touched my heart, the deepest place of my heart.

This is the most powerful film I’ve seen and I am so grateful that it got created. Thank you!

I really hope this film is shown everywhere to everyone.

"Peaceable Kingdom is striking a chord," says Producer James LaVeck, "because it is about everyday people reclaiming their dignity and their innocence by challenging a blatant injustice. In a world that is drowning in cynicism and violence, it speaks to the potential for goodness in each of us."

 

Peaceable Kingdom
Tues, March 8, 9:30 PM
Weds, March 9, 11:30 AM
Fri, March 11, 4:30 PM

Durango Arts Center
802 East 2nd Avenue
Durango, CO
Map of Festival Venues

TICKETS: $8, cash only
(Under 18 & Students w/valid ID: $5) Ticket Details

'Sopranos' star Edie Falco attended the World Premiere of Peaceable Kingdom, as did TV journalist Bill Moyers, several members of the U.S. Congress, and musical artist Moby, who donated one of his popular songs to be used in the film.

“Peaceable Kingdom offers a compelling and insightful look into the cruel treatment inflicted upon animals on modern ‘factory’ farms balanced with a message of hope and inspiration about the ability of individual citizens to make the world a better place for some of its most vulnerable inhabitants.”

—U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, who attended the Manhattan premiere

Help us Publicize this Event!
If you live in the Durango area, you can help us by distributing flyers and handbills around town. Please contact Diana Goodrich, Tribe of Heart's Outreach Coordinator, (607) 275-0806 x115.

Tribe of Heart is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that produces and distributes award-winning documentaries about ordinary people making an extraordinary difference for others. Click here to subscribe to our quarterly e-newsletter, HeartBeat.


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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Take only a short minute to join EcoISP and you'll personally help RMAD stop wildlife poisonings, farm animal suffering, and domestic animal abuse. Go to http://www.ecoisp.com/rmad and learn how you can make a difference.


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