AR-News: (MA-New England) Canadian Seal Protest Saturday

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Subj:Fw: Canadian Seal Protest, New Engl. Consulate: 5/29!! 
Date:5/27/2004 3:16:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:noabuse at inhumane.org
To:animalissues at hotmail.com
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Sorry for the late post - I only just learned about it.
Let us not forget about the recent (unsolved) seal skinnings in MA, NH and ME 
as well!
Please crosspost
Roni
Canadian Seal Protest, New Engl. Consulate: 5/29!! 
WHEN:  Saturday May 29, 2004; noon-3pm. 
WHERE: Near Canadian Consulate at Copley Place, Back Bay, Boston, MA; 
we will be at the intersection of Dartmouth and Boylston Avenue.
WHO:   MA and all New Englanders (All groups encouraged to join us and 
to send to your lists!) 

RSVP/INFO:  rayshick at fiam.net. Signs provided. Permit has been 
received for this event. 
WHY:   Please join us to show your outrage and extreme horror to 
Ronald  Irwin, Canadian Consul General to New England about the current 
largest seal  hunt in history--350,000 animals, this year alone. Most of the 
victims 
will  be babies under four months old, called "beaters" by the hunters. 
These  babies havent eaten their first solid foods and havent learned to 
swim so  they cannot escape. 

Hunters, using trucks,  snowmobiles, and commercial icebreaking boats, 
find  the seals then try to stun them before skinning them. 
Stunning methods include kicking in the face and/or beating the babies 
on the head with clubs or hakapiks. Over 40% of the seals are skinned 
alive. 
Adults and resisting mothers are shot and/or clubbed and skinned, and, 
in the case of males, have their penis bones removed, which are more 
valuable than the seal skins, which sell for $55 each. If it is convenient to 
do so, some of the bodies are then recovered and processed into pet food or 
used to  feed the animals in fur farms. 

The majority of the Canadian public opposes the seal kill. US Senator 
Carl Levin introduced a bi-partisan resolution urging the Government of 
Canada to  bring an end to the commercial seal hunt. 

The kill quotas put forth by the government are disputed by credible 
biologists and scientists worldwide, and the reported numbers of the 
seal kill are far less than the actual number killed. For every seal 
killed,  another is shot and lost under the ice and not included in the 
quota. 

IFAW members have logged more than 660 probable violations under the 
Marine Mammal Act related to the killing of seals over a three-year period. 
No action will be taken by the Canadian government on these violations, 
many which are on film. 

It is time for all New Englanders to act.
Also, contact Mr. Ronald Irwin, Consulate General of Canada, 3 Copley 
Place,  Suite 400,  Boston, MA 02216  (617) 262-3700  bostn at dfait-merci.gc.ca 
before the Protest and ask that the seal hunt be ended. 

****We thank Christine Dorchak for being the inspiration for this 
protest and for her amazing expertise in organizing it. Please forward this 
email to your friends.****

DIRECTIONS: 
By Commuter Rail--From the North/Northwest--Take the Commuter Rail 
into North Station. Transfer to either the Orange or Green Line. From the 
South/Southwest---Take the Commuter Rail into Back Bay Station. Follow 
the signs for Dartmouth Street.
By MBTA---If you are taking the Orange Line: Get off at the Back 
Bay/South End stop. Follow the signs for Dartmouth Street. Exit the station, 
cross over Dartmouth Street and Copley Place is directly in front you. If 
you are taking the Green Line (B, C, D or E). Get off at the Copley stop. 
Exit 
the station and you will be at the intersection of Boylston Street and 
Dartmouth Street.
 
By Car (to Copley Parking Garage)  
>From the North: (New Hampshire, Maine, North Shore) - Take Route 
93/Route 1 South. From Route 93 South take the Storrow Drive Exit. Follow 
Storrow 
Drive for approximately .5 miles. Take the Copley Square Exit (this is a 
left hand exit). Turn right onto Beacon Street. At your 4th intersection turn 
left onto Exeter Street. Follow Exeter Street to the end (the intersection 
of Huntington Avenue). The entrance for the Copley Place Parking Garage 
is slightly to the right in front of you, across Huntington Avenue. 
Boylston is one block north on Dartmouth. 

>From the South: (Rhode Island, Cape Cod, South Shore) - Take Route 93 
North.  Take the Massachusetts Avenue/Roxbury Exit. Turn right onto 
Massachusetts Avenue. Follow approximately 1.5 miles to the intersection of 
Huntington Avenue (Symphony Hall is on the corner). Turn right onto 
Huntington 
Avenue. 
The entrance to Copley Place Parking Garage is on your right at the 
set of lights immediately after the glass pedestrian walkway.  Boylston is 
one block north on Dartmouth. 

>From the West: (New York, Connecticut) - Go East on the Massachusetts  
Turnpike (Route 90). Take the Prudential Center/Copley Square Exit 
#22. When the exit divides, stay to your right (Copley Square) and you will 
exit 
onto Huntington Avenue (the Westin Hotel will be on your left). Drive 
around the Westin Hotel, keeping the hotel immediately on your left at all 
times. 
At the set of lights just beyond the hotel, you want to be in the far 
left lane, turn left to enter the Copley Place Parking Garage.  Boylston is 
one block north on Dartmouth. 

>From the Airport - Follow signs for Boston/Sumner Tunnel. Stay in the 
left lane through the tunnel. Take Route 93 North, stay in the right lane 
and take the Storrow Drive Exit. Follow Storrow Drive for approximately .5 
miles. Take the Copley Square Exit (this is a left hand exit). Turn 
right onto Beacon Street. At your 4th intersection turn left onto Exeter 
Street. 
Follow Exeter Street to the end (the intersection of Huntington 
Avenue). The entrance for the Copley Place Parking Garage is slightly to the 
right 
in front of you, across Huntington Avenue.  Boylston is one block north 
on Dartmouth. 
 
MAP: http://www.bostonvtmaps.com/bostoncvb/yweshotcop.html 
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