Peaceful Protest Against Roundups of Wild Horses & Burros BOSTON,

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Peaceful Protest Against Roundups of Wild Horses & Burros in BOSTON,

 

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Can you join us this Friday in Boston?
 
Date:Friday, January 8
Time:10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Where:Boston Statehouse, front steps
This peaceful protest on behalf of America's wild horses and burros is part of a grass-roots nationwide campaign. Pressure is building on the Obama Administration and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to halt the inhumane roundup of wild American mustangs on the Calico Wilderness Area of Nevada.
 
Our mission:     
1) to educate the press and the publiC
2) call for an immediate halt to the roundups
3) call for a Congressional investigation into the Wild Horse and Burro Program currently under the direction of the Bureau of Land Management
 
We will gather at the front steps at the New Boston Statehouse (Beacon Street at Park Street, Boston MA 02108)
 
 
 
 
FOLLOWING IS THE PRESS RELEASE:
 
January 6, 2010
For Immediate Release
Boston Demonstration to Stop Wild Horse Roundups as Calico Roundup Continues
Boston, MA (January 6, 2010) – American wild horse and burro advocates are organizing a protest in downtown Boston on Friday, January 8. The public will assemble at 10.00 am  in front of the Boston Statehouse (Beacon Street at Park Street).
Advocates are asking the public to help halt the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) massive roundup of wild horses currently living in the half million acre Calico Mountain Complex area in northwestern Nevada. The roundup started on December 28, and horses are currently being rounded up and several are already injured or dying in the harsh winter conditions.
Despite U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman’s’ suggestion that the BLM postpone the roundup of over 2,700 wild horses, the BLM is proceeding with the roundup under harsh winter weather conditions that will most certainly result in many unnecessary injuries and deaths to the wild horses as they are run by helicopters over rough terrain to capture sites.  The roundup is expected to cost the American tax payer over 1.7 million dollars.
On December 30th the BLM invited members of the national press to view the roundup operations. Photos taken by a BLM contract photographer showed frightened horses in holding pens with sweat-soaked coats generating clouds of vapor in the frigid air.  The photos caused a storm of criticism from horse experts and were quickly removed.  Current photos, video footage, and a report from the roundup can be found here: http://humanitythro ugheducation. com/
The BLM spokesman exaggerated to the media saying said that 600 to 800 of the horses were to be returned to the wild when in fact, their official written plan calls for the return of only about 380 to their natural habitats. This statement comes on the heels of a statement attributed to BLM on National Public Radio that claimed the overall goal was to remove 25 percent of the horses during FY 2010, when the paper trail left behind by BLM’s Nevada managers indicates the agency intends to remove 45 percent, a whopping 20 percent discrepancy.
Public outcry to stop this roundup has been unprecedented, with the BLM receiving over 10,000 letters from the public requesting that they refrain from proceeding with the roundup.  But once again the BLM is proving deaf to the American public’s wishes in its plans to reduce wild horse numbers in the wild to an unsustainable level.
Concerned Americans continue to contact the White House and their elected officials with no response.  The protest in Boston joins with others in cities across the country-- Albany, NY; Denver, CO; Ketchum, ID; San Francisco, CA, New York, NY; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA.  Advocates seek to bring public awareness to the growing outrage over the BLM’s plan to exterminate our wild horses and burros, and also to the lack of response from our government.
Over 190 organizations including the Cloud Foundation and artists and celebrities from all over the country are calling for an immediate moratorium on wild horse roundups until the American public works with Congress to formulate a sustainable plan that protects and preserves wild horses in their homes on public lands in the West.
Contact: Carol Poole at mustangalley@hotmail.com
 
 

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