AR-News: Live on-line today: Activist Tactics & Foie Gras; Humane Education

[Mary Finelli]

2 items:


{1}  ACTIVIST TACTICS & FOIE GRAS

>From DawnWatch:

Today, on the second edition of Watchdog, at 2 pm [5 p.m. EST, 10 p.m. 
Greenwich], we look at two major developments in California, and at the 
tactics behind them.

1) After a embittered campaign against him by animal activists, Los Angeles 
Animal Services general manager, Jerry Greenwalt, has announced that he is 
taking early retirement. He says that the campaign did not influence his 
decision, but activists are skeptical about hat. The campaign against him 
included home demonstrations and personal harassment.

2) Senate President Pro Tem, John Burton, has introduced a measure that 
would ban foie gras from being produced or consumed in California. The foie 
gras fight has included the well publicized trashing, by the Animal 
Liberation Front, of a foie gras specialty restaurant.

In the studio we will talk with actress turned activist, Pamelyn Ferdin, and 
Jerry Vlasak, an Emergency Room surgeon whose activism includes campaigns 
against vivisection . They spearheaded the fight against Greenwalt and are 
comfortable with supporting a wide range of unorthodox tactics to fight 
violence against other species.

We will also interview ABC reporter Dan Noyes, who will pick up a Genesis 
award on March 20 for his graphic coverage of the cruelty behind foie gras. 
Noyes has been willing to look behind the tactics, to the animal cruelty 
being protested, and to share his findings with the public, even when those 
tactics are violent. After the early morning bombings last year of companies 
associated with Huntingdon Life Sciences, Noyes aired undercover footage 
from HLS of a beagle being punched in the head for refusing to sit still 
while being poked with needles.

And from Washington DC, we will talk with HSUS's Wayne Pacelle, who 
represents the animal protection movement on Capitol Hill and worries about 
the effect that violent tactics have on the standing of our movement.

Watchdog is produced by Janee Taylor and hosted by Karen Dawn. The views 
expressed by guests on Watchdog do not represent those of KPFK.

The show airs Mondays at 2pm on KPFK, 90. 7 in Los Angeles and San Diego, 
and 98.7 in Santa Barbara.
If you are not in range you can listen live on line at 2pm US Pacific Time, 
5pm Eastern: http://www.KPFK.org

We will take callers and would love your participation. The call-in number 
is: (818) 985-5735.  That's (818) 985 KPFK

Listen if you can, and please send comments to Watchdog at KPFK.org.

Watchdog is a 13 week series. Positive feedback will make it more likely 
that Pacifica will eventually put an animal issues series on the air 
permanently.


Yours and the animals',
Karen Dawn
www.DawnWatch.com


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{2}  From Mike Hudak:

FARM ANIMAL ADVOCACY AND HUMANE EDUCATION: A CONVERSATION WITH CAROL MOON

Monday, March 8, 6-7 PM EST [midnight Greenwich]

WHRW-FM (90.5 in Binghamton, NY)

Live on the Internet: http://www.whrwfm.org/listenlive.php

Talk live: 607-777-2137

Join radio co-hosts Bill Huston (http://www.vegdot.org) & Mike Hudak 
(http://www.mikehudak.com) for a conversation with farm animal advocate and 
humane educator, Carol Moon. Carol, on behalf of Farm Sanctuary 
(http://farmsanctuary.org), takes the story of modern animal agriculture 
into schools throughout the New York City metropolitan region. She will 
speak with us about her personal journey from dietary omnivore to vegan, and 
her academic training as a humane educator. If time permits we'll also 
discuss Farm Sanctuary campaigns against the production of veal and foie 
gras.


Mike Hudak, Ph.D., Director
Public Lands Without Livestock
38 Oliver Street
Binghamton, NY 13904-1516
Phone: 607.723.5769
E-mail: MikeHudak at stny.rr.com
Web: http://www.mikehudak.com

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