Animal Rights Presence at the Olympic Torch event in San Francisc o - this Friday!

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends,

 

I'm just forwarding the following note, announcing an animal rights presence

at the Olympic Torch event in San Francisco, to protest the rodeo event

scheduled to take place during (but not at) the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

The protest is being sponsored by PETA (they've been following the Olympic

Torch across the country), and is scheduled to begin at 6:15 pm on Friday,

January 18th, down at Justin Herman Plaza in SF (Embarcadero at Market). The

timing should be perfect so that we can protest at Justin Herman Plaza, and

then make our way down to the screening of The Witness.

 

Hope to see many of you there.

 

Cheers,

Alka

 

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The Olympic Torch is coming through San Francisco Friday, January 18th,

and activists from PETA will be there to greet Olympic supporters and

let them know about the planned Olympic Rodeo. The 2002 Salt Lake

Organizing Committee (SLOC) is planning to bring animal cruelty into the

Olympics! It has scheduled an " Olympic Command Performance Rodeo: North

American Challenge " as part of the Olympic Arts Festival. This sorry

spectacle of animal abuse is being presented as a contest between the

Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and the Canada Professional Rodeo

Association, but the animals, who suffer tremendously, will be the real

losers. Please join activists Friday at Justin Herman Plaza at the

intersection of Market St. and Steuart St. at 6:15 pm. If you cannot

attend, please write Olympic organizers and ask them to cancel plans.

Please see www.BucktheRodeo.com for more information. Thank you for all

that you do for animals. Please call or email Kristie Phelps at

Kristiep if you have any questions.

 

Write to:

Salt Lake Organizing Committee

Mitt Romney

299 S. Main St., Ste. 1300

Salt Lake City, UT 84111

Fax: 801-364-7644

E-Mail: media.relations

 

Kristie Phelps

Activist Liaison

www.BucktheRodeo.com

757-622-7382, ext. 1454