Fwd: Peaceful Protest for America's Wild Horses! Wed, January 6, 2010

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OPPOSE WILD HORSE ROUNDUPS!

PEACEFUL RALLY ON

Wednesday January 6, 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Chance for Animals (LCA) urges everyone to attend the peaceful rally to oppose wild horse roundups. Wild

horse preservationists are organizing an informative and peaceful rally this Wednesday January 6, 2010 in Los Angeles

at 11:00am in front of Senator Diane Feinstein's office building, asking the

senator to help secure a moratorium on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) roundups

of wild horses living on public lands in the West. The rally coincides with week two of a massive

BLM roundup and removal of 2,500 wild horses living in the Calico Mountains

Complex in northwestern Nevada.

Another BLM roundup is scheduled to begin January 15 in Utah

and a second Nevada

roundup is slated for February.

 

 

The

peaceful rally is being organized by members of the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign coalition and will feature actor Wendy Malick, supermodel

and activist Tatjana Patitz, award winning author Deanne Stillman and Petrine Mitchum, daughter of

legendary actor Robert Mitchum and author of Hollywood Hoofbeats, a history of horses in Hollywood.

It is one of many rallies

taking place across the country and internationally to protest the U.S.

government's destructive wild horse policy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The BLM intends to remove up 12,000 horses from their

western ranges in 2010 and place them in Midwestern holding facilities, where

they will join the 33,000 wild horses already being warehoused by BLM at

taxpayer expense. The number of horses in the BLM's Midwestern warehouses

exceeds those left on the range.

 

What: Peaceful Rally for America's Wild Horses

Where: In

front of Senator Dianne Feinstein's Office

11111 Santa Monica Blvd, Suite 915, Los Angeles, 90025

When: Wednesday, January 6, 2009 11:00am-1:00pm

 

Who:

Members of the American Wild Horse

Preservation Campaign coalition, including: Return To Freedom, American Wild

Horse Sanctuary, In Defense of Animals, Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue and The

Cloud Foundation

 

 

"An

immense amount of tax dollars are being spent on the removal of wild horses

while less intrusive and less costly 'in the wild' management alternatives

exist," says Neda DeMayo,

founder of Return to Freedom American Wild Horse Sanctuary and a spokesperson for the

Campaign. "Americans want their wild horses to remain free and protected on the

ranges where they currently exist. We are asking that the original spirit and

intent of the Wild Free Roaming horse and Burro Act be upheld so that our

grandchildren's children will know the herds, who are a vital link to our

western heritage".

 

 

"Coalition members are calling on Senator Feinstein to

once again become a champion of America's

wild horses," said Elliot Katz, DVM, president of In Defense of Animals.

"It's wrong to move America's

wild horses off their rightful western ranges to put in BLM warehouses in the Midwest. Since the horses are removed to make more room

for livestock grazing, why not move the cattle to the Midwest

and leave the horses alone?"

 

 

Jill Starr of Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue exclaims "How

ironic that the very symbols of American freedom are quickly

becoming prisoners of hypocrisy. The iconic American mustangs are

soon to be just ghosts blowing across our dusty deserts haunting our memories

and that is all we will have left one day to remind us of what our country once

believed in and stood for!"

 

 

Lise Stampfli Torme, a wild horse advocate and

Cloud Foundation volunteer stated: "We are outraged that BLM is proceeding

with this roundup under a cloud of controversy and against a US District Court

judge's recommendation. The agency has moved the capture points to private land

where the public cannot see how their contractors are treating our living

legends. An immediate moratorium on all wild horse roundups must be implemented

until the BLM's broken wild horse management program can be reformed."

 

 

 

Launched

in 2004, the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign was formed as a uniting

and grassroots tool to help protect America's wild horses on their

rightful ranges, on our public lands. The campaign is represented by a

coalition of 50 diverse organizations collectively representing over 10 million

people nationwide.

 

 

For more information on this peaceful protest:

 

Contacts:

Neda DeMayo, Return to Freedom www.returntofreedom.org

805-735-3246, 805-588-5105

 

Bill Dyer, In Defense of Animals,

www.idausa.org

310-301-

7730

 

Linda Lee, The Cloud Foundation,

www.thecloudfoundation.org

(714)557-2691

 

Jill Starr, Lifesavers Wild Horse

Rescue, www.wildhorserescue.org

661-727-0049, 661-644-2120

 

American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign www.wildhorsepreservation.com

1-877-853-4696

 

 

For the Animals,

Last Chance for Animals

Campaigns Department

310-271-6096 x 27

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