ANIMAL RIGHTS

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955.

October 17, 2005
Monetary Donations for Grassroots Gulf Coast Animal Rescue Efforts - PLEASE HELP

If you or someone you know can’t go to the Gulf Coast to assist with animal rescue on the ground but wants to make a monetary donation please select from any of the AMAZING groups below...They NEED your help!!

Hopeful Haven Equine Rescue
P.O. Box 17763; Shreveport, LA 71138
Online: http://www.hopefulhaven.com/webscr.htm
*I call her “General Debra.” Debra Barlow and her equine convoys have been
rescuing, delivering hay, feed, meds throughout Katrina and Rita. With zero
help from FEMA or any government agency, they have been the main presence on the
ground for large-animal rescue. Unbelievable stories about encountering
watery graves with floating cows, stranded horses, nursing a calf born the
day Katrina struck... I refer all my “horse people” type volunteers to this
effort. They are amazing! Probably delivered more hay and range pellets than
any Dept. of Agriculture has ever done.

PASADO RESCUE
http://www.pasadosafehaven.org/NEWS/NEWS.htm
Pasado Safe Haven
10131 Woods Lake Rd.
Monroe, WA 98272
Prominent rescuers with staging area in Raceland, LA that will close this weekend.
They have done a lot of the hard core boat and continuing ground rescues.

DISASTER RESPONSE ANIMAL RESCUE (Winn-Dixie site – New Orleans)
http://groups.msn.com/disasterresponseanimalrescue
Disaster Response Animal Rescue
191 Alps Rd, Suite 15
Athens, GA 30606
http://groups.msn.com/disasterresponseanimalrescue/donations.msnw
On the ground search/rescue/triage from the start. Still there. Tim Gorski
and Camille Hankins (whom I think you might know) bother volunteered here.

MUTTSHACK RESCUE UNIT – NEW ORLEANS
MuttShack Disaster Efforts
11872 Eldridge Ave.
Lakeview Terrace, CA 91342
Another search/rescue/triage site operating out of a school in New Orleans.
They have been there from the start and intend to stay as long as necessary.

1-800-Save-A-Pet.com
https://secure2.convio.net/sap/site/Donation?ACTION=SHOW_DONATION_OPTIONS&CAMPAIGN_ID=1482
Or mail check to:
1-800-Save-A-Pet.com
P.O. Box 7
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
David Meyer, founder of 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com, has been working with Jane
Garrison to continue search and rescue since HSUS left. Jane set up a
feeding station program throughout New Orleans and has been a front line
rescuer with HSUS, before this independent effort. On Monday, David arranged
to have all remaining animals at Lamar-Dixon airlifted (for foster) to
California...

GRASSROOTS EFFORT
FOR ANIMALS OF THE STORM
Two 501c3 nonprofit organizations formed an alliance in response to
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, sending veterinarians, vet techs, transporters,
trained animal disaster relief workers, shelter/foster agencies and other
volunteers to stricken communities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and
Texas.

ARF/Kinship Circle also manage a drop/distribution site for animal supplies.
We store and circulate items such as food, hay, cages/crates, veterinary
medicines, equipment, and much more.

The Kinship Circle/ARF effort helps coordinate independent rescue missions.
In addition, we send volunteers/supplies to areas where organized animal
rescue has already been established... Please visit our websites to learn
more. Your donation is appreciated!

KINSHIP CIRCLE
7380 Kingsbury Blvd.
Saint Louis, MO 63130
314-863-9445
Online donation: http://www.kinshipcircle.org/donation/donations.html
http://www.kinshipcircle.org

ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION (ARF)
PO Box 50065
Mobile, Alabama 36605
251-478-9743
Online donation:
https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=arfkv@yahoo.com&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=USD
http://www.animalrescuemobile.org

The following storm-state shelters are stretched to the limit from
evacuees’ owner-surrendered animals, rescues, and existing animals.
They all need supplies, money. Some lost their structures as well...

NEW IBERIA HUMANE SOCIETY
(Under direction of Dr. Eric White, DVM)
1314 Troy Road; New Iberia, Louisiana
337-365-1923; IberiaHu@IberiaHumane.com
MAP: http://www.iberiahumane.com/

HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
Send check by mail made out to HSSM Katrina Relief Fund:
Humane Society of South Mississippi (HSSM)
13756 Washington Avenue; Gulfport, Mississippi 39503

HUMANE SOCIETY OF LOUISIANA IN TYLERTOWN
The Humane Society of Louisiana Emergency Shelter
http://www.humanela.org/

Their shelter in New Orleans was destroyed.
Right now, their website says--
Checks can be made payable to:
Humane Society of Louisiana
and sent to
P.O. Box 238, Sharon Center OH 44274

The Humane Society of Louisiana Emergency Shelter
(I don’t know if they can receive donations here)
115 Obed Magee Rd.; Tylertown, Mississippi 39667
(next to St. Frances Animal Sanctuary)

Donate online:
https://commerce39.datapipe.com/arielview/humanesociety/donate2.htm

ST. TAMMANY PARISH ANIMAL SHELTER
St. Tammany Parish Department of Animal Services
25026 Hwy 36
Abita Springs, LA 70420

GALVESTON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER
Mission Katrina & Rita Rescue
3412 Loop 197 North
Texas City, TX 77590

CALCASIEU PARISH ANIMAL SHELTER
5500-A Swift Plant Road
Lake Charles, Louisiana 70615

Katrina/Rita Volunteers Needed
Animal Rescue and Recovery
Volunteers desperately needed at Lamar Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales, LA. You are needed to help save the pets of the Katrina survivers. Help them rebuild thier lives by saving their pets.
I just returned from 7 days on-site at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center in Gonzales, LA. Volunteers are desperately needed to clean shelter cages and walk dogs, to drop food and water to feed animals in the streets and stuck in houses, to do data entry of notes from the field, to clean crates, and do general site organization and clean-up. If you are interested please call me. I can brief you on my experience and give you directions on what to expect and how to get right to work when you arrive.
The do not need supplies. Need strong loving and patient people to work very very hard under very challenging circumstances.
You are NEEDED.
Please consider this call for help.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kate Danaher
Animal Rights Committee MPJC
San Rafael, CA
415-459-1149 voice

NEW ORLEANS ANIMAL RESCUE UPDATE
OCTOBER 8, 2005
WE ARE STILL RESCUING AND STILL NEED HELP!
We pulled a dog out of a warehouse yesterday who was completely skin and bones. This dog was able to survive because there was access to water but no food. He is one of many we have seen like this. If there is one...there are others and we must come to their rescue!
As of September 30th, the HSUS was forced to stop rescuing animals due to orders by the Louisiana State Vet. It was ridiculous that this vet could pick some arbitrary date of when rescuing should end. She did this without ever consulting with those of us actually rescuing. I refused to stop this rescue operation knowing that there were still animals trapped behind closed doors in attics, bathrooms and carriers. I could not fathom the thought of them wasting away while a state vet believed they could no longer be alive. We could not and would not give up on them. Because the state vet closed Lamar Dixon for intake of animals (the temporary shelter where we were bringing all rescued animals) we had to find temporary places to bring the animals. We used Pasado Safe Animal Haven for 2 days and now use Best Friends Animal Sanctuary. We rescue the animals in New Orleans, put the animals on a refrigerated semi-truck and take them 2 hours away to Best Friends temporary shelter in Tylertown, Mississippi. It has been a great joining of teams! Since Oct. 1 we have rescued over 300 animals which certainly proves the state vet wrong. The volunteers are still staying at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center in tents and will be able to do so until October 15th. After that time we will be moving the command center (our phones, internet,dispatch,etc) and our tents to another location yet to de determined. If you can volunteer between now and October 15th please come to the Lamar Dixon Expo Center. We do a volunteer orientation 9pm each night in front of the Prowler trailer between barn 1 and 2. We send our teams out at 5:30am. If we determine that we are still rescuing animals after the 15th, I will put out an update as to where to report to volunteer. We watch the statistics closely each day to determine how many animals we are still rescuing and how many of those animals would not have made it without us.
Please only email me if you have an emergency question. I am receiving several hundred emails each day and can't keep up with the volume. Thank you so much for helping!!! If you come to help and rescue one animal you made a tremendous difference!
Warm regards,
Jane Garrison

Covance Lab Horrors Exposed by Peta
PETA Can Continue to Show Undercover Footage of Monkeys Tortured at Covance Lab http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=6580

Fairfax, Va. - In a hearing at Fairfax County Circuit Court this morning, billion-dollar animal-testing conglomerate Covance failed in its effort to prevent PETA from showing the video and other images taken by a PETA investigator while she worked undercover at a Covance lab as a primate technician. The court deferred the case to June 28 for a hearing about apparent conflicts of interest, when PETA raised the issue that Covance's attorneys also represent PETA Deutschland, PETA's German charitable affiliate. PETA Deutschland is also showing the results of this investigation on its own Web site, PETA.de.

In the recently concluded 11-month undercover investigation, PETA's Lisa Leitten captured images of frightened primates in drug tests, as well as footage showing what PETA claims is illegal conduct of Covance employees, who can be seen hitting, choking, and tormenting the animals.

"It's a victory for free speech every day that Covance can't hide how monkeys have been abused in its lab," says Mary Beth Sweetland, PETA's director of research and investigations. "Videotape of animals being hit and choked in a Covance lab is not proprietary information-it is criminal evidence that the public deserves to see. It would be wonderful if Covance took the money that it is now paying to lawyers and used it to improve conditions for the primates held in those tiny, barren steel cages."

PETA has filed a complaint with Fairfax Commonwealth's Attorney Robert Horan, asking that criminal charges be filed against certain individuals at Covance who either physically abused primates in Covance's Vienna, Va., laboratory during PETA's investigation or who failed to provide proper veterinary care for extremely sick and injured monkeys. PETA has also filed a 272-page complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, detailing what it believes to be serious violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA). Among the violations that PETA documented are the following:

Animals with broken limbs deprived of veterinary care and euthanasia; animals found having seizures; animals with oozing open wounds on their legs; and animals who had suffered side effects from drugs that left them in conditions that required mercy killing.

Physical and psychological violence against primates by Covance workers, including sick monkeys jammed forcefully into plastic restraint tubes and terrified monkeys slammed to the floor, sprayed with water, intentionally tormented, and thrown into their cages after having drugs forced into their stomachs.

Baby monkeys whose noses bled daily because of Covance's failure to use the proper-size tubes to thread up their noses, down their throats, and into their stomachs to deliver test substances.

Chronic diarrhea caused by stress.

Failure to provide the monkeys with socialization and enrichment, which is required by the AWA, leading to self-mutilation and repetitive behavior such as circling, back-flipping, and swaying-all of which have been identified by animal behaviorists as directly associated with loneliness and a lack of enrichment.

For updated Information on the Deer in Point Reyes National Seashore visit
http://www.marinhumanesociety.org/ExoticDeer.html

Many visitors to the Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County have been lucky enough to glimpse the beautiful white fallow deer and spotted axis deer who have resided in the park for more than half a century. Now, the National Park Service wants to eradicate these special animals because they are non-native, even though there is no evidence that these deer are having negative impacts on the seashore environment. Currently, the Park Service is advancing a plan to eliminate the fallow and axis deer through a combination of killing and contraception. You can view the Park Service’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement at: http://www.nps.gov/pore/home_mngmntdocs_exoticdeer_deis.htm.

MPJC's Animal Rights committee got off to a great start in 2004 read about our accomplishments !

THINGS YOU CAN DO
FOR THE ANIMALS

ANIMAL RIGHTS
PROGRAMMING ON COMCAST PUBLIC ACCESS CHANNEL 26
ANIMAL RIGHTS VIDEO SCHEDULE
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2005
MARIN COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION CHANNEL 26

VegVideo (58:30 minutes) www.vegvideo.org
Every Monday evening at 9:00PM

Undercover TV Hosted by Vegan Bodybuilding Champion, Kenneth G. Williams (28:30 minutes)
Every Tuesday evening at 9:30PM

Puppy Mill Expose’ Hosted by Charlize Theron (6 minutes)
Thursday, September 8, 2005 at 6:30PM
Friday, September 30, 2005 at 7:30PM

Kentucky Fried Cruelty (4:30 minutes)
Thursday, September 15, 2005 at 6:30PM
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 8:00PM

PETA Compilation Video 2 (30:00 minutes)
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 9:30PM
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 8:00PM

Covance PETA Undercover Investigation (6:00 minutes)
Friday, September 23, 2005 at 9:00PM
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 9:30PM

PETA Compilation Video 1 (30:00 minutes)
Wednesday, October 7, 2005 at 9:00PM
Friday, October 12, 2005 at 9:30PM

Meet Your Meat Narrated by Alec Baldwin (12:35 minutes)
Friday, October 7, 2005 at 7:30PM
Monday, October 17, 2005 at 5:00PM

Helping people see the lives of animals in our society.

Animal Rights Committee
Marin Peace & Justice Coalition
www.mpjc.org/ar
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