December 12th

Just in time for the holidays! Join everyone at Café Gratitude for a vegan ice-cream social and book signing with Ruby Roth, author and illustrator of “That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals : A Book About Vegans, Vegetarians, and All Living Things.” This is the premiere Bay Area signing– and a great opportunity to connect with fellow Veg families! See you there!

Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009
1-3pm
Café Gratitude
1730 Shattuck Ave (@ Virginia)
Berkeley, CA 94709
510-725-4418

For more info, please visit:
www.WeDontEatAnimals.com
www.CafeGratitude.com
www.facebook.com/wedonteatanimals (click on the events tab at the top).

About the book:
Praised by Jane Goodall, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk, leading activists, and best-selling authors, Ruby Roth’s timely call to action That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals: A Book About Vegans, Vegetarians, and All Living Things is the boldest step yet in children’s literature. The first children’s book of its kind, That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals introduces vegetarianism and veganism to curious readers. Brilliantly illustrated and accompanied by tender text, the book offers a look at the emotional lives of animals, their experience on factory farms, and the effect that eating animals has on the environment and endangered species, maintaining a child-friendly tone throughout. For more info and a book trailer, please visit www.WeDontEatAnimals.com

November 27th

FUR FREE FRIDAY - TWO EVENTS!


1. SAN FRANCISCO
Fur Free Demonstration
When: Nov. 27, 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Where: Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Contact: Hope Bohanec (Hope@idausa.org), In Defense of Animals, 415.448.0048, ext. 208

http://www.furfreefridayida.com/

We will be carpooling to this event from Petaluma. Meet in the Blockbuster parking lot at the Gateway Plaza (905 Lakeville Street, Lakeville Exit, Petaluma) at 11am. Call Lisa @ 415-215-8747 for more information.

2. HEALDSBURG
When: Nov. 27, 2009 at 4pm
Where: Healdsburg Plaza
For more information: Jasmine De La Torre - lavendardeodarant@gmail.com
Please come and bring your friends and family!

November 26th - THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving Day Potluck

When: Thursday, November 26th
Time: 4:00pm
Where: Liberty Meadows Condominiums, Petaluma
Special Instructions: RSVP needed!
Directions: Take Petaluma Blvd. North. Turn left on Magnolia Ave. Go up one block. Turn left on Liberty St. Turn left on Freedom Lane North. Pass the tennis courts on the left. The clubhouse is on the left (directly across from #67).

We request that potluck items be free from all animal products including dairy and eggs (check your ingredient list for hidden animal products like casein, whey, gelatin, meat or fish broths, honey, etc.) Please bring your own serving and eating utensils, plate, cup, bowl, and napkin. Please also include an ingredient list with your potluck dish.

For information or to RSVP, please call Lisa @ 415-215-8747 or Leah @ 707-789-0609.

November 22nd

Screening of 'Mad Cowboy'


When: Sunday, November 22nd
Time: 7:00pm
Where: Aqus Cafe, 189 H Street, Petaluma (corner of 2nd & H St.)
Cost: Free ($4.00 donation suggested)



THE STORY (excerpt): "One day, Howard Lyman found himself in a hospital bed confronted with the very real possibility that he would spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. A tumor on his spine, a one-in-a-million chance of its surgical removal gave him sufficient pause to reflect on what it was that really mattered to he and his wife, Willow Jeane. Howard's "dark night of the soul" liberated him from then on. He saw that he had been caught on a vicious treadmill that was destroying everything he believed in: his parents' organic farm, the animals, the trees, the grass, his marriage, his livelihood, and his health. At over 300 pounds, this former football player had assumed that heavy animal protein, lots of greasy yellow fat, was essential to his well being. But now, from his hospital room, staring at the obese, self-doubting human being that Howard Lyman had become, he awakened to a more conscious way of thinking. He vowed to turn around his life, and his ranch."

The journey led him into the world of organic agriculture, veganism (vegetarianism plus no dairy or eggs), politics (he nearly won a House seat), undermined at the last minute by a bank that deliberately co-opted Montana's most visible vegetarian), and his discovery, early on, of a disease new to history called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE, or mad-cow."

Cafe will be open for beverage purchases.

November 11th

Screening of 'A Delicate Balance'

When: Wednesday, November 11th
Time: 7:00pm
Where: Sonoma County Humane Society, 5345 Highway 12, Santa Rosa
Cost: Free!

A Delicate Balance (84 munutes), by Australian film-maker Aaron Scheibner, is the startling new documentary which continues where Al Gore left off. This film dispels destructive myths about what it takes to be healthy and what is our true relationship to the natural world. Nominated for Best Unreleased Documentary by the Australian Film Critics Association, this film is a must-see for those who care about our planet and the life it supports.

Vegan Pizza from A Slice of Life restaurant will be served. Sponsored by Farm Animal Protection Project and the Sonoma County Humane Society.

October 17-24th

National Primate Liberation Week

What: Michael Budkie Lecture: Life in the Lab, A Grim Look Inside U.S. Primate Laboratories
When: Wednesday, October 21st
Time: 7:00pm
Where: The Club Quarters Hotel, East & West Niantic room, 424 Clay St.(Financial District, San Francisco, California


***DEMONSTRATION***

What: UCSF Demonstration Against Animal Research
When: Thursday, October 22nd
Time: Noon-1:30pm
Where: University California, 513 Parnassus, San Francisco, California


As you read this, untold millions of animals are suffering and dying in laboratories across the United States. The majority of these animals including rats, mice, birds, amphibians, and all animals used in agricultural research receive no protection under current laws. Federally owned laboratories (such as those owned by the Department of Defense, the NIH, the USDA, EPA, etc.) receive no independent inspections. It has been demonstrated that the USDA does not adequately enforce the very limited requirements of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). Labs often break federal laws and more animals are hurt by these infractions every day. Violations are often ignored, fines are reduced or eliminated, and penalties are ineffective.

The use of non-human primates has reached an all-time high with 69,990 experiencing the cruelty of captivity in a laboratory. In university and private settings, squirrel monkeys are confined to restraint chairs and steel screws are drilled into the skulls of rhesus monkeys. Chimpanzees suffer silently for decades as they slowly go insane. Dogs languish in runs as they pine for their families. Electrical coils are forced into the eyes of cats.

October 18th

Protest of Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles

When: Sunday, October 18th
Time: 12 noon - 2pm
Where: Oakland Coliseum, 7000 Coliseum Way, Oakland, CA 94621

In Defense of Animals calls on Bay Area residents to be a peaceful and powerful presence at Michael Vick's upcoming Oakland appearance. Activists will be holding signs and distributing flyers to fans. IDA's message: we have not forgotten what Vick did, we oppose his weak punishment, and we are disgusted by his lack of remorse and multi-million dollar contract with the Eagles. Bring signs! Educational flyers will be provided by In Defense of Animals. Feel free to bring friendly, well-socialized dogs on leashes, but please make sure they have proper identification and are under your control at all times.

October 18th

Movie Showing: 'Eating'

When: Sunday, October 18th
Time: 7:00pm
Where: Aqus Cafe, 2nd & H Streets, Petaluma

“A compelling and often shocking look at the standard American diet”
“…asserts that following federal nutrition guidelines can kill you.”
American Library Association

“Rivet yourself to your chair and watch Eating, a mind-blowing video experience that will forever change the way you think about food.”
Joel Fuhrman, M.D. (author of ‘Eat to Live’)

“Eating is a brilliant program, showing a side of the food industry that many will find shocking. It also provides an easy and engaging path to health through good food. I highly recommend it.”
Neal Barnard, M.D. (author of ‘Breaking the Food Seduction’)

“I want both to congratulate and to thank you. You’ve done us all a major service.”
John Robbins (author of ‘Diet for a New America’)

October 17th

Sebastopol October Wellness Fair

When: Saturday, October 17th
Time: 11:00am to 5:oopm
Where: 373 N. Main Street, Sebastopol (Masonic Lodge across from Safeway)

The North Bay Animal Advocates will be hosting a table at the Wellness Fair focusing primarily on a plant-based diet in relation to health. We will also have literature on environmental issues and animal rights.

October 3rd and 4th

World Veg Festival in San Francisco

When: Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 3rd & 4th
Time: 10am to 6pm
Where: County Fair Building, 9th Ave. at Lincoln (right inside Golden Gate Park)


This event has well-known inspirational speakers running all day. Visit the booths in the event hall.

For more information and a schedule of events, go to the:
World Veg Festival Website

October 2nd

WORLD FARM ANIMALS DAY 2009 VIGIL

RE-MEMBERING OUR FRIENDS

Bay Area Slaughterhouse Vigils
When: Friday, Oct 2, 5 - 8pm

Where: Slaughterhouse Vigil Location #1
Rancho Veal Corp.
(cows & calves killed here)
1522 Petaluma Blvd. North, Petaluma, CA

Where: Slaughterhouse Vigil Location #2
Fulton Processors, Inc.
(chickens killed here)
1200 River Rd., Fulton, CA

Join other compassionate hearts in a peaceful, prayerful vigil for the animal victims of our food choices.
Please Bring poems, prayers, drawings and photos of safe & loved farmed animals, flowers, rocks/stones (as in the Jewish tradition of placing them on gravestones) and your big, open hearts to any of the following slaughterhouse locations to stand up & together for the innocent & voiceless.
WORLD FARM ANIMALS DAY, observed on (or around) October 2nd, is a time dedicated to exposing, mourning, and memorializing the needless suffering and killing of the more than 55 billion cows, pigs, turkeys, chickens, and other sentient land animals in the world's factory farms and slaughterhouses. It is a time for all to speak out against the atrocities and brutalization of animals raised for meat, eggs, and dairy. The annual occasion is observed with activities in all 50 U.S. states and two dozen other countries and the date marks the birthday of ethical vegetarian Mahatma Gandhi. This date also coincides with the birthdate of Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, the environment, and of Italy. His birthdate is October 3rd and is celebrated by the Catholic church on October 4th as 'Feast Day'.

World Farm Animals Day Website

For more info please contact:
katedanaher@animalearthhuman.org

September 20th

Petaluma Progressive Festival

What: Tabling Event - Vegan Outreach
When: Sunday, Sept. 20th
Set-up Time: 9:00am
Event Time: Noon to 5:00pm
Where: Walnut Park, Corner of Petaluma Blvd. & D Street

We will be sponsoring a vegan outreach table focusing on nutrition and environmental issues. Our sister organization, Farm Animal Protection Project, will also have a table focusing on animal rights and veganism.

September 19th

Foie Gras Protest

When: Saturday, September 19th
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Where: El Paseo Restaurant
Address: 17 Throckmorton Ave, Mill Valley

Protest sponsored by IDA (In Defense of Animals) and APRL (Animal Protection and Rescue League)Please show up and show that you oppose the extreme cruelty to these beautiful birds.

For more information on Foie Gras, go to:
Ban Foie Gras

September 3rd

Tabling Event at Santa Rosa Junior College (Petaluma Campus)

When: Thursday, Sept. 3rd
Time: 10:00am to 2:00pm (set up at 9am)
Where: Rotary Plaza, SRJC - Petaluma Campus on Sonoma Mountain Parkway

We will be hosting a Vegan Outreach table at the Student Information Day at the Petaluma Campus of Santa Rosa Junior College. The literature from Vegan Outreach will be handed out.

Processed People

Tonight at 7pm!
Aqus Cafe
2nd & H Streets in Petaluma

Bizarro

We have said this so many times!

August 17 (week of) and August 26 (week of)

College Leafleting



Vegan Outreach at local colleges as the new semester begins.

More details and schedule upcoming.

August 12-16, August 19-23

Ringling Brothers Circus Demonstration

Please join Citizens for Cruelty-Free Entertainment to protest Ringling Bros. Circus' inherent cruelty of forcing animals to live and perform in the circus. Signs and leaflets are provided at the leafleting times listed below. For more information call 650.248.4489.

OAKLAND COLISEUM/ARENA in Oakland, between Hegenberger Rd. and 66th Ave., right next to the 880 freeway
(meet in front of the main ticket area)
Aug 12, Wed .. 6p
Aug 13, Thu .... 6p
Aug 14, Fri ...... 6p
Aug 15, Sat .... 12:45p and 5:30p
Aug 16, Sun ... 2:45p

SAN JOSE ARENA (HP PAVILION) in San Jose, meet at the corner of Autumn and Santa Clara Streets
Aug 19, Wed .. 6p
Aug 20, Thu .... 6p
Aug 21, Fri ...... 6p
Aug 22, Sat .... 12:45p and 5:30p
Aug 23, Sun ... 12:45p and 5:30p

Ringling Bros. was on trial earlier this year, for violating the Endangered Species Act, and Ringling employees' testimony revealed what activists have known for years:

All the Ringling handlers strike the elephants with a bullhook (a weapon resembling a fireplace poker). ** PETA just released a great new undercover video, taken this year, of Ringling employees beating and hitting elephants. Visit www.circuses.com to view the video and take action. **

Elephants are chained 16 to 22.5 hours a day, often much longer when they are on the train.

Baby elephants are taken from their mothers to be broken and trained to do unnatural tricks for the circus. The "Breaking process" involves: (1) taking the baby elephants from their mothers while they are still nursing; (2) isolating the babies from all other elephants; (3) tying the babies up so they are severely restricted in their movement and not even able to turn around; and (4) hitting the babies with bullhooks. One baby elephant was tied up for four months and only untied for 40 minutes a day to be trained. A truly traumatic ordeal for little baby elephants and their mothers.

The Ringling trial continues and a ruling is expected later this summer or Fall.

Please join us to let Ringling know they are not welcome in the Bay Area.

Sonoma County Carpool schedule to be posted soon!

August 7-9, August 14-16

New Movie: "The Cove" coming to San Rafael.

•Thank you for your interest and for your consideration in participating in the campaign to Save Japan dolphins. We need your personal help to end the annual brutal killing of over 20,000 dolphins and porpoises off the coast of Japan. “The Cove” documentary film is bringing to light what has been until now a clandestine “practice.” With your hands on help at the Rafael Theatre screenings we will bring more people into the campaign fold and bring an end to the brutal killing.

•For more info about the campaign, action to take, and to view the new trailer of this multi-award-winning movie visit http://www.savejapandolphins.org/ . Donations are key to our being able to expand efforts in Japan. There are three online letters that everyone should send. These are key aspects of our action plan and are very easy for people to do online. Let's get the number of letters sent way up!

•Please spread the word. Let your family, friends and community know. For a list of scheduled screenings nationwide, please visit http://thecovemovie.com/festivals/upcoming_screenings.htm

MARIN LOCATION
Christopher B. Smith Rafael Theatre
1118 Fourth Street (Between A & B)
San Rafael, CA 94901

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
•WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO HELP PASS OUT SAVE JAPAN DOLPHINS COALITION POSTCARDS TO THEATERGOERS OUTSIDE THEATERS AND ON PUBLIC STREETS, BEFORE AND AFTER THE MOVIE. THE POST CARDS DIRECT FOLKS TO THE CAMPAIGN WEB SITE WHERE THEY CAN TAKE ACTION TO HELP. WE ALSO HOPE TO SECURE AS MANY EMAIL ADDRESSES AS POSSIBLE FROM FOLKS WHO VIEW “THE COVE” WHO WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO THE CAMPAIGN NEWS ALERTS LIST TO RECEIVE CAMPAIGN UPDATES.

•I WILL SHOW UP AT THE THEATRE AS OFTEN AS I CAN TO GIVE ORIENTATIONS AND DISTRIBUTE SUPPLIES. I WILL ALSO GIVE DIRECTIONS OVER THE PHONE AND VIA EMAIL.

•WE WILL HAVE AN ASSORTMENT OF T-SHIRTS AND HATS FOR VOLUNTEERS TO WEAR DURING THEIR SHIFTS. UNFORTUNATELY THERE WILL NOT BE ANY COMP TICKETS AVAILABLE TO SEE THE MOVIE.

PLEASE DON’T HESITATE TO CALL OR EMAIL ME WITH ANY QUESTIONS:

KATE DANAHER
Marin Cove Captain
415.847.9748 cell
katedanaher@animalearthhuman.org

THANK YOU!!

SIGN UP TIME SLOTS
PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU CAN HELP :)
These times may change slightly when actual screen times are published.

Friday, August 7

6-9P (show is 7-8:30P)
Kate D. - confirmed
Sally B. - confirmed
Geo T. - confirmed
Dana A. - confirmed
Deb L. - confirmed

Saturday, August 8

4-7P
First Screening (approx 4:30-6P, time to be confirmed)
Anjee L. - confirmed
Willi C. - confirmed
Jeremy R. - confirmed
Lisa S. - confirmed
Anna - confirmed
Sandra – confirmed
Scott – S. - confirmed

6-9P
Second Screening (approx 7-8:30P, time to be confirmed)
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD

8-11P
Third screening (approx 9-10:30, time to be confirmed)
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD

Sunday, August 9

4-7P
First Screening (approx 4:30-6P time to be confirmed)
Leslie C. - confirmed
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD

6-9P
Second Screening (approx 7-8:30P, time to be confirmed)
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD

8-11P
Third screening (approx 9-10:30, time to be confirmed)
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD

Friday, August 14

6P-9P (approx 7-8:30P)
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD

8-11P
Third screening (approx 9-10:30, time to be confirmed)
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD

Saturday, August 15

4-7P
First Screening (approx 4:30-6P, time to be confirmed)
PJ B. - confirmed
Valary B. - confirmed
Volunteer TBD

6-9P
Second Screening (approx 7-8:30P, time to be confirmed)
PJ B. - confirmed
Valary B. - confirmed
Maggie R. - confirmed

8-11P
Third screening (approx 9-10:30, time to be confirmed)
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD

Sunday, August 16

4-7P
First Screening (approx 4:30-6:30P , time to be confirmed)
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD

6-9P
Second Screening (approx 7-8:30P time to be confirmed)
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD

8-11P
Third screening (approx 9-10:30, time to be confirmed)
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD
Volunteer TBD


ADDITIONAL REFERENCE

NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEW
In a Killing Cove, Siding With Dolphins
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/movies/19roht.html?emc=eta1

Sonoma County Carpool schedule to be posted soon!

August 1st

Petaluma Farmer's Market

Tabling event at the Petaluma Farmer's Market.
Time: 2pm to 5pm
Staffed by Anna and Lisa and Kevin

June 20th

International Day of Action for Elephants in Zoos (IDAEZ)

When: June 20, 2009
Time: 9:45 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo, CA
Where: 1001 Fairgrounds Drive (Please meet in front of the metal detectors by the main entrance.)

Contact: Melissa Gonzalez, In Defense of Animals. Melissa@idausa.org, 707.981.7701
Comments: Please join us in support of the elephants suffering at Six Flags. All materials will be provided.

Six Flags keepers use force and physical punishment to train and maintain dominance over the elephants and make them do unnatural tricks and give elephant rides. Six Flags handlers use bullhooks, fireplace poker-shaped devices with a sharp steel hook at the end, to stab, hook and hit the elephants in sensitive parts of the body. (Although elephant skin appears tough, it is so delicate that an elephant can feel the pain of an insect bite).

In public, keepers will prod the elephants lightly, in private, keepers have been witnessed forcefully stabbing the hook in the soft tissue behind the ears, inside the mouth, around the anus, and in tender spots under the chin.

No room to roam
Six Flags crams elephants – who naturally walk 10 miles or more a day – into small spaces that cause them to develop arthritis and foot disease.

Since 1995, nine elephants (including two full-term calves) have died at this park from causes that include: severe arthritis and feet so infected they bled and oozed pus; massive infection from a dead calf decomposing in the mother’s womb, and an elephant herpes infection in a 2-year old baby elephant who was taken prematurely from his mother.

June 19th

KFC Demonstration

When: Friday, June 19th
Time: 5:00 pm
Where: 701 E. Washington St., Petaluma

KFC suppliers cram birds into huge waste-filled factories, breed and drug them to grow so large that they can’t even walk, and often break their wings and legs. At slaughter, the birds’ throats are slit and they are dropped into tanks of scalding-hot water—often while they are still conscious. It would be illegal for KFC to abuse dogs, cats, pigs, or cows in these ways.

KFC’s own animal welfare advisors have asked the company to take steps to eliminate these abuses, but KFC refuses to do so. Many advisors have now resigned in frustration.

Signs and literature will be provided.

Santa Rosa Circus Demo Photos

June 10th & 11th

Carson & Barnes Circus Demonstration

When: Wednesday, June 10th and Thursday, June 11th
Where: PETALUMA (Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds, 175 Fairgrounds Drive, Petaluma, LOT B)
Times: 3:30p and 6:30p - both days

Please join Citizens For Cruelty-Free Entertainment, In Defense of Animals(IDA), the Marin Humane Society, the Sonoma Humane Society, Farm Animal Protection Project(FAPP) and North Bay Animal Advocates(NBAA)to educate patrons about the inherent cruelty of using animals in entertainment. Signs and leaflets will be provided. Each demo time will last approximately one hour.

June 8th & 9th

Carson & Barnes Circus Demonstration

When: Monday, June 8th and Tuesday, June 9th
Where: SANTA ROSA (Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa)
Times: 3:30p and 6:30p - both days

Please join Citizens For Cruelty-Free Entertainment, In Defense of Animals(IDA), the Marin Humane Society, the Sonoma Humane Society, Farm Animal Protection Project(FAPP) and North Bay Animal Advocates(NBAA)to educate patrons about the inherent cruelty of using animals in entertainment. Signs and leaflets will be provided. Each demo time will last approximately one hour.