UARC News and Events >> 6 September 06

Wed Sep 6 13:04:25 MDT 2006

Hi Everyone,

Here is some news of the goings on in the Utah Animal Rights Coalition. In This E-Mail:

  * Farmers Market Leafletting
  * Vegan Outreach Challenge Grant
  * Calendar of Events
  * In the News

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### FARMERS MARKET LEAFLETTING ###

UARC will be leafletting at the Downtown Farmers Market in Salt Lake each Saturday until 21-October.  We need volunteers to make this happen!  Please contact Eric Waters (ewaters at uarc.com, 560-8238) if you're available to help out.  We will be there at 10am until around noon, passing out Vegetarian Starter Kits and other vegetarian literature to all interested.

### VEGAN OUTREACH CHALLENGE GRANT ###

When UARC activists go leafletting, chances are good they'll be passing out Why Vegan? and Even If You Like Meat brochures, both created by Vegan Outreach.  These invaluable pieces of literature have turned many people to a more compassionate lifestyle over the years.  While UARC has been able to pay a bit of the costs of these brochures, Vegan Outreach relies upon donations to keep printing.  It costs them 20 cents per brochure for printing, shipping and promotion.

In an effort to raise funds for this important organization, UARC will challenge all who read this email to donate today!  If, by September 24th, at least $100 is donated to Vegan Outreach (with 'UARC Challenge Grant' mentioned in the comments of the donation), UARC will donate $100.

We're starting out small with $100, but if this goes well, we're excited to raise the stakes next time!

  Donate to Vegan Outreach: 
    http://www.veganoutreach.org/about/donate.html

  Learn more about their work:
    http://www.veganoutreach.org/about/

### CALENDAR OF EVENTS ###

Saturday, 9th
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- 10:00 AM - Leafletting at the Downtown Farmers Market.  See above.

- 12:00 Noon - ARM (Animal Rights Movement - http://myspace.com/animalrightsmovement) KFC protest at 3900 S. State.  Contact abraktmetal06 at yahoo.com for more details.

- 6:00 PM - Vegetarian Society of Utah potluck, lecture and entertainment in Snow Park pavillion, St. George.  Contact April Ashcroft (briana at infowest.com) for more information.

### IN THE NEWS ###

Monday
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* Left behind, scrappy pets fought to survive
  http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_4248552
KANAB - Sheriff, a stocky Rottweiler, saunters into a small, sterile room equipped with needles, cotton balls and an assortment of veterinary supplies.
  His snout wrapped shut with a muzzle, Sheriff rests his head in the lap of Austin Soto, a Best Friends Animal Society staffer who is trying to calm the huge black dog while his colleague, Jeff Popowich, shaves a small patch of fur from Sheriff's lower back. ...

* New director takes over Utah Valley animal shelter
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645196693,00.html
SPANISH FORK ? The South Utah Valley Animal Shelter that mistakenly euthanized six dogs last spring has hired a new director.
  Mike Morgan will take over shelter operations full time after serving as interim director for two months. Morgan replaced fired shelter director Shirley Bybee on whose watch three separate incidents of accidental euthanasia occurred. Bybee was fired June 26. ...

Wednesday
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* PETA wants Salt Lake City to ban elephant chaining
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645197285,00.html
Weeks before the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus comes to town, animal-rights group PETA is calling on Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson and the Salt Lake City Council to ban the chaining of elephants in the city.
  In a letter sent Monday morning to Anderson and the council, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals requested that the council enact an ordinance that would stop the shackling of the pachyderms. ...

Friday
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* Sheep thrills: Dogs to display herding skills at Utah classic
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645197910,00.html
PARK CITY ? Ruth, a reddish-brown border collie, intensely watches the flock of two dozen sheep in front of her.
  Her eyes, one translucent blue, the other bright gold, are locked on the bleating ewes, and she keeps her focus on their movement. She's hungry to begin work, anxious to hear when her handler Mark Petersen will give the command to begin. ...

Saturday
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* Capitol Hill managers revise protest rules
  http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_4279095
Driven by two lawsuits - and the resulting payouts to two groups of protesters and their attorney - Capitol Hill managers have revised rules for demonstrating at the Capitol complex.
  The guidelines, posted online Friday at http://www.rules.utah.gov, specify where protests can take place, how signs are to be posted and when leaflets can be handed out. ...
  During the 2006 Legislature, Utah Animal Rights Coalition and the Disabled Rights Action Committee were blocked from leafleting at lawmakers' urging. Civil rights attorney Brian Barnard sued on behalf of the groups. Both cases were decided in favor of the protesters. ...

* Free-speech limits decried
  Group objects to rules on Capitol Hill activities
A group of low-income Utahns whose presence on Capitol Hill during the 2006 legislative session prompted a new rule governing free-speech activities at the state complex was the first to formally object to it on Friday.
  In a letter to David Hart, executive director of the Capitol Preservation Board, the Anti-Hunger Action Committee expressed concern about the proposed prohibition of leafletting and other free-speech activities at the state Capitol complex. ...
  Following the 2006 Legislative session, the Disabled Rights Action Committee and AHAC, and the Utah Animal Rights Coalition, each sued the state after the Utah Highway Patrol stopped them from handing out fliers to passers-by. The groups prevailed in each lawsuit. ...

* Protect our oceans from devastating overfishing
  http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_4275247
Lately, most of the news from Washington, D.C., has been dominated by partisan fights and acrimony. However, there is one issue receiving bipartisan support -- the fate of America's oceans.
  The Senate recently approved the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act by unanimous consent. This development comes not a moment too soon. Destructive practices by the commercial fishing industry are depleting fish populations and devastating key ocean habitat. ...

* Idaho rancher blames wolves for dead sheep
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645198235,00.html
BOISE ? A sheep rancher in central Idaho said 34 lambs and ewes were killed by wolves and he's missing another 124 animals he fears also fell victim to the predators.
  The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has authorized federal trappers to shoot two wolves, or half the new Lick Creek pack, made up of four to five adult or sub-adult wolves. It may be establishing itself in a rugged, mountainous area of spruce and red fir on U.S. Forest Service territory just southeast of the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area. ...

Sunday
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* Wild horses, gentler men: Inmates break horses, learn about selves
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645198071,00.html
Mike Buchanan can look into the eyes of a horse and tell what's in a man's soul.
  Was the man abused or was he the abuser?
  Did he betray the trust of a young child with his sexual urges or did he betray himself through drug addiction?
  On this day, standing in the August-baked dust, he begins to read the men who line the fence of a round pen. ...

* Woman from Denmark gored by bison at farm
  http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645198434,00.html
HURRICANE, Washington County (AP) ? A woman from Denmark was gored in the groin by a bison while attempting to take pictures of the animal on a farm.
  The woman, 55, was in stable condition Friday, following surgery at Dixie Regional Medical Center Thursday after the attack.
  Don Dennett, owner of the Elk Farm where the attack occurred, said he was told the woman was standing on one of the rungs of the fence when the bison gored her. ...

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That's it for this week.  Thanks for reading!