AR-News: on-line animal-rights radio today

[Mary Finelli]

{1}  Dan Piraro (Bizarro Comics) and Professor Bob Buzzanco (Billionaires 
for Bush) at noon (EST, 5 p.m. Greenwich) on http://www.GoVeganTexas!.org or 
http://www.KPFT.org  call-in number: 713-526-5738.

{2}  Cruelty to companion animals (inc. overpopulation), link between 
violence toward humans and other animals, declawing cats on Watchdog at 5 
p.m. (EST, 10 p.m. Greenwich) with guests  comedian Elayne Boosler; Deputy 
City Attorney Robert Ferber; Jennifer Conrad, DVM and HSUS's Eric Sakach. 
at: http://www.KPFK.org  call-in number: (818) 985-5735.

{3} Vegan Rainbow archives available: Christopher Bedford and Matt Kelly at: 
http://mikehudak.com/Radio/RadioDirectory.html



{1}  "I draw animal rights-themed cartoons both to entertain and to 
galvanize the members of the movement, and to attempt to educate readers, 
most of whom are not aware of the daily, routine and institutional abuse of 
animals in America. The Genesis Award means more to me than any other 
cartoon award because it stands for such an important cause."
-- Dan Piraro, Acceptance Speech, 2004 Genesis Award for Outstanding Cartoon

Dan Piraro, creator of Bizarro Comics, winner Best Cartoon Panel of the Year 
awards from the National Cartoonists Society in 2000, 2001 and 2002 
nominated for this year¹s Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the 
Year, the National Cartoonists Society's highest award.

Author of The Three Little Pigs Buy the White House, Life is Strange ...  
and So Are You,
Bizarro among the Savages, and eleven collections of cartoons

comes to Go  Vegan Texas! proving vegans do have a sense of humor

Monday at 11am (CST)
90.1 FM-Houston and 89.5 FM-Galveston

and talks about Bizarro's PolitiComedy-A-Go-G bashing Bush in Dubya's 
backyard at the Houston Improv Theater Tuesday and Wednesday ~ 8:30 pm

plus Bizarro meets Buzzanco

Professor Bob Buzzanco joins us and announces Billionaires for Bush Bash to 
celebrate Tax Day - April 15, Main Post Office  ~ 9pm to midnight

Vegan cartoonist Dan Piraro, creator of the widely acclaimed comic strip 
Bizarro, will be our guest Monday morning at 11am on Go Vegan Texas!  Piraro 
draws on his love of animals for his award-winning comic strip and infuses 
his work with messages about animals and the injustices that humans inflict 
on them. His comics appear in more than 200 newspapers around the world, and 
he says, "The more widely published I get, the more obligated I feel to put 
myself out there and say, ŒThese are the things I believe."

Piraro's Bizarro is a satirical look at the incredibly surreal things that 
happen to all of us in our so-called "normal" lives. Piraro¹s unique comedic 
perspective and superior artistic skills enable him to tackle a wide variety 
of topics and targets, including corporate greed, environmental waste, 
over-the-top consumerism and, of course, animal rights.

Bizarro entered syndication in 1985 with Chronicle Features as a replacement 
for Gary Larson¹s famous The Far Side, which had moved to Universal Press 
Syndicate. Ten years later, Bizarro moved to Universal just as Larson 
retired. He has been with King Features Syndicate since 2003.Bizarro appears 
in the Houston Chronicle, Monday-Saturday.

So, if you have wondered what inspires a highly respected cartoonist to 
include hidden images of bunny rabbits, eyeballs, fishtails, slices of pie, 
firecrackers, crowns, upside-down birds, tiny spaceships and the 
abbreviation K2 into nearly every cartoon he draws, tune into Go Vegan 
Texas!  tomorrow at 11am on KPFT.

Join co host Jerrilyn Halbert, a member of the Go Vegan Texas! Collective 
and hear about Dan's upcoming appearances at the Houston Improv Theatre, for 
  Bizarro's PolitiComedy-a-Go-Go comic crusade against the current 
administration (plus corporate fat cats, environmental pillagers, legislated 
morality, and other sizable targets).

UH Professor Bob Buzzanco will join us by phone to tell Bizarro fans about 
the upcoming Billionaires for Bush Bash on April 15  to celebrate Tax Day 
when the working classes give the government their hard-earned money so that 
the rich can get more tax cuts, credits and luxuries. This event will take 
place at the Downtown Post Office from 9pm to midnight.

And Go Vegan Texas! will host a dinner for Dan Piraro, Tuesday at 6 right 
before Opening Night (see details below)...


Thank you for listening,
Janice Blue
Host, Go Vegan Texas!
Now weekly every Monday at 11am (CST)
On Pacifica Radio
KPFT, 90.1 FM - Houston and 89.5 FM - Galveston

Listen Live on www.GovVeganTexas.org (Just Wiggle the Cow's Ears) or later 
on http://www.KPFTarchive.org

Every animal you eat
Was running for her life.
-------------------------------
Show Compassion, Go Vegan!


Contact Information on Today's Guests:

Dan Piraro
http://www.bizarro.com
http://www.ComicsAgainstEvil.com

Bizarro appears in the Houston Chronicle, Monday-Saturday. Why not Sunday?  
Call the City Desk (713) 220-7491.

Dan will be in town for two live shows, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 13 and 
14 at 8:30pm, at the Houston Improv Theater, 7620 Katy Freeway, Marq-E 
"Entertainment Center, Silber/Antoine exit
Tickets  ~ $15.

Go Vegan Texas! will host a vegan dinner for Dan Piraro and our listeners at 
Noche Cocina Y Bar, 2409 Montrose @ Fairview, Tuesday at 6pm.  Dinner (Tax & 
Tip)  ~ $15.  Email reservations: info at govegantexas.org.


Prof. Bob Buzzanco
"Billionaires for Bush"
Bob Buzzillionaire: email buzz at uh.edu


Get your tux at the dry cleaners! Put on your ball gown! Chill the 
champagne! Cash in that Enron stock!

It's time for all of us Billionaire$ for Bu$h to say a big THANK YOU to all 
the little people who pay our taxes.

Those of us in the top 1 percent who control 40 percent of the wealth, and 
the top 20 percent who controls 80 percent of the wealth, want to thank the 
rest of you for working hard and paying your taxes while we get tax cuts and 
loopholes.

Thursday, April 15
Main Post Office @ 401 Franklin*
9 p.m. until Midnight

Let's come out and thank the masses who pays their taxes and make our cushy 
lives possible.

Dress to the nines, bring signs, time to live large and let everyone know 
how much we appreciate the benefits of our class system.

Remember, No Billionaire Left Behind!




{2}  On Watchdog, Monday April 12, we look at various aspects of companion 
animal cruelty: Overpopulation and abandonment, leading to millions of 
deaths per year, and also neglect and violence. We explore the link between 
animal cruelty and violence against humans. And we look at a practice that 
many listeners might not even realize is cruel -- the declawing of cats.

Watchdog is produced by Janee Taylor and hosted by Karen Dawn. It airs 
Mondays at 2pm on KPFK, the Pacifica station at 90.7 FM 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

Our guests in the studio:

Comedian Elayne Boosler whose organization,Tails of Joy, supports rescue 
groups and encourages prosecution of animal cruelty cases.

Deputy City Attorney Robert Ferber, who supervises the Animal Protection 
Unit of the office of the City Attorney in Los Angeles and prosecutes animal 
cruelty cases.

Dr Jennifer Conrad, DVM, who pushed, successfully, for the recent ban on 
declawing in West Hollywood and is now working on AB 1857, which would be 
the nation's first state law to prohibit declawing of wild and exotic cats.

And on the phone:
Eric Sakach, from HSUS, who will talk about the "First Strike Campaign" 
which teaches law enforcement officials about the connection between animal 
cruelty and human violence.

You can find out more about our guests, including links to their 
organizations, on the Watchdog web page at: 
http://www.DawnWatch.com/Watchdog.htm

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. (I send a 
huge thank you to those who already have.)
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.

Thanks to Ted Vegvari and PVNET (http://www.pvnet.com/ ) you can now listen 
on line to archived shows you wanted to hear but missed. You'll find the 
shows on the Watchdog web pages cited above.

We had some technical difficulty last week, and apologize to those who tried 
to listen to archives but could not. We think those issues are now resolved. 
  The first six shows of the series are up there now, and today's show 
should be available by tomorrow morning.

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

(DawnWatch is an animal advocacy media watch that looks at animal issues in 
the media and facilitates one-click responses to the relevant media outlets. 
You can learn more about it at www.DawnWatch.com. To subscribe to DawnWatch, 
email KarenDawn at DawnWatch.com and tell me you'd like to receive alerts.  If 
at any time you find DawnWatch is not for you, just let me know via email 
and I'll take you off the subscriber list immediately. If you forward or 
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{3} In recent weeks I've posted on this list notices of interviews I've 
conducted with activists working to improve conditions for animals. The 
first two of these interviews, originally broadcast on WHRW-FM 
(http://whrwfm.org), are now available for download from my website in mp3 
format.

1) Interview with Christopher Bedford (2/9/04), advocate filmmaker and 
National Campaign Coordinator for The Humane Society of the United States. 
He spoke about advocacy filmmaking and his experiences with campaigns 
against factory chicken farms in Maryland (USA) and factory hog farms in 
Iowa (USA).

2) Interview with Matt Kelly (2/16/04), grassroots vegan and animal rights 
activist, co-founder of Berkshire Vegetarian Network and a past board member 
of EarthSave International. Matt talked about his experiences rescuing 
abused farm animals and his 3-month experience as a volunteer with Sea 
Shepherd Conservation Society as they sought to intercept the Japanese 
Whaling Fleet off Antarctica during early 2003.

Download the files here: http://mikehudak.com/Radio/RadioDirectory.html

--
Mike Hudak, Ph.D., Director
Public Lands Without Livestock
38 Oliver Street
Binghamton, NY 13904-1516

Phone: 607.723.5769
Email: mailto:MikeHudak at stny.rr.com
Web: http://www.mikehudak.com

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